How To Stop Missing The Life You’re Living

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How To Stop Missing The Life You’re Living

by Darius Bashar

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Sometimes we don’t realize how beautiful a season of life was until it has already passed. In this video, you’ll learn a simple perspective shift called “prestalgia” to help you see your present life through the eyes of your future self. This practice can help you slow down, notice what is already meaningful, and appreciate the life you’re living before it becomes a memory.

Mindfulness Perspective Visualization Emotional Detachment Appreciation Perspective Shift Future Self Visualization

Meet your Teacher

Toronto, ON, Canada

Meet your Teacher

Toronto, ON, Canada

Transcript

Hello beautiful humans, My name is Darius and in this video I'm going to share with you an opportunity to shift your perspective in a manner that can happen very quickly and has the potential to allow you to really appreciate what is happening in your life right now. Sometimes I like to imagine this perspective shift as waking up my soul. Shaking things up and being like, Whoa. How did I almost miss all this awesome stuff happening here? So in order to do that. I want you to think about the concept of nostalgia. That bittersweet human experience. Where we look back in time. And we reflect about a moment that now we can appreciate. But at the moment, We sort of let it slip through our hands. You know, It was like I was too overwhelmed. I wasn't sure what I was doing 10, 20 years ago, But I wish I could have just like told myself, Wow, Look at all this awesome stuff that's happening in your life. I would do anything to go back for a day and just be that version of myself. I want to introduce to you the concept of prestalgia. Nostalgia prestalgia. Now, Before you get ahead of yourself, I want to tell you that it's an entirely made up concept that I made up. So don't go looking it up. Maybe someone else has made it up too. I wouldn't be surprised. It doesn't matter. All that matters is you can access this. And here's the concept. I want you to imagine yourself 10, 20 years in the future. You're older, Things are different. Your children are older, Your relationships are older, Some people aren't here anymore. You know, Many things aren't available to you the way they were here. And that version of you is looking back at here now. Saying WOW! Man, For example. Remember that summer where Teo turned one years old? Where we moved into this new house, Where we were in this age of our lives. Wow! I wish I could go back. I wish I could go back. I wish just for a day I could go back. And I literally visualize myself as a future self saying this, Being like, Oh, I didn't really soak it in. I didn't soak it in. In so many different ways and I would do anything just to go back for a day. And then I open my eyes. I am the nostalgia of that version. But it's pre-stalgia because I am able to soak in the fun parts of nostalgia, The parts where we really appreciate and I wish I could just go back for a day and do this different and soak that in and be more present. Now it's maybe a radical idea, Maybe it's like the most common sense idea to you. I want to invite you to just play and experiment. Play with it. See what happens if you just slow down for a moment and imagine future you. Looking back at this moment but removed from maybe the emotions of the moment. You know, When we look back, Things seem easier because. . . The uncertainty is gone. And there's an ability to actually appreciate what was happening. And so play. Have some fun! Let yourself be surprised. Freestalgia. Nostalgia. Have many things to give us. Thank you for watching this video. My name is Darius and I'll see you next time. Bye.