Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition 3342: 3 Quick Ways to Master Time for Stressed Out People by Ingrid Y Helander on Taking Control of Time
Mar 29, 2026
Ingrid Y. Helander, a licensed marriage and family therapist and author, explores how your perception of time fuels stress. She explains shifting to a flexible, kinder view of time. Short practices like reframing beliefs, deliberate pacing, and mindful breathing are highlighted. The conversation invites seeing time as abundant and calming rather than scarce.
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Time Is a Subjective Experience You Can Shift
- Time is a subjective experience you can change by shifting attention and breath.
- Ingrid Y. Helander uses 'Einstein time' vs Newtonian time and asks you to recall joyful vs painful moments to alter time perception.
Use A Brief Breath And Recall Exercise To Calm Time Anxiety
- Do a quick embodiment exercise: breathe, recall a joyful time then a slow uncomfortable time to feel time's relativity.
- Use belief statements like I make time and Time belongs to me whenever you notice old stressful patterns.
High School Clock Felt Like It Stopped
- Ingrid recalls sitting in a hot high school classroom watching the wall clock appear to stand still as an example of time slowing.
- That memory illustrates how bodily sensations signal time's stretch during discomfort.
