Break Free: How to Stop Living in the Shadow of Your Past | Eckhart Tolle
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- In this video, Eckhart discusses how to escape the shadows of your past and the mirage of the future to live in the present moment without fear. He examines how our lives are often confined by the narratives we tell ourselves about what was and what will be, preventing us from experiencing the richness of now. You'll learn practical strategies for shedding these mental constructs, embracing the essence of your true self, and unlocking a life of presence and awareness.
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Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth-translated into more than 50 languages-he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
An Eckhart video a day, keeps the insanity away😊🎉🙏🏼❤️
He does so many to keep the money rolling in. Just look how much he makes from the CZcams advertising revenue.
@@user-st7wb3yf3d I don't spend any time thinking about how much money Eckhart Tolle makes or anything like that! I'm not sure why you think it's relevant to my comment, but I suggest you might want to interrupt your thinking along those lines...🙏🏼❤️
Yes! 💜
@@user-st7wb3yf3dSo what ? ❤️
If we came across some sitting on a bench ranting to themselves about everything that is wrong in the world and how awful everything is, we'd call them a troubled person with a troubled mind. If we came across someone sitting on a bench openly showing their appreciation of all that is wonderful in the world, we'd call them enlightened beings with enlightened minds . 99.9 % of our peace and happiness, and suffering and unhappiness is a direct result of the stories we tell ourselves 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I saw clearly, as he spoke, how the past is all in our minds, as memory, and what could happen in the future is also merely a construct of the mind. We are always only truly in "now." And this is presence.
God I feel so haunted by the past its like a bad egg sandwich burping up so I distract myself but there's so few distractions now it's getting very narrow...
So true!
@@PadraigpThose feelings are an illusion, a trick of the mind. The brain does its job, generating its thoughts, like the heart pumps or the kidneys filter. It's just energy. Hopefully, you will be able to see this.
@@Padraigp accepting how i'm feeling has been helping me a lot lately. also that whenever you think of the past, you're literally using the now to think about it, like you can only think of the past using the now as a foundation
I wish it was so easy! It is not always enough. The body has been effected too and remembers. And sometimes you need help to help the body process.
I love how eckhart talks without channeling an obscure entity
Without past or future it feels so light, something magical exciting in my heart, a joy of being, I smile, laugh from heart. Thank u so much sir to make my life better, & sharing wonderful gift to the world
I’ve been waiting for this for all my lives.
His transition into standup has been delightful to behold 🦋
Every video of Eckhart is so calming and radiates truth and love!
Spaciousness is the magic
Liberation from self
Pure freedom
Thank you Eckhart for the wisdom shared. Social media has actually hired psychologists to engineer an addictive experience to keep users on their platforms, using the reward part of the brain and the withdrawal symptoms are hard for most people to ignore. The way you speak about these things puts it into a perspective that is so freeing, and quite amusing. We don't have to participate in it despite the pressure, and at the end of the day it really is a silly thing to give so much importance to. Thank you!
Tolle is the real deal
Realizing that I am not my thoughts - that I don't need to listen to them, that I can simply observe them - is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. My mind used to keep me miserable, worried, angry - every single day. After practicing Eckhart's teachings I now only feel that way sometimes, and even then I have a way out. I now realize that I create my own suffering, and that I can stop doing this any time I choose. I can accept this very moment as it is and stop producing needless suffering. The past has loads of regret, resentment. The future holds so much fear, worry. But Now everything is OK. And Now IS everything.
God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness to us all. Even as we are faced with our toughest battles God is there for us. That’s why I keep faith as I struggle to provide for my children. I’m a single mom. Both of my sons are special needs. I started homeschooling them so my hours to work are limited. As I struggle to buy groceries and as I struggle to pay my rent I know God is with me. He’s the only reason why I made it this far. Lord continue to keep us safe.
