I don’t know when this happened but I kinda know why, I sort of asked it too. I guess I just didn’t expect it to happen quite so suddenly or for it to be and feel like this. It’s weird and quite scary but I know that once I’ve fully integrated this, that is if it’s here to stay, then life is going to be even more awesome than what it already is. Am I sounding cryptic? The video will explain more…
Fran
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[..YouTube..] From what I understand from the law of attraction like attracts like. If you feel good and joyful (about seeing no picture in the future), it will bring more if that. If you feel confused, depressed, it will bring more of that. So it all depends how you feel. With love, Ilze
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From what I understand from the law of attraction like attracts like. If you feel good and joyful (about seeing no picture in the future), it will bring more if that. If you feel confused, depressed, it will bring more of that. So it all depends how you feel. With love, Ilze
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[..YouTube..] watch The Neverending Story, the meaning of life lives in that movie! lol
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watch The Neverending Story, the meaning of life lives in that movie! lol
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[..YouTube..] Maybe you’ve arrived?
Or maybe you’re SEEING the future.
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Maybe you’ve arrived?
Or maybe you’re SEEING the future.
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[..YouTube..] Assuming that I am following you, which isn’t a great assumption, then the question that comes to mind is — are you a leaf blown with the wind, or are you a tree — resolute in your faith — withstanding the random winds from all directions?
Regardless, you’re fun to watch and I wish you well and send love from Virginia.
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Assuming that I am following you, which isn’t a great assumption, then the question that comes to mind is — are you a leaf blown with the wind, or are you a tree — resolute in your faith — withstanding the random winds from all directions?
Regardless, you’re fun to watch and I wish you well and send love from Virginia.
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[..YouTube..] The background reminds me of Jurassic Park!
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The background reminds me of Jurassic Park!
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[..YouTube..] The background reminds me of Jurassic Park!
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[..YouTube..] u need to mate with that hyperion herbs guy and make some hippy genius babies. that might save the world
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u need to mate with that hyperion herbs guy and make some hippy genius babies. that might save the world
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[..YouTube..] Well maybe this is like a stepping stone to the zen awareness stuff. maybe its part of the process of getting to that, some discomfort.. getting used to that new way of interacting with reality
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Well maybe this is like a stepping stone to the zen awareness stuff. maybe its part of the process of getting to that, some discomfort.. getting used to that new way of interacting with reality
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[..YouTube..] Your accent has changed. Aussie traitor!
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Your accent has changed. Aussie traitor!
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[..YouTube..] hahahahaha agree!
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hahahahaha agree!
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[..YouTube..] I feel it too… I feel helpless
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I feel it too… I feel helpless
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[..YouTube..] Strange thing to happen, what where you doing leading up to this. When I learned about, myself, whats really goin on in the world (really goin on), patterns in nature I and trying to get through health issues, I stopped living in the future, I dont plan things much, I have holidays shortly, Overseas trip or Byron trip again, dunno! il wait til a week before. Mine might different to yours though, I really enjoy being like this, everyone around me hates it im like this.Try sensory deprivation tank
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Strange thing to happen, what where you doing leading up to this. When I learned about, myself, whats really goin on in the world (really goin on), patterns in nature I and trying to get through health issues, I stopped living in the future, I dont plan things much, I have holidays shortly, Overseas trip or Byron trip again, dunno! il wait til a week before. Mine might different to yours though, I really enjoy being like this, everyone around me hates it im like this.Try sensory deprivation tank
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[..YouTube..] have you read the book the power of now?
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have you read the book the power of now?
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[..YouTube..] U kno I have gone thru this several times in my life…. I hate it tremendously… And its not even because I cant live in the future, but because its soo powerful im even unsure if the future will even exsist…sad because im super creative ,spiritual and this makes me feel non exsistant. . I dunno
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U kno I have gone thru this several times in my life…. I hate it tremendously… And its not even because I cant live in the future, but because its soo powerful im even unsure if the future will even exsist…sad because im super creative ,spiritual and this makes me feel non exsistant. . I dunno
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Leesh420- hahaha, I love you, you’re cool! .. thanks for the laugh, and yeh.. always one of the most awesome movies ever for us 80s kids
drewnetwork- thanks for the puzzle, I’m thinking about that one today.
