Eckhart Tolle explains how reacting to challenges amplifies them, and how stepping back from that reaction lets them dissolve faster. The key is not feeding the problem with your attention and emotional response.
And so the way in which you deal with challenges, then changes, no longer reactive. And when you no longer amplify the challenge, what tends to happen? And this is almost like a little miracle, it dissipates much more quickly and becomes transformed into something else. When you no longer fight it, then very often very quickly, something else happens, some helpful circumstance that suddenly you say, oh, that's great.
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