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	<itunes:summary>We explore &quot;The Power of Now&quot; and &quot;A New Earth&quot; and try to answer one practical question asked by many fans of Eckhart Tolle: How can you apply these teachings to daily life? 

In each podcast, hosts Greg Larsen and Leo Aristimuno guide you through relaxed conversations, interviews with special guests, practical spiritual practices, reflexive meditations, and simple recommendations for practicing presence and stillness in everyday life. 

For videos, articles, and information visit our web site please visit www.livingwithtolle.com</itunes:summary>
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		<title>5: Practicing Acceptance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle we focus on &#8220;Acceptance,&#8221; the first stage of &#8220;Awakened Doing,&#8221; as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth. Practicing acceptance can help us cope with tragic loss, daily life, and the challenges of personal awakening. Play Now or Listen in a new window (32 minutes) Right-click to [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle we focus on &quot;Acceptance,&quot; the first stage of &quot;Awakened Doing,&quot; as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth. Practicing acceptance can help us cope with tragic loss, daily life,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle we focus on &quot;Acceptance,&quot; the first stage of &quot;Awakened Doing,&quot; as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth. Practicing acceptance can help us cope with tragic loss, daily life, and the challenges of personal awakening.


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Key Insights From Our Conversation:

	Sharing transformative experiences with others feels good.
	The process of awakening, on a personal and spiritual level, affects you in unexpected ways.
	Personal Awakening is not about creating a fixed paradise, but about being in the process of continually creating paradise


	“Acceptance” can help you deal with and recover from loss and tragedies, such as hurricanes.
	The Ego creates itself through identification by attaching itself to form, to things around us, and even to our thoughts. When those are stripped away, we have an opportunity to realize “I am not my possessions” or “I am not my thoughts.”
	Even in the face of loss, you can still experience the present moment, inner aliveness, and the joy of being.


	An explanation of Awakened Doing: (from Chapter 10 of A New Earth)

	Step 1: Acceptance.
	Step 2: Enjoyment.
	Step 3: Enthusiasm.




	Begin with Acceptance: It is fundamental. [Watch Greg speaking about acceptance]
	How do you accept a flat tire? How do you accept cold soup at a restaurant? How do you accept your kids’ tantrums or daily messes?
	A state of non-acceptance is a state of resistance, which creates Negativity.
	Acceptance can help you listen to your kids, accepting their emotions, creating deeper empathy and better connections with them.
	How can we practice acceptance without “putting up with” undesirable situations and challenges?
	Acceptance is not about a passive resignation to life’s situations. Accept the situation, acknowledge the problem, then consciously correct the situation through acceptance.
	Though your conditioned way of being can react to problems by complaining, creating drama, anger, and frustrations, acceptance allows you to engage life’s challenges in more clear-headed, dynamic, and creative ways.
	Acceptance allows for clarity of mind.
	Don’t engage in drama, false stories, internal complaints, inaccurate interpretations of what’s happening around you. All this energy wasted in the drama can actually make the problem worse. Rather, accept the situation and the present moment as it is unfolding. The solutions you seek are more readily available through acceptance than through resistance.


Questions to our audience:

	 How is your inability to create acceptance wasting energy in your life?
	How is your resistance to life creating more anger or anxiety than necessary?
	How do you experience resistance in your life?
	How do you experience acceptance?
	What has happens when you have accepted the situation differently, more fully, without the resistance?
	Have our conversations helped you to reach that moment of acceptance?

Please share your experiences and your feedback in the &quot;Response&quot; section below.
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Peace.
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		<title>11: Honoring Your Intuition Through the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle we explore ways to cultivate your intuition through the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We discuss how to trust your intuition to help inspire your decision-making process in everyday life situations. Key Insights From Our Conversation: We begin the conversations exploring how the question “how am I being called [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Intuition, Fear, Family, Work, Living With Tolle, Practice</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle we explore ways to cultivate your intuition through the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We discuss how to trust your intuition to help inspire your decision-making process in everyday life situations. - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle we explore ways to cultivate your intuition through the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We discuss how to trust your intuition to help inspire your decision-making process in everyday life situations.

Key Insights From Our Conversation:

We begin the conversations exploring how the question “how am I being called to serve?” can be answered through &quot;intuitive knowing,&quot; a process in which we listen to our intuition. Typically, with that answer comes a sense of expansion and a positive feeling. But soon we begin to hear the voice of the ego that second guesses our own intuition with words like: “you could never do that,” or “you don’t have enough money to do that.” This can thwart or challenge your intuitive sense around how you&#039;re being called to serve.

So, is the guidance you are hearing that of your intuition or that of your ego? A good way to know this is to sense how the thought makes you feel. Do you feel expansive, positive, creative, or do you feel constricted, contracted and closed off to your creativity. Remember, the goal of the ego and pain body is to thwart your intuition if it does not feed the ego!

Leo shares his experience at a recent meeting at work, how intuition was guiding his decision to participate, and the energy that kept him from contributing – the energy of internal doubt. Once he was able to let his intuition speak, there was an expansion of his ideas and the ideas in the room.
How do you foster and nurture intuition?
Greg shares a key insight from the works of Tolle – the body is a portal into the now. Unlike your mind, which can project a phantom self into the past and future, your body is completely grounded in the present moment. You body is fully anchored in the now. The key is to give your conscious attention, or your energy, to your body – instead of allowing you energy to be consumed in thoughts about the past and future.

A fundamental practice is to give you attention to what Tolle describes as your “inner-body.” This spiritual practicing involves tuning into the inner energy field of the body and sensing an inner tingling sensation, or inner “aliveness.” (There is a video on the website that will guide you in the process of connecting to the inner body.)

