Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

Be Conscious of What You Watch Before Sleep | Eckhart Tolle

6 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Eckhart Tolle warns that watching movies with high levels of violence or horror can lower a person's state of consciousness. He explains that such media introduces low‑vibrational emotions, which he likens to ingesting toxic food or poison. Consuming this "poison" can trigger the activation of the "pain‑body" and awaken deeply unconscious egoic mind patterns, leading to heightened emotional distress shortly after viewing.

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Your consciousness could be lowered is you. If you watch certain movies, for example, that contain a lot of violence or horror movies, and you link into that and that lowers your consciousness, you experience emotions that are of low vibrational frequency and you take all that in. It's like eating toxic food like poison. You put poison into your body. So any movie of that kind, if you watch it, lowers your consciousness also. And you may find after watching something like that, then not long after you experience being attacked by the pain body and deeply unconscious egoic mind patterns.