Part of the problem is that as mobile creatures with a sequential process of perception and a narrative based culture, we think of time as the point of the present moving past to future. The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

As such, it’s an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don’t refer to them as the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequence of thought.

The process, the energy being “conserved,” goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past.

So to manage time, learn to surf the energy, not just obsess over the ups and downs, that will beat you up, if you let them.