1. From where does Tolle draw the title of his book (why would he name it The Power of Now)?
To understand why Eckhart Tolle’s book is titled the Power of Now we must seek to understand the reasons we would need to access the power of now.
Most people live in a state of constant busyness. We rush from point A to B, struggle to keep on top of our ever growing to do list, are in a constant race against the clock and multitask a hundred jobs a day. Before we know it, the day has disappeared, nothing’s been done and it’s already past bed time. Who needs sleep anyway? We are now living in a world where it’s fashionable not to sleep!
It’s not just out outer world that is busy but our inner world too. We lay our head on the pillow at the end of the day and either pass out from
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No wonder when you look at the way people hold themselves and interact with each other you see cortisol producing, adrenaline pumping human doings. Not human beings, human doings.
Our mind has been taken over by a drunk race car driver and there’s no airbags!
Unfortunately most people don’t even realise they have no control over their mind and it’s literally killing them. Our mental and physical health has declined with the increase of conditions such as depression, anxiety, heart disease, obesity, sleep issues and digestive problems just to name a few.
We wait impatiently for that point in time, somewhere in the future, when we will have no more worries and can finally live happily ever after. Perhaps that is when we find the perfect man, go on that holiday, get that new job, buy that new sports car, win the lotto or when we finally retire?
The brutal truth is there is no point in the future when we will finally live happily ever after. That is because joy, happiness and peace do not exist in the future, they can only exist in the now. And this is the answer to why the now is so powerful and why Eckhart Tolle has titled his book ‘The Power of
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Many live attempting to decipher the riddle of life. What is life? What is the purpose? What makes? Even though we only seek happiness why can’t we ever seem to achieve it? When we do reach happiness why can’t we seem to grasp it and hold it for more than the few short hours that pass like seconds? The question we must answer first is “What makes happiness, true?”
When most people think of sleep, they think of it as a relaxed but yet not a very important part of our daily lives. What most people don’t understand is although we are not up and moving around and getting tasks completed, our brains are still very active. Without sleep our bodies do not function correctly on a daily basis, and our mental state is at risk.
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Gertner explains that affective forecasting, miswanting, and hot and cold states can really throw us off track in our search for true happiness. He uses many examples and experiment results from credible sources to prove his point. After reading Gertner's essay, we are left with this: The things that we think will make us happy rarely do. These decisions or investments are usually unimportant and become normal and boring for us. After all of our disappointments, we are left still wondering if true happiness can ever really be reached.
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Many phases and function of sleep are still under intense research, however judging from a simple fact - all animals do sleep, it is obvious that its role is indubitable. Nonetheless, many people are still having the mind set of sleep is merely a time-wasting-activity. Even among professionals who perform crucial roles such as doctors, teachers, engineers are willing to compromise their sleep, with a simple excuse, busy. In short, they are experiencing either acute total sleep deprivation or more common, chronic partial sleep restriction[2]. Many effects of both types of sleep deprivation were investigated, in particular health, attention, decision making.
Sleeping is something that is an essential part of human nature and is a must in order for one to be a functional human being. Sleep is an idea that is accompanied by many wives’ tales, including the ideas that one needs seven to eight hours of sleep each night and alcohol helps one fall asleep and sleep more soundly. One myth about sleep is that during sleeping, one is in a state of nothingness. In truth, however, it has been discovered that during sleep the brain is active, variations in heartbeat and breathing occur, and the eyes and ears are active throughout the time of sleep. These activities during a person’s sleep are important because they help that person be more aware, awake, and alert during consciousness. If all of these important activities occur during sleep, why is it that people are so willing to short themselves of this vital activity? Although much about sleep still remains a mystery, research and experiments continue to show how important sleep is to each and every person. Throughout this paper, I will discuss sleep and the effects that it has on performance and health, especially in college students. A college student’s sleeping pattern is a reliable indicator to their level of performance in the classroom and other school-affiliated activities, as a lack of sleep leads to decreased performance. Sleep is directly related the level of performance and health in an individual; the more rested a person is, the better that person will perform and feel (Dryer, 2006).
