Discovering Your True Self Through Body Awareness | Eckhart Tolle Teachings

Eckhart discusses the process of awakening to who we are beyond form and the essential and ongoing practice of rising above thinking.
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[@billbollins]

A couple of days ago my inner body awareness reached new heights. For around three hours I felt nothing less than bliss and pure love, it was incredibly beautiful and such a relief from my normal anxious brain. Thank you Eckhart.

[@Alex.21111]

Amazing. My best result is about 3 minutes feeling of pure love. 😂😂. Need to practice more staying in touch with inner body.

[@OmarG939]

​@@Alex.21111It is still a great start. Wish you all the best in life.

[@Alex.21111]

@@OmarG939 Thank you so much. Wish you all the best in life too 💚😊

[@anonymous-lc6xv]

❤❤ lot's of love from the universe ❤️😍

[@marciaceciliabadkebadke2293]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@deborah6085]

Often as a child (starting at age 6-7) I would purposely lay in my families green grass and stare up at the clouds and my mind would be quiet without having any difficulty doing so (probably because I had no worries). I was encased in sunshine, fresh air, and with a sense of deep peacefulness. I have been able to pull from those experiences to this day at the age of 65.

[@jr6200]

How do you "pull" from it now, and with what results?

[@deborah6085]

@@jr6200 From understanding how to bring forth a mind rest. Probably different for others. For me has been a positive, tranquil sense/space like clouds moving with no thoughts (childhood way), or a blank screen, music, being in a flower garden, positive childhood events to bring on positive mindlessness, repetitive prayer. To bring on a sense of starting afresh, a positive reset, ability to come up with ideas, solve problems, have answers, or most often just for no reason. I notice time becomes not a concern/factor.

[@iestooo]

Love this! I've heard that the sense of self doesn't really start to develop much until around age 5/6 so at that age children are living purely in the now, without the constant mind chatter. So what you remember is the pure awareness, the true you. Beautiful

[@deborah6085]

@@iestooo I did not realize about the first sense of self so thanks for mentioning.

[@deborah6085]

One time when needing a procedure done by my medical doctor I was surprised and was asked by the anesthesiologist what I would be thinking while he put me under. For me by knowing that having a decreased sense of stress would be the best so I ( and answered him) put myself into a positive mindless way I walked myself into a flower garden with sunshine. I think I surprised the surgical crew.

[@ConsciousnessAwake]

“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” ― Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati.

[@MindNow]

Very profound words right there!

[@ConsciousnessAwake]

@@MindNow Hey bromigo!

[@MindNow]

@@ConsciousnessAwake haha, hey brotherhood! :D

[@RosssRoyce]

My soul listens more than it speaks 😛

[@topteacher1000]

Thank you. 🙏

[@janejetson2978]

There has never been one time that I listened to you that I didn't feel better. Thank you, sir.

[@thomasanderson6558]

a Truly humble man can make the Truth funny i love him

[@alanmurchie7330]

I agree totally. He is so inspirational yet so unassuming. I feel such love for him also.

[@thomasanderson6558]

@@alanmurchie7330 unassuming thats brilliant

[@arminsharif2467]

same here... i love him so much

[@lighthousea4655]

Ekhart is not a Man.

[@DeusEx3]

@@lighthousea4655 omg, he was the chair all along

[@TheDhammaHub]

The more you want thoughts to stay away, the stronger you make them. You only add energy to the entire system

[@MindNow]

In other words, whatever u focus on, expands 🙏❤️

[@TheDhammaHub]

@@MindNow As the Buddha put it: whatever you frequently direct your attention towards will come to fruition :D

[@MindNow]

@@TheDhammaHub oh wow, that's another awesome quote!

[@Godly_Sharing]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@gabiaspro4006]

You are as wise así funny

[@lawanajohnson662]

I step away for a minute from a recording I was listening to, and when I came back this recording was playing and it seemed to speak directly to me about anger. Because I had stepped away in anger to address someone, in a angry manner. So I think the universe for hearing me and knowing what I needed at the time of my coming back to listen to what I have stepped away from. He sent or rather he allowed this video to be playing when I came back to speak into my spirit.

[@johndiengdoh4332]

I agree ma'am

[@karenpickering913]

I love when that happens! And especially when we are in a receiving mode... Good for you. Peace

[@regine8419]

I love him. Just hearing his voice makes me feel more save on this strange planet... 💜

[@lungiswamatshaba]

💛

[@Su-Myan.Nepalese.]

