Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

AA has a very low success rate. When you look at it, AA is the work up to recidivism. For addictions, I recommend Rational Recovery. It is consistent with awakening. It is simply a decision to abstain, if that's what you want. Of course that scares the hell out of most addicts because the thought p...

LOA does invoke the ego, playing into its desires. You can manifest from ego by projecting thought frequencies that will attract you the new car, house, etc. to fill you up. This way always results in a temporary high then suffering because, as you are initially identifying with form and coming from...

Why is it that alcoholics, drug, & food addicts go off the handle if they have one sip, one hit, etc.? How much of it has to do with the actual physical addiction, and how much of it has to do with the identification of being an alcoholic, drug, or food addict that will likely go out with the first ...

This isn't a movie, but it's a song--sorry for straying from the topic:)

Lily Allen's The Fear is a song about awakening. If I am not my things and this concept of who I should be, then who am I?

My experience is that when I accept the pain, by simply saying, "I am accepting this pain right now," the pain is short-lived, or not as intense. This is because you are surpassing the "pain about the pain", a.k.a the layers of conceptual feelings about how bad the pain is going to feel e.g. "Oh the...

Welcome blink... Please get a copy of both "The Sacred Mirror" and "Listening From the Heart of Silence," both edited by John Prendergast. He is a counseling psychotherapist, as are most of the contributors to those compilations of essays. Yes, the authors tend to center around Marin County...but t...

I think it is possible to do both...play the "form game" and use awareness to connect with clients. Many clients aren't interested in awakening, they just want to get another perspective or alleviate emotional pain. Who are we to say they need to do anything in particular? Awareness and presence wi...

Hi there! I feel like I am at home, finally:) I have recovered from an eating disorder 6 months ago using the 12 steps. In the process, a girlfriend introduced me to E.T.s a New Earth. At the same time I started really "gettin in" to Tolle, I started noticing that the steps were spiritually limiting...

I am planning to get my masters in counseling and want to avoid traditional therapeutic methods of changing negative thoughts to positive thoughts and traditional psychology as a whole e.g. labeling a client as bipolar, depressed, adhd, etc. I think these out-dated methods will hinder a client's rec...