Follow up to: RELAX- note to self

RELAX won't admit that she has absorbed the mind ways of Eckhart Tolle's new book, A New Earth. But she has. Immediately after posting F-U, note to self, she admitted that the self she was mad at was actually the ego in her head that was feeding off of her negativity. And not actually a F-U to her individual awesome wholeness that is aware enough to know that life really is okay.

if you have an hour free in the week, or if you're one of those people-like me- whose thoughts were slowly killing them...and if you love Oprah as much as i do...you should join the book club.

oprah.com. it's basically free therapy each week with oprah and millions of other people from over 190 countries, LIVE!

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Jillian and Doug, a married couple from Washington, began embracing Eckhart's teachings after their world came crashing down.

For years, Jillian, Doug and their children enjoyed the luxuries many people dream of. "We had a beautiful 5,000-square-foot home," Jillian says. "We had a beautiful pool and a spa, and we had beautiful cars. We had a Russian au pair who lived with us and took care of the children. We had a gardener. We had a housekeeper. Essentially, everything that needed to be done, we hired someone to do it."

Then, in 2007, Jillian says they lost 60 percent of their income and could no longer afford the lifestyle they'd become accustomed to. "We lost everything," she says. "When we knew the home was going to go into foreclosure, the bank came out and put locks on the garage doors."

Doug and his wife of 22 years were forced to file bankruptcy. "At some point, I had to admit to myself that I had failed," Doug says. "I'd lost our dream home, our dream cars, the dream job, the dream business."

Though millions of people go bankrupt every year, Jillian says it's different when it happens to your family. "It's humbling," she says. "It just strips you bare."

After losing everything, Jillian says she suffered from anxiety and was barely able to go out in public. Then, she logged on to Oprah and Eckhart's weekly Web class. During the Chapter 1 discussion, Jillian says the author said something that saved her.

"For many people, that's a very important lesson when suddenly they do lose something," Eckhart said. "It can be a wonderful spiritual lesson. Then perhaps you suffer, and then your attachment gets broken, and suddenly, you go beyond the attachment. There have been people who have lost everything and suddenly become free of the ego because the ego had nothing left to identify with."

Jillian says Eckhart's words helped her learn to accept the present moment as it is. "[It] helped me was to see that those attachments were very, very superficial," she says. "What I was experiencing—the anxiety and the loss and everything—was really just an acceptance of looking in the mirror and seeing myself…and finding out what was left when all those things were stripped away."


and don't worry! they teach you that labels are stupid, so it won't hurt your feelings when all your friends say you've joined a cult. you won't care. the awakening is better than their chuckles...i promise!