How Continuous Resistance Causes Stress and Low Quality of Life | Eckhart Tolle
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The moral of the story...enjoy the journey, stop focusing on the destination taking you out of the present moment. And when you get so present as to lose the sense of Ego, or personal identity you can merge with source, your true identity..or the quantum field and from there you can learn how to consciously create your life...otherwise your subconscious programming, or the "pain body" is creating it for you...GET PRESENT. LIVE CONSCIOUSLY. Namaste
Hey man. Great synopsis. So good I'm going to memorize it. Thanks
Focusing on the destination isn't the biggest problem, focusing on the past, which you cannot change, only learn from it, paralyzes you.
@@erikvanzanen True and in hindsight I would say don’t “focus” on the destination but rather make it real in the present and stay present in the destination
@@erikvanzanen maybe don't look how far you have to go but look how far you've come already
@@johngreen4683 thanks for that.
Pain itself is neither good nor bad... it is our resistance that makes us suffer indeed
Parrot
Is pain ultimately just there to make us aware that negative thinking is running in our subconscious? In power of now he says that the body is a reflection of what's going on in the mind
Oh Please !
Try having a 3 day migraine. These quotes are always by people who havent suffered enough to speak from experience.
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems. When you can accept everything joyfully, you’ve got it made.
Totally agree acceptance and awareness of the acceptance allows us to be present as often as is possible.
So hard for me to learn for some reason.
Thanks. How true is that. Acceptance of what is, is everything.
@@elainepeltier2015 first try accepting very small things, small inconfortable events for instance, then slowly learn to accept bigger problems you can't control or solve.
@@elainepeltier2015 hi elaine, how it started for me was when I knocked over a cup of coffee on my carpet, I just accepted it stayed calm and cleaned it up. Ranting and raving and self deprecation wasn't going to clean it up. So as Khalid said accept small things first and it will become apparent 👍
Very well put, the acceptance of the present moment enhances your relationship to life. Stress is the byproduct of an unhealthy relationship to life. Hope to inspire people like you someday Eckhart Tolle!
@Lucid Living ..
You already inspire many people. 😊
@@Lotus-Subliminals-Shorts hey Susan! Thank you haha, it's great to see you here :)
You just did it, this is a statement of not being present. Can you see how easy is to slip away from now. You love the future and you would like to share your 'condition' with others...some day...💚
@@laurapavone3513 haha I like it, I mean you could say that, for sure, but am I still allowed to say that if I'm enjoying myself while writing?
@@LucidLivingLL
The path to Enlightenment is a joyous one. If we're not having fun there's something wrong! 😃
“Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is.” - *🙏🏽ECKHART TOLLE , 🧡💜Your WISDOM CZcamsr🌸☀️*
I never thought about the constant resistance I have running in the background. It’s definitely been keeping me from enjoying the present moment. Will stop this immediately and enjoy life more 😌
Good luck, you will fail...
@@Julio_Fiss well yeah I’m sure I will from time to time 🙄
@@Taran532 failing is the process
Same with me, what a waste of our precious life.
@@Julio_Fiss You will grow, and learn. Effort. That’s not a fail.
Wonderful 💛 wishing everyone a love and peace
I have noticed the negative voice in the background while doing activities. I have been observing it but not responding to it. It's not the activity but people around me the voice is negative about. Very interesting. I will continue to observe the self talk when it comes into my head. Once I observe the voice, I just realized it does go away, it has no power
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” - *🙏🏽ECKHART TOLLE , ❤️💜Your WISDOM CZcamsr🌸☀️*
And what you embrace, dissipates
Describes my life. I don't like where I live, don't like my job, and live with my head stuck in the future. If only I'd get out of here, etc. It's an exhausting way to live - always dissatisfied and irritable. I try to catch myself doing it, notice what's good, and just accept that for now, I am here. Instead of never noticing or appreciating the present. Not a good way to live.
Yes me too in some ways! It's hard to accept joyfully what u would like to change. I'm trying to accept where I am and be at peace with it and change what I want to change but not be in my head in the future about it. I'm trying to be as my mom and I put it... be all eckart tolle about it! Good luck to u and at least we r trying !!!
@@elleg2851 We are trying, that's all we can do. Good luck!
Move, change your job, take responsibility and embrace uncertainty. You can do it!
@@eXquisiteNoise Thanks. I need to stop being afraid of screwing up. I've been long term unemployed/homeless and so it's hard for me to give up what i built back. But it doesn't work anymore.
@Fred Mertz I kind of "surrendered" a few days ago, and have been calmer. It's an easier way to live. Life is not going to always turn out according to my plans. The old saying....God laughs at your plans.