Same here

[@lindaholse2011]

Me too

[@anandakumarsanthinathan4740]

Of the zillion breaths I have taken all my life, this one breath I took just now with all my attention felt so, so beautiful. Thank you, Eckhart.

[@victorpradha9946]

Who is the real you: The one that breathes, the one that is aware of your breathing, or the one that is aware of your awareness (of the breathing and ultimately awareness generally).

[@baldgewahlt5003]

@@victorpradha9946 Yes

[@bbb-1-2-3]

@@victorpradha9946 That's funny... if I only knew the answer

[@victorpradha9946]

@@bbb-1-2-3 Ha. Tolle would say the answer is far less important than what that question itself points to.

[@DannyWohl]

"silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation" --Rumi

[@mofrare]

Wow that's awesome

[@Stewz66]

That is a wonderful share. Thank you.

[@mindsigh4]

yes, Rumis quote is new to me, another one in this vein, attributed to St.Francis, ~preach ye the gospel continuously... ...& if necessary, use words~🙏☀️🌱🐾👣🌿🕊️🌎🔔⚖️

[@gargisingh5884]

Eckhart is like a warm hug on a cold day

[@clownworld-honk410]

I used to think saying "let's agree to disagree" would be a resolution but it rarely worked so now I walk away. Took many years to realise that precious few concede or want to defuse a disagreement. Eckhart helped me find this personal inner sanctum.

[@onreact]

When you argue to be right this will happen most likely, not always but in most cases, but when you argue to find the best solution, then the situation is different. I don't argue to be right. I just try to find out what is the right thing to do in a given moment. When you always walk away you just let other people decide and do the potentially wrong thing on your behalf. Thus being conscious does not mean being an opportunist. It's "arguing for the sake of being right" and "bolstering your ego" you give up.

[@jamesdodd9916]

Yes, but it takes two solution based people in discourse for mutual progress. Be aware that the other person might be right tho, and if they seem to have the best answer, take it. Follow it. . As a gift to the other , follow their course of action. If it fails, love them even more.

[@bbb-1-2-3]

@@jamesdodd9916 discussions are not that simple. My mom had strong intuition to take left turn, while I wanted to turn right. We were disagreeing and arguing. What is good for her may not be good for me or...maybe I needed to step up my own intuition. Bottom line, bomb exploded and if we had followed my way, would be hurt badly. There is no right or wrong, but its better with less suffering or preserving life, if matter of life and death. Its not always clear which "solution" is better, but I am glad I was still young so I followed her "recommendations" or rather screaming orders at that time.

[@RetoBuri]

this momentum he is talking about, this pull, is the hardest thing ive ever experienced 😅 thank you life for this experience

[@annemurphy8074]

If you've had horrible trauma, this can be very threatening and not helpful at all. I have DID and am slowly integrating. I had over 200 parts, some very distinct. I spent my whole life dissociated and out of my body. Being connected to my body when all of the horrific abuse was happening was too threatening, that's why I had so much fragmentation. People with unhealed trauma can become very overwhelmed when asked to pay attention to their breath and bodies. They can completely decompensate. This very beautiful practice that Eckhart is teaching can be safely learned later, after much work on inner stabilization and inner safety and ability to tolerate body sensations and emotions etc has grown. I love Eckhart Tolle's teachings.

[@Jyval]

Thank you. I have difficulties being aware of my emotions and this video just made me realize that I can access them more easily through how they feel in the body rather than trying to analyze them with my mind.

[@amandawilliams2821]

Conscious awareness is the fountain of youth! Eckhart does not seem to age :)

[@linw7320]

Although, this talk is an excerpt of a pre-recorded workshop, Truth is Clarifying Energy! ✌❤

[@primethought246graver5]

You can tell straight away eckhart is salt of the earth be patient and listen to him he's trying to help you /us to be more than an ego

[@jasonkim810]

Eckhart Tolle saved my soul.

[@lorrainew7529]

This man makes my heart smile! Brilliant! 🤗💛🤗

[@mojekino2]

Only spiritually awakened KNOW how difficult/impossible is to describe the truth. Thank you for using "the correct words" to explain ego(s) how to think and how to NOT THINK for just a moment...

[@ArianaReflects]

❤️no practice is needed to be as you already are🎶

[@serdarLegend]

Yes ☄

[@MindNow]

Nice to see u here again Ariana 🙏❤️

[@ArianaReflects]

@@MindNow 👋😊

[@sagar1257]

🌸🙋‍♂️🌟

[@nigelfoley6200]

He is truly one of the best Ariana 🙏❤️

[@masterthedream9580]

What a gift to this world you are Brother!

