Transforming our fear through difficult times.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions about how to deal with our fears, especially when confronted with a crisis.

He says, intelligent action cannot occur when

we're gripped by anxiety and negative thinking which can be incredibly

destructive. What's needed is wisdom. Looking at the totality of

the situation, not just one aspect of the problem. Eckhart says we must free

ourselves from the negative thinking that accompanies fear and align ourselves with what he calls the vertical dimension, the place where we are one with all that is.

He also urges us to pay attention to the most important thing

in any situation, our state of consciousness.

Effective and intelligent action does not arise out of fear.

And no matter this requires not only action that you take in your personal life, but also action that we need to take on the collective level.

If the action that we take arises out of fear, it's unlikely that it will be effective

because what is missing then is wisdom that takes into account the totality of a situation, not just focuses on one aspect of a problem and tries to solve it there, disregarding how it affects other things. So what's

happening collectively to us is then potentially a great awakener for many humans.

And practice whenever the fearful thinking arises realize that it is not helpful, it's destructive,

and realize that the primary factor in your life is connected with the

vertical dimension. In other words, the primary factor is your state of consciousness in any

situation, any problematic situation, any challenging situation, how do you respond to it?

The primary factor and your primary attention needs to be on your inner defeat, your state of consciousness.

If that is not right, if that is negative egoically ego-ego-ego means complete identification with mind if the

ego is there the ego the

the ego-to-the-go-thing that the ego that this is what we need to do.

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