Resistance causes stress. To end the stress you must surrender.
I think more than surrender, it is acceptance. Move forward from there.
@@world-of-susan. Yes, you are right. I agree with that.
I just want to let anyone who’s reading this, and going through a tough time know that it’s going to be okay. You’ll get through it! ✨
Its been 3 years for me, i hope your right
Been my entire life for me ,hope your right.
Ahahahah
homeless at 82 year old , as can not afford to live .
Ummm... No. Not really. None of us get out of this world alive my brah. Seems impossible I know. But your gonna die!
You changed my life 5 years a go . After reading your books and practising every day to live just here and now. It gave me happiness 😊
ET (lol) you help me more than you know. ✌️💜
you literally changed my life.
thank you so much from Japan
I wanted to share the fact that I was able to consciously get out of my thinking because of you and your teachings. Last night I was upset about something and doing the dishes. I knew that my thoughts were unneeded so I felt myself push them away, so where they existed but didn’t effect me. It was beautiful. Thank you
I am progressing. Thanks Mr. Tolle!
Indeed Eckhart Tolle is a marvelous spiritual teacher.
since whatever there is ... only unfolds in the is-ness of the moment. complete life unfolds in the present moment.
so true.
🙏
Thanks!! I learned that what makes u get out of the now is the continual judgement which makes it seem as the now is never enough.
yes, judging, Byron Katie talks about how the mind/thoughts are always COMPARING this to that, another way of judging...
conceptualizing, not experiencing what is..
It's not the destination, but the travel itself. Wise words again from Mr Tolle.
You must learn to go with the natural flow of life. We do this by living in the moment. The obstacle will be resolved by the higher self. This is what works for me. Thank you Eckhart Tolle with much gratitude and love.
I started to scroll by because I “go with the flow” and then I realized that I DO resist-under the cloak of politics. I have been very vocal about how wrong I think people expressing certain political words/actions are. I have absolutely been resisting the now through my political position.
Accept the reality, then act from stillness.
Joyously tell them they are wrong!
Wife and I separated about 7 months ago. About a month ago I had an awakening and came to the realization of the role I played. Immediately began to try and fix things between us but at the moment she's interested in having her own space... which I appreciate. Most of the time, I'm calm and living in the moment but there are often waves of ego that come crashing down upon me and make it very hard to give her space.
I think with time these waves will get less and less.
I am in the same boat with waves of anger and resentment disrupting stretches of calm and it can be frustrating feeling powerless to stop it. Looking at the role we unconsciosly play in the events in question is very much part of the acceptance process. You will make it.
Same. Hallie’s preferring staying in her own space right now.
I have to remember this, to be fully engaged/involved when doing something
It's hilarious to watch programs on tv after Awakening. Watching the Heartland series and seeing that it's continuous neurotic drama, life is a perpetual problem, where as pre-enlightenment it seemed like 'normal' drama that I could relate to in my own life. What a relief to be free of that neurosis, aka The Ego. 🙏
Same, lol…..ANY reality shows…..I Barley watch TV…..I enjoy vids , like ET or other teachers……..I also see COMMERCIALS as FEAR evoking/triggering……….ALWAYS Pushing meds……making it normal……..yes, thankful for science but what abt taking SOME responsibility for health……a BALANCE……….
@@rhondapelletier2141 I'm enjoying a fairly retro tv series Highway to Heaven these days.
Have you seen the movie Free Guy? If not, check it out. 😉
As usual, the latest video answers my most recent questions. The subtle background resistance is not easy to soften - especially when it's been lurking for as long as you remember - but at least I am now AWARE of this, and with this awareness it can be addressed and I hope I can eventually let go of past anxieties/anger/fears that feed the resistance process. Thank you again, Eckhart. The timing of these videos is amazing. Time to get present and joyful and STAY present and joyful.
I am in the dysfunctional state. I don’t know where or what I want to be, so right now practically everything is an unpleasant obstacle. I’m not just resisting the present moment - I am actively fighting it. My fists are up, my heels are dug in, and I am beyond angry about it. It is draining, frustrating - and unfortunately, I don’t know how to do anything differently. While I desperately wish there was someone I could tell off for being in this state, the worst part is that I think the person I need to tell off is me! And that in itself is even more aggravating! This stuff is very confusing and frustrating.
Indeed it is confusing and aggravating, but that you are aware of it means you are already on the path to embracing the dysfunction. I don't think I can stop my monkey mind from resisting the present moment, but I can watch and be amused at its behavior. I wonder if that is enough.