alistairproductions – you are HILAROUS! Is this guy hot ;)
itsageoffrushthing- I know!! I had a Mexican boyfriend last year for a few months and he would only understand me if I talked with a North American accent.. and that habit got a bit sticky.
anf355- I did a plant medicine ceremony with a very powerful friend of mine and I said that I wanted to stop living in fantasy and in the future.. and then POOF! This is what happens a week or so later. Yes it is a good thing, I just need to get used to it. I’m giving up laying around dreaming about future stuff that is unlikely to happen.. it’s a good thing to give up but my ego is pissed off about it ;)
hellotwat- interesting username you have there dear one! And yep I have along with his other books, which is why I said this is not in a cool Eckhart Tolle way .. it’s different.
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Great post, Fran. I so relate. It’s not so much that I see this black but I don’t know what the future holds either, it’s just an empty white space when I think about.
Interesting huh? I do get scared a bit by it too! I like to live in the moment and always have, so I’m not much for planning too far ahead, but I do have dreams and desires and usually have a visual picture of where I see myself in a year, 6 months or tomorrow, but like you, I actually have no idea anymore on what tomorrow is going to bring.
What shit is going to be dished to me or what beauty?
Everyday and every hour is a surprise one way or the other and I guess we might just have to get used to it.
Big love and cyber hugs X
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Same thing has happened to me over the past month or two. Maybe it’s something that happens at 32 ;( Mine has been more of a conscious realization that my future fantasies never come true, and trying not to waste my time fantasizing anymore (I still do somewhat, it’s hard to quit), which feels a little like depression :). But I’m trying to put more effort into goal setting and making small progress each today toward the life that I want, instead of just dreaming about it and expecting it somehow to materialize. I think it is more of an ‘adult’ way to think, no wonder it happened to me shortly after having a baby! I am also trying to create my future fantasies in the present, and live in the moment a little more. xo Anna.
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[..YouTube..] I love your videos Fran, and I can completely relate to this…i feel like our lives are emotionally parallel sometimes b cuz whatever I go through you have a video for it at the right time. Anyways, I recently graduated from undergrad and I’m not going on to further schooling even though most of my friends are. I’m trying to follow my dreams, but I’m too this to be that and too that to be this so I’m suspended in the middle, and like you said hoping this thing gets done doing whatever its doing
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I love your videos Fran, and I can completely relate to this…i feel like our lives are emotionally parallel sometimes b cuz whatever I go through you have a video for it at the right time. Anyways, I recently graduated from undergrad and I’m not going on to further schooling even though most of my friends are. I’m trying to follow my dreams, but I’m too this to be that and too that to be this so I’m suspended in the middle, and like you said hoping this thing gets done doing whatever its doing
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[..YouTube..] and I’m too detached from my past but I can’t even embrace a future because there is nothing, just working retail jobs…ugh anyway I completely understand. Keep making videos I am right in there with you. I feel like I have to fight an emotional battle everyday just to get back to living in the future…embracing the unknown is VERY depressing…but God is good, on the bright side at least you’re in PERU!!!! <3
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and I’m too detached from my past but I can’t even embrace a future because there is nothing, just working retail jobs…ugh anyway I completely understand. Keep making videos I am right in there with you. I feel like I have to fight an emotional battle everyday just to get back to living in the future…embracing the unknown is VERY depressing…but God is good, on the bright side at least you’re in PERU!!!! <3
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[..YouTube..] I am very spiritual and creative to and yeah I feel nonexistent and trying not to get depressed about it. I know exactly what you mean, this is a transformative time and i guess I need a lot more faith.
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I am very spiritual and creative to and yeah I feel nonexistent and trying not to get depressed about it. I know exactly what you mean, this is a transformative time and i guess I need a lot more faith.
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Eww at the spiders! :< But I'm glad you found a way to "stand" them.
Living in the present and not so much think and dream about the future.. THAT has never been my thing either, up til recently.. I'm working hard on that now, because when you think about it. You can't change yesterday, you can't be in the future.. all you have is NOW.. the present. And we need to do our very best to use every day, every moment… for our best <3
Every day is a good day to love and live, and so is every moment. I know what you mean when you say it's scary… but really.. when you think about it, it's exciting and beautiful too! :) *hugs*
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[..YouTube..] It’s just so hard to put into words, but I’ve been feeling like this lately as well.
