Category: Self Development

  • Watch Any Plant or Animal

    Watch Any Plant or Animal

    and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you being. Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. Note:  Previous articles on the Power of Now Journal can be found here. August 6, 2024 I love this quote of ETs; it’s so human. And like all his…

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  • Living in The Now With My Five Senses

    Living in The Now With My Five Senses

    Note:  Previous articles on the Power of Now Journal can be found here.            My apologies for posting this article a few days after the promised             delivery, this was due to a medical procedure I had to undergo. “Tolle teaches that the physical body can serve as an anchor to the present moment. By becoming…

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  • Alchemist

    Alchemist

    “Become an Alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into conscientiousness, disaster into enlightenment.” Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. Find previous Eckhart Tolle posts here. June 10, 2024 Over the years, my life has seen billions of changes. I have greeted these changes with various responses: disappointment, fear, anxiety, on the negative…

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  • Compassion

    Compassion

    “Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.” Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. Featured Image Pexels.com June 10, 2024 I have a clear understanding of ET’s words. ‘Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.’ When I search my memory banks trying…

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  • Consciousness

    Consciousness

    Featured Image Pexels.com “It is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going smoothly. In this way, you grow in present power. Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. In the light of Eckhart Tolle’s quote I am reminded of other famous quotes and here are a…

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  • Negativity

    Negativity

    Featured Image Pexels.com “No other life form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it.” Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. April 27, 2024 Although I know this statement well, the fact is that I am not always, in my…

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  • Writers Exercise – A Challenge

    Writers Exercise – A Challenge

    Featured Image – Pixel.com Writing Exercise – A Challenge. If you missed the previous exercise tap here. The Lighthouse They walked hand in hand in silence, aware of the beauty surrounding them. Their feet imprinted into the sand until the waves washed over them, retreating into the sea with the certainty of returning for another…

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  • Presence

    Presence

    Featured Image Pexels.com “Presence is pure consciousness – consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form.” Eckhardt Tolle: The Power of Now Journal April 27. 2024. Ever since I can remember, I have not been present in my mind – that is, most of the time. My mind is a…

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  • Writers Exercise – A Challenge

    Writers Exercise – A Challenge

    Featured Image – Pixel.com Writing Exercise – Freewriting. If you missed the previous exercise tap here. A challenge for you: Below is a piece I wrote in one of my early morning freewriting sessions. There are 195 words in this piece. I challenge you to add another 600 words but no more than 1000 and…

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  • Writers Exercise – Free Writing

    Writers Exercise – Free Writing

    Featured Image – Pixel.com Writing Exercise – Freewriting. If you missed the previous exercise tap here. Join me in a continued exercise in free writing. Below is an example of a 15-minute free write in our writer’s group meeting. We were all given different prompts; mine was: ‘This was Friday afternoon and, true to my…

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