Intuition is a response of the body, the intelligence of the body and how it perceives the energy of another person, along with what is being spoken. The body interprets the vibration and the information.

So trusting your intuition is really a process of trusting the intelligence of the body, even though the ego is generating thoughts that are second guessing your intuitive responses.

The ego is trying to protect itself, and your intuition can be a threat to the ego.

Awareness of your thoughts is key. A great practice to determine the source of your thoughts, whether your intuition or ego, is to ask the questions: what is the nature and quality of these thoughts. If they are expansive, foster creativity, connection and service, it would be a good guess they are coming from your intuition. If your thoughts are contractive, selfish, constrictive, fearful or limiting, they are probably emerging from the ego.  What experience are your thoughts creating?
How can your intuition guide your productivity?

Greg shares that with all the information coming at us in today’s world, using your intuition to evaluate the “value” of the information coming across your awareness will be an invaluable tool for increasing your personal productivity.

In the past, you may have been able to look at each piece of information and analyze it, to really digest the information, but now there is just too much. It is far more effective to use your intuition to sense the value of what you are doing right now, and also how those actions resonate with how you are being called to serve.

Greg also shares how your intuition can be of value in your dealings with clients. By sensing the state of your client,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>10: When the Pain-Body Awakens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about the pain-body, a powerful spiritual insight Eckhart Tolle first introduced in The Power of Now. We explore how the pain-body manifests in life and strategies for dealing with the short term and long term effects. What is the Pain-Body? The pain-body has been described by [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about the pain-body, a powerful spiritual insight Eckhart Tolle first introduced in The Power of Now. We explore how the pain-body manifests in life and strategies for dealing with the short term and long te...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about the pain-body, a powerful spiritual insight Eckhart Tolle first introduced in The Power of Now. We explore how the pain-body manifests in life and strategies for dealing with the short term and long term effects.

What is the Pain-Body?

The pain-body has been described by Eckhart Tolle as past emotional pain alive in your life today.

The pain-body is a living entity or energy field that is attached to the authentic expression of your life. As such, it can be described as a parasitic energy field engorging itself on your life energy. Think of a tapeworm: it releases a chemical in the body that makes you crave food that feeds and engorges the parasite, but is actually bad for you.
&quot;The pain-body is a semi-autonomous energy-form that lives within most human beings, an entity made up of emotion.  It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is directed primarily at survival.

~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
But the pain-body is not just a personal problem. The pain-body is a collective phenomenon. The pain-body is transferred to the individual through social and cultural conditioning. You experience the collective pain-body on a personal level and through the many ways it can manifest in your life. In fact, the collective pain-body survives through individuals remaining unconscious and contributing “pain” from personal experiences.

Eckhart has stated that your greatest responsibility is to personally cleanse yourself of the pain-body, so you no longer add to the collective pain-body.

Why is acceptance such a powerful spiritual practice in dealing with the pain-body?

The pain-body has two states: active and dormant. When it is active, it is a sign that you are not conscious enough to keep from reacting to life from the pain. And even though it may be uncomfortable and counterintuitive, when the pain-body is active the only constructive response is to be in acceptance of what is happening in this moment.
&quot;The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain-body.  Then, more important, in your ability to stay present enough, alert enough, to notice the pain-body in yourself as a heavy influx of negative emotion when it becomes active.  When it is recognized, it can no longer pretend to be you and live and renew itself through you.&quot;

~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth



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Key Highlights From Our Conversation
Leo opens the conversation by talking about his recent feelings of depression. In short, daily life kicks in and overwhelms him. He describes a sense of “falling off the wagon,” specifically around his inability to feel present, to practice acceptance, and to connect with others in daily life, especially around his work life. 

Lack of time, work obligations, lack of joy all led him to a feeling of disillusionment with the spiritual teachings he’s been exploring. Even though intellectually the teachings make sense and have led him to a sense of awakening and greater presence, this “down” episode fundamentally challenges all he’s been working towards. He describes it as a feeling of having to go back and starting from the beginning.

Greg points to the pain-body as a way to explain Leo’s situation.

Thus begins a great conversation about the role of the pain-body on both a personal and a collective level and on the importance of acceptance as a powerful spiritual practice for dealing with the pain-body.

(16:00)

Many times people complain about the pain-body and don’t want it to come up. This is the ego complaining about the pain-body, but the energy of the complaint is what feeds the pain-body itself! So you have to go back to step one, which is acceptance. The best response is to be in acceptance when the pain-body is active,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>LWT (T5): Dating, Fear, the Ego &amp; The Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2011/06/16/living-with-tolle-take-5-dating-fear-and-the-ego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode: You want connect with someone you are attracted to. You want to take the first step, but are overcome with fear. All this fear stems from the ego. Becoming aware of the ego is the first step towards overcoming your fears. Play Now: Take 5 : Dating, Fear, and the Ego or [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In this episode: You want connect with someone you are attracted to. You want to take the first step, but are overcome with fear. All this fear stems from the ego. Becoming aware of the ego is the first step towards overcoming your fears. </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this episode: You want connect with someone you are attracted to. You want to take the first step, but are overcome with fear. All this fear stems from the ego. Becoming aware of the ego is the first step towards overcoming your fears.


Play Now: Take 5 : Dating, Fear, and the Ego

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To send comments, share stories, and suggest real life situations of your own, simply use the comment section below to continue the conversation.

