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A New Online Course
Releasing the Grip of
Difficult Emotions
Bringing Presence to Stress, Anger, Fear, and the Pain-Body
with
Eckhart Tolle
AND
Kim Eng
"There is a point of awareness, a point of stillness, a point of rest, a point of power within you that is not disturbed by anything that happens out there."
An Invitation to Find Freedom from Emotional Suffering
Most of us know these thoughts:
Why can’t I stop worrying?
How could I have made this terrible mistake?
Will this grief ever end?
Why did I lose my patience, yet again?
Our emotions can take us by surprise, like a sudden storm … and afterward we may barely recognize the person we were at the time. Why?
Much of our emotional suffering, Eckhart Tolle teaches, arises from the pain-body, the energetic accumulation of anger, fear, and other negative emotions that take on a life of their own when left outside the light of consciousness.
And its hold is a strong one, because the thinking mind and the pain-body fuel and amplify each other in a never-ending vicious cycle.
As Eckhart describes it: “The pain-body is thinking through you.”
But as Eckhart also teaches, there IS a way to free ourselves.
“The key to becoming free of the pain-body is to recognize it when it arises. Because by recognizing it, you disidentify from it, and it cannot take you over.”
– Eckhart Tolle
With their new online course, Releasing the Grip of Difficult Emotions, Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng invite you to use this awareness and other practices to transform your most challenging states, and to discover the stillness that remains untouched beneath them.
Here at Eckhart Teachings, we delved extensively into Eckhart and Kim’s rich archive of new and legacy recordings to create this definitive resource for freeing ourselves from emotional suffering.
In addition to Eckhart’s core teaching on how to engage with difficult emotions and their origins in the pain-body, this course also brings you specific emotion-by-emotion sessions, so you can address whatever you are facing in the moment.
Across eight modules and 21 video sessions, you’ll explore:
- How the pain-body and the thinking mind feed each other, and how to interrupt the cycle
- Why our own thoughts generate suffering as convincingly as real events do, and how to free ourselves
- How recognition and acceptance work as in-the-moment keys to defusing emotional overwhelm, and how to make them a natural response when the pain-body takes us by surprise
- How to shift painful emotions into useful energy rather than a source of suffering
- Dedicated sessions for working directly with anger, anxiety, fear, depression, and stress
- How to engage with grief as a natural process, and stay present through its cycles
- Eckhart and Kim's guidance into the spaces of stillness between thoughts, and the moments of freedom they open
- How a lighter, less serious engagement with the pain-body helps loosen its grip, and more
Throughout these teachings, Eckhart and Kim will help you understand and experience the one greatest principle to freedom from suffering: the transformation that occurs when even our most unbearable emotions are held in boundless awareness. As Eckhart says:
“It’s like putting a piece of ice into a larger body of water, and in that it dissolves.”
– Eckhart Tolle
If you’re ready to awaken to this vast ocean of your true essence and the liberation it brings, we invite you to begin today.
If at any point you need additional insights from Eckhart and Kim—on the topics explored in this new program and beyond—we highly recommend exploring Eckhart Tolle Now. You’ll receive a free month of membership when you enroll in this course. This global community enjoys access to hundreds of hours of exclusive teachings with Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng, as well as live community meditations, Q&A gatherings, and more.
What You'll Explore
This new offering can be enjoyed as a progressive, module-by-module experience or as a “go-to” resource for addressing your specific interests and needs as they arise. Releasing the Grip of Difficult Emotions includes:
MODULE
01
An Introduction to the Pain-Body
Discover the origins of the pain-body, its relationship to the false egoic self, and what it takes to break its hold. We begin by learning to recognize it in ourselves and in those close to us, then explore the steps for loosening its grip.
Topics Include:
- What is the Pain-Body?
- How to Become Free from Emotional Pain
- When the Pain-Body Returns (with Kim Eng)
MODULE
02
Addressing Anger
Anger can take over even when we try our best to return to stillness. Eckhart shares practices for a pain-body that activates rapidly, along with a genuine alternative to either suppressing anger or lashing out, while Kim adds an embodied way of releasing what the body has been storing.
Topics Include:
- Rapid Activation of the Pain-Body
- Expressing Suppressed Anger
- Processing Anger Stored in the Body (with Kim Eng)
MODULE
03
Working with Anxiety
For times when undefinable worry feels persistent rather than occasional, Eckhart walks us through more structured approaches to work alongside an existing awareness practice. Includes what to do when anxiety takes us off guard, and our usual methods are not enough.
