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Consciously Unconscious?

Filed Under Eckhart Tolle 

It always amazes me how we are so consciously unconscious. All our thoughts feelings and emotions are on autopilot.

The trick is becoming consciously conscious. What do I mean by that? Well for example have you noticed how often our thoughts are either in the past or the future. Nothing is intensely in the present. How often is your focus on what you may be doing presently? A simple thing like making a cup of tea, notice where your attention is while you go through the streams of conscious autopilot.

I believe that being consciously on autopilot can be a great deceiver. While it is great to be able to do things easily as I mentioned making a cup of tea can be so natural to ones nature that we assign it an auto pilot response ie going through the motions of making it. How can this not always be beneficial?

Well we are embodiments of our emotions and paying attention to what is happening in the present can help you to create or shift the past patterns of thought especially if those thoughts are not self serving such as negative emotions.

Being present is one of the most important concepts I feel we need to embrace as it is all that we have. We can never have the past moment neither can we ever have the future moment as it is a holographic experience an illusion that we use as an excuse to escape the present.

Eckhart Tolle and Dr Robert Anthony both advocate that nothing ever happens in the past or the future it can only happen in the present.

The past was only experienced via being in a present moment and the future can only be experienced when that present moment happens. Time is relative.

Here is a good example to practice next time you are feeling some sort of negative discomfort just stop and focus on the present moment, don’t engage any negative emotions or feelings and notice what happens. The pain will almost subside. How can that be?

I would recommend you read the book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle it is simply beautiful in the way he explains how we can identify what is happening in our lives by being present in the moment.

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