A New Earth: Create a Better Life

by Eckhart Tolle

An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to a thought.

Although the body is very intelligent, it cannot tell the difference between an actual situation and a thought.

Flap your wings—which translates as “let go of the story”—and return to the only place of power: the present moment.

It is not the pain-body but identification with the pain-body that forces you to relive the past again and again and keeps you in a state of unconsciousness.