Get in the NOW
Here are 6 practical and actionable steps Tolle olle suggests. If you simply implement one of the strategies below and shift your mindset, I promise you that your life will change foreer. !. "top thin#ing. $What the%&'( you)re wondering as you read this line% Tolle Tolle proides a solution to reoccurring sadness and pain in your life. *our *our thoughts continue to replay in your mind li#e your faorite iTunes trac#. +ach replay is a swift reminder and a continuation of past pain. $When you listen to that oice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not udge%*ou)ll soon reali-e there is the oice, and here I am listening to it, watching it,( Tolle Tolle writes. "o sit and become aware of your life)s dar#est moments repeating themseles in your thoughts. In the course of your day, when you feel sadness and loss, ust call your thoughts out $There you go again, mind& Ta#ing Ta#ing me through this roller co aster of emotions. /eplaying that sad and tragic past once again%( "top the mental replay by becoming aware of the negatie. When you stop thin#ing of or re0playing painful eents in your mind, Tolle Tolle says, $*ou)re $*ou)re no longer energi-ing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of inoluntary and compulsie thin#ing.( 1ction Watch Watch your mind. Or Or watch for feelings feelings of sadness and pain throughout the day. When you are feeling sorrow or pain, immediately call out the thoughts that led you there. Thin#ing about your difficult childhood, the loss of a loed one, your pet dying' "hine a flashlight on these snea#y thiees wandering around the dar# alleys of your mind. 2.
3e highly alert in the present moment.
Well, gee-, how do you do that' 3y being completely present in any actiity or conersation you are in. 1s# yourself, $1m $1m I in the present present moment'( in in whateer it is is that you)re doing. doing. $1m I focusing on the tas# at hand'( $1m I here or are my thoughts floating in la la land'( Gie normal and eeryday actiities your full and utmost attention. 1s an e4ample, Tolle Tolle writes, writes, $+ery time you wal# up and down down the stairs in in your house or place of wor#, pay close attention to eery step, eery moment, een your breathing. 3e totally present.( 5o this while you)re wal#ing around town, getting in and out of the eleator, wal#ing wal#ing to the train station or wandering around the grocery store.
3e present in eery moment by paying as much attention as possible to that moment. .
3ecome aware of the pain0body within you.
Tolle defines the pain0body as lingering emotional pain. He notes that some of us lie entirely through our pain0body, whereas in others, the pain0body may be asleep 789 of the time. :or e4ample, I used to be preoccupied with the pain of brea#ing up about 789 of the time. ;y pain0body became eer more important in my life because it gae me a troubling new sense of self. In the past couple of years, I hae spent less time thin#ing about and e4periencing the pain0body of loss and heartache. When you and I become our pain0bodies, we hae something to identify with. $I)m the person who suffered loss.( $I)m heart0bro#en.( $I)m that person who failed financially.( 1fter marinating in this identity, you get swept oer by a wae of pain, sadness and sorrow, and it supplies you with your identity. *our ego identifies with this pain0body and your pain becomes your self0image. *ou become your past, your loss and your hurt. $Once this pain0body has ta#en you oer, you want more pain. *ou become a ictim or a perpetrator. *ou want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both%( Tolle reflects. "o, how do you dissole this pain0body' Tolle summari-es this process $:ocus attention on the feeling inside you.
3e aware of the difference between your $life( and $life situation.(
Tolle ma#es a distinction between your life and your life)s circumstances or situations. He refers to life situations as $psychological time.( >ife situations are the past and the future. *ou resist what happened to you in the past, don)t accept it in the present and are an4ious about the future. Whateer is happening to you is your life situation, which happened in the past or could happen sometime in the future. 3oth of those places aren)t the present moment. Tolle says you could hae a lot of situational problems, and most lies are filled with them, but you should find complete comfort and peace in the present moment. $?se your senses fully. 3e where you are. >oo# around. @ust loo#, don)t interpret. "ee the lights
shapes, colors, te4tures. 3e aware of the silent presence of each thing%( Tolle gently nudges us. *ou don)t hae to identify with or be defined by your past. If you accept the present moment, you can deal with those situations as they are. *ou can)t change what has happened and what is coming your way past and future. 1ll you hae at this e4act moment is something that needs to be dealt with or accepted. That)s it& $Why ma#e it into a problem'( Tolle inAuires. $1ll it ta#es is a simple choice, a simple decision no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.( 1lthough Tolle says this is a simple choice, I)m certain if you adapt this philosophy and start liing it, your life will completely transform. *ou)ll be a new person who will no longer be crushed by the weight of the past or the future. B.
5rop negatiity li#e a piece of hot coal.
:or more happiness and peace of mind, Tolle proposes letting go of negatiity. $How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand' How do you drop some heay useless baggage that you are carrying' 3y recogni-ing that you don)t want to suffer the pain or carry the burden anymore and then letting go of it.( *ou hae a choice to be e ntrenched in your past or to lie for the moment that you hae right in front of you. Often we)re choc#0full of negatiity in our life because we refuse to accept something that happened in the past or are resisting something occurring in the current moment. Tolle)s suggestion is to choose the current moment and accept what is, choosing to let go of the heay baggage and drop the hot coals b y consciously choosing to let go of the pain of the past. When you let go of the pain surrounding the past and the negatiity associated with it, you will find an eer0present peace of mind in the present moment. 6. >et go of the future. I sure loe the future, don)t you' What)s not to loe about it' In my future, there is happiness, bliss, abundance and eternal oy. Of course, Tolle bursts all our bubbles and insists on prying the future out of our hands. :orget the future, he says $CWhen I obtain this or am free of that D then I will be o#ay). This is the unconscious mind0set that creates the illusion of salation in the future,( Tolle writes. "ure, we could find peace, happiness, and fulfillment some day, or we could scratch that futuristic thin#ing and chose to hae all of that in this ery moment. *ou don)t need to go anywhere to find this oyful state of being. $*ou Cget) there by reali-ing you are there already,( is one of the most powerful +c#hart Tolle Auotes in the Eower of Now.
I deoured this boo# once a long while bac#, but this past year, I really started to understand it, and it)s been a life0changer. *ou can FHOO"+ to let go of your past pain and suffering. 3ecome aware of how those past misfortunes resonate with negatie feelings, thoughts and emotions. *ou suffered once, why suffer again' The future is a whole other story that isn)t here D you can)t do anything about, can)t change it, can)t guarantee happiness in it. *ou don)t een #now if you)ll be there when you get there. "o why lie for a tomorrow that may neer come' >ie for the present. >ie in this ery moment. Fhange your mindset and accept this ery moment. /ight now, chose to be happy, choose to let go, to lift that heay burden off your shoulders and release the heainess of the past and future this ery minute. Gie yourself permission to breathe in and breathe out with peace of mind, acceptance and emotional freedom. Would it be too much to call this enlightenment' What are you doing at this ery moment' 1re you being fully present and going to leae a comment below ' Tell me about your e4periences or strategies for letting go of the past.