[@anna-karinmaki720]

At 4am when my thouhgts woke me up, they where going on and on trying to solve my students problems and needs , it sent on and on ewen when my body slept. I gave up on trying to sleep and desited to listen to one of your latest videos while i was in my bed, avake in the dark. And this video made me giggle in the middle of the night. You adressed me and my problems- Spot on! And after this video my precens got the upperhand of my attention and finally i felll asleep 🙏🏻✨💫 Thankyou.❤️

[@maruthikaranth7152]

Eckhart the best master at present. He is practical and straight. His insight is great. Salutation to this master.

[@lucyparsonage6907]

Echart and Mooji -all we need x

[@now3210]

Let your Inner Body Space absorb all thoughts and Transmute them to Stillness in the Present Moment of Being.

[@christinestone3552]

Hi Eckhart I live with a negative angry thinker and now he is home most of the day…I listen to you first thing in the morning with one ear bud on. Well I like to start my day being peaceful. I love getting up early to be present. Recently I have been sleeping in a little so unfortunately that’s when the negative angry thinker is awake and likes to read off the negative news reports to me and when I tell him well that’s depressing. He gets angry…so I tell him I am listening to something positive and he gets angry again 😐🤐🤫

[@janelliot5643]

I'm so sorry about your harasser. I used to have one of those

[@ReynaSingh]

Thank you for these videos Eckhart🙏blessings and greetings everyone

[@anewagora]

Eckhart may be such an excellent guide because he spent most of his life in misery, depression and suffering until it inevitably led to his awakening. All the best wisdom I've discovered I have to live out physically. And relearn many times.

[@Emily-ni2zg]

Thank you Eckhart, for choosing to use your attention for teaching us ❤️

[@monicalauber2934]

Breathing deeply! Use the diafragma, paying attention to it! It is absolutely wonderful!

[@varshamuzik2149]

Whoever reading this May all your dreams come true 🤗

[@obscurum6]

Be careful what you wish for!

[@Matt-B11374]

Thank you. You too. 🌺

[@nicolecarter350]

This was truly beautiful 🤩 thank you Eckhart 🙏😃 You are such a Beautiful Divine Soul and such a loving light unto humanity... thank you for All that you do for All of us! I love you 😍❤️🤗🙏

[@anandaariannamorningstar434]

Recently heard about The Power of Now from a friend... Halfway through the book now and it is helping me so much to overcome my anxiety, depression and anger issues among other things... Thank You So Much Eckhart ToLLe💚🐍🍀

[@jodieperry1650]

I love his giggle so much 😃

[@david.walters]

Emotional trauma can win over you...ONLY IF YOU LET IT! The heart is where your truest and eternal self resides. It is the absolute and complete foundation of your core being. Let it guide you. The heart has always been beside you. 🙏🏽🌿💚

[@gittekjaerulff9511]

how can you not love Eckhart and his lovely smile, sparkling eyes and his cute chuckles?

[@wrackable]

😁 I’m learning to not think. I love Eckhart , he keeps trying to help us all escape the mind.

[@elizabethmokrzycki7137]

I was feeling overwhelmed last night a little bit of anxiety my mind was racing and I tried this inner body awareness and it worked I finally went to sleep. Thank you eckhart for your teachings ❤

[@obscurum6]

When he says all the futile thinking just makes people unhappy he is right!

[@miriam4091]

Recently before hearing this talk, I was getting physically tired of my thoughts and when thoughts started I noticed they were very dramatic and repetetive. So I put my foot down (so to speak) and when they started I would look at a religious picture and say quite loudly DRAMA and thoughts stopped! Haha! Now I have this teaching about the breathing etc which I will implement now. Thankyou!!

[@viviansmith2155]

My heart is smiling

[@kuri190]

That's why meditation is so powerful! It lets you have control over your thoughts instead of your thoughts having control over you 😉

[@janel342]

There are no thoughts in meditation to have control over. You are just being.

[@kuri190]

@@janel342 exactly!

[@johndiengdoh4332]

@@kuri190 how many hours per day you meditate brother?

[@utualan]

@@janel342 it's an indirect control. Fundamentally, Kuri's point, I believe, is that in meditation you are using your mind instead of it using you.

[@humancumalienhumancumalien3947]

Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes. C J

[@MindNow]

Well said!

[@humancumalienhumancumalien3947]

@@MindNow 🌹💐

[@happylearning6968]

Thank you sooo much Eckhart... It's not possible to put in words what these teachings mean to the world ...

