You really need to read The Power Of Now from the beginning to completely understand what you will read below but I hope these excerpts can help.

Okay so here it is...excerpts from pages 97 - 100 of The Power Of Now....

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your body --- to feel at all times.  This will rapidly deepen and transform your life.  ...negativity cannot affect you anymore, and you tend to attract new circumstances that reflect this higher frequency.

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you Will be anchored in the Now.  You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind.  Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires, may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Please examine where your attention is at this moment. You are listening to me, or you are reading these words.  That is the focus of your attention. You are are peripherally aware of your surroundings, other people, and so on.  Furthermore, there may be some mind activity around what you are hearing or reading, some mental commentary.  Yet there is no need for any of this to absorb ALL your attention.  See if you can be in touch with your inner body at the same time.  Keep some of your attention within, as a single field of energy.  It is almost as if you are listening or reading with your whole body.  Let this be your practice in the days and weeks to come.

Do not give all your attention away to the mind or the external world.   By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible.  Stay rooted within.  Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.

Whenever you are waiting... use this time to feel the inner body.   ......Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

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Unless you stay present ---- and inhabiting your body is always an essential aspect of it --- you will continue to be run by your mind. The script in your head that you learned along time ago, the conditioning of your mind, will dictate your thinking and your behavior.  You may be free for intervals, but rarely for long.  This is especially true when something "goes wrong" or there is a loss or upset.  Your conditioned reaction will then be involuntary, automatic and predictable, fueled by the one basic emotion that underlies the mind-identified state of consciousness; fear.

So when such challenges come, as they always do, make it a habit to go within and focus as much as you can on the inner energy field of your body.  This need not take long, just a few seconds.  But you need to do it the moment the challenge presents itself.  Any delay will allow a conditioned mental-emotional reaction to arise and take you over.  When you focus within and feel the inner body, you immediately become
still and present as you are withdrawing consciousness from the mind.

...(regarding undesirable emotions and feelings) ...Unless you first give it some attention, the emotion will prevent you from gaining access to the inner body, which lies at a deeper level underneath it.  Attention does NOT mean you start thinking about it.  It means you observe the emotion, to feel it fully, and so to acknowledge and accept it as it is.  ... Attention is the key to transformation --- and full attention implies acceptance.  Attention is like a beam of light ---the focused power of your consciousness that transmutes everything into itself.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span.  It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.  When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable.

So place your attention on feeling the emotion, and check whether your mind is holding a grievance pattern such as blame, self-pity or resentment that is feeding that emotion......

The moment you forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind.  Nonforgiveness is the very nature of the mind, just as the mind-made false sense of self, the ego, cannot survive without strife and conflict.  The mind cannot forgive.  Only YOU can.  You become present, you enter your body, you feel the vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from Being.  That is why Jesus said: "Before you enter the temple, forgive."

By: Eckhart Tolle

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