Learn to Live in the Present Not the Past, Not the Future | with Alena Chapman, Soul Manifesto
Learn to Live in the Present \u2013 Not the Past, Not the Future\xa0
Join the webinar for a deeper understanding of your spirituality https://community.soulmanifesto.com/inevitable-u/webinar/ \xa0 Why is learning to live in the present so important? Because living in the past or even in the future means that you're relinquishing your present happiness, explains Alena Chapman, founder of Soul Manifesto. In this podcast, she shares three simple tools to help you learn to live in and make the most of your present. Listen now! \xa0 Highlights- We often feel that we could be happy if only we had a particular type of relationship, X job, Y amount of money, weigh Z lbs. etc. Or we think that if only A, B, or C events had not occurred in the past we would be happy.
- Both of these are antithetical to learning to live in the present, and to being happy in the current moment, explains Alena. When we chase success as we are conditioned to do by society, this sucks the joy out of the present.
- It is important to seize the moment and to make things happen for you rather than to think, want and wait for those things to happen. Because we are steeped in past regrets or future yearnings we are skipping over the beauty of the here and now.
- To learn to live in the present, the first tool is awareness: of your work, your relationships, nature, music, the food you eat, your family, everything. Being aware and mindful of all that you do and have is a vital first step towards this.
- The second tool is acceptance where we acknowledge the bad as well as the good, and embrace it all with equanimity. The third tool is learning to savor all of life\u2019s beautiful blessings; to truly inhabit and relish each life experience fully.