Living With Tolle &quot;Take 5&quot; is a new series of podcasts full of practical tips to guide you through the challenges of daily life. In this series of short programs, we look at specific, real life situations that challenge our ability to stay present.

Life Coach Greg Larsen and Leo Aristimuno guide us towards a state of awareness and presence through the fundamental teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We also continue to produce our longer, more in-depth podcasts once a month.

If you find this podcast of value, we invite you to write a brief review on iTunes.

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		<title>18: Being Calm as a Spiritual Practice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you finding it difficult to experience what Eckhart Tolle calls being “present” through the chaotic energy and challenges of everyday life? Two words can lead you back to that grounded and relaxed place where creativity and solutions can be accessed: Be Calm.]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>Are you finding it difficult to experience what Eckhart Tolle calls being “present” through the chaotic energy and challenges of everyday life? Two words can lead you back to that grounded and relaxed place where creativity and solutions can be accessed: Be Calm.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>17: Meeting New People &amp; Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s Teachings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how cultivating presence, accepting the Now, and being aware of the one Life that we all are, will allow you to meet and enjoy the people around you in completely new ways.]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Dating, Fear, Ego, Romance, Living With Tolle, Pain Body</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>Learn how cultivating presence, accepting the Now, and being aware of the one Life that we all are, will allow you to meet and enjoy the people around you in completely new ways.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Learn how cultivating presence, accepting the Now, and being aware of the one Life that we all are, will allow you to meet and enjoy the people around you in completely new ways.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Aristimuno and Larsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>16: Nature, Life, and Presence in Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s Teachings</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/11/15/living-with-tolle-16-nature-life-and-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle, our conversation centers around natural beauty. We discuss how nature reflects back to us how to be present in the moment. We explore how Nature can also be a portal to the now by inspiring breath-taking moments of no thought. We talk about connecting to the inner aliveness [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Awareness, nature, children, Life, presence</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle, our conversation centers around natural beauty. We discuss how nature reflects back to us how to be present in the moment. We explore how Nature can also be a portal to the now by inspiring breath-taking moments of...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle, our conversation centers around natural beauty. We discuss how nature reflects back to us how to be present in the moment. We explore how Nature can also be a portal to the now by inspiring breath-taking moments of no thought.  We talk about connecting to the inner aliveness in nature, in pets, and in young children, a practice that can help us honor the life force in other human beings around us, and ourselves.



We begin this podcast by sharing our new projects:
Greg’s discusses his new song Better Friends, his new recording, music video and website www.happyashumanlypossible.com.

Be sure to share it on this Father&#039;s Day!

Leo introduces his two newly launched
Eckhart Tolle iPhone Applications:

Read about them and view video demos *here*

Buy them now at the iTunes App Store:
The Power of Now Inspiration Deck for the iPhone
 The Power of Now Meditation Deck for the iPhone


Play Audio Now
Episode 16: Nature, Life, and Presence
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Key Insights From This Episode:
Natural beauty reflects back to us how to be present in the moment.

Nature can be a portal to the now by inspiring &quot;breath-taking&quot; moments of no thought – drawing out the presence within us.

The lack of ego in nature makes natural beauty available, aware, giving and receiving.

Nature is all around us in the form or plants or flowers, trees, water, and giving your conscious attention to these forms of natural beauty will allow you to engage these forms without thought – to sense their aliveness, beauty, and design.

Whether you live in a large city or the country, how can you begin to interact with nature in a more conscious way?

Pets are reflections of presence – reflections that evoke presence to emerge within us.  They are mirrors and reminders of our own natural ability to live from the present moment.

Leo shares his experience with his eight month old son and how babies also serve as precious reminders of our natural state – with no back story or compulsive thinking about the future.

Indeed, The life force within a baby that is so captivating or breathtaking, is the same force of life within your spouse, boss, friend, and yourself.

By consciously appreciating the presence and aliveness of nature, pets, and small children, we naturally begin to honor the inner life force within other human beings – and ultimately within ourselves.

Questions for deeper reflection:

	What forms of nature are in your daily surroundings?
	How can you be conscious of nature, pets, or children, so they can serve as true reminders of presence?
	How can you make a special effort this week to spend time in nature and take a breaks away from the structures of the egoic mind?
	How can you make changes in your environment and daily routines for more conscious interactions with nature?

If you enjoy our podcast, please visit the iTunes store and write us a brief review. Thanks!

Peace,
Leo &amp; Greg</itunes:summary>
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		<title>15: Inspiration, Opportunity, and Service Through the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/06/04/inspiration-and-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you to find inspiration for creating beautiful, new things in your life. We discuss how to triumph over the constrictions of complaining and fear. We explore how to cultivate acceptance and presence to help you find inspiration and [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Awareness, Economy, recession, presence, inspiration, creativity, opportunities, bold action</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you to find inspiration for creating beautiful, new things in your life.  We discuss how to triumph over the constrictions of complaining and fear.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you to find inspiration for creating beautiful, new things in your life.  We discuss how to triumph over the constrictions of complaining and fear. We explore how to cultivate acceptance and presence to help you find inspiration and new opportunities with a sense of purpose in your everyday life. 

In this special video podcast from California, we begin by sharing how life has been calling us to serve through unique projects that are independent of Living with Tolle, but were inspired by Tolle’s teachings.
Greg talks about his song Better Friends, his new recording, music video and website www.happyashumanlypossible.com.

Leo talks about his work designing two new Eckhart Tolle iPhone Applications: The Power of Now Meditation Deck and The Power of Now Inspiration Deck.

In the second half of the podcast we elaborate further on the teachings and how they can be used to inspire creativity around the key question: How is life calling me to serve?