God is with you at all times, holding you and your children close to Him. He will give you the strength to walk your journey. He sends his Angels to be with you and your children.God’s love and Blessings to you. I will send my prayers this very moment. ❤️🔥⚡️🙏🏼
God is also within you. When you stop struggling and fighting you can notice it. When you keep calm and stop trying to do everything by your limited means God or universal consciousness can take over and help you where your limited ego self can't wrestle its way in.
Thank you dear sweet Eckhart ❤ After a year of meditation I'm conscious most of my day now but I still fall unconscious when angry people or stressful situations arise. But I'm catching myself during the unconsciousness allowing it to subside quickly.
There's three levels of enlightenment/awareness.
1) The lowest (but still an enlightenment!) After the fact. After the unconsciousness event one becomes aware and sees the unconsciousness and understands.
Example; a year after I dated that same co-dependant person and broke up, I became conscious/aware that I had a need for this co dependant relationship.
2) Second level; Becoming conscious during the event. I started going out with the same type of person again but catch it WHILE we're dating .. but not too far down the road and back out. And the highest level of enlightenment;
3) BEFORE I go out with the next co-dependant person, I have a realization that I'm drawn towards this person on an unconsciousness level but I don't have to go down this road again. As soon as we meet, I don't even go on a date.
This could be with anything, the same job, any problems etc. Arguing with anyone is a great test. 1) Right after we argued I became conscious and pondered this unconsciousness. 2) DURING the argument I stop and become the Aware Observer (conscious) and just stop arguing and 3) Before I start arguing I stay conscious and avoid the argument all together.
I'm not at this highest level yet but somewhere in the middle. Practicing mediation daily is the key. (Who's running the show? The unconscious ego or the soul?)
How's your journey going? Have a great day. Namstate 🎶
I love your “who’s running the show” analogy….great practice
Check out the Autobiography in 5 Chapters, by Portia Nelson
"When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us." (Stephen Grosz). Our thoughts, especially subconscious thoughts, tell stories that we believe to be true; yet thoughts are just thoughts. The mind does an amazing job creating imaginary problems that fit the old thought narrative (the old story). Eckhart is wonderful in teaching mindfulness, to still those waters, to take the power away from the old narrative. I also like simple mindfulness workbooks like the one called 30 Days to Reduce Anxiety by Harper Daniels. We cannot out think our minds. Observation and compassion for self.
❤Yes this realisation is magical
Theres only this moment❤
Thank you eckhart. Your work has helped me in my journey immensely. ❤
Thanks for reminding me to live in the present moment teach and you're the best! Have a great week everyone! 💜
Thanks Nicole, and may your week be a splendorous one too!💜♾️💜
@@stephenflood3463 Thanks hun you too! 💜🌷💜
you're welcome
Same to you, and everyone reading this on a week-end.
Thank you, dear Eckhart, for this wise and intelligent talk. 🙏🙏
I love ET. He helps me come back to the peace of the now. Serenity. Peace. Calm. Ahhhhh 😌
Thank you for watching.
SO true.❤
Three days of fever didn't let me touch the cell phone and computer - which are not my passion they are above all work tolls - well, in this conscious limbo, I realized that without these infernal "cosi"😂 as one of my colleagues says, life does not end but restart...
How wonderful I entered an infinite space...
Once heald 😢🤣
I had to turn them back on for work.
I confess that I missed E. Tolle' videos, however
even fever can teach you something😂
So grateful 💓🙏✨✨🌺
❤❤❤❤❤ just love this man !
Hi Sonya, How's your day going with you?
After watching and sharing in the "presence" meditations for a while now I too have wondered when I would experience enlightenment...until I realizing I haven't felt fear or depression for quite some time...not a small gifting!
Such a precious soul here who we are so blessed to hear👏👏👏👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
One ought to stop living in the shadow of the past and never foreshadow a life in the future because there is only ever the here and now. So one should live through a sense of there's no tomorrow and simply enjoy every precious moment which only today holds. Thank you so much for another wiseful confirmation Eckhart.