It's a habit...but habits can be changed, replaced with something that feels better and more authentic. Be kind to yourself and start slowly. I highly recommend meditation. Starting with a short one is good or you might give it up. Try 10 minutes and see how it goes. I wish you the best! 🌱
Let go of it. Let go of the expectation you place on yourself. Youre not "getting there" because ou are trying to get there (from the mind, rather than the being) the mind cannot make the being be, in fact the trying just masks it.
Resistance has been a theme in my life. I want to be free of it and I'm grateful for the progress I've made and for teachers like Mr. Tolle who articulate the issue and solution so clearly.
"You are here but you want to be there." "When you resist the present moment, you are living in an antagonistic relationship with life." Thank you Eckhart Tolle.
In the book Steps to Knowledge, this present moment experience is expressed as "the desire to see." "To see with clear vision means you are not seeing with preference. It means that you are able to perceive that which is actually occurring rather than that which you wish to see. There is something actually occurring beyond your wishes... The desire to see, then is the desire to see a greater truth. This requires a greater honesty and a greater openness of mind... When the mind is open, it experiences its own depth, and it experiences the depth of what it is perceiving." (Steps to Knowledge, Marshall Vian Summers)
Thank you, Janice.
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u use a pic of Tolle for ur PFP to scam people?
ur like a stalker, only less cool,
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don't forget to wipe ur bot.
The moment you stop or forget looking for your wishes then manifestation of all your wishes come true.
💕🥰 you're so precious Eckhart thank you for all your efforts to help people and also for your keen sense of humor. Sometimes I stumble during my day and start chuckling at the folly of it all, just thinking of you.
It's so lovely feeling when you find yourself resisting, then let go of it and the beautiful "emptiness" fills you in the present moment ❤
How do you just let it go?
Great question! I do this:
1. Decide that it's time to let go of it
2. Close my eyes and repeat the mantra "Let go" a few times
3. Take deep breaths and feel the energy I have in my body - become present
4. Go deeper into this feeling and stay there without having any goal to achieve, just be
Yes , it happens , and l see it in others too when it appens , then l open my arms , palms upward , thinking about the realms of the light and it helps to transcend it , its my method for now ! Namaste !
Eckhart, you explain this so well! I didn't fully realize that I wasn't living in the NOW. Thank you 🙏
This is literally me, from the moment I wake up a series of unpleasant tasks counting the hours till I can go back to sleep with the one exception of the daily cold showers. Single parent to three teenagers just so you understand which mountain I'm climbing.
Thank you for giving me the litlle push towards something I always felt..I just read both your books i’m finishing “ a new world “ and it’s incredible how i can relate
to every word..in the beginning i was struggling to be in the present moment…and then i started to observe my self has an outsider and it’s becoming more and more fluid in me…🙏… the joy of not carrying the brain like useless baggage makes all the difference thank you to give us the missing tools
Eckhart’s videos are the only thing that makes me okay, but the best part about it is that the things he teaches will always be there for you no matter where you are
Very interesting how Eckhart connects the flow state of extreme sports to drug use as a mechanism to escape thoughts. That rings very true to me.
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another.
All negativity is resistance.
In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.
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ECKHART TOLLE
I indulge in beauty, honor my sensitivities, and trust my intuition.
Thank you Eckhart... for caring so much and for your wisdom. Thank you for being there.
Drop the thought and come back to the breath (present moment) again and again. You won't die you'll come to life. I could go on but I wanted to share something. I reread Eckert's books again and again which has helped me so much.
what arises in me as I watch this video is 999 trillion layers of grief and trauma.
every cell in me, is submerged completely in: grief and trauma and despair and rage.
Thank you 🙏
It is so helpfull to listen to You, Echkart..I am gratefull every Day to be accuainted with You ! Namaste 🎉🎉🎉❤
Dear I love your book " The Power of Now". It really changed a lot in me! Thank you!!!
So true … ! Thanks Eckhart to open our eyes ! 🙏
Hugely practical. Jai Guru Dev
I like this Eckharts daily short videos -reminders.
God bless you Eckhart. 01:14
when you resist the present moment you are living in an antagonistic relationship with life. Very succinct. And after all..... life is all.
Essence of whole teaching in this video
To the spiritual seekers i would like to offer few pointers from my own experience and point of view.
In regards of the video.
All the seeking happens in personal level. The person is looking themselfs and their "enlightenment" from their minds.
Mind is only active in time.
All the seeking is looking towards in time which is resistance to present moment, waiting for better moment is also saying this moment is not good enough for me.
In presence the "seeker" dies. It does not exist in presence. Real you does.
Only 1 step is needed. Stepping back from time to presence.
it is instant.