Play Audio Now
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Key Insights From This Episode:
Minutes 0-18:
Greg&#039;s new project: Better Friends
Leo&#039;s iPhone apps: The Power of Now Meditation Deck &amp; The Power of Now Inspiration Deck

Minutes 18-40:

The value of being open and receptive, even in time of a crisis, so you can harness the opportunities or solutions that are available to you.

Reflecting on deeper questions of life, such as “how is life calling me to serve?” and cultivating presence so you can be in a space to allow creative reply from Life to flow into your life.

Your deepening presence will also allow you to sense the egoic driven fears and then rise into action from a state of conscious awareness.  By accepting the fear, or the crisis that may be triggering the fear, you will more easily discover the solutions to alleviate it.  As you grow in what Tolle calls “presence power” you will naturally become more receptive to how Life is calling you to serve and live a life of deeper meaning and purpose.

Complaining or venting may appear to be “letting off steam,” but in reality, it ends up contaminating your field of presence and preventing the solutions from being perceived and put to use.  Complaining does not solve anything and shuts down the full potential of your creativity.  It is fuel for the ego and all complaints, big or small, keep you from living your full potential.

New opportunities to create and contribute are always available to you.  A constant focus on the past or future, or a continual complaint about the present moment, close off the doors of opportunity and those “beyond my imagination” discoveries. Accepting and being fully present in the Now will raise your awareness of the many opportunities for play and creativity offered by Life.
Questions for Deeper reflection:
How have the teachings of Eckhart Tolle inspired you to create?
How have they inspired you to take bold massive action and to follow new opportunities?
How are anxious, constricting thought patterns keeping you form fully experiencing life?
How are you nurturing your creativity?


Items mentioned on this episode:
Greg&#039;s new song &amp; web site: Better Friends

Leo&#039;s Eckhart Tolle iPhone Apps:The Power of Now Meditation Deck and Inspiration Deck
These are available exclusively at the iTunes Store. Sign up here to be notified of our official release.

Eckhart Tolle on Oprah Winfrey&#039;s &quot;A New Earth Webinar&quot;

Deepak Chopra on The Ellen Show
Print Products Mentioned:
Ekhart Tolle&#039;s Power of Now Inspiration Deck (the print version) is available from New World Library.








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		<itunes:author>L. Aristimuno and G. Larsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>14: Hard Economic Times and the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/04/24/living-with-tolle-14-awareness-in-hard-economic-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of LWT we discuss the economy. How can the teachings of Eckhart Tolle help us understand our relationship to the economy and to our individual economic situation? We discuss ways of dealing with the current economic situation using awareness and presence. Play Now Episode 14: Awareness in Hard Economic Times or Listen [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Awareness, Economy, anxiety, recession, presence</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of LWT we discuss the economy. How can the teachings of Eckhart Tolle help us understand our relationship to the economy and to our individual economic situation?  We discuss ways of dealing with the current economic situation using awa...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of LWT we discuss the economy. How can the teachings of Eckhart Tolle help us understand our relationship to the economy and to our individual economic situation?  We discuss ways of dealing with the current economic situation using awareness and presence.


Play Now
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Key Insights From This Episode:


How you approach your situation from a state of presence will depend on the level of presence you were cultivating before this situation came to you.

Use awareness, be the silent watcher, watch and question your thoughts, do not let them control you. Witness how your pain body is activated, how your deepest fears are agitated, and how you are reacting to the economic situation around you.

Cultivate acceptance to foster a more conscious decision making process as you face economic hardships. From this state of acceptance, not resistance, you can interact with your life situation dynamically and will be open to discovering new ways in which life is calling you to serve. We have an opportunity to look at our deeper purpose in life.

Be aware of how your sense of ego or your &quot;economic self&quot; is shaping the ways you face your current situation. Realize that you are not your life stories, or the past, or the future, or your home, or your career, or your economic situation. Look beyond your individual sense of self. Look beyond our collective definitions of who we are - they are temporary (and unsustainable).

Connect to a deeper level of life and move beyond the thoughts and stories of your ego. You are life itself. Life expressed in form. There is no lack in life force. The one Source of Life that is never ending, never depleting, never in a recession. It is ever-flowing.
Items mentioned in this episode:

	Living With Tolle: Episode 5: Practicing Acceptance
	Deepak Chopra on Ellen
	Eckhart Tolle&#039;s Finding Your Life&#039;s Purpose (DVD)
	Eckhart Tolle on Avoiding Identification With Content and Fear of Loss
	We both really enjoy Leo Babauta&#039;s: Zen Habits blog. Check out the &quot;finances &amp; family&quot; category for great practical tips.


Questions for deeper reflection:
1. As I face the new economic landscape before me, how can I practice acceptance? How can I use my economic situation to cultivate awareness?
2. How can I play with form? How can I re-invent myself? How can I explore this world of forms differently? How can I connect with my family, with my community, with other forms around me? How can I be a better friend?
3. Who am I? What am I? What happens once I realize that I am not my life stories, but that I am Life itself?

Let us know what you think.  If you have a question or if you want to share your experience, please use the comments section below to share and continue the conversation.

If you enjoy this podcast, please look us up in the iTunes store and write a quick review!