Yes the timeless dimension! 💜 ♾ 💜
@@midnightblue2893 Exactly, because consciousness itself is timeless.💜
i find it hard to implement in life from a practical stand point of life. if i feel like there's only this day, i never plan for future, which in return makes the next day chaos
@@aspensilber39 Well yes, we can all still plan ahead of what we might do tomorrow and so on, and we can live in the present moment while in work or whatever else we are doing. But it could be disappointing when those things we plan for the future don't work out. So by living in the present moment without future expectations we can never be disappointed. If my plans work out, brilliant, but if they don't, well atleast I'm happy with every moment that I spent living in the now. It's about having a certain mindset towards life I believe.
Just need to be thats all just be , fully here and now thats when you realize there is no fear only love blissful peaceful unending with no requirements love , its so unconditional and so perfect we cant miss it . Train yourself to relax every moment of everyday every emotion and thought that you have every automatic reaction inside all you need to do is relax with it thats how we heal the past . We relax into it, we remember who we are by feeling it not thinking it
Thanks Eckhart I am very Thankful that you always were truthful to me always kind and always right . I am very thankful for your honesty and your spiritual help to create a better place on earth
I like Eckhart's sense of style...especially his color choices and his high top sneaker shoes!He is so cute and funny😊 What a treasure he is❣🙏
Humor Heiterkeit löst die Schatten der Vergangenkeit
liebend heilend fröhlich auf...
This is so epic!
Sooooooo good! Thank you, Eckhart!
Thank you for the teaching and especially for an essential meditations for my well being! For some reason I enjoy few of them amongst other way more, especially "sitting in presence 30 minutes". I think it's because of the best quality.
He is the living Yoda of our time
I love The Power of Now book, ⭐realy helps with anxiety. 🙏thank you Eckhart
If I want to survive, I can't be in the present, deadlines, frenetic and frantic pace of daily life, schedules at work with no time for wellbeing and ease, You must be a superhero to be kind of present, mindful and conscious in these days with this hectic pace of living.
I trust that your “surviving” will one day move to “thriving”. I have found that to be in the past or future is suffering. To be in the moment is non suffering.
Do not let the hectic pace of the world become yours. If you're more present, centred, your life will become more peaceful, at ease.
Thanks Eckhart for your amazing advice
Wonderful❤
What we call the past, still exists in our memory. I'm glad of that because I have some lovely memories of these present moments which are gone.
Without past and future, I m free, I m totally me, I m full of energy and hope if people around me allow
Thankyou 💟
Maestro Eckhart:
Muchísimas gracias.
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Beautiful video 😍
The more people you meet, the more events that take place, the more successful you become, the more life you live, the further your past becomes
Thanks Eckheart, have been off the internet the last few days, except now to hear this, it’s good. Read a bit of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood and everything is quite.
Sounds good I'm on this thing to distract me from my past and flashes of guilt and horror and regret... I dont know how to process all that its too much and its paralysing so I just say ok calm down watch a TV show have a cup of tea don't go crazy...
@@Padraigpmeditate on your past you’ll get through it if you do
@@Padraigp If you just stay there and observe, you'll discover there's nothing to be afraid of.
Thank you 🧚🌹👏
The value of this man's teachings can't be described in words. In 100 years, will people look back on him and say he was a Messiah or Buddha?
Thankyou😊🙏❤
If I was to not use my cell phone, how would I be able to have the miracle of listening to this video?
Good point
Very fun😂❤🎉
Gratitude ❤
Deep gratitude for the joy inside of wisdom 💗🙏
Thank you for the teaching 🙏 ❤️ ♥️
Thank you Eckhart ❤❤
Love this guy !
Gracias amado 🙏 💜 🙇🏼♀️ 🌈
I’ve realized, in the last month or so, that I’m kind of addicted to the sensation of drowsiness and falling asleep.
