Creating With The Power of Now
The more I read Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, the more peaceful I become. I know that sounds cliché, but it’s the truth. In the last week I had a very upsetting episode with someone I’d known all my life. I won’t go into the details of it, but suffice it to say that if I’d had this situation occur before I’d read The Power of Now, I’d probably still be stewing about it. I would still be angry, I’d still be justifying my righteousness. But because of the new perspective I received from The Power of Now, it’s almost like I don’t even care who was right or wrong or even what happened. I’ve made a decision about it and I am really not very interested in wasting anymore time about it, or any more thought or feeling about it.
I’m just moving on. And I know that prior to reading The Power of Now I would have stewed about it, not just for a few days or a week, I would have stewed about it for years probably, because I have a tough time letting things go. Perhaps it’s easier to let things go now because I recognize the thought form of the ego—I understand the mechanisms and machinations of the ego a little better and that’s why it’s easier to let go. Perhaps the reason the event occurred at all is because my recognition of the machinations of the ego frightened the ego, the false self, so much that it had to go further underground and draw the traumatic event into my experience. I’m not really sure exactly what created the event and it really doesn’t matter because I know what’s really going on: the ego, a mere collection of thoughts, a phantom self, is trying to assert it’s strength and reality in my experience. And this understanding frees me so much! Instead of wasting all that time and energy continuously looping the tape of the event in my mind over and over as I would have done in the past, I can move on and get on with my day and spend my energy in more creative pursuits. I’m free! I’m free of all of that baggage that otherwise I wouldn’t have been.
One of the reasons the techniques in the The Power of Now are so valuable to someone who wants to create their own reality is that your vibration isn’t dragged down by the past so much. You have more conscious options available because you’re not a slave of your mind anymore. You get to control your mind instead of it controlling you. That is a wonderful, freeing feeling. Because you get to be in charge of your mind instead of your mind running your life, you get more conscious control of your vibration. You get to dictate the thoughts that you want to run through that mind machine instead of it dictating to you what it’s going to run. You’re the projectionist now, the real You, instead of just the ego you. So you get to be a more deliberate, more conscious creator. That’s a very valuable thing when you are consciously creating your own reality.
