[Video] How to Live with Joy Instead of Ego – Eckhart Tolle

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How do you know if you’re living from a place of Joy or Ego? Love or Fear? Heart or Head?

We all know it can be tough to be self-aware (much easier to observe and be aware of what others are doing! 🙂 )

Especially when we are faced with uncertainty, stress or challenge and are unsure which is the best option to choose. 

In this video, best-selling author, Eckhart Tolle, provides some guidance on how to live from a place of Presence which leads to your highest outcome and also the highest outcome for others. 

The ego lives in a continuous sense of lack, it’s always in the background claiming that you are not enough. That who you are or what you do is not good enough.

We can always achieve more, obtain more, and experience more, but when we feel like we can’t be content in the present moment and still have big plans for the future, we might be under the influence of the Ego.

You don’t have to listen to the Ego’s false thoughts. 

Ask yourself with each choice, am I acting from a place of Love or Lack? 

Acting from Love pays you and others. 

Acting from Ego can cost you and others. 

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1. Love or Fear? 

When looking at your decision, with each option ask yourself, do you feel like you’re coming from a place of love or fear? 

Motivation Matters.

For example, you’re deciding whether or not to pursue a business opportunity.

When you consider choosing this option, ask yourself, does it feel like you’re doing it out of love or fear? Are you doing it because it feels right on every level and you just know it’s what you would love to do and a service you’d enjoy providing (love motivation) or only for the money or status (lack/fear motivation)? 

2. Giving or Gathering? 

Another way to test your sponsoring thought or motivation is to ask: “Does it feel like you’re giving or gathering?”

If you choose option A? Does it feel like you’re giving or gathering? If you choose option B, does it feel like you’re giving or gathering? 

The Heart  (Love-guided) choice tends to make you feel like you’re “giving” whenever you think about it or whenever you do it. Even if you feel nervous or excited, ultimately you feel good about the choice and yourself, 

The Ego (fear-based) choice tends to make you feel like you’re “selfishly gathering”, simply because the ego operates from a false mindset of “I am not enough”, and therefore is driven by the false idea that you need to gather external things outside of your self, in order to feel “worthy” or “good enough”. This choice tends to make you feel like something’s off or not 100% and you might feel uneasy and not good about yourself, when you think about choosing the Ego option. 

The Heart knows you were born worthy, that you are already enough and that worthiness and significance is who you are. Therefore whatever you do, it is an opportunity to express that inspiration, gratitude, enthusiasm and love or even better cause others to experience that for themselves. 

3. Expanding or Contracting?

For people who need to move to think, the expanding/contracting technique might help.

Simply take 3 deep breaths, inhale and exhale, slow and deep. 

Then place your hand and attention on your heart. 

Now, again with a decision consisting of option A and option B, ask your body to give you a response to option A, does your body feel like it’s expanding (i.e. deeper breathing, relaxed upright posture, expanded awareness) or does it feel like your body’s contracting (shortness of breath, contracted tight chest, slumped posture and closing-down of awareness)? 

Do the same for option B to test your body’s response. 

Generally, the body provides a good indication by expanding (love) or contracting (fear), depending on whether we feel a choice will lead to a constructive (heart) or destructive (ego) outcome. 

Hope these tips help, the more you practice them, the easier it becomes to determine if you are acting from a place of Presence or Ego.  

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