The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Book Review

Eckhart Tolles book, The Power of Now A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, is a ego help book that is a shortened r knocked egress(p)e to spiritual enlightenment. superstar needs to set out aware of the front moment in commit to experience joy in life. Its beta to live in the designate in life because the received moment is all we have. This mountain be done by controlling the opinion in order to become untangled from it. The unconscious intelligence mind, the egoic mind, and the pain bodies all need to be turn to and dealt with for enjoyment of life to its fullest potential.Our mind is our worst enemy, according to Tolle. This is because it loves to get itself into problems. The unconscious mind is always thinking. It is constantly looking back on the past, or ahead into the next, and ignores the focus on enjoying the current moment. When thought isnt connected with consciousness, it becomes irrational and destructive (24). Your unconscious mind leave behind always b e reflected in the body as an emotion, which has a strong physical component that is mat in the body. This emotion should be felt in the body, without it controlling you. aroused pain is the main cause of physical pain. The to a greater extent you are place with your mind, the more you suffer(33). By accepting the instanter, you are more free from pain and suffering. This enables you to experience joy in life by being satisfied with the current show in which you are in. This factor you are free from the emotions that arise from the unconscious mind thinking compulsively. The egoic mind that focuses on the past and future does not exist because nothing forever happened in the past or the future. Everything happened in the now. Past and future obviously have no populace of their own (50). There has never been a time in your life that there was not the now, nor will there ever be. Many of us are ruled by our thoughts, emotions, reactions and desires. Often we feel a lack of comp leteness, a involveing, needing, or want for something more. This could be money, success, power, recognition, or even a special relationship. Our normal state becomes focused through thought on these things, which need to be out of our focus in order to get full pleasure out of life. Dont let your egoic mind take over your whole life (49).knowingness of the present moment and allowing ourselves to enjoy living in it will land to our enjoyment of life. There are negative emotions, or pain bodies that our mind brings up which can interfere with our enjoyment of living in the present moment. Some forms of this pain include resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger, depression, and jealousy. Negativity can be stop from arising by being fully present. This negativity is resistance that triggers the emotional pain-body. This is when baby situations result in intense negativity.The ego thinks that it can manipulate reality to get what it wants through negativity. Once we have got ou r hands on something negative, we dont want to let go. Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the enormous negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche (189). When we poster negativity has risen within us, we need to use it as a signal to be present and get out of our minds. By doing so, we can increase our enjoyment of life because we are living in the now and dealing with whatever it may bring before us.In the current world, some of us are chasing after temporary pleasures, such as success, fortune, and things we desire. All this stress and worry over these things are not expenditure it at all. Whats more important is to live in the current moment. Its important to realize that Tolles teachings can apply to anyone who seeks to increase their enjoyment of life. Focusing on the present moment allows us to enjoy the life we are living, instead of being trapped in a n on-existent world of reoccurring thoughts of the past and future.