I use that myself - I call it the Time Machine trick

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

I had a similar experience once on mushrooms and I try to recreate it often. Intense.

I like this Hodl. Wholesome

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Yeah. Seeing kids laugh is one of the greatest joys of life.

I do this often.

Will give it a go.. It’s just hard when they’re annoying the shit out of you half the time

I would love to try this, but I don’t have a young and healthy body anymore

It's even more precious when it IS real. You'll fight for every moment. It impacts how you see, how you communicate, even what you eat.

The most precious good in our life is time. It doesn’t move forward, it doesn’t return! There is only the now!

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This is the vibe... 🥲

Similar to the “I get to” trick I do, every time I find myself annoyed or avoiding doing something with my daughter that I don’t personally enjoy, just knowing that “I get to” do something that is meaningful to her, and/or brings her joy snaps me right outta my negative mindset. Wish I had this one in the pocket when she was waking me up at all hours 🤪

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Man, it’s so true. Especially when one of your parents passes and you closely live through it, it puts it all in perspective how your day will come too and how much none of this matters beyond the time you have with family/kids.

I do something very similar with my 3 year old daughter any time I’m stressed about work or focused on chores. She asks me to play hide and seek or “sit with her” to watch cartoons. That immediate unlocks something in me to release my stress and live in the moment. I know she will reach an age where she suddenly never asks me to play with her again. Until then, I cherish every moment.

love this!! 🤌

Stoicism for the win

I do the same thing with my wife but in reverse. 🥁

Brother you may be as weird as me. 😆

I've done this. Few

I've done sensory deprivation tanks and used to to rewire my brain... I needed it, don't really want to get into it.

Anyway, they tell you do this or that as a meditation or try to astral project whatever. Your note reminds me of this thing I would do in the tank where I almost could put myself back in my body on given day when I was a kid. It got insanely vivid. It didn't feel like memories it felt like I was reliving. To the point it was almost like afterwards I could remember a time as a kid when my adult self visited me and reassured myself about the future.

Impossible to truly describe the feeling of serenity, appreciate of life and gratitude you have after a session like this.

Life is a beautiful thing if you let it be. It can be a fucking prison if you let little shit get in the way. PS everything that makes you miserable is little shit. I know it doesn't always feel that way, but it is.

One doesn’t need to follow you or even subscribe to your relays, but they will see your notes

I do that all the time too. Life is all about the deathbed perspective. My daughter likes to sing to herself when she does homework. I don't think she even knows that she's doing it.

I say this to my wife all the time, especially when we are going through a rough time with the young kids. If I was on my death bed and could only go back to this moment to be with my young kids, even when they are extremely difficult and emotionally draining, I have no doubt I would. My reaction to the moment almost always changes, too. It works for seemingly rough times as well.

Fax 📠 I used to keep journals & write down the smallest things. Fun to look back on them now. Hugs 🫂

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Enjoy their youth! 🤙🏽

There is nothing like just “being around” when kids are young. The feeling of fulfillment and love is, yes, impossible to describe.

Highly recommend the movie “Click” with Adam Sandler.

I do it another way too. I imagine I am on my deathbed and my daughter is there with me. Then I ask myself how I want to foster my relationship with her in preparation for that moment.

Then go watch “Click” your gratitude will sky rocket 😅

Beautiful idea. I'm gonna try it.

Something I need to experience and practice more often: gratitude.

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LFG

I'm regularly late to work 🤫 because my toddler wants to play right after waking up.

Better to be late to work because you're playing with your kids than due to getting upset and them throwing a tantrum.... 😅

Either way you'll be late to work😂

This is everything. Life is such a gift.

Tx HODL, I don’t know what this protocol does, but it makes me feel we’re all in this living room, beautiful tech.

One of the fondest memories I have of my kids is the first time I saw them discover the immensity of the world, just staring at the horizon. It brings joy and appreciation every time, best described as tears that only I see.

Funny though, I wouldn’t put it that way if we were in the living room. Again, beautiful tech.

I actually live that dream with my grandkids on a regular basis

going to take that 9-year-old twins to Ifly this weekend

You're describing a technique that Eckart Tolle calls, "die before you die".

He would say that time is not scarce because it doesn't exist. It's an abstract concept that, as bitcoiners, we are perfectly suited to grasp.

The past is a cancelled cheque, the present is a promissory note.

The present moment is all that we have.

And all that anyone will ever have. Everything that has ever happened, happened in the now.

Spend that wisely.

currently stressed because I want to move and thus look for new job... I would love to go more into software development, but I am more of a mediocre data scientist...

this is great advice thank you.

lol

there is another one you can also try:

imagine being your 8 year old self, imagine being your 18 year old self and imagine being your 80 year old self.

what would each on of them think about you now in this moment?

Children are the real net worth

short version

Do this while listening to Hammock.

Special 🎩 ✨️

This is hard I can picture the death bed but not the next part yet

Nice trick, gratitude is powerful!

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Nice trick, jedi :) This is science I trust:

https://www.thewayofcoherence.com/post/the-science-of-gratitude-and-health

(if this is my third comment I blame Primal and internet in Bacalar lol)

Time is scarce.

Spend it wisely.

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