The Blue Rose Manuscript - In Motion - Timing

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Timing: The choice, judgment, or control of when something should be done.

Don’t mistake timing for scheduling, or planning.

It is difficult to explain what timing is, some things are easier to demonstrate than to describe.

You have already encountered timing, and you take it for granted, because it is woven into the fabric of reality and occurs naturally in all the processes that work well.

Its most obvious use is in music, which would not come together without tempos, measures, and counterpoints. Their planned pauses build anticipation and lead to the moment when one expects to hear the sound.

We accomplish a lot of this instinctively, of course, but the fact that everybody understands the purpose of those rhythms reveals that timing is built into our being, very much like our senses are.

Timing is the mental sense that helps us both create and pay attention to synchronicity, and it organizes the timeline of an event in the same way placement cards predetermine the seating of guests at a dinner table.