''In presence the seeker dies.'' The the present mpment matters - and nothing else does - could not be better explained. Thank you. I'll keep that.
PURE GOLD 🙏❤️🙏💓💗💕
He is an absolute genius...
He looks so radiant 🤍
For years, I've had a voice coming from the back right side of my head that keeps saying "You're in the wrong film". Now I am in psychotherapy because I am resisting the resistance. Because I could not do away with this voice. It is a dysfunctional state and I have lost my sense of joy completely :-(
Guilty as charged 🎯
Stress is resistance itself. Stress reduces quality of life and makes the body more susceptible to illness and disease. According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.
I surrender to god my health issues,I accept this moment as it is ...I accept this feeling of hopelessness and despair 😢
Didn't we learn as kids "resistance is futile"? Funny Tolle would be teaching us the same lesson later in life!
Do you recall "Stop, Look, Listen and Learn" ? That's a good one many people forget. 🙃
Seven of nine, isn't she?
'Comply!'
This can work during the day.
I find zero ways to implement this at night when worries at work wake me at 2 am and cannot sleep again until 4 for one more hour. That’s it. Nothing seems to stop stress during sleep from waking me.
When I try and put myself to sleep, or back to sleep, I try forcing myself to focus only on these words, together with breathing. When I inhale, my thought is “I breath In because I am light and love.” When I exhale, my thought is”I let go of what doesn’t serve me.” I don’t let other thoughts in, only focus on that and breath.
for me other way around, I sleep like a baby, than when I get up bummm thoughts comes ... 🙃
🌈Thank you very much, for this interesting teaching.🙏😊
find the joy in the moment.
Thank you!!!
شكرا عزيزي ايكهارت ❤
so interesting to see how much psychoanalytic theory is in his teachings- ideas about Resistances and also about the ways of coping with 'thinking' through drugs/drinking and dangerous activity (ID/ thanatos- death drive) - these ideas are in Freud's civilisation and its discontents
Wow, very clear and helpfull, thank you Eckhart
Thankyou Eckhart.. just Thankyou ! 🙏
Ever since our birth, the society and as well as we ourselves unconsciously programmed/ conditioned ourselves to always dislike the present moment which is life itself. And it's an insane way to live. Imagine a fish hating the water, that is same as we're disliking the present moment. Unless we reprogram ourselves to like/enjoy/accept the present moment, we will be in constant state of stress, anxiety, tension and dissatisfaction until we die.
When I’m at work I want to be somewhere else, every single day of my life!
Muchísimas gracias!!!!
My beautiful sister, one of my beautiful sisters😍, affectionately calls you Ecky Poo. I love you and your beautiful human being so very much too💚🎶🍃🌈
Hi, Eckhart ! I think, and something observe inside that thought, that the very difficult part in awakining is letting go of the past. Because lot of identification with the past situations and emotions. How to let go ? Lots of energies is that past, in our body too. So, like Einstein said once, "You cannot solve the problem with the same mind that produced the problem", what mind to use? Because understanding is need it. Seams to not be enough to know, or even feel that I am the consciousness and not the recogniscion of the fact that everyone acts on the level of they're consciousness at the time, and neighter that the ego is the one that is hanging on suffering from the past. What to do? I see how I react and I wanna change. I try to feel my emotions but I don't know if I do it right or the mind is telling me :"Oh, good job! or "You never make it because you don't know how to feel an emotion, nobody can help you because that is an inside work and nobody can tell you if you got 10 or 4 to you're homework". I see is just a thought but how I react on others make me put this question.
Thank you ❤️
I tell myself every morning and throughout the day “I fully accept my past and the wisdom and strength it has given me, I stand firmly in peace in the present, and I look passionately forward to my future as I am enjoying robust health, abundant wealth, unconditional love and incredible success”. This is of course just part of an affirmation I say every day
Just what i needed
Sometimes The Now is enough. Yesterday I was fixing the allay that takes to where I live shoveling and hoeing gravel. After a while I stopped, my body was hurting, it was enough. While I was doing that the thought of slaves came to my mind. How can you do that all day long and for several days without the freedom to say: 'I'm done for today'?
Sometimes meditation is 'imposed'.
'Comply, resistance is futile. You'll be assimilated' 🌹
Quoting 7 of 9, Star Trek Voyager
note to self: listen to this again
yep, i am
Thank you
SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide}
and YES..!!!!!!
I have to admit how far I am from consciouness, you are describing my life here.
Thanks. I needed that:)
Most of us want to run away frim our circumstances, family conflicts, job etc.
