 
 <prompt> "Focus on small small details. Focus on your breath. Try progressive muscle relaxation Sing, play music, or chant. Try just sitting." <response>: ```Dey get plenti theories about why time dey waka fast as we dey grow old, both subjective and scientific. The neural pathways wey we dey form as pikin dey always new, as each experience dey new. E be like say every small detail dey important. As we dey old and we don sabi the world we dey live for, those small details no dey carry the weight wey dem carry before. To take back some of the wonder wey dey your youth, try train yourself to focus on small things as much as possible. Take small time each day to–yeah, literally–appreciate some flowers, or watch sunset, or do meditative task, like playing music or gardening. Engage all your senses to try dey fully present, even if the event no too important. The smaller, the better. While you dey sit for traffic, stay focused on the temperature, the tactile feeling of your body on the seat, the smells of the car and the traffic. How strange e be to dey drive at all! Breath-meditation na one of the easiest and most common methods to train yourself to slow down and become more aware. Center yourself for basic breathing rituals to dey more present for the moment, and slow down time. Sit for comfortable chair, upright, using good posture, and take deep breath. Hold am, then exhale am slowly. Do am at least ten times while your eyes dey closed. Feel the oxygen wey dey enter your body, dey nourish you, and feel am as e dey leave your body. Move the air wey you dey breathe go different parts of your body as you dey meditate. Feel am as e dey work for you. After your ten controlled breaths don finish, open your eyes and pay attention to details around you. If you dey outside, look the sky, the horizon, listen to sounds around you. If you dey inside, look the ceiling, the walls and any furniture. Be for the moment. If you no like the idea of "meditating," just think about am as breathing. E no need to get plenty spiritual jargon wrapped up in am for am to dey effective for you. . Progressive muscle relaxation na basic, but formalized way to relax your body without dey do plenty thing but focus your attention for different places for your body, and push your presence into those places. E be way to both relax and stay active, and fit be helpful way to focus yourself for simple activity and slow time. To start, sit upright for comfortable chair, focus on your breath. Then pick one part of your body, starting either for your feet or your head, and tense one muscle. Try contour your face, as if you just chop something sour, hold am for a count of 15 seconds, then slowly release am and feel the tension melt away. Continue to move to different parts of your body, tense muscles, hold am, and then release the tension slowly, until you don move around all your body. This one na excellent way to center yourself, dey present for the moment, and relax. Another commonly used tactic to transcend time na to use a repetitive vocalization as a chant, to center yourself and to work into a kind of trance. This one fit be done by singing, chanting, or by playing music, and e dey done for plenty traditions, from Pentecostal Christians to the Hare Krishna. You fit chant any single phrase, mantra, or fragment. Try chant the Hare Krishna, or just sing Beyonce over and over: "I'm a survivor" na perfectly effective mantra. If you play instrument, you fit dey very familiar with the experience of losing track of time while playing a repetitive fragment or a series of chords. Just repeat the same three notes on piano, letting them ring out slowly, and sit with the notes, focus on your breath. Time go slow. If you no play, and you no dey interested in chanting or singing, try listen to some soft ambient or drone-like music. Some excellent compositions for blissing out and slowing down time include William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, Jordan De La Sierra's Gymnosphere, and anything by Brian Eno. If you ask a Zen monk wetin meditation be, dem go usually talk, "Just sitting." If you ask wetin Zen be, again, the answer fit probably be, "Just sitting." The big secret to meditation and to slowing time na say there no dey secret to awareness. If you dey feel agitated and you want to slow down time, just sit. Do nothing. Center yourself for the act of sitting, and just be. Try to only do one thing at one time. When you dey sit, just sit. When you dey read, just read. No read, and chop bagels, and text your friend, and think about the weekend. Just read.``` 