[@banana_grinder]

"You cant feel the body and be engaged in a lot of thinking" 🙏

[@danilles.4247]

One unconscious breath feels like nothing to me. One conscious breath and I'm covered in goosebumps.

[@willowwilder9638]

I have tried to use willpower in order to keep myself from thinking when I first discovered Eckhart and it actually brought about intense suffering and a deeply negative thought process that I wasn't "spiritual enough," which was only the ego coming in through the back door when I was resisting thought. The mere exercise of gently laying attention on your inner body is a far more feasible and ease-y way to reclaim energy from your mental energy field. Like Eckhart said, what you resist, persists 💫🙏

Thank you again, Eckhart. I love your teachings (and your special way to make me laugh) ❤️

[@rajibiru2282]

For me the beautiful thing in life is being unpredictable to ourself and to others otherwise thy power will be lost and we become prisoner again!

[@jcrow62]

My favorite one. It was so nice to see him giggle.

[@sundesertmoon]

Thank you Eckhart for these words of wisdom and remembrance of our true nature. Blessings to all!

[@GCastro777]

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a 24/7 KZbin radio of Eckhart’s talks!

[@Honest-Tee07]

Took me nearly 2 years to learn how to quiet my mind so i could hear my soul speak in the silence... All my unnecessary thinking turned to feelings which helped develope my empathic abilities... People don't even realize I'm not listening to their words, I'm listening to the feelings and getting what i need to know about them from their energy and vibes tbh most don't even understand what it is they're feeling cause they've shut down their emotions because they can't verbalize them t h e n they wonder why they're unable to achieve true happiness which makes me think like really?! You've closed down your emotions b u t still expect to be happy? Ugh 🙄 you can't have positive emotions without having worked thru the negative and defining the difference between the whole range of emotions and feelings that make us human... We are spiritual beings having a human experience... Thank you for the informative video ☺️

[@wildsoulalice252]

I use breath awareness daily to help calm a busy mind 🙏🧘‍♀️

[@thomasm.2293]

When I hear him talking, I feel good. In this times, I think it's a good idea to read or look things, that expands awareness in a good way

[@estarbien1146]

But the desition must be taken with courage. The courage of letting go. The courage of letting your life in gods hand. So you also need courage to stay there. To stay that way. With your atention on the universe and your heart on those hands. Good luck!

[@leonarda6529able]

Iam enjoying learning these new skills of how to end suffering. An ongoing work in progress

[@LacyJane]

Isn't it funny the things that we can addicted to... like our thoughts! If our thoughts truly create our reality, then I want to be addicted to a reality of JOY and HAPPINESS and BLISS. I am sending you all love today 💕

[@djedeye2665]

It's not your thougts that create your reality, it's your consciousness that evolves through various states of being ranging from chaotic to harmonic. The states are what attracts thoughts, & it is the fuel we give them with our belief that either holds us in the current state, or allows us to move on. Focused breath, meditation, yoga etc clear distortion in our electrical fields adding coherence to the harmonic spectrum of the heart. Our thoughts have only the power we give them to interfere with our state of being, or add harmony to it. Mooji explains it well as far as "letting thoughts pass like clouds" while remaining as presence, which is naturally blissful. 🙏

[@LacyJane]

@@djedeye2665 Thank you for this 🙏

[@Liolia22]

He’s essentially talking about transcendental meditation. I highly recommend that to everyone, being a practitioner of it myself for almost a year now. Please consider checking for a TM center near you to get formally introduced to it and & to learn about its scientifically proven effectiveness compared to many other healing methods. It has been shown to help with everything from insomnia to PTSD to eating disorders to anxiety. And it requires no specific faith or belief system or level of physical fitness or age. It is for everyone. It is an amazing practice. 💜

[@julianstephen1303]

Sometimes when I consciously acknowledge a wind ..breeze I feel , there is something just beyond my grasp... And it always slips my mind somehow....but I'm at peace knowing its there in the background......

[@RedFeather11]

Thank you for being you!!

[@Anastasia-oy2zp]

Stay connected always. No mind needed. It’s literally you’re god given right.

[@Kaldoreisoul]

I feel like I travelled across eons of time and space....just to get Here and Now 🌟💟👽

[@rudyrudy4403]

Thank you for these videos Eckhart.

[@aniri_310]

"Feel the aliveness that pervades the body" - love it! 😌

[@thuy5002]

I am grateful to your teachings🥰🥰🥰

[@YelenaSgt44]

Eckhart's actually really funny in the middle of this! Actually laughed, he surprised me

[@lizam9452]

Eckhart you look very handsome with this black shirt💙 thank you for all your do for us❤️

[@obscurum6]

He is happily married ladies! Lol.

