Cracking Open the 59th Minute

Today I’ve been thinking about time—the way we structure it, the way we live inside it, and the way we usually ignore it. There’s this construct we all follow: 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours. But what does it really mean? Why do we give so much power to the “top of the hour,” and what happens in the minute before it?

The 59th minute. The minute before everything resets. The final moment before the top of the hour. I realized this minute is a threshold—a doorway. Most people rush through it without noticing. They’re already planning the next hour, already moving on. But what if, in that one minute, we paused? Really paused? Not just stopping activity, but syncing our mind and body, breathing together—even if apart, even across the world.

I imagine all of us, wherever we are, breathing on the 59th minute, visualizing something better for ourselves, our families, our world. Just 90 seconds. Not long, not heavy, just enough to practice being of one mind. And in those seconds, something changes—not just inside us, but in the energy we carry, in the ripple we send outward.

Time, as it’s constructed, is a tool. But it can also be a portal. The top of the hour marks beginnings and endings, but the 59th minute is the preparation, the conscious choice, the pause before the door swings open. It’s in this tiny moment that I practice noticing, aligning, and co-creating. It’s here that my body learns the rhythm of pause, my mind learns the rhythm of choice, and my heart learns the rhythm of connection.

I want to explore this minute over and over—not to manipulate time, but to work with it, feel it, and honor it. To me, this is the One Breath In practice in action: small, intentional, deeply human, and yet, potentially, global.

Time is the only thing we can’t reclaim, yet here, in 90 seconds, we can master it. 

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