The positive vibes only message is one of the most harmful and divisive messages among the personal growth and wellness communities. Rather than elevate our state, it creates harm and further detachment from authenticity through the propagation of the idea that only those states which our culture deems as good get a seat at the table. Everything else must be dismissed, transcended, thwarted or changed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How toxic. What unnecessary pressure to place upon a society living (or often just  ...

At the height of Eckhart Tolle’s mental distress, it was this sentence that served as a catalyst for spiritual awakening. *I cannot live with myself any longer*. As soon as he said it, he became acutely aware of the construct of the sentence, realised, whoa, there are two of us – the ‘myself’ that is creating all this mental suffering and the ‘I’ who is observing it and can’t live with it anymore. What he woke up to in that moment is that he, like all humans, is not the sum total of the  ...