Sauna Philosophy🧖 and Time Distortion⌛️💧 (Part 2)
──Chronos, Kairos, and BLUE Time
Introduction
Sauna PhilosophyPart 2 of the series☺️
Sauna Philosophy Series
1. Cosmic Thinking (Scale of Thought)🚀
2. Time Distortion (Chronos/Kairos)⌛💧
3. Nothingness (Stillness of Thought)🫥🫧
4. Boundaries (Self and World)↔️🚪
These four are actually all
connected toharmony with the heterogeneous.
It is a story of traveling through
the universe, time, consciousness, and boundaries in a small sauna space,
and finally returning to the shop counter.
Main Part: Time Distortion (Chronos/Kairos)⌛💧
When you enter a sauna,
your sense of time gets a little strange.
On the wall,
there is a 12-minute clock.
The hands are certainly moving.
However, the physical sensation is different from that.
“Wait, is it already 10 minutes?”
There are days when I think that,
“Is it only 5 minutes yet?”
and there are days when I think that.
Even though the clock is moving at the same speed,
the length of time experienced is different.
Here, I am reminded of
the two time concepts of ancient Greece.
⌛️ Chronos
Time ticked by a clock.
Time that flows continuously and evenly.
In other words,
the universe's metronome.
And one more thing.
💧 Kairos
Time that has meaning.
The moment of "now".
A time of opportunity.
Qualitative time.
These two types of time
are almost always overlapping
in daily life.
However, in the sauna,
that relationship shifts slightly.
Chronos
is moving along as usual.
The hand on the 12-minute clock
is tracing its circle perfectly.
But,
the time being experienced is different.
That is because,
it is no longer "time that just flows"
but "time that you count yourself".
20 seconds left.
10 seconds left.
5 seconds left.
In that moment,
time ceases to be just a flow.
It becomes time you are choosing.
In this moment,
Chronos time
turns into Kairos.
In psychology,
there is a theory
about environments where human attention recovers.
Attention Restoration Theory
—Attention Restoration Theory.
It is said that in quiet or natural environments,
the brain's forced concentration rests,
and attention is restored.
The sauna room
fulfills those conditions.
The light is dim.
There is little sound.
All there is to do is breathe.
When stimulation decreases,
the brain's processing of time also changes.
In the outside world,
schedules, notifications, and work
carve time into small pieces.
But in the sauna,
those things stop for a moment.
Then the brain
instead of the external clock,
begins to measure timewith its internal clock.
In other words,
it becomes time not of Chronos,
but of Kairos.
This state,
I call it this.
💙 BLUE Time
Chronos, which flows passively, and
Kairos, which is felt subjectively.
A time where both overlap.
In the sauna room,
those two slowly mix.
The hands of the clock remain as they are in the outside world.
However,
the time being experienced
becomes the time of the inner universe.
That is why in the sauna,
time is distorted.
No, to be precise,
the density of time changes.
Chronos
is moving at the same speed.
But
the weight of Kairos changes.
At that moment, a person is,
not just consuming time, but
savoring time.
In short, a sauna is,
a place where the body is in a hot room, and
the consciousness is observing the structure of time.
Perhaps it is such a place.
And then,
when you leave the sauna room and enter the cold water bath,
you return from a space journey
back to Earth in an instant.
Chronos returns.
Yet somewhere in your heart,
the lingering resonance of Kairos remains.
Holding onto that resonance,
I sit at the shop counter.
And then,
I take a sip of the golden liquid.
In the spiritual world,
it is called the Sea of LCL.
In the material world,
a large mug of draft beer.
In other words, today too, I am
Chronos⌛️and Kairos💧
while traveling back and forth through the BLUE time in between, I am quietly drinking a glass🍺
<<To be continued>>
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