Stressed out? They tell me to live in the now - but how?
"You are not your mind" says Eckhart Tolle. It is the minds identifying with the continuous stream of thinking that is the problem.
'i am not my story" says Tolle, "I am the consciousness behind my story."
You have to dissasociate from the minds hanging onto the past and chasing the future. These illusions cause worry.
"Your Life is always this moment"says Tolle "Life and now are actually inseperable."
Eckhart Tolle points to the observation that the need to win can drain an athletes energy wheras people perform better when in The Zone - a state of total present moment awareness.
“Have you ever gazed upon the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of it? Have you listened, truly listened to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest—if so you have put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems or past, and future, as well as your knowledge—to experience these things your total presence is required. But beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence…”
- Eckhart Tolle
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