A Message from Eckhart about the Swine Flu Crisis

Spiritual liberation often occurs in the cauldron of crisis. Crisis can be an overwhelming experience, or it can be a tool for awakening.

News of the swine flu confronts us everywhere, and the panic it stimulates seems to be as contagious as the flu itself. Ask yourself, are you going to be a carrier of the panic or a vaccine of peace?

Peace and presence can be found in the fear itself. Each time you experience fear, anxiety, panic or insecurity, take a breath. Let that feeling be a starting point for a presence practice.

Relaxation and ease strengthen the immune system. The most important step you can take to protect yourself against the swine flu is to remain calm.

Here are some valuable resources for strengthening your body and spirit during this time of crisis:

A meditation to stimulate the immune system

Natural swine flu prevention

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   "A happy positive thought is indigestible to the Pain Body." And that is what we need now -- positive thoughts, not only to boost our immune systems, but to maintain and evolve our state of mind beyond fear and panic into scientific curiosity, solutions, and compassion for all who are or will suffer from this new global health threat.

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What Would Eckhart Tolle Do In a Swine Flu Pandemic?

In his book and on the New Earth webcasts, Oprah and Eckhart spent a lot of time talking about the Pain-Body, Eckhart's general description for life lived within the confines of Ego.

Eckhart teaches that "The Pain Body awakens from its dormancy when it gets hungry." He also says that the Pain Body can feed on significant or insignificant events. Certainly a world pandemic is the best food for the Pain Body as it is an invisible threat that is still largely unknown at this point. But there is good news for us all in these Pain Body teachings.

This ability to have a future and a past is most useful when confronted with a medical problem. From effect we can derive cause. We certainly don't want to respond to a potential global viral health threat by ignoring it's root causes or blaming it on impure thoughts, karma, or bad living as they did in the Middle Ages with the Bubonic Plague. It turns out that plague is an ordinary bacteria treatable with the same anti-biotics that cure Anthrax. Interestingly this effective, simple cure for Anthrax has not prevented nations, including 1st World nations, to weaponize ancient plagues like anthrax and deploy them as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

At the same time, A New Earth would not be gripped in what Eckhart calls "Primordial Fear" an instinctive response that looks like emotions but is really the "deer in the headlights". World leaders are talking calmly about this influenza outbreak as well as the medical community. Listen to how calm and factual Dr. Joe Bresee, head of the CDC Influenza Division head of the CDC sounds in his most recent podcast, How to Protect Yourself from the Swine Flu.

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