Can We Heal an Anxious Attachment Style? | Eckhart Answers

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Published 2023-03-14
In this video, Eckhart shares that non-attachment is not the goal; aim instead for a love that goes beyond the emotional and physical.

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All Comments (21)
  • You just explained my relationship with my late husband perfectly. We were 2 peas in a pod. When he died of Huntington's Disease, I was content knowing he was free of a nasty disease that took away everything from him. But I miss him terribly. My grief ebbs and flows. I will laugh at something that I know he'd appreciate. Or cry when I hear a song we enjoyed together. Paradoxical for sure. ❤️
  • @RebelGoatFPV
    Having studied and practiced Buddhism for many years, I understand that nothing is permanent and grasping onto expectations to the contrary can lead to suffering. However, I've had a few big losses as of recent and the timing of this message couldn't have been better as a reminder of the nature of impermanence. I am so grateful to have found Eckhart. 🙏
  • @Gaurav.P0
    One Eckhart's video a day keeps the EGO away 😍
  • Unconditional LOVE is free of attachment or expectation. I love you, if you choose to receive it's joyful uplifting intent. Peace to the collective, joy to all sentient beings. 💞
  • @Livfree33
    The worst is getting anxiously attached to an illusion & projection of who you wish someone were. Falling in love with someone you basically entirely imagined is an absolute embarrassing mind eff every darn time😂
  • Peace I leave you, my peace I give you; I do not give it to you as the world gives it. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor be afraid.
  • Yes, takes time and reprogramming but “non-attachment” is not about not caring about loved-ones. It’s about cultivating presence and the frequencies of the heart to recognize who you are as Spirit which actually enhances your ability to love and care about others. Attachment diminishes your ability to open the heart and connect with the divine..
  • @oO2Pro4UOo
    Nobody can actually die or ever died. We are eternal <3 Thank you Eckhart! :)
  • I think this may be helpful to someone. We struggle with the same issue and the most primary issue:- attachment. Perhaps we need to practice seeing things change, breaking, disappearing and causing nonexistence in meditation. Same for people. Attachment is the good pictures we have for them. Our memories, love for them etc. But we need to see them as separate individuals (not an extension of ourselves like he says), who posses bodies that get sick, stink, get old and wrinkly and eventually die and decay. It's a meditation in Buddhism, if you're interested you could look upto it. I feel like I'm finally ready to see the reality, the fact that things exist slowly becoming nonexistent the most natural ways. It's a soul lesson, to love something with non-attachment, and at the same time, accept the fact that it can change and not exist at all some day.
  • Greetings all, We must become aware of our attachment styles. Awareness is for our healing process. good day ❤❤
  • @yourcalmplace
    - I just want to let anyone who’s reading this, and going through a tough time know that it’s going to be okay. You’ll get through it! ✨
  • It is absolutely true 🙏. When you have loved a person so much who leaves you to cross the great Threshold, the pain you feel plunges you into another and vast dimension and the pain rests on an immense peace that has the feeling of Eternity. This peace allows you to continue living and above all, it whispers to you what really seems paradoxical: the love you feel for those who passed away grows instead of dying out in despair. No one leaves, love stays forever. AMEN.🙏💓
  • Love watching Eckhart take a deep breath before spitting absolutely facts haha
  • @h2_kumar
    Thank you so much, Eckhart. I recently said goodbye to my dog, and miss him terribly. This teaching really helped. Peace, and love.🙏
  • This came at the perfect moment! Synchronous as I was going to bed and this popped up on my screen in Australia. I had been concerned about my adult daughter in a dangerous relationship. Bless 🙏🏽
  • Eckhart I want you to know something. Your teachings are helping me so so much. I have read your book and have listened to it 3 times now. I went through a huge life experience last year which was a situation involving me walking away from the family courts as my ex partner has made my life hell with regards to my daughter and I actually choose to walk away. It caused me to have what I can only explain as a huge mental break down, I also worked in the funeral industry which also didn’t help. The trauma I have gone through and decisions I made have had such a huge impact on me and my mental health that the only thing that has genuinely kept me going is your teachings. I am currently suffering with derealisation and depersonalisation from the intense anxiety I have gone through, but I feel as if I am finally having small break throughs each day with feeling present. Thank you for helping me Eckhart.
  • @micha_el0815
    I do the same with my car and all my posessions for years now! 🤭❤️ I‘m always thankful for anything that I own in my life, but I am also no longer identified with all these things! 😇 Life as a human being is such a gift! 🙏
  • @maryleary3308
    I had a serious accident about a year ago and totaled my car. I really liked that car and people told me “that car IS you”. Two months later, when I felt I could drive again I found my dream car, with very little effort or searching, perfect color and model, for $2500 less than my insurance gave me for the wrecked car. I felt like I had manifested it but I certainly didn’t do that consciously. I have been listening to you, Elkhart, I’ve read your books and you have been a huge influence on me, along with other teachers, A Course in Miracles, and Buddhist thought. I really like my car again but realize all the material world, including our bodies are impermanent. Thank you, so much, Elkhart, for your beautiful teachings.
  • Ecckahart hocam, 27 yaşındayım sosyal fobi ve deprasyon ikisini beraberinde yaklaşık 7 yıldır inişli çıkışlı yaşıyorum. İnşallah sizinle beraber bu durumu atlatırım . Kendi özümü bulmak, bir toplum da kendim olmak, olduğum halimle değer görmek en çok istediğim şey. Öz olmak , özde kalmak inşallah olacak. Kendime bakınca kitabınızı okuyunca sizde kendimi gördüm. Benzer yaşlarda benzer sorunlar yaşıyorum. Uyanmak dileğiyle, Herşey için teşekkürler. Minnettarım.🌸