How often do you shift gears in life?

I've heard it said that this speeding up of life processes here in the onrushing aquarian age is detrimental to spiritual evolution because this postmodern richness and diversity we swim in causes our neocortical thinkythink to snap crackle and pop like a bowl of airy substanceless processed cereal rather than allow the slower deeper cortical feely-feel to enable a more mellowed, serene and introspective take on life...you just cannot do both at once, which is why the gear-changeing analogy is becomming more popular in the parlance of the age...you cannot be in first and fourth gear simultaneously here on the self-actualisation boulevard....

Rather than buy into the change-back-into-first mentality, I think that this is an excellent time to shed that sort of retro-romanticw way of thinking and contemplate the fact that here in 2038...oops, 2009 (I'm spending too long in me second-hand tardis) we have the opportunity to practice gear-shifting....I have three; macro is when I problem-solve and timetable in a clean and clear, quick way which gets me beta waves up akimbo and I crack on at a fast thinking pace....I'm currently typing in macro...shortly I will be driving to get the stitches out of my ankle (had a cyst removed, nothing malignant) and will shift down to meso and listen to music, plan the rest of my week and listen to Dan Brown on my iPod all of which will have me slower than I am now and often in alpha if I visualise avalokiteshvara hovering in front of me as I drive.....then there's micro which is my delta mode in which I sit in meditation and let the whole machinery come to rest and listen to the nada which thrums the Silence in every- and no-place at all....

What a wonderful age this is in which one can shift gears in thin timeslices.....sometimes life promotes the stick-shift and sometimes one can choose.....I  think that this is a keynote spiritual practice of the age that was not truely around on a widespread scale 50 years ago as the slow stiltedness of, say, the original Lost in Space can be so juxtaposed against the likes of snapply deep ole District 9.