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What would happen if you were to reach a big goal that you set for yourself? Would you feel elated? For how many seconds, minutes, hours, or even days will you feel happy for? For a majority of us, the euphoric feeling isn’t going to last very long. Perhaps, the longest we will stay happy for is a month or sometimes more. It’s not like your goal has lost its meaning, but the mere fact that you were happy because the joy of achieving your goal and the feeling of being happy has subsided. Once the feeling fades, the next goal and the next achievement are in motion. Humans rarely ever feel completely content with where they are in life and when they feel that they’re happy when a certain situation happens, it doesn’t last too long it’s because people are always going to look for the next goal to pursue. Thi...
Important public policy issues have arisen in our modern 24-hour society, where it is crucial to weigh the value of sleep versus wakefulness. Scientific knowledge about sleep is currently insufficient to resolve the political and academic debates raging about how much and when people should sleep. These issues affect almost everybody, from the shift worker to the international traveler, from the physician to the policy maker, from the anthropologist to the student preparing for an exam.
...use of how the flow of time works. This makes sleeping a much direr need, for when it’s lost its gone, a fear is created from this. Fortunately, sleep is automatically made up by the brain. Normal sleep cycles shift through every ninety minutes, when ones has been sleep deprived their brain adjusts those cycles to accommodate for significantly more REM sleep as if in compensation for missed time. The ability to make up sleep helps the body’s natural clock called the circadian rhythm. This internal sleep timer can easily be thrown off by adding unnatural lights or traveling across several time zones quickly. When this happens, the brain gets confused because it hasn’t a chance to adjust to the differences in lighting. When being in this state of confusion, the body tries to stick with the old schedule.
What is known about sleep is that human beings sleep about 1/3 of their lives (National Sleep Foundation [NSF]). Sleep is considered a beautiful function for the human body, the ability to shut the mind and have a somewhat “reboot” every time, feeling refreshed the next day. Of course, it’s well known to everyone that sleep is very beneficial. Sadly enough, many people are not getting enough sleep as they should be. The average adult has to have at least 7 to 8 hours, but the average hours of sleep is 6.5 (Geyer, Talachi and Carney). On this planet called Earth, humans have evolved to where artificial light has been created and how work is never done. There are times where the night shift, sometimes called the graveyard shift, is needed. Humans were not meant to be nocturnal, but many people seem to enjoy the night life. Without sleep, there are very serious consequences. The “sleep debt”, which means the hours that a person has lost, needs to be repaid (citation). There are short-term to long-term issues when there is no sleep. There ways to solve this. Sometimes many people have nights where they cannot sleep, so they take certain items or eat special foods to help go to sleep. Those choices must be careful, prescriptions for sleep are not as beneficial as, does more harm than good. There is more to sleep than just closing the eyes.
Over the course of our lives, there are times where we are at a high point, where our lives are full of happiness and there is nothing for us to worry about. However, we often come to sit back and realize that our lives might not be exactly how we imagine it. There are problems and obstacles that we must choose to overcome. With the rate society is evolving at, we miss out on the little things like friends and family that makes our lives that much more special. Life can be filled with bliss no matter how bad things may seem and we can find true happiness from fixing these problems to make our lives blissful.
David G. Myers infers “People emphasize the ‘pursuit of happiness’ and undervalue the ‘happiness of pursuit’ ” (479). In other words, life is the journey and in reality the end destination is, unfortunately, our demise. So let’s make every second count while we venture through our lives, and make ourselves aware that no matter what the present situation is, time will always be passing by. In this time, are the little moments in life that can be overlooked and quickly forgotten. Our goal should be to stay mindfully in the present, taking in all the joy that may hide itself in our day to day journey.