A short spoken excerpt from Eckhart Tolle arguing that negative thoughts can cascade like a virus, taking possession of the mind and potentially producing severe outcomes (e.g., suicide). He asserts that cultivating 'presence power' makes one immune or allows rapid detection and dissolution of such negative thought movements.
Thoughts create unhappiness. One negative thought leads to the second negative thought, leads to a third negative related thought and another related thought, and then you get a string of thoughts. It's a bit like a kind of virus. And then before you know it, it has taken possession of your entire mind. And some people, they might commit suicide in states like that. Totally possessed, mentally and emotionally possessed. So the more presence power there is in you, the more immune you are to invasion. Either entities from the unseen or invasion of negative thought movements. Or if they should happen again, you can detect them very quickly. Oh, there it is. And often they dissolve by being detected.
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