I have always had difficulty with sleeping through an entire night, at least in my adulthood. For about 30+ years I wake every couple of hours. I think the most I sleep is about 4 hours. I think it’s likely that this is part of why my health is poorly. Maybe I like the sensation of falling asleep so much that I keep waking in order to to do it over and over. That can’t be healthy. Oh well, yet another thing to be aware of and work on.
I have the same and for me its the good sensation that you feel by "almost falling asleep", a state of beeing still away but "so far away from the world and its problems". I would say that you have "so many Browser Tabs open" in your daily life and it just feels good to have a moment without the need to worry. But thats exactly what meditation is about. Dont feel bad for "drowsiness", thats sometimes a time of regeneration. Try to implement more moments of "peace" into your life, especially when you are awake. Often even small moments are very beneficial. Try to exercise more, best case do a long peaceful walk trough nature, exercise a little bit and then fall asleep to light music.
The sleep in the morning after you decide not to get up for school is the beat sleep in the world to me. I dont like the going to bed sleep although I do go to bed once I've exhausted every excuse and the dishes are the only thing left to do and bed is better than dishes...but I lie there untill something puts me to sleep. Then the sleep I have in the morning after I have opened my eyes at the alarm and decided its far too cold and busy out there...oh my. All my life apart from maybe when I was very little I have liked this sleep. Lack of vitmin d and magnesium severely depleted for me for a time. After trauma made me unable to sleep a full night. I went to a Chinese herbal doctor md and whatever she gave me herbal tea stuff I was sleeping 8 hours in 2 days of drinking the tea after years of a few hours and then a few more. I cant live on just a few. I have to have that second sleep. Now I can sleep fully for 8 hours or 6 and then another 1 or 2 to avoid the horrible morning. 😂 so maybe try vitiman d but also take magnesium with it because it depletes magnesium. I'm pretty sure I've had dd deficiency my whole life.
15:20 thank you Eckhart I’m an avid student the feeling you are talking about I have this unusual ability to sustain it for 5-6 hours every night when I meditate in the dark❤!!!
How great is he
Thanks!
Thank you for your support.
The reality is there is No past 🙏
Nor future!
I saw this comment yesterday 🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏🙏🙏🙏
I have been describing Devices as, Mind numbing, Sole robbing, B. S., for years. Thanks for confirming. Peace Love and Harmony
I watch Eckhard video almost every day. It help many time but sometimes I can't help myself being scare to do something. I did it while I was being scare. Everyone was seeing that I'm scare.
Now I'm scare too. I hope that I will get better.
It’s okay to be scared. Glad you reached out ❤
I've noticed that dreams are the same as our life, but shorter. There's always some identity and it all clearly seems to be created by mind.
What a wonderful feeling
Thank you x
Yes. I Am.
3:03
How does it feel to be you without past and future?
Without concept, but not without consciousness.
It cannot be answered with concept.
It can only be realised, ahh.
You know I AM, but not who or what.
Just pure being, presence and spaciousness.
Thanks Eckhart 28 February 2024. 🏃🍺🤡🌹🍓🛎😎🐥🍓⛩
Thank you dear sweet Eckhart ❤ Its all an illusion and As long as we live in our minds/egos it's freaking unbearable! Trapped in the illusion of consent thoughts ... But I've found some truths i can try to share. I try to separate myself from thoughts by simply saying, "That's a thoughts .. Look at all those thoughts etc" Not believing every thought. To try to simply be the observer of each thought.
I try to meditate 5 min each morning and just focus on my breathing and quickly thoughts will start, so I'll gently bring it back to my breathing. The MOMENT I realize I'm back to thoughts I'm the observer! There's the real "me", the observer, my soul and separate me, the crazy, upset, unhappy ego!
But unfortunately The suffering is necessary to motivate us to go through this process.