I don’t trust the isness of the present moment. And since the life is in and as my present moment , therefore when you resist the present moment you are living in a right of passage to LIFE. The achieving is inside of you. Un conditioning mind pattern is what gets us below thinking. So that we can all see and observe from a place of non judgement. The pattern of society that keeps us low to the ground. Where did you get picked up for your book deal? Please explain what presence means when you spoke about just sitting down and being present and writing that book A New Earth?
It seems there are things I'm not able yet fully understand. I am aware of the ego and pure consciousness and I am able to tap into the presence often (not for a long time, but still). I still have a constant battle in my head. One part of me wants to just be present, enjoy every second of life, feel the energy of everything and live calmly in the mountains in a small house. But the other part of me wants to build something big, earn something (yeah even money - not to be better and more rich than others and build strong ego, but to enjoy some normally unavailable things and secure my family), and be reckognized somehow in this world. If I'm in a fully present state i have tendency to really not care about anything and I have no desire to build something in this world. Yet the state is enjoyable, but the other part of me wants to do these things, not egoisticly, but to achieve and make this world a better place not just for myself, but others. As you type about lose of your sense of identity (name, job etc.) - Somehow I really don't want to do it. I respect my parents and I want to make them proud and honor them and I don't want to lose my identity, my name, all good aspects of my personality and the way I am. Yet I wan't to live fully in present without EGO. When I obtained my college degree it seemed that my parents were more happy about that than me. I want to be happy about my achievements and share the happiness with them but in the present moment it seems I can't do it. So I'm very confused about that and it's a thing I somehow cannot understand yet. I don't know if y'all understand me, but I would be glad if there's somebody who could explain this to me..... As well as a person with a yet small company with few employees I have to sometimes be authoritative. Sometimes I need to use negative motivation and be tougher than normally on them. If I want to build something.. something which the society will benefit from I just need to do it. Everybody knows that and it's a concept which is done for a decades and it's working like that. If i wouldn't do it, my employees (as a normal people) would instantly use me or use it to somehow cheat on the job and thus slow the grow of the thing I want to build. I need to be performance oriented to do my job right. Yet it seems I am not able to do it in pure present state. I am really wondering about how to connect the business focused on performance and the present moment and living without ego. How to work harder than other companies and still be present and without ego. I am really battling with myself and I can't understand it yet.
Thankyou❤🙏
True, we must let it flow
You are a wise man. I am a kindergartner.
You have just described me!!!!
Epic lesson
I feel like Eckhart was directly talking to me 🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜
Never been able to accept my body. I see myself in the mirror ugh. I am 65 all my life have found things not to like about my body, too fat when I was not fat at all. Then later I did gain weight and only then did I realize that fact. I was told I was fat by my mother daily, or she would ask have you gained some weight. Not allowed to eat ice cream or cakes when the rest of the family did cause I was told you are too fat. Accept myself as is that would be wonderful.
Very interesting
Its really hard not to worry or ruminate about future problems and important things...itz like if i worry about it it somehow keeps it in view and a sense if safety in worry..keeping worries close but that does no good inside
To the one scrolling, I pray this Ramadan Allah brings you the greatest miracles, healing and happiness flooding your way and leave you with tears of joy!
An incomplete transcript:
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Already wanting to be @ the end of this current activity.
So you want to arrive more @ the end of this particular activity than be engaged @ this activity.
So this dysfunctional state greatly diminishes the quality of your life. Because your life is the present moment.
The result is stress.
Not to resist the isness of the present moment. What arises in the present moment.
When you resist the present moment you are living in an antagonistic relationship w/ Life.
No matter then what you achieve, if that is your conditioned mind pattern you will never arrive @ a place of joy or happiness or inner peace.
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-E. Tolle "How Continuous Resistance Causes Stress and Low Quality of Life"
What you resist persists
Usually these "courses" of Yours cost money, I have not got !
Stop resisting. Just give him your money
@@leer9874 I said, have not got any ! But I listen to Echkart by CZcams for 4 years now...
@@leer9874 lol
You can download his books illegaly. Ask an experienced internet user
You don't need a cent to wake up. It's freely available to each of us. You don't even need Eckhart Tolle, adorable as he is.
♥️ from California
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How does one become more present ? It is hard from personal experience.
Use your breath. It is our greatest reminder to drop back into the Now and out of our compulsive thinking. One breath at a time is a great start. 🙏🏻💛✌🏻
Witness you resist and laugh at it!
Amazing! But it will not work for 98% of the audience but you yourself know that. The fact is that Tolle's "Pain Body" turns out to have a physical body too, which works reflexively, automatically and constantly! You must discover it in yourself first!
true
what happens if the present moment feels bad
Yes but where is your mind going while you are being present during that particular activity ?