January 22, 2007
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How to be The Watcher of what happens inside you
Here is a profoundly powerful yet simple way to learn how to be a watcher of what happens inside you, taught by Eckhart Tolle from his book The Power of Now. He doesn’t put it like I did because he doesn’t like methods, techniques, or anything that has to do with something like: eight powerful ways of learning how to be a watcher of what happens inside you. This potent tool allows me to enter into the portal of the Now and witness my past pain as it comes up or the “pain-body” as he called it. It could be taught to kids in school. I am sharing this with you. Hopefully this will help you to deal with your “pain-body.” Once you have understood the basic principle of being presence as the watcher of what happens inside you, you have at your disposal the most potent transformation tool. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence.
1. Focus attention on the feeling inside you.
2. Know that it is the pain-body.
3. Accept that it is there.
4. Don’t think about – don’t let the feeling turn into thinking
5. Don’t judge or analyze.
6. Don’t make an identity for yourself out of it.
7. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you.
8. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of the “the one who observes, the silent watcher.
You may encounter intense inner resistance to dysidentifying from your pain. Why? When you identify with your emotional pain, you make it a as a large of who you are. There is a fear of loosing your identity (the mind-made fiction of who you are.) Unconscious fear of loosing your identity will create strong resistance to any disidentification. In other words, you would rather be in pain than take a leap into the unknown and risk loosing the familiar unhappy self. If this applies to you, do this and the resistance will cease and make it conscious:
1. Observe the attachment to your pain.
2. Be very alert.
3. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy.
4. Observe the compulsion to talk about or think about it.
Comments (11)
This is very similar to various forms of Buddhist meditation practice. Being with feelings can be difficult.
watchin is borin, doin is fun
it’s very hard to be consious of your own feeling when life just keeps whooshing by. I’m trying to be very alert but not having enough sleep doesn’t really help ^_^
It’s very hard to turn the brain inward on itself.
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Happy Valentines Have a wonderful Valentines Day Judi
cung hi phat tai!!!! ^_^
This is hard to do. Judi
How you doing Trim Tab, Judi
Have the best Easter ever. Judi
Excellent Post…It is the second post I have read today that mentions The Power of Now. I think I might have to check into that, Thank you ~ mom