Time Quality

When we refer to Time as a motion effort, we don’t relate to the quantity of time but to its quality.

Duration describes or shows the amount of time that an action might take.
Time quality describes our attitude towards it.
Like the other motion factors, depends time quality on our individual relation to fight, to resist or to give in, to indulge.

The time quality of an action depends on our inner attitude towards time. Signifies, either we encounter or judge the moment or situation we are in, as urgent, or un-urgent.
Means, the lived moment creates a certain time pressure on us, to hurry up, to accelerate our doing to fulfil or achieve something.

Or to be free, or more liberated of completing or fulfilling something under a certain time limit. Thus, the inner attitude to time is a more relaxed one, less pressured and more indulged in ones doing.

Different words are used to describe the time quality of a movement.

Quick, Fast, Sudden, sharp…
Slow, unhurried, calm, sustained….
In order to describe, to analyse the time aspect of movements we have to take in account the duration of the movement and to sense, to perceive, the inner approach towards time, in which the action is executed.
The inner attitude, urgent or un-urgent and the duration, shorter or larger, of the movement may match.
But also….

The speed of the movement could be fast, but the attitude of the mover is a calm and un-urgent one.

Or slow and controlled movements are observed but the inner attitude of the mover is highly urgent.

Whatever the duration of time might be, time as an effort describes the attitude How one relates to it.