Eckhart Tolle describes waking at 3 a.m. breathless and imagining catastrophic outcomes, even though nothing is actually wrong. Your mind generates fear by projecting into the future, while the present moment is peaceful and problem-free.
You lie in your bed, you wake up or you can't go to sleep. It's three o' clock in the morning and there isn't fear. You can hardly breathe. What's going to happen to me? And do you think of all the bad things that are going to happen? Not realizing that in that moment there is no problem whatsoever. Because you're in a bed, it's warm, and the mattress is okay too. But the mind creates something else.
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