In The Power Of Now, Eckhart Tolle writes about the need to disconnect your identity from your mind as a way of finding a sense of peace within. Such an idea presents an alluring theory, but how can you put it into practice?
I will use myself as an example. A long-running toe injury has culminated into the most intensive and limiting treatment to date: being contained to crutches. I have previously struggled with mental illnesses. Refocus of my health treatment from mental to physical is already a sign of progress.
The fact that the physical unease is being addressed in the present implies that mental illness, which impedes treatment of physical illness, has eased to such an extent that my faculties allow me to concentrate on an aspect of my health that isn’t life threatening, but is still life reducing.
The Confidence of 21 is ambitious. It is a movement that is defined as it is constructed. Therefore, it isn’t a product to be sold, it is a product to be lived. Essentially, the movement concentrates on personal development to an extent that maintenance of the person is at the minimum consumption level of the mental, physical, and financial faculties.
With such a minimum, the remaining energy can be devoted to the rest of the world in order to improve human and natural life. The form of improvement is inherently individualistic. All people will vary in however marginal form as to what they wish to commit their surplus energy towards.
Hitherto, my life as a consciously thinking adult has been consumed by my apparent mental and physical illnesses, that is, my health. Therefore, I reason that the foundation to my life, the major determinant of my identity and my actions, is my health. Until my health is in an optimum state, I am at least hindered, and possibly unable, to generate sufficient energy to give to causes other than myself.
How to get to an optimum state of health
For me, there is a hierarchy of needs pertaining to my health state. At the root is my physical health. The major issue is my stress fractured toe, which is causing me to be on crutches for another three weeks. This unease has an impact on my sleep-pattern, which itself has been a chronic problem for at least the last six years. This problem in turn has an impact on my mental health, namely depressive symptoms. Thus, I am burdened with a cause and effect pattern in my health.
Fortunately, I am currently confronting the root physical problem. Having received extensive professional psychiatric and psychological support, my mental health is less interconnected with my physical health, so both are improving in tandem. This is positive for my long-term goals.
You must identify how your health problems are interconnected, and acknowledge that some problems are dependent on the treatment of more pervasive problems. Subsequently, you must begin to address the most immediate issue. My own experience has taught me this.
Prior to July 2012, my health was neglected. From that time onwards, my critical depressive symptoms have been treated with anti-psychotic and antidepressant medication, as well as advice from many counselors and psychologists. My foot first presented itself as a problem in June 2013. As someone with extremely unusual, flat, rolled-in feet, my inattention to them was absurdly foolish. It has taken almost a year to satisfactorily address their rehabilitation and support.
Due to extensive professional treatment, my health will hopefully be in an optimum state within two months. By practicing Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom of observing your own thought system, and being aware of how the mind’s ‘pain-body’ attempts to control your emotions and actions, I can solidify the aims and purpose of my received treatment.
By doing this, I can honour the real efforts of not only the practitioners, but also their educators, their parents, and all universal entities that have enabled them to practice. Additionally, I honour my own past labours in that my income helps fund my treatment. Simply by being mindful of all the forces and factors at play in the challenge to correct my ill health, I can enhance the improvements that are made day by day. And this is The Confidence of 21.
I will use myself as an example. A long-running toe injury has culminated into the most intensive and limiting treatment to date: being contained to crutches. I have previously struggled with mental illnesses. Refocus of my health treatment from mental to physical is already a sign of progress.
The fact that the physical unease is being addressed in the present implies that mental illness, which impedes treatment of physical illness, has eased to such an extent that my faculties allow me to concentrate on an aspect of my health that isn’t life threatening, but is still life reducing.
The Confidence of 21 is ambitious. It is a movement that is defined as it is constructed. Therefore, it isn’t a product to be sold, it is a product to be lived. Essentially, the movement concentrates on personal development to an extent that maintenance of the person is at the minimum consumption level of the mental, physical, and financial faculties.
With such a minimum, the remaining energy can be devoted to the rest of the world in order to improve human and natural life. The form of improvement is inherently individualistic. All people will vary in however marginal form as to what they wish to commit their surplus energy towards.
Hitherto, my life as a consciously thinking adult has been consumed by my apparent mental and physical illnesses, that is, my health. Therefore, I reason that the foundation to my life, the major determinant of my identity and my actions, is my health. Until my health is in an optimum state, I am at least hindered, and possibly unable, to generate sufficient energy to give to causes other than myself.
How to get to an optimum state of health
For me, there is a hierarchy of needs pertaining to my health state. At the root is my physical health. The major issue is my stress fractured toe, which is causing me to be on crutches for another three weeks. This unease has an impact on my sleep-pattern, which itself has been a chronic problem for at least the last six years. This problem in turn has an impact on my mental health, namely depressive symptoms. Thus, I am burdened with a cause and effect pattern in my health.
Fortunately, I am currently confronting the root physical problem. Having received extensive professional psychiatric and psychological support, my mental health is less interconnected with my physical health, so both are improving in tandem. This is positive for my long-term goals.
You must identify how your health problems are interconnected, and acknowledge that some problems are dependent on the treatment of more pervasive problems. Subsequently, you must begin to address the most immediate issue. My own experience has taught me this.
Prior to July 2012, my health was neglected. From that time onwards, my critical depressive symptoms have been treated with anti-psychotic and antidepressant medication, as well as advice from many counselors and psychologists. My foot first presented itself as a problem in June 2013. As someone with extremely unusual, flat, rolled-in feet, my inattention to them was absurdly foolish. It has taken almost a year to satisfactorily address their rehabilitation and support.
Due to extensive professional treatment, my health will hopefully be in an optimum state within two months. By practicing Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom of observing your own thought system, and being aware of how the mind’s ‘pain-body’ attempts to control your emotions and actions, I can solidify the aims and purpose of my received treatment.
By doing this, I can honour the real efforts of not only the practitioners, but also their educators, their parents, and all universal entities that have enabled them to practice. Additionally, I honour my own past labours in that my income helps fund my treatment. Simply by being mindful of all the forces and factors at play in the challenge to correct my ill health, I can enhance the improvements that are made day by day. And this is The Confidence of 21.