Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

The Toxic Thing You Consume Every Day

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from his YouTube talk, Eckhart Tolle warns that consuming certain forms of entertainment—specifically horror movies and some types of music—acts like a toxic food that lowers the "frequency" of one’s consciousness. He explains that a lowered frequency makes a person more vulnerable to negative influences, likening the effect to an invasion. Tolle urges listeners to become aware of the frequency and content of the media they ingest, suggesting that, just as one would avoid known poisonous food, one should avoid media that is destructive to consciousness.

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If you watch horror movies where the most dreadful things happen, that can lower the frequency of your consciousness, and then you are open to invasion. If you knew, knew this food is toxic, would you eat it? No, you wouldn't. But people watch the most toxic things. There's also certain types of music that are very destructive and toxic. Also, that, that would lower your frequency. So you have to be careful and just be aware of what is the frequency of that that music? What are they singing about, if you can call it singing? And sometimes they are horrible, unbelievable.