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		<itunes:author>L. Aristimuno and G. Larsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>13: The Pain Body in Others (and 2009 Spring Fund Drive)</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/04/02/lwt-13-the-pain-body-in-others-spring-fund-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss other people’s pain bodies. What can you do when you see the special people around you suffering and you want to help? What can you do to support them in their awakening? This month, we&#8217;re also holding our Spring Fund Drive! Play Now Episode 13: The [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, New Earth, Intuition, Fear, Family, Pain Body, Living With Tolle, Practice, Acceptance</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss other people’s pain bodies. What can you do when you see the special people around you suffering and you want to help? What can you do to support them in their awakening? This month,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle we discuss other people’s pain bodies. What can you do when you see the special people around you suffering and you want to help? What can you do to support them in their awakening? This month, we&#039;re also holding our Spring Fund Drive! 


Play Now
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Summary and Key Insights From This Episode

You Can Help Us Grow

We begin this podcast by talking about our Spring Fund Drive. During the month of April, you, our listeners, can help us grow by making a donation online. To show our gratitude, we are offering two special thank you gifts for those who donate: a video meditation and a tele-seminar led by Greg. Thank you in advance for all your support and for helping us continue to grow.
The Pain Body in Those Around Us

(at Minute 9:00)
We begin the discussion by sharing that a lot of recent listener feedback has been around the topic of other people’s pain-bodies. The common refrain in all of these inquires has been:
 “I see them suffering and I want to help.”

As we awaken, through the teachings of Eckhart Tolle or other teachings, and cultivate a deeper level of awareness into the causes of our suffering, we naturally want to extend this wisdom or knowledge to those that we love and see suffering.  And if the teachings of Eckhart Tolle have triggered your awakening and his insights into the pain-body have been part of a deeper shift, then seeing someone suffer senselessly is not easy to deal with.

Clear insights into the workings of the pain-body in your own life can lead to revelations into your condition and finally enable you to create what Tolle calls “space.”  You are finally able to witness the pain body creating havoc within you and for the first time in your life, you can practice being “space” instead of the conditioned reaction.  As you create a greater degree of space, then less of your life energy is tangled up in the pain body.
How do I share my insights with those I love?
If you have experienced an awakening, but your spouse, partner, child or parent has not, then how do you share the teachings or insights with them so that they get it?  You may be in a similar situation. Most people report that the other is not interested or won’t listen at all.  They remain stuck in their unconscious ways and do not want your input or advice.  So the best thing you can do is take your focus off of them and re-direct it back to yourself.

If your pain body is being triggered by another person’s pain-body, then the problem is not their pain body but yours.  You need to grow in presence power so you can be “space” for the other person.  When their pain body is active or acting out, can you be in complete acceptance and offer the “space” to be, for the energy of the pain body to rise and fall?  The pain-body in most people will always return to a dormant state, and so it is a matter of not reacting and allowing that energy to subside.

Leo emphasizes that this is not about getting people to “believe in Tolle.” He shares about his own past transformational experiences and the resistance me met from those around him after such growth.  Keep in mind that after any sort of deeply transformative experience, the other people in your life will still be at their current level of transformation.
How can being in acceptance of the situation help?
If the other person is not willing to change, or if they have not entered their season of awakening, then resisting their current state of consciousness will only drain you of energy.  If you are exerting all of your energy in an attempt to force the person to bend when they are not ready to bend, you will expend much of your precious life energy.  If you were to take that life energy and re-direct it back into your own conscious growth,</itunes:summary>
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		<title>LWT (T5): Presence With Kids Through the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/03/03/living-with-tolle-take-5-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode: How to maintain presence when your kids challenge you with tantrums. Living With Tolle &#8220;Take 5&#8243; is a new series of podcasts full of practical tips to guide you through the challenges of daily life. In this series, we look at specific, real life situations that challenge our ability to stay present. [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In this episode: How to maintain presence when your kids challenge you with tantrums. - Living With Tolle &quot;Take 5&quot; is a new series of podcasts full of practical tips to guide you through the challenges of daily life. - In this series,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this episode: How to maintain presence when your kids challenge you with tantrums.



Living With Tolle &quot;Take 5&quot; is a new series of podcasts full of practical tips to guide you through the challenges of daily life.

In this series, we look at specific, real life situations that challenge our ability to stay present. Life Coach Greg Larsen and Leo Aristimuno guide us back towards a state of awareness and presence through the fundamental teachings of Eckhart Tolle. We also continue to produce our longer, more in-depth podcasts once a month.

Your iTunes reviews, subscriptions, and support continue to help us blossom! We are now the #1 podcast in the iTunes Self-Help Category!
Thank you!

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		<itunes:author>Aristimuno and Larsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>T5: Avoiding Confrontation with the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2009/02/20/living-with-tolle-take-5-avoid-confrontation-and-stay-in-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:subtitle>In this episode: How to avoid rage and confrontation through presence. Your iTunes reviews, subscriptions, and support continue to help us blossom! We are now the #1 podcast in the iTunes Self-Help Category! Thank you! - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this episode: How to avoid rage and confrontation through presence.
Your iTunes reviews, subscriptions, and support continue to help us blossom! We are now the #1 podcast in the iTunes Self-Help Category! Thank you!

Living With Tolle &quot;Take 5&quot; is a new series of podcasts full of practical tips to guide you through the challenges of daily life. In this series, we look at specific, real life situations that challenge our ability to stay present. Greg and Leo guide us back towards a state of awareness and presence through the fundamental teachings of Eckhart Tolle.

We will continue to produce our longer, more in-depth podcasts once a month.


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		<itunes:author>Leo Aristimuno and Greg Llarsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>12: Intuition, Inspiration, Living an Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle, we share ways to access your intuition at a deeper level, ways to boldly act on inspiration, and how to start living life as an odyssey of service. First, an announcement. Thanks to your support Living With Tolle has skyrocketed up the charts! As of today, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle, we share ways to access your intuition at a deeper level, ways to boldly act on inspiration, and how to start living life as an odyssey of service.  - First, an announcement.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle, we share ways to access your intuition at a deeper level, ways to boldly act on inspiration, and how to start living life as an odyssey of service. 

