{"id":3073,"date":"2015-07-30T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:36:41","slug":"the-power-of-now-summary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/en\/2015\/07\/30\/the-power-of-now-summary-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Now Summary & Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great book – quite intense; I wouldn’t recommend it for your first spiritual psychological type book. \u00a0A better book to start thing with would be Dale Carnegie’s Stop Worrying and Start Living<\/a> book, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND” – is the general jist of the book. I’ve written that in capitals, because that’s how it is written in the title of chapter 1.<\/p>\n

Your thoughts pollute who you are. You are the person\/spirit\/soul\/hobbit\/bellend underneath all the chatter and thoughts in your brain. I’m putting all this in my own words now\u2026if you think about it makes sense, most anxious people are unhappy, and most anxious people are unable to focus etc because their minds are overloaded with thoughts.
\nWe are also happiest, generally when we are in the moment, and not thinking with words, like when we play sport, or even watch something on TV that’s really interesting or entertaining.<\/p>\n

Eckhart also touches on the ‘we are all one’ hippy concept, something that I’m a big fan of. \u00a0Something people talk about a lot if they ever do DMT – see the Dorian Yates London Real podcast for example:
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