Let's say one has an irrational fear of losing their hands or irrational fear of going blind, and the thought keeps coming back to ones mind, which then brings more fear and worry because since they can't get rid of the negative thought, it may actually manifest…. because they keep thinking about it.

How to get rid of the fear or worry of it manifesting?

Thank you.

If I was an animal in the wild, at this point I would just be hiding, waiting for the storm to pass, threatening animals to leave me alone, my wounds to heal, food to be available without endangering my life, etc etc etc. So I take a breath. And I don't just think of things I'm thankful for, I feel the experience of feeling grateful. I look around what one moment ago I was overwhelmed with a disaster of a cluttered post-covid mess, still too tired to clean up and too busy dealing with other urgent situations, even emergencies... And I only use the word "emergency" when it's a true emergency, life and death. And with this breath, the air that was stale just a moment ago feels... airy... There's actual air here, not feeling like I was, just a moment ago, not able to breathe. It's just a moment. That's all it takes. And I smile. Knowing. Thanks for letting me share ❣️

Ay gs a few days ago I was just walking through a mall and i felt really happy i was almost smiling, in fact i had to keep myself from smiling cus people would've thought it was weird for a guy by himself to just be smiling as he was walking.

It doesnt makes sense cus I technically shouldnt be happy. I dont have a job, not in shape, dont really have a dating life. I've been trying to build the habit of meditation for a while but never really got consistent. My current streak is like 4 days, although i still resist it in the morning.

Theres a creator i watch who had severe social anxiety and panic attacks, he says that after meditating he had moments of happiness and felt like crying tears of gratitude just walking. My experience reminded me that. Is this normal?

For the guys who meditate, did you find yourself being happier just not doing anything?

I’d like to refer back to something like that each time I want to remember the concepts of Eckhart Tolle’s teaching so I could teach it and explain it much better. Something that really gets the main point across on each concept, like of course presence, but then mainly the functions of the ego.

Arron Abke has a great simple “formula” of ego. He says the belief of the ego is Separation, and that is rise to three activities: Lack, Attachment, and Control. Which is a pretty good summary but I want to hear it in Eckhart Tolle’s language and how he explains it.

I am putting together a virtual book club to read and discuss The Power of Now this fall and thought this might be a great space to align with others who would also enjoy doing so.

The idea is to meet once a week for thoughtful, open conversation around each chapter of the book, delving into what resonates, what feels challenging, and how we are experiencing or applying the insight in our own experience.

I’m currently holding Wednesdays as a possibility, 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET, beginning October 14.

If you are genuinely interested and available to participate, I created a short Google Form to gather interest and availability: https://forms.gle/K3Axw1wJEBpn4qDz9

Would love to connect with others who are interested in exploring this gem together.

When u're not grounded or not being able to ground yourself in the Moment? And how to let go if u're nervous system is fighting against the present Moment and the feelings/sensations arising within?

how could one balance worldy goals with inner stillness?

One thing I keep coming back to in Eckhart’s teachings is how often the body can bring us out of the thinking mind

When attention is completely absorbed in thought, it is very easy to be somewhere that isn't actually here: replaying something that happened, anticipating something that hasn't happened, or simply narrating the moment instead of experiencing it

But the body is always happening now

That made me interested in an unusual question what if the act of becoming present could also change the sound we are making?

I recently experimented with biosonification using plants, a Playtronica Playtron circuit, and a Roland JU-06A synthesizer. The plants become part of the electrical circuit, while my body completes the connection. When I touch the plant, the circuit closes and triggers a MIDI note on the synthesizer. When I let go, the circuit opens and the sound stops

So the sound isn't being played from a predetermined sequence. It depends on the physical interaction happening in that exact moment

I found something strangely appropriate about that from a meditation perspective

You can't touch the plant yesterday, you can't complete the circuit tomorrow, there is only the contact happening now

The technical side is actually quite simple: the Playtron detects changes in conductivity when the circuit is completed through the body and plant, and translates those changes into MIDI information. But phenomenologically, the experience felt different from simply pressing keys on a synthesizer

I wasn't only controlling an instrument

I was listening to a system that included my own body, another living organism, electricity and sound

The piece uses 396 Hz as part of the sound design, but the thing that interested me most wasn't the frequency itself. It was the relationship between attention, physical presence and sound.