First, an announcement. Thanks to your support Living With Tolle has skyrocketed up the charts! As of today, we are one of the top five podcasts in the iTunes Self-Help Category.

We’d like to thank our listeners all across the world who continue to subscribe to our podcast, write comments, and write reviews at the iTunes store. We are also grateful to all of you who continue to donate to support our project. Finally, many thanks to those of you who continue to spread the word about our growing community. Thank You.



Key Insights From Our Conversation


We begin the conversation by re-visiting a key question from Episode #11 on Intuition. Are the thoughts you are thinking expansive, positive, resonant, or are they contracting, negative, out of alignment with what you intuitively know you can be.

We continue explaining how intuition can serve up inspiring thoughts or “callings” that beckon us to explore our life’s odyssey. How can you experience your life as an odyssey?

The teachings of Eckhart Tolle allow us to cultivate a deeper state of presence, and that presence allows for a greater sense of openness and receptiveness. It is from this space of being open and receptive that inspiration is able to flow into your life.
Are you inspired towards a major change in your life? Is life calling you to experience a new odyssey?
From a state of presence, you will be able to answer this for yourself and take the steps necessary to break out of the mental and physical structures that hold you back.

Leo shares the story behind the creation of Living With Tolle and how inspiration and intuition served as guides on the journey from idea to manifested reality. He also talks about the journey he and Greg took to the peak of Mt San Jacinto in Southern California. The 12 mile hike served as an odyssey that broke them out of the mental and physical structures of their daily life and enabled them to take action on the inspiration that flowed.

Sometimes, an adventurous event that takes us out of the daily structures can be tremendously inspiring and can give us the presence of mind to take bold action.
What structures are in place in our lives that keep us from following our intuition and inspiration?
We reflects on Eckhart’s teachings about the ego and the egoic structure that keep us in a state of fear and keep us “blocked in.” These mental structures, some built upon the physical structures of our lives (homes, cars, jobs), actually serve the ego by maintaining a sense of control and safety. The ego will keep us in the safe structures, even though those structures may thwart our growth and our ability to serve life fully from intuitive inspiration. These structures can keep us from living our life’s odyssey and keep up from experiencing deep fulfillment.

How is your home apart of your identity? How strong is your identity wrapped up in your job? How do those structures serve you or hold you back?

Sometimes our inspired calling may require that we move out of our current structures and embrace change and growth. How can breaking out of your mental and physical structures allow for a deeper appreciation and the enjoyment of the structures we experience in life?
If the inspiration is calling us to make radical changes, what do we do in the time of transition between the inspired thought and actual life-change?
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Reach out for support. As you move into taking steps on your odyssey, who do you need to reach out for support so your dream is nourished?

The ego will limit your ability to reach out and embrace change – even though sticking it our may be detrimental to you. This is because the ego tries to protect itself, to go it alone and work it all out in the head.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>L. Aristimuno and G. Larsen</itunes:author>
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		<title>8: Practicing Presence at Work</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/11/11/living-with-tolle-8-practicing-presence-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about “Work” and how to apply the teachings of Eckhart Tolle towards a more fulfilling relationship with our jobs. We examine how acceptance, our state of presence, and our sense of purpose can guide us in answering that nagging question “what am I doing here at [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about “Work” and how to apply the teachings of Eckhart Tolle towards a more fulfilling relationship with our jobs. We examine how acceptance, our state of presence,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle we talk about “Work” and how to apply the teachings of Eckhart Tolle towards a more fulfilling relationship with our jobs. We examine how acceptance, our state of presence, and our sense of purpose can guide us in answering that nagging question “what am I doing here at this job?”

This episode was inspired by a question posted by a listener through our comments section. If you’d like to ask questions or share your thoughts and experiences, please write us a brief comment in the section below.




Key Highlights From Our Conversation:
 

How to practice presence at work - especially when faced with the complex issues that may arise in a work environment.

The best approach is from a state of acceptance. We are not talking about being resigned or depressed, but in a dynamic state of openness that enables new ideas to flow and the energy to put them into action

How to truly shift your attitude at work and about your job.

Have you made choices in the past to embrace a new approach to your boss, co-workers, projects or tasks? How did it go for you? Since work can trigger strong feelings around primal emotions such as security, work can be an environment that fosters reactivity. Indeed, our work environment can sometimes feel like a trap where we may feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled. So, will an intellectual &quot;attitude&quot; shift suffice? Or is a deeper shift required to align your work life with your life’s purpose?

To authentically shift how you relate to the various aspects of your work, you must cultivate your state of presence.

What is your life’s purpose? And once you find it, what do you do about your job? What is the best way to approach making a career change or job advancement?

Instead of being fixed on what you want to do (a sign your goal may be ego based) approach your through hold in a state of inquiry. Instead of demanding your career should give you this or that, it is better to be in a constant state of inquiry.

Ask yourself this question: How is Life calling me to serve? How can I serve by sharing my unique gifts and talents? These questions will shift your approach to daily life from one of resistance to one of discovery, service, and fulfillment.

If you already have a vision or goal for the future, but resist where you are at now, how does that resistance serve your expansion, evolution, or emergence?

Honoring the present moment is what enables the greater vision to unfold with greater creativity and less stress. The only reality is the present moment, and honoring the present moment through complete acceptance frees up space in the head for ideas to flow freely and frees up energy in the body to put those ideas into action. In this state of acceptance and presence, you will be able to creatively assess your daily life, your role at work, and the opportunities for change.



