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Mar 17, 2016
The Power of Now; Life Changing; Road Map to "Meditation"... Road map to Life Change.
Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now, has become so popular it is almost perceived as pop-literature (or "new age"). This is both good and bad. The good is that many people are finding the message. The bad, is that many in academia and religious communities are not recognizing its value. By its popularity, it has become almost too “pop culture.” The Power of Now’s important message runs the risk of being marginalized as a “temporary cultural phenomenon."
The Power of Now's message is that many people have broken the barrier of fear and discontentment; they have rediscovered or reconnected with their deep sense of peace and joy. In our lack of understanding, we often refer to these people with terminology that may not really be accurate: "enlightened," "awakened," "mystics," "gurus," "holy," etc. These terms are too loaded and create an impression that such a state is unlikely to occur to the average person. Similarly, Christ, Buddha and Mohamed come to mind as three who have delivered monumental messages and effected history greatly. But there is a tendency to believe that these religious figures obtained peace and joy from God's grace, and we cannot. There is a misconception that we have to spend our days on earth with discontentment and suffering with the hopes to be reconnected with peace and joy upon death. The message of Tolle and so many others is that this is wrong. We can find our peace and joy and find it now. We are not discriminated against when it comes to God's Grace.
Tolle aids the process of coming home to ourselves. He provides us with an age-old message and road map to achieve this. The road map is simple, yet so profound. The message is simply: we need to quiet our minds.
So, how do we quiet our minds? How do we realign with ourselves? How do we take off the onion layers to our minds and reconnect with that joyful and peaceful part of ourselves?
The term meditation is probably not what you think or have been taught. Meditation as it used here is more a way of life that can be used in any and every activity you do for the rest of your life. Eckhart Tolle talks about different ways to get reconnected with ourselves. What is interesting is that many of the methods are somewhat mechanical, and the process is less spiritual than one might think. The end result, however, is certainly deeply spiritual.
Some of these methods are:
1. Breathing and being aware of your breathing;
2. Being the witness of your thoughts without judgment -- allowing thoughts to flow without identifying with your thoughts -- deeply acknowledging that you are not our thoughts;
3. Feeling your physical body and allowing it be without judgment;
4. Feeling your emotional body (including the emotional pain) and allowing it be without going on thinking tangents about the pain -- just being there with the raw physical emotional pain.
5. Getting in touch with the silence and stillness that is ever present; (so as you listening intently to the world around, you pay attention also to the silence that is behind all sounds);
6. Being totally present where you are and allowing that which happens to be;
7. Acknowledge and avoid the traps of time -- with a deep understanding that in reality what happened in the past is no longer; and what happens in the future is not now (basically time really does not, from a physics perspective, exist);
8. Accepting what you are at any given moment;
9. The simple act of asking God to allow you to feel His presence/His Grace, and then, the act of you feeling God's presence;
10. To go deep inside yourself and realize that innate joy that is ever present -- God.
11. Feeling the stillness within yourself.