“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Mak..
🕑 Added 2024-04-01 23:37:52 +0000 UTC
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Pause for a minute and breathe with me. 😌 All my life I have primarily dwelt in the past or the future. Mostly in the future which has been the cause of my major anxiety. “What if this? What if that? What if something bad happens? What if I embarrass myself? What if I can’t figure out how to do something? Etc”
“The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger…This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap…You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection—you cannot cope with the future.”
Thanks to Tolle I have realized that I am not my mind. I can watch my thoughts instead of being my thoughts. I have made presence/awareness/Being/whatever you want to call it a daily practice. I could go on and on, but I’ll leave with you two things:
One: a recommendation. If any of this speaks to you check out Eckhart Tolle’s work. I especially recommend the small workbook: Practicing The Power of Now.
Two: would you have any interest in me reading parts of it to you? Either in audio message format (you could listen to my soft voice as you drift off to sleep). Or in the style of this video (naked reading).
I know most of you are here for the spice, but I hope you appreciate the love I pour into this space we share together ♥️
