How to Calm the Voice Inside | Eckhart Tolle Teachings

but what what has happened through the gradual evolution of thinking is that now humans tend to overthink there is a lot of not only unnecessary thinking that generates unnecessary and in many cases non-existent problems such as when you lie awake at night in bed and start worrying it generates a lot of unnecessary unhappiness so people don't realize that a significant part of the unhappiness in their lives is actually generated by unnecessary negative often destructive mind activity and they don't even know it mindfulness is first of all discovering the simple fact that there is a voice

in your head that continuously comments on your life or on what's happening around you it it's it's this the the the self self talk in the everybody knows what the selft talk is in the head you talk to yourself sometimes you talk to yourself in the first person I some people talk to themselves in the second person you so you can get annoyed with yourself and then you say you you shouldn't have done that and then you have another thought and says yes but I couldn't help it and you might even get a third Voice

come in and whatever it says this why can't I why can't I get out of my self talk that that self talk too but it's an amazing the first thing what I call the first Awakening Spiritual Awakening is something very basic and something very simple it's a discovery that there is a voice in your head that always talks talks to you mostly silently if it talks out loud then you're continuously and and there's nobody around then you are considered insane but and that's only if it's low but most people have that inside their heads and

they are not considered insane it's considered normal but there's not such a big difference between the two and sometimes when you when you listen to there might be a man walking in the street muttering oh and you say oh he's really insane but it might be that you are doing the same but it's just not out alloud it's in your head why didn't why I should have said that why didn't I say that next time he does that I'm not exactly know what I'm going to reply and it goes on and on or you lie

awake at night and start worrying you wake up up and oh my God what's going to happen what if that doesn't work and if that goes wrong and what if he does that and and then you go into it you get drawn one thought leads to another thought and another thought oh my God and then the body the body cannot distinguish between an actual reality an event that's happening in the real life and what your mind is saying so when you have Fe fearful thoughts the body reacts to every fearful thought but the and that's

an emotion the body reacts with an emotion the emotion you feel in your body the body cannot dist distinguish between an actual event and a thought so when you think fearful thoughts the emotions you feel are the emotions that are saying I am in danger there is an actual Danger here so you feel the emotion of fear anxiety you might you might feel you feel agitated and it's not it's not only not pleasant if you indulge in that kind of useless dysfunctional destructive thinking year after year after year it has its effect on the body

and it decreases the ability of the body to have the energy to fight disease even mainstream medicine is discovering the connection between your state of mind and your state of health and so gradually we are seeing in the past they denied it completely they only looked at your body and not only at the they they not they not didn't just look at the totality of the body even within the body they just like looked at one particular symptom what's wrong with that particular organ and you have of course in mainstream medicine you have Specialists I'm

a specialist for the liver specialist for this and this and that not only not taking into account the totality of the body but more importantly not taking into account the totality of the person which includes the physical body and the mind so it's vitally important to discover first of all that there is a voice in your head that indulges in selft talk most of the time and for many people interestingly enough that selft talk for many people is not always negative but for many people a there it it is more negative than positive a good

event that happened yesterday a nice you might have gone to a nice reunion or you you went out into nature and you witnessed a beautiful sunset okay you can remember it today and think that was a beautiful sunset or we had a nice talk yesterday but you can't do that much thinking about a nice event but the mind when there's something negative that happens yesterday somebody offended you or didn't give you the attention that that you needed that you wanted from him then you can start thinking of how oh my God what he did he's

really next time he does that I'm going to say that he's really show why doesn't he why you can go on for a long time dwelling on something negative much longer than dwelling on something positive it is so seemingly an negative event is much more food for useless mind activity than a positive event and this is why for many people a significant percentage of their mind activity is negative uh for some people it is almost 100% negative but it is unlikely that these people would get a job in this company and I mean that because

the your predominant State of Consciousness your predominant mental emotional state there's a certain correlation between who you associate with where you find yourself and even what kind of things happen to you there is a correlation which is not always immediately recognizable but there is a correlation between once's a person's predominant mental emotional state and who they are with who their friends are what where they work and even what happens to them so if you are if you are in a very negative State a long time you tend to attract also negative events but you can

only have to find it out for yourself I'm not saying believe me I know it from my own life because when I first discovered this I was still very young I discovered that there is a correlation between my mind activity and what happens to me I I found a I found a a book and that somebody several books that somebody left with us when I was 17 and there for the first time I read about a person's mind and had suddenly realized my mind was predominantly negative because I very I was a very unhappy child

and so my childhood was not pleasant and so the initial conditioning of my life was that my mind was continuously commenting and saying how bad my life was and whenever something bad happened to me I had a phrase that would occur again in my mindset of course bad things always happen to you don't they they bound to happen to you it's always happens to you so I was talking to myself and saying that bad things would always happen to me and they did so you can discover first what the spiritual awakening is to discover that

there is continuous mind activity and for some people it's the discovery that a significant part of their mind activity is negative but the vital thing is to discover that there is this good continuous talk in my head which is called nor is considered the normal human State and of course you cannot abolish thinking of course there will be thinking but the question is is there an awareness behind the thinking if and the if you can become aware that you are indulging or caught up in that useless mind activity and you suddenly become aware of perhaps

certain repetitive thoughts that tend to re reoccur in your mind again and again you might see it in others too eat more easily in others when you go for your Thanksgiving dinner I I think is it next week you will meet your family members or relatives and in some of you may realize you already know what they are going to say this year because it's the same thing they said last year and 5 years and 10 years ago and if they have negative judgments about you or somebody else then it's the same thing you will

hear again next week when you go to them so it's it's easier to see how others are caught up in repetitive thought forms not as easy to see it in oneself this is why there's a saying that self- knowledge is the most difficult knowledge it's it's easier to see others but if you can discover even in the midst perhaps in the moment of a certain thought appearing in your mind realizing oh that thought is I've had this thought for years it comes again and again and again and so you there is an observing presence and

from there you get and that observing presence isn't a thought it's just the ability to realize that that there is a voice in your head and then there are thoughts and you realize that some of those thoughts are negative and many of those thoughts actually are not only unnecessary but make your life very difficult such as worry so most people live with what I call a cluttered mind a cluttered mind means they're completely unaware that there's a continuous stream of mental commentary and it Go and wherever they meet somebody and immediately certain judgments form and

everything they feel they need to immediately adopt a position towards it immediately say I'm against it I dis I like so immediately adapt adapt a mental position and being identified with one's mental position which is a thought so if you discover within yourself that a lot of the time you're in a state of lack of insufficiency of not enough and you feel that the answer to the remedy is to be active In This World and Achieve and do as much as possible then you'll probably find that ultimately that is not the answer to your state

of lack in order to uh transcend to go beyond your state of lack of neediness of not enough spiritual practice and spiritual realization is necessary focus on the realization of being it's only there that you can go beyond that state of laage is ego go within and discover who or what you are beyond the person