As always, we invite listeners to send us questions and feedback, to share their experiences, and to suggest topics for future episodes.
Use the section below to add your comments.

Till next time,
Peace.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Larsen and Arisimuno</itunes:author>
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		<title>7: Enjoyment in Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/10/23/podcast-episode-7-enjoyment-in-everyday-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We focus on “Enjoyment,” the second modality of “Awakened Doing,” as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth. Key Highlights From Our Conversation: Awakened Doing: In A New Earth (Chapter 10) Tolle describes Awakened Doing as “the alignment of your outer purpose – what you do – [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We focus on “Enjoyment,” the second modality of “Awakened Doing,” as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth. - Key Highlights From Our Conversation:  Awakened Doing: In A New Earth (Chapter 10) Tolle desc...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We focus on “Enjoyment,” the second modality of “Awakened Doing,” as explained by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth.



Key Highlights From Our Conversation:
 Awakened Doing: In A New Earth (Chapter 10) Tolle describes Awakened Doing as “the alignment of your outer purpose – what you do – with your inner purpose – awakening and staying awake.&quot; 

Acceptance: whether it’s cold soup, spilt milk or a dirty diaper, accept the reality of this moment as it is. Enjoyment: Experiencing the “joy of being” in everyday activities &amp; through creative expression. Enthusiasm: Combining what you enjoy with a goal or vision.

Be aware of what keeps us from experiencing enjoyment in the moment : Ego

The ego is never satisfied with the present moment and has a voracious appetite for more. The ego looks for enjoyment in a projected future, resisting the flow of enjoyment available in the present moment. How to generate awareness of this condition so the power of the ego is diminished in your life.

Spiritual practices you can use to discover greater enjoyment

The key is your state of presence. Engage in any spiritual practice that will allow your state of presence to expand.

Eckhart offers a specific spiritual practice on page 299 of A New Earth. Make a list of daily activities that you find tedious, stressful or irritating. Then bring a greater degree of awareness to them as you engage in these activities throughout the day, sensing the joy of being flow through you as they become vehicles for greater awareness.

Feel enjoyment by engaging in activities that naturally allow for a timeless experience to arise

When you are engaged in activities that naturally permit a timeless experience of life they are typically activities you “enjoy.” These activities can range from sewing to working on the car, from fishing and hiking to playing the piano. What creative activities or hobbies do you partake in that allow for a timeless experience to arise?



Questions to continue the conversation:

	Do you see value in Eckhart Tolle&#039;s concept of Awakened Doing?
	Have you experienced enjoyment as a flow of energy from within?
	Does the spiritual practice discussed on today’s episode seem practical?
	Do you currently engage in activities that allow you to experience the “joy of being?”
	What was the key insight for your in today’s episode?
	As always, we invite listeners to send us questions and feedback, to share their experiences, and to suggest topics for future episodes.

Use the section below to add your comments.

Till next time,
Peace.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>6: Cultivating Awareness Through the Economic Crisis</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/10/13/podcast-episode-6-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We explore how Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s teachings can help us deal with the stresses and anxieties of our current economic situation. Key Highlights From Our Conversation: Dealing with the News (3:30 &#8211; 11:30) How can Eckhart&#8217;s teachings help us deal with the fear &#38; anxiety created by &#8220;News Overload,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We explore how Eckhart Tolle&#039;s teachings can help us deal with the stresses and anxieties of our current economic situation. - Key Highlights From Our Conversation: - Dealing with the News (3:30 - 11:30) </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle:  We explore how Eckhart Tolle&#039;s teachings can help us deal with the stresses and anxieties of our current economic situation.



Key Highlights From Our Conversation:

Dealing with the News (3:30 - 11:30)
How can Eckhart&#039;s teachings help us deal with the fear &amp; anxiety created by &quot;News Overload,&quot; by the torrent of negativity behind the current &quot;Economic Crisis.&quot;

Cultivating Awareness From Our Real Life Economic Strains &amp; Challenges (11:30 - 17:00)
There are real problems and hardships happening. People are having a hard time meeting their payments, dealing with rising costs of food and gas. How can deal with these real life strains? How can we use these situations to cultivate awareness, acceptance, and presence?

The &quot;Return Movement&quot;  (17:10 - 22:45)
In Chapter 10 of A New Earth, Tolle discusses the concept of the Return Movement. Everything expands and then returns: age, health, friends, family, even the universe. There is a natural flow back and forth. It is a natural cycle. Our culture is obsessed with the expansion, not the returning side of this cycle. How can understanding this natural cycle help us deal with the retractions in our economic situation?

Returning to Presence and Enjoyment (22:45 - 27:50)
What things we can do to set aside the strains and stresses, the news and fear, and get back to being present, to acceptance, and to enjoyment?



Questions to our audience:

	How has the economic crisis affected you?
	Have Eckhart&#039;s teachings helped you cope with the stress and anxiety of our economic situation?
	Have you found yourself overloaded with news? Have you been able to turn it off?
	Has our podcast helped you generate awareness and return to a state of presence?
	Is the concept of The Return a helpful one to help you accept the economic cycles of life?
	How have you found joy in your everyday life?




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		<title>4: Practicing Presence (W/ Baby!)</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/09/20/podcast-episode-4-practicing-presence-with-a-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle: Leo is the proud father of a new baby boy! So we discuss how to practice presence in the face of daily challenges. How to enrich your life experience by simply honoring the moment. And,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle:
Leo is the proud father of a new baby boy! So we discuss how to practice presence in the face of daily challenges. How to enrich your life experience by simply honoring the moment. And, how all this relates to the challenges and rewards that a new baby brings. 