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It’s just so hard to put into words, but I’ve been feeling like this lately as well.
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Awesome post! I can relate but moreso referring to the past. When I think of the past now it all seems so bizarre and sickening to me. I used to live in the past a lot… and hold onto so many beliefs and ideas about how i was going to react to situations in right now, and i am always suprising myself finding out that just because i reacted a certain way 2 years ago, or even 2 days ago,,, isnt how i will react in this moment. Lesson to not let those limiting beliefs and years of conditioning rule us. :) xx
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[..YouTube..] oddly, I think I am feeling a bit of what you’re feeling. I think people who live in the future are reaching for a deep change in themselves. If they happen to reach that deep change, then they’re kind of catapulted back into reality to live life through the new person they’ve become.
The daunting part is some of the skills picked up along the journey aren’t needed any more, and new skills need to form before we can find our feet again in this new land. It’s a bit of a limbo period.
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oddly, I think I am feeling a bit of what you’re feeling. I think people who live in the future are reaching for a deep change in themselves. If they happen to reach that deep change, then they’re kind of catapulted back into reality to live life through the new person they’ve become.
The daunting part is some of the skills picked up along the journey aren’t needed any more, and new skills need to form before we can find our feet again in this new land. It’s a bit of a limbo period.
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It happens when you do to much of meditation or spiritual work. It happened to me also. Google death of an ego, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation and derealisation. I guess a little bit of an ego is necessary to live in this world,
I don’t know by this point anymore.
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[..YouTube..] I relate totally, down to the spiders. I feel better, happier and calmer because I can focus on the PRESENT and live reality. I look forward FOR instead of TO the future and still dream and fantasize. Learn and allow yourself to go through it in your own way and time.
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I relate totally, down to the spiders. I feel better, happier and calmer because I can focus on the PRESENT and live reality. I look forward FOR instead of TO the future and still dream and fantasize. Learn and allow yourself to go through it in your own way and time.
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Seems like many have entered into this new perspective over the past few months. My entry was around the same time as yours.
That “not living in the now is,” of course, a result of the ego — the ego’s desire to be in control (future) or to fix things (past).
Moving away from “living in the future” means giving up that certainty, that “security” that the ego want — it becomes silly, or impossible, to try to predict or work towards the “right” course anymore. That’s what causes the fear — having to surrender the illusion of “certainty” (which never truly exists anyway).
So, this is a phase of shedding the ego-identity, so we can more intimately participate with the universal/oneness existence.
I now think of Life as a constant walk into the unknown future. But, if we trust the Universe, that not-knowing doesn’t really matter.
You know, “the world is the guru” — everything in Life will teach us, if we quiet the mind and pay attention. So, when this ego-release happened for me, suddenly there came into my awareness many statements from a variety of spiritual guides which were related to the theme, so I’ll share a few for those who are still struggling:
“Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?”
– Shams Tabrizi
“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”
– Ramana Maharshi
“Lu-tsu says, ‘Accept the situation you are in. It must be the right situation for you; that’s why you are in it.’ Existence cares for you. It is given to you not without any reason. It is not accidental; NOTHING is accidental. Whatsoever is your need is given to you. If it were your need to be in the Himalayas, you would have been in the Himalayas. And when the need arises, you will find that either you go to the Himalayas or the Himalayas come to you. It happens . . . when the disciple is ready, the Master arrives. And when your inner silence is ready, God arrives. And whatsoever is needed on the path is always supplied. Existence cares, it mothers.”
– Osho
“What you need will come to you, if you do not ask for what you do not need. Yet only few people reach this state of complete dispassion and detachment. It is a very high state, the very threshold of liberation.”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
Blessings
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LOVE what you have to say Brad – thanks for sharing ♥
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That is very kind, calmamidst, thank you. It is a pleasure to participate.
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[..YouTube..] Fran, please do a video on lucid dreaming! I would love to do it more often
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Fran, please do a video on lucid dreaming! I would love to do it more often
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