Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra discuss S.T.O.P., an acronym-based technique for managing thoughts and emotions through meditation and mindfulness. The conversation explores practical methods for mental clarity and emotional regulation.
I don't know if anybody still experiences that. Here you wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning and you're thinking, and it's not pleasant. It's about my problems. And if you then suddenly you discover the futility of it, then you also have. At that moment you have a choice. And then you can say, I choose to place my attention on the inner energy field of the body. And from one moment, from one minute to the next, you suddenly enjoy being awake at night and feel the intense aliveness in every cell of the body. That's one simple way. It's a kind of meditation practice. It's one simple way of taking attention away from thinking. When it. You realize it is not only futile, it's also destructive. So that's a. And that needs to be then practiced in a day. If you have a meditation period, that's wonderful. Of course, daily meditation period. But in addition, I always recommend mini meditations throughout the day, which could be a simple thing as taking two or three conscious breaths while you're waiting for the elevator. Or do something consciously with full attention that usually you do unconsciously. Anything that is usually a means to an end, make it into an end in itself. Washing your hands, be totally present. You're getting out of your mind. Walking down a few steps, be totally present. Rather than needing to get to the bottom, be there in every step. So little mini meditations gradually help you to disidentify from the movement of thought. So this is what I would recommend to our questioner and to anybody else who is still burdened by their minds or tortured by their minds.
So for those of you who like formulas, here's one. Stop. Okay? It's an acronym. S stands for stop. T stands for take three deep breaths, as Eckhart just told us to. And while you're taking those three deep breaths, smile everywhere in your body, from head to toe. O stands for observe. Observe your body, as you said. And P stands for proceed with love and kindness. You break the. Break the response. Okay, so it's 9 o' clock and our livestream is ending. So I want to bring Wayne. We don't want to lose this opportunity, at least. So, you know, I've known wayne now for 25 years. We've grown up together. He just looks a little older. But we are brothers. There.
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