I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
In a similar spirit, I was reading a few months back how we are ruining today's children's imagination by keeping them busy every waking moment. The problem (psychologists discussed) was that kids need to be bored, and once they get bored they start day dreaming (<a href="https://www.parent.com/5-surprising-benefits-of-letting-your-children-get-bored/" rel="nofollow">https://www.parent.com/5-surprising-benefits-of-letting-your...</a>)<p>I started my journey to minimalism a year ago, that gave me time to get "bored", be and feel less busy, meditate more, focus more, and I could find new aspects of myself; boredom helped.<p>The article writes at some point: '..and thereby slowing your mind.."
I found this very liberating at yoga classes, where the savasana in the end of the sessions is combined with guided meditation or with just complete silence. Let the river if the mind Carey away the thoughts and the void/silence that will exist will be the best tool for the brain.