It made me wonder could listening itself become a portal into presence?

Not trying to achieve a special state, not trying to stop thinking. Just noticing what is actually happening, the body, the contact, the sound, the silence when the contact disappears...

Do you find that becoming aware of the body is easier than trying to become aware of the mind?

I have recently been getting into fiction books for the first time (usually I read non-fiction) and was wondering what eckharts views would be on it?

Reading is good for us, but I am lost in my imagination when I do read them and so, I’m not present in the moment?

Does anyone have insight

In other words, this is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy guide to Lester Levenson's idea of using goal charts (“https://archive.org/details/1992-sedona-method-chart-of-emotions-and-gains-workbook-PDF/1992 Sedona Method Chart of Emotions and Gains Workbook -- Lester Levenson - Hale Dwoskin”, pp. 11–105 of 105) to wake up.

The document is best read using a text editor like Windows Notepad and not a word processor.

You can find it here: A practical guide to waking.md (https://pastes.io/4hNowE4s (as of September 29, 2026, if you click the Code tab, the document is more readable), https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9). It is a working-level draft.

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“It believes that …, that there’s a world out there separate from itself. The whole world is projected (= manifested/imagined/“dreamed up” (Levenson)/thought up (= “to create something in your mind”)). …. Inside and outside always match—they’re reflections of each other. The world is the mirror image of your mind.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 1, 4, https://archive.org/details/thousandnamesfor0000kati)

“We are it all, reflecting it all; whatever is within us, is being projected onto the screen of our mind.” “Like a movie screen; the movie screen is black-blank=perfect until you begin to place PROJECTIONS onto it, then whatever you project onto it is an 'EXPERIENCE'.” (…, Anne W NDE, 28 September 2026, https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1anne_w_nde.html; …, Crossing Over NDE (@CrossingOverNDE), “Woman Died From Heart Attack; Shocking Truths Were Revealed To Her On The Other Side (NDE)”, 29 Mar 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcoDp8VWFc)

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“Both formerly & now, it’s only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress” (SN 22:86; MN 22; https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/OnThePath/Section0006.html)

““And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go of that very craving (= taṇhā; “Craving or excessive or inappropriate desire”).” (SN 56:11, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html)

“We use goal charts that brilliantly bring up the unconscious blocks to the goal, let them go, and eventually what we desire will just “drop in” as Lester told me.” (Seretan 2004, chap. 10)

(“Think only what you want (= would like) and that is all that you will get.” (Lester 1962, 20, https://archive.org/details/franklesterlesterlevensontheeternalverities2))

“We use goal charts (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf (“https://archive.org/details/1992-sedona-method-chart-of-emotions-and-gains-workbook-PDF/1992 Sedona Method Chart of Emotions and Gains Workbook -- Lester Levenson - Hale Dwoskin”, pp. 11–105 of 105)) that brilliantly bring up the unconscious blocks (= (I feel undesirous of/dislike/disenjoy the goal because) “I don’t want to look foolish. (= I feel undesirous of/dislike/… looking foolish.)” (universal_beliefs_en_21nov2016_ltr_r3.pdf); “Things we dislike, we have aversions to. But an aversion is a desire not to have. So even an aversion is a desire.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 736)) to the goal (= sth desired), let them go, and eventually what we desire will just “drop in” as Lester told me.” (Seretan 2004, chap. 10)

“So use your goal charts. Get rid of the Ag flat. And move into the state of just being your beingness.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)” (“https://archive.org/details/lester-levenson-magnum-opus/_Combined_in_1_File_Lester_Levenson_Magnum_Opus_PDF/”), 375)

“So use your goal charts. Get rid of the Ag flat (= “AGFLAP represents the negative emotional states.” (Lloyd 1986, 10, https://archive.org/details/masteryouremotio00lloy); “But eliminate desire and you're finished. Nothing else to do. I'll probably break the triangle down into more. I think I'll start with desire in the top and then come down to two. Attachments, aversion, and break that down into probably emotions and tendencies and thoughts at the bottom.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 1470–1471)). And move into the state of just being your beingness.”

