A reflective essay exploring how awareness of impermanence shapes our lived experience of time. Beginning with a song that evokes memories, the piece moves through personal reflections on parenting, aging, and seasonal transitions, then into research on interoception and time perspective. It weaves together embodied psychology and everyday life to ask whether attention to the body and to fleetingness can alter the felt texture of time itself.

This reflection on Atha from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali explores how “now” is not a perfect state but a moment of readiness where practice begins again and again. It looks at how small moments of noticing—before anger escalates, before panic takes over, or before compulsive patterns unfold—become the foundation of both yoga and therapeutic change.