Key Insights From Our Conversation:

	Leo welcomes a new baby to his family!
	&quot;Life is enough&quot;
	Experiencing acceptance with children
	How being present for baby is nurturing
	The challenge of just being
	Experiencing the joy of being present in the moment
	Awareness of one&#039;s acceptance of the moment
	Is multi-tasking effective?
	The challenge of vigilantly watching our thoughts
	Allowing life to be a rich experience by simply honoring it

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	Are there daily activities that allow you to experience presence?
	Are there daily activities that distract you from presence?
	How has &quot;being present&quot; enhanced your parenting experience?
	How has acceptance enhanced your relationship with your children?

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		<itunes:author>Larsen and Aristimuno</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>28:51</itunes:duration>
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		<title>3: Overcoming Anxiety With Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s Power of Now</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/09/12/lwt-episodepodcast3-overcominganxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety. What is it? How to deal with it? Tips for harnessing nervous energy and practicing presence to powerfully engage in the game of life. Key Insights From Our Conversation: Leo shares his anxieties about having a baby. Managing the “butterflies” or nervous energy as an actor or speaker Harnessing the influx of life energy [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>eckhart tolle, power of now, new earth, anxiety, inner peace, presence</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>Anxiety. What is it? How to deal with it? Tips for harnessing nervous energy and practicing presence to powerfully engage in the game of life. - Key Insights From Our Conversation:  Leo shares his anxieties about having a baby. </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Anxiety. What is it? How to deal with it? Tips for harnessing nervous energy and practicing presence to powerfully engage in the game of life.



Key Insights From Our Conversation:

	Leo shares his anxieties about having a baby.
	Managing the “butterflies” or nervous energy as an actor or speaker
	Harnessing the influx of life energy as a performer
	Managing “stage fright” and consciously choosing an inspired performance
	Cultivating the dynamic intelligence of the body
	Practice being present to prepare the body for “game time” in life
	Be a professional at being present – to give your best performance
	Becoming your own “life saver”
	Acceptance and cultivating presence enables you to powerfully engage in life
	Feeling good in the body

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	What situations in your life cause you anxiety?
	Have you been paralyzed or inspired by anxiety?
	How have you harnessed the creative energy behind anxiety?
	Does regularly cultivating presence on a regular basis help you when it&#039;s game time?</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Aristimuno &amp; Larsen</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>28:21</itunes:duration>
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		<title>2: What&#8217;s Going on Inside Me Right Now?</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/09/06/podcast-episode-2-whats-going-on-inside-me-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living With Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you feel better. We also share two fundamental techniques that will help you experience greater physical, emotional, and spiritual self-awareness. Key Insights From Our Conversation Feeling good in the body Exercise: What’s going on inside me this moment? [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>eckhart, tolle, power, now, new, earth, thinking, joy, presence, being, practice, meditation, peace, larsen</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living With Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you feel better. We also share two fundamental techniques that will help you experience greater physical, emotional, and spiritual self-awareness. - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living With Tolle we discuss how the teachings of Eckhart Tolle can help you feel better. We also share two fundamental techniques that will help you experience greater physical, emotional, and spiritual self-awareness.





Key Insights From Our Conversation

	Feeling good in the body
	Exercise: What’s going on inside me this moment?
	Listening to the messages of the body
	Your body is a powerful partner
	Interrupting negative thoughts
	Deeply experiencing Source energy
	Harnessing Source energy
	Tapping into your Inner Body
	Feeling more energized in life




Continue the Conversation, Share Your Experiences


	Did the What&#039;s Going on Inside Me? exercise work for you?
	Have you been able to ask yourself this question throughout the day?
	When were you able to interrupt negative thoughts or feelings?
	How did it feel to connect to your Inner Body?</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Leo Aristimuno</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>32:50</itunes:duration>
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		<title>1: Why Tolle?</title>
		<link>http://livingwithtolle.com/2008/08/26/podcastepisode1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this episode of Living with Tolle: Why Eckhart Tolle? Who is this guy and what is it that he teaches? Greg shares his personal experience of using Eckhart’s teachings to heal from a divorce. Also, The two primary focuses of Tolle’s teachings: to reveal who you truly are and who you are not. Key [...]]]></description>
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			<itunes:keywords>A New Earth,being,eckhart tolle,joy,presence,The Power of Now,thinking</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>On this episode of Living with Tolle: - Why Eckhart Tolle? Who is this guy and what is it that he teaches? Greg shares his personal experience of using Eckhart’s teachings to heal from a divorce. Also, The two primary focuses of Tolle’s teachings: to ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>On this episode of Living with Tolle:

Why Eckhart Tolle? Who is this guy and what is it that he teaches? Greg shares his personal experience of using Eckhart’s teachings to heal from a divorce. Also, The two primary focuses of Tolle’s teachings: to reveal who you truly are and who you are not.



Key Insights From Our Conversation:

	Pain relief and personal expansion.
	Thinking and suffering.
	Cultivating presence.
	External and internal expansion of your life energy.
	Being fully engaged in life.
	When your thoughts take over.
	You are not your thoughts.
	Conditioned ways of being.
	Disidentifying with your thoughts.
	Cultivating a state of presence.
	Becoming aware of your inner aliveness.
	Witnessing the complete intelligence of who you are.
	How to enjoy life more.
	Finding a deeper fulfilment in life.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Leo Aristimuno</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:duration>32:50</itunes:duration>
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