Topics Include:
- Practices to Relieve Acute Anxiety
- Dealing with Nighttime Anxiety
MODULE
04
Facing Your Fear
Eckhart distinguishes fear that is generated by our thinking from fear that arises spontaneously, and shows why the body cannot tell the difference between a genuine threat and an imagined one. Kim then opens a path through the old beliefs that unconsciously shape our confidence and our relationships.
Topics Include:
- Rapid Activation of the Pain-Body
- Expressing Suppressed Anger
- Processing Anger Stored in the Body (with Kim Eng)
MODULE
05
Dissolving Depression
A compassionate way of relating to low and heavy periods, rather than fighting them or being carried along by the thoughts that accompany them. Kim addresses a specific and common issue: the lifelong sense of not belonging that can persist for decades without ever being consciously recognized.
Topics Include:
- Staying Present When You Feel Depressed
- Overcoming the Feeling of Not Belonging (with Kim Eng)
MODULE
06
Transforming Stress & Overwhelm
How to bring Presence into daily life when we don’t have the option of slowing down or meditating for hours. Kim helps us stay grounded through a major situation that refuses to resolve quickly, rather than waiting for circumstances to change before finding peace.
Topics Include:
- Nurturing Consciousness in Busy and Overwhelming Times
- How to Maintain Presence in Intense Situations (with Kim Eng)
- Practicing Presence without Overwhelm
MODULE
07
Conscious Grief
Few challenges test our spiritual unfolding as profoundly as grief. Eckhart and Kim show us how to relate to loss in a way that neither denies the natural ebbs and flows of sorrow nor is consumed by them, along with Eckhart’s reflections on impermanence drawn from his own experiences.
Topics Include:
- Facing the Loss of a Loved One
- Being with Grief and Fear (with Kim Eng)
- Accepting the Emotions of Deep Loss
MODULE
08
Practices to Bring Presence to Difficult Emotions
Two guided practices you can return to again and again. Kim leads an embodied meditation for meeting emotions as they arise, and Eckhart guides an inner-body awareness practice interwoven with teaching on the thinking mind.
Meditations Include:
- Meditation on Emotions and the Pain-Body (with Kim Eng)
- Inner-Body Awareness Practice (with Eckhart Tolle)
What This Course Includes
8 In-Depth Video Learning Modules
Across 21 sessions (over six hours), Eckhart and Kim address each difficult emotion in turn.
Learn at your own pace
All sessions are available immediately, to enjoy at your convenience and in any order you prefer.
Questions for Reflection
Each session includes prompts for reflection and journaling, to help you integrate the teachings more deeply.
Lifetime Access
Return to these teachings at any time, whenever a difficult emotion arrives and you need support in meeting it.
PLUS, enroll now and receive
One-Month Free Membership to ECKHART TOLLE NOW
Here, you’ll join fellow course participants to share your experiences and learn with them. You’ll also become part of the wider Eckhart Tolle Now community, with access to hundreds of hours of exclusive teachings with Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng, as well as live community meditations, quarterly live gatherings with Eckhart, and more.
Releasing the Grip of
Difficult Emotions
Bringing Presence to Stress, Anger, Fear, and the Pain-Body
A New Online Course with Eckhart Tolle & Kim Eng
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"As you awaken, you are no longer at the mercy of your conditioned mind, emotion, and the mental emotional conditioning, which is a wonderful thing."
About Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth—translated into 52 languages—he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence—the awakened state of consciousness that transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence—the awakened state of consciousness that transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
About KIM ENG
Kim Eng is a spiritual teacher and the creator of Presence Through Movement. She leads retreats and workshops internationally in partnership with Eckhart Tolle, and she teaches immersive online courses, including the breakthrough four-week immersion Awakening Through the Pain-Body. Her approach incorporates Eckhart’s wisdom into an embodied practice, enabling a deepening of Presence, the awakening of consciousness in our physical form.
She is also the creator of the instructional Presence Through Movement videos Qi Flow Yoga and Yin Yoga and the guided audio programs Meditations for a New Earth and Resist Nothing, featuring practices for addressing inner challenges to living a life of Presence.