Essential Teachings Special: Healing Trauma Through Presence

About this episode

Eckhart Tolle discusses healing from childhood trauma and the importance of practicing presence.

Originally aired August 11, 2022. In this podcast Eckhart answers questions about healing from childhood trauma. He says it’s important to acknowledge the trauma and to work through it, but not to get stuck in it. He believes while we may feel like a victim it is not ultimately who we are. Eckhart shares stories about his own childhood trauma. He explains that his father had intense anger issues and abandoned Eckhart and his mother when he was just eleven years old. As an adult Eckhart later realized that his father had been traumatized by his own childhood. He says dysfunctional family patterns are handed down generation after generation. He says healing happens when we break the cycle and that by practicing presence, we realize we are more than all the painful things we’ve experienced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Oprah

Guest: Eckhart Tolle

Topics covered

• healing trauma
• childhood trauma
• presence
• dysfunctional family patterns
• self-identity

Keywords

• trauma
• healing
• presence
• childhood
• dysfunction
• family patterns
• self-identity

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