Episode-by-episode discussion of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle — presence, the thinking mind, and the one moment you actually live in. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Mindset Podcasts.
10 episodes listed below. All 22 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The series opener. Eckhart Tolle on the night everything changed for him, and the realisation underneath this entire book: the anxious commentary running in your head is something you have, not something you are.
Tolle's idea of the pain-body — the accumulated emotional pain that wakes up hungry and goes looking for a fight. Once you can recognise it arriving, the argument you were about to have stops being inevitable.
The core practice. Tolle's argument that the present moment is the only thing that has ever actually happened, and the simple, repeatable way back into it when your mind has dragged you somewhere else.
A chapter that reads like being caught. Tolle catalogues the mind's strategies for avoiding this moment — waiting, resenting, planning, replaying — and most listeners recognise at least three of their own.
Tolle on the state itself rather than the theory. The stillness underneath thought, the trap of trying to achieve it, and why it is closer to noticing than to effort.
The most practical episode in the series. Tolle's inner-body practice — the felt aliveness in your hands and chest — as the fastest reliable door out of the head, and how to use it in an ordinary day.
Tolle on stillness, space, silence and surrender as openings into something underneath form. The most abstract chapter in the book, kept concrete and honest about where language runs out.
Tolle on relationships, and his blunt diagnosis of what most people call love: two pain-bodies taking turns. What changes when you stop asking a partner to complete you — including when the honest answer is to leave.
Tolle on the exhausting swing between good days and bad days, and the deeper stillness he says sits beneath both. Why the goal was never to feel good all the time.
The series finale. Tolle's most misunderstood idea, cleared up: surrender means stopping the argument with what already is — and it is what makes real action possible rather than what replaces it.
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22 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: A New Earth · The Secret · The Greatest Secret · The Four Agreements · The Untethered Soul · Becoming Supernatural
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