A short Eckhart Tolle monologue urging immediate acceptance of the present moment to dissolve irritation. Tolle explains that irritation arises when one is not aligned with the present, and that noticing and accepting the irritation (without fueling it with thought) quickly weakens it and enables wiser, non-reactive action.
If you experience irritation about something that's happening at this moment that means you are not totally aligned with the present moment. There was something in you that reacted so then irritation becomes your experience of this moment. So you missed your first chance of immediately accepting the isness of this moment. The situation you are in. Accepting doesn't mean you cannot take action. Sometimes action is necessary or possible but let the action come out of. Accept a prior oneness with the present moment so the action is not reactive but is an intelligent wise response to the situation. Then you have a second chance. Your second chance is to notice the irritation that has arisen in you and to accept that you are irritated. Then that becomes your experience of the present moment. That means the irritation cannot survive very long in you especially if you don't feed it anymore with your thoughts. You just notice it living in you and then you accept it. You feel irritated. Acceptance dissolves unpleasant states very quickly.
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