Even though this 5 min is a quick easy way to get out of the unhappy ego/mind and to find some freaking peace in this crazy world, it's still the hardest thing I've ever done! You've got to want it bad and realize the ego is a frighten child that doesn't want to let go ... To let go and let this shift in consciousness happen ... But its exciting that so many are watching this video to ask and learn of a deeper meaning and it's even more exciting because it's happening all over the world! (Eckhart Tolle is A true living spiritual master!)
One eternal moment, all here now. Release, let go and it all gets done. I am perfect love, I am one and the all.
Awesome ❤
Tks ❤
I love Eckhart's fisherman vest's! Jokes besides thx Life for creating him as he is
E❤Excellent 🎉
“Those who have not found their true self which is the radiant joy of being are beggars even if they have great material wealth they are looking outside for scraps of pleasure, fullfillment, validation, security or love.” Eckhart Tolle.
Thanks 🙏
Thank you for your support.
Only now I start to understand why my alcoholic friend is not a fan of Eckhart Tolle....
Maybe it is ego wen I'm kommenting....I'm not that important to say something 😂 ... love u... we can't xcompletely without ego .... I love u
I am grateful to be present I just wish family and others would live in the present instead of bringing up my past either to hurt or stir up trouble because my past doesn't define who I am today But I guess it is easier to trash me than forgive
As I sit with Eckhart each day, I find that I struggle with the life long habit of going below consciousness by falling asleep. I think that this has been my way of, throughout my life of finding peace. I can become still and conscious, by being in nature, by being with children , and by listening to and playing music and by listening to others in a compassionate way, But when I sit with Eckhart, I feel the deep pull of wanting to sleep. Is this because I am trying, rather than just being? Just thinking out loud and working this out!! 🧐
Set your intention to not fall asleep, and take a position of seniority over your mind - helps me always. Hth
Falling asleep is not bad at all, it means that you are really relaxed, try to listen to Eckharts voice while walking trough nature, or do a walking meditation :)
"Until there is no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, until the colour of someone's skin is of no more significance than the colour of their eyes! The dream of lasting peace will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never obtained" Bob Marley 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for your videos. I just can't tell how helpful they have been to me since about three years. I wonder if Eckhart Tolle has ever said anything about people who, following an accident for example, suffer from amnesia. Given that they lose touch with (or, in a way, liberated from) their past, can this be a factor of awakening?
The end of the world sounds really good right now!
Turn off all the sounds and dings buzzing ….except just the ring tone ………this actually works. You will still get poeople saying “ didn’t you see my post / message/ whatever…….trust me it’s worth it
I used to listen to Elkhart’s talks daily as part of my meditation, but sadly now adverts have come back in
Just ignore them
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“The end of the world “ sounds like heaven
But the Eckhart Tolle videos are on CZcams which is on my cell phone. So it's unavoidable 😊😊😊
How to end fear. To end anything you must get to the root of it. The question one asks is, what is the connection to fear and psychology time?
Are you and fear something separate than each other or are you fear?
To get to the root, takes all your energy and attention, then you can see things clearly for what they are, not what you think they are.
The body lives from the past though. It reacts to triggers and old traumas. Trauma sure is an interesting way to stop one from truly awakening
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The end of the world isn’t the end of your conceptual miseries.
It’s all in your mind.
Thanks Eckhart. 28 February 2024. 💫💝🐇😇⛳️😇🖖🍺🌸🤡🏃💖
Good work, and people do watch your videos on cell phones 😂
Can't be myself, have to be someone else
Join the club!❤😂
The fool on the hill ♫♪
If I free myself from device addiction then how do I watch this video?
Yes I do understand his point.
Why do we have so many adverts now??
If you can live in the NOW in your everyday life then you have made it
I AM PRESENT
I can guarantee you are not. Forget your delusion, life may just bite your bum.
I have bad eyesight and was going to say congratulations when are you due 😂
Christmas or birthday 🤶🎁☺️🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Love you Eckhart but Such a shame that this is full of ads in important places.
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This! 👆
Another CZcams video for my son (and for my me & friends) Thank U for this Lifesavior ❤
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