Time Awareness

How does awareness of time affect the mind?

With the mind capability of being aware of, considering, and remembering experiences of the past, comes the potential to dwell, obsess, and be inundated by the past, but also the potential to appreciate, and learn. With the ability to comprehend, predict, and assume the future, also comes the potential to obsess and be over fixated on what might happen, but also the potential to plan and prepare for the future. So is time awareness a benefit or hinder?

The cause of the negative elements of time awareness which I just mentioned, should be important to consider. There may be another cause behind elements such as dwelling and obsessing, which awareness might increase because of detailed thought. Without time awareness, it seems there can still be a form of obsession or over-fixation, caused by experiences of the past. Without awareness of time, i'm assuming the mind state is mostly subconscious, considering lack of awareness and comprehension to be in the definition (as i further explained in a youtube video; What is The Subconscious, and a blog post from 15 months ago; Subconscious Subjection). 

The function of the subconscious mind can cause fixation on factors based on previous experiences, because of significant positive or negative reinforcement connected with similar factors. Trauma or phobias are an example of subconscious negative reinforcement causing a fixation on avoidance, as I further explained in a post from almost 2 yrs ago; Traumaphobia. Addiction is an example of subconscious positive reinforcement causing obsession, as i described in a post, also from almost 2 yrs ago; Addiction Affliction. 

It seems likely that the over-fixation aspects of time awareness are driven by these effects of the subconscious. Awareness and conscious thought would cause the additional effects of the mind going into detail of the past negative experiences, or cause fixation on potential future prospects, based on what the subconscious has learned to strive for. Besides subconscious experiences causing these fixations, instinct can be another drive to obsess on a certain aspect. The cause behind reactions of the mind can be complicated, including instinct and (sub)conscious, as I further hypothesized in a post from 9 months ago; Mind Driver. 

If time awareness is not to blame for the cause of the negative aspects, that leaves the potential to overpower and alter them through understanding and adjusting relevant factors. This includes using the positive elements mentioned at the beginning. The potential to appreciate, learn, plan and prepare in depth should only be plausible with awareness and comprehension. In order to appreciate something significantly, someone needs the ability to think about that factor in detail, and understand the positive causes and effects which it has on other factors. To learn from the past, and plan and prepare for the future, someone needs to comprehend how the factors interacted within a past scenario, in order to alter future factors to their benefit, by predicting the causes and effects of the same factors. 

Being conscious of the past and future, and details of those experiences and possible outcomes, can cause more drastic negative effects of obsession and fixation, but since these are driven by instinct and subconscious, there lies the potential to reformat. Positive effects of appreciation, learning and planning are tools only made available from awareness. With potential of new positives and potential to change negatives, overall there seems to be quite a benefit from; Time Awareness.