Personal growth: Do we really control our thoughts? September 30, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle, inspiration, life, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, writing
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Can we control our thoughts, or is thinking an automatic process like digesting our food, as Eckhart Tolle suggests.
In his book A New Earth, Tolle writes:
“The voice in the head [thinking]* has a life of its own. Most people are at the mercy of that voice; they are possessed by thought, by the mind. And since the mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to re-enact the past again and again.”
This can have a cumulative effect, which Tolle compares to an emotional energy field:
“This energy field of old but still very-much-alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain-body.”
This phenomenon can be highly damaging to our emotional development.
Fortunately, Tolle spends a lot of time in the book providing advice on how we can limit the negative outcomes that might result from our personal pain-bodies.
A New Earth is not an easy book to thoroughly understand and implement, but it is well worth making the effort to do so.
* My parentheses
– Dennis Mellersh
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