[@lukkiluftdruck8939]

Thinking is a miracle and it is wonderfull to enjoy thinking. Never stop thinking, its a gift, given by god.

[@lynnmcquillan2338]

Thankyou Eckhart 🙏 I’m getting this slowly but surely - God Bless you 🙏

[@patriciagovender5097]

This Echardt Tolle is a true Genius his manner if the Defined English language an concept of Thought an Innerself wow this is Truly Spiritual .awareness psyche

[@commonsense476]

Very smart ! And so simple at the same time. Many thanks to share you wisdom with us !

[@CClearly0]

Just Love Eckhart - thank you , Namaste

[@acamara4071]

"Thank you so much Master, And I apprecite your videos!!!!"

[@carpenterfamily6198]

0:37 ‘ to have some attention in the inner energy field of your body, and that keeps thought at bay.

[@lindaholse2011]

Talk is silver Stilnes is gold

[@roseberry9738]

This video actually answered some questions that were plaguing my mind lately. Infeel much better now. Thank you.

[@alejandrabrenes5084]

What a wonderful wonderful master!

[@AniaBumba]

Thank you, Eckhart.

[@creativitywithspirituality9184]

Love you Eckhart

[@vesnakrajnovic4536]

Do not resist being who you are and that is a soul in a body, you have that body with a reason, don't try to reach something out of it because you have it so you could experience all within it. A couple of times a day I give "order" or impulse, you can call it either way, to my being "Every cell of my body loves, accepts and honours my body" while I am saying it I feel the whole body, it brings me back to my body and it helps me to be aware that I can reach my soul, my peace, my real existence only within my body.

[@thebuddhavisions9527]

One of my favorite things about body awareness is noticing that body sensations have no location, and no edges. If one pays close attention, it really shakes up the notion that the body - or anything else, for that matter - is physical.

[@keepinguphuh7973]

So allow it too happen? And why do I feel these same sensations when Someone is close to me

[@thebuddhavisions9527]

@@keepinguphuh7973 Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean...

[@keepinguphuh7973]

@@thebuddhavisions9527 the body sensations. 1. Am I allowing these sensations to happen ? 2. Why do I feel these sensations when someone is around me

[@thebuddhavisions9527]

@@keepinguphuh7973 1. Who is I? What do you understand 'I' to be? If you mean your sense of self, of personhood, then no, that 'I' is not doing anything. However, the "presence" that Eckhart talks about, the True Self, is the One that is allowing everything. Including the sensations. 2. Again, I don't quite follow. You feel the sensations whether someone is around you or whether you're alone, correct? What do you think is the difference?

[@keepinguphuh7973]

@@thebuddhavisions9527 so how would I address the “I” if I’m not that. What should I replace the “I” with

[@atomict1974]

Danke Hr.Tolle!!! ❤

[@albertgnat375]

Ahhhhh! The beauty of breath. Ty et

[@Christine-jq3bm]

Thank you Eckhart 😊 💓

[@CarlaCostamz]

Love you Eckhart Tolle you make me feel so happy and relaxed when I listen you 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰

[@mridulamalpani1010]

Awareness of inner breathing gives peace full result. Thanks Sir🙏

[@jy75ammarin98]

Thank you ✨😇✨ LOVE peace to all beautiful Souls we are one 🌏

[@sabirshaikh8671]

Ekhart Tolle Sir Aap sabhi logo ka Bohat Bohat Shukriya

[@BRANDYOCARINA]

This man is awesome 🤩

[@nooswealth]

thank you Eckhart

[@lewisfirth6502]

Thank goodness for Eck in my life

[@janel342]

Thank you from my inner body ‘self’

[@siniwey21012]

Thank you so much 😊❤

[@lukoche7196]

I'mmm goinntoo doo that 😛 Eckhart is so pure and cute Thanks for spreading awareness to the 🌎🌍

[@johnmc3862]

‘Your true self’ The most vague, loaded phrase ever!

[@craigknepley6021]

Did you watch the video?

[@ariannab.6283]

Good morning, you are a very very good person, illuminated, fantastic! Bye from Italy

[@raiswarnim1723]

this is very very powerful dont ignore this its killed my insomnia you become super after you learn how to stay in your body

[@nidhinak4074]

Thank you Sir.

[@johndiengdoh4332]

Can't beleive this man is 72 years old

[@onreact]

Some videos are taken from the archives. Yet in general he looks a younger than he is.