The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a self-help bestseller written by Eckhart Tolle a spiritual teacher. That book have been featured on Oprah's show. It's about spirituality. I'm really glad to make a review of the book as it is one of my favourite! Even if I don't agree with all that Eckhart Tolle say I have to say that this book as been life-changing for me. It teach you how to be present and in the now, free of the past and the future wich I think is the most important factor for happiness. In this post I'll do a quick overview of few of basic principles that Eckhart Tolle teaches in his book.

1. You are not your mind

Basically what he's saying is that you are not your mind but the consciousness watching your mind, you're the watcher, the observer of your mind. Identification to the mind is the cause of obsessive and non-stop thinking. When you're in a state of constant thinking you're missing the now, you're in your head instead of being present here and now. So what should you do to disentify yourself with your mind? Practice is key! Observe your thoughts and what's going on inside your mind, don't judge it just observe it!

2. There's no pain in the now

What Eckhart tolle is saying is that when you're present there's no psychological pain, and it's true! Most people are stuck in their head most of the time, they think about painful past events, they think about things they should have done in the past and regret, they make pictures of them failing in the future, it's no wonder why they're feeling bad! But if you're in the now, focusing on what happen now and accepting the present moment you won't create unnecessary suffering.

3. Ego is the source of all fear

According to Eckhart Tolle ALL fear come from the ego, or the fear of death of the ego. It's one of the point were I don't agree 100% with what he say(I believe there's three kind of fear, inborn fear like fear of high and loud sound, learned fear like when you associate something with fear by experience and ego fear), but he's right on when he say the ego(or self image if you prefer) bring fear, because most peoples fear doing some things for the reason that if they would fail or not get the result wanted that would devalidate how they see themselves. For example, that's the reason some people fear approaching others, because they see themselves in a certain way and because their sense of self (ego) is influenced by how people react to them(or view them) that would devalidate their ego if they're reject. If you want to learn more about the ego stay tuned I'll write more about the ego later in this blog.

I could explain more but if you're interesting in this stuff I really recommend that you read this book! That book has been life-changing for me and many other people I know who have read it, as you read this book you'll be having many moment of epiphany. Seriously if you haven't read it yet go read it as soon as you can!

Stay tune!

Seb