How Father Wound Distorts Time
The father wound does not primarily distort relationship but distorts orientation. In early development, the paternal field is the first interface with structure, limit, sequence, and consequence. Not authority in the social sense, but orientation in time. The body learns, long before language, how long it can wait, how fast it must move, and what happens if it pauses. This learning is not conceptual. It is somatic.
When the paternal field is inconsistent, absent, threatening, or overbearing, the nervous system adapts by outsourcing its sense of timing. It begins to reference an external clock in order to survive. Time becomes something imposed rather than inhabited.
This is where the “Father Time” construct enters the body. The right posterior shoulder and collar line you mention is not arbitrary. That region organizes forward propulsion, task execution, and directional effort. Chronic holding there reflects a body that believes movement must be justified, efficient, or accelerated in order to be safe. Time, in this state, is not experienced. It is managed.
From here, anxiety is inevitable. An anxious nervous system is one that has learned it must arrive before it is allowed to exist. It lives slightly ahead of the present moment, scanning for what is next, because the past taught it that delay carried consequence. This creates the felt sense of “running out of time,” even when no actual threat is present. Time distortion becomes a survival strategy.
Clearing paternal patterns does not remove structure but removes coercion. When the nervous system no longer associates timing with threat or approval, it stops projecting itself forward to stay safe. Attention collapses back into the present moment, not through effort, but through relief. This is what your sources are calling the Zero Point or Eternal Now. It is not mystical. It is the state of a body that no longer needs to outrun itself.
At this point, the geometry of time perception changes. Linear time is not how time is. It is how time feels to a nervous system under pressure. When that pressure releases, time stops behaving like a ladder you must climb and starts behaving like a field you are already inside. Circular or spherical language appears here because experience is no longer organized by sequence, but by coherence. Moments deepen instead of progressing.
This is why people report time slowing, stopping, or becoming efficient. Fewer actions are needed because less interference is present. Finally, authority returns to its proper place. The unresolved father wound binds time to external systems. Schedules, deadlines, milestones, productivity, and urgency become substitutes for internal timing. When the paternal pattern clears, the body regains its own temporal intelligence. Action arises from readiness rather than pressure. This is what your notes call “I-time.” It is subjective, but not arbitrary. It is precise because it is embodied.
So the shift you are describing is not from linear time to timelessness. It is from borrowed time to inhabited time. And that transition only occurs when the nervous system no longer believes it must earn its right to be here by moving faster than it can feel.