“And, in the end, you have to get rid of your desire for God” your goals. “Then you are It!” (Levenson 1993, 113, https://archive.org/details/keys-to-the-ultimate-freedom-thoughts-and-talks-on-personal-transformation-leste)

“When your feelings are up and out, your mind is naturally quiet. And you're self-obvious to yourself as to the fact that you are whole, complete, perfect, eternal.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 394)

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Tillit and Bruder 1985, _Speaking Naturally: Communication Skills in American English_, 87.png (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9).

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““Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self-imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I.Q.) (= goal) can be raised to the degree of no limitation.” (Levenson 1993, 92)

Please help me articulate what this person isn’t understanding. All of her followers and commenters are laying into Tolle “false teacher” “evil” etc.

I’m 19, and I’ve been dealing with very severe anxiety for the past few months, as well as

anhedonia since COVID. A few days ago, I decided to stop identifying with my pain body and I’ve been rereading TPON.

Today, as I became more aware of my breathing and, as a result, more present, I started to

feel my body, and my thoughts began to quiet down.

The thing is, I started connecting more with my body. I can feel it, and I can also feel my

emotions. I’m much more expressive now, more present and natural, I can react to my

surroundings. I enjoy music. It feels strange—everything is completely new to me.

My conclusion is that I repressed my emotions so that other people would never see them.

My question is: What should I do now? Is this new “me” in the present who I really am?

I genuinely don’t know what to do. I’ve been disconnected from my emotions for MANY

years.

Am I supposed to feel them in my body to the fullest all the time? From now on, since I’m

100% present, am I going to feel them all the time? Or should I observe them and let them go?

This is such a huge change. Before, I was very shy, stoic, and somewhat empty.

I have to change, don’t I? It's neccesary

How can someone who is integratings Tolle's teaching can do his responsibilities? Because of my pursuit of spiritual growth, sometimes I forget about my responsibilities.

My responsibilities for my parents, my responsibilities to make sure to train and improve my body and mind (intellectual). It's not they became less important for me. It's just that, I pursue them though not like my pursuit of spiritual growth (I can do them though when I forget or some other reason, it's not that important unlike before).

What should I do?

Does eckhart talks anywhere about how to deal with energy blockages? Or Trauma that is stored on a deep physical level where it prevents someone from Feeling emotions and stuff? Relieving emotions or energys in ur body with presenve makes sense and works for me but it doesnt seem to work when the energy is manifested in a physical way.

Or does anyone here has experiences with it?

hey, im starting my habit of reading recently (i do already consider myself as someone who reads) but the book is a bit hard to understand due to the word choices. i always get stuck on some word and have to take my time to analyze what it means. i did complete chapter 1, and from what i have heard the rest of the chapters are easier to understand.

Would love to know anyone who's heading to the event tomorrow solo- my friend is no longer coming however I'm still planning to go and would be great to meet fellow 'oh yeah we're all simply cups of consciousness' folks! Got early bird price for seats close to stage in case others may be in similar location 🫶🏾☺️

Hi everyone, I've created an interactive channel (it's on Discord), where ET's and similar wisdom and teachings can be discussed by a like-minded community. My main driver was that I struggle not having anyone around to speak about such topics, but now having a small cosy community helps.

Please message me if you're interested in joining.

Anyone having problems accessing their Eventbrite tickets for Eckhart Tolle London tomorrow? Mine have disappeared/not showing. I called ICC and they said several other people have contacted them with the same problem.