Eckhart Tolle: How To Help Children Live In The Present (VIDEO)

Eckhart Tolle, once called the "most influential spiritual author in the [United States]," is perhaps the world's foremost authority on living mindfully. In this video, he talks about teaching children the art of living in the present. When kids are full of scattered energy, he says, one must respond with gentleness and acceptance. "You give him or her space to be. You allow this person to be and you listen.. Not wanting to change anybody," says Tolle whose "The Power Of Now" was a New York Times bestseller.

Tolle also talks about his concept of "pain bodies" -- the knots of negative emotions that most of us carry deep within us. "Pain bodies," he says, "are fields of contractions, aliveness, energy, contracted and tight, with a life of their own."

Comments

[sacoswami]

07:13 AM on 06/26/2011

Hmmm.....
I have new respect for Eckhart.
Although it would be more accurate to say we are living Gods lost in the fall.
One part of God is lost in the pain. One part of God is lost in the fear. And one part of God is lost in the anger, pissed at how it's all turned out!

[researcher]

04:08 PM on 06/20/2011

yes this is the person that on one of his audio's stated the words " we humans have fallen from the grace of god".

if I had not heard it I would not have believed it. hope he has come to change his mind about our falling from the grace of god.

this is in no way an attack on his teachings, just this one brief statement on one of his very early audios. could not find that statement in his book.

anyone else hear that on one of his audio's? I replayed it several times to make sure what I heard was accurate.

[Vajara]

03:29 PM on 06/21/2011

Yes, our egos fall from the Grace of God, but we must still love them, treat them with kindness and respect, but they are not us.

[Ed and Deb Shapiro]

09:03 AM on 06/20/2011

Thank you - brilliantly said!