How To Stop Thinking | Audio Book | Barry Long 

It will it said my depression when was young overthinking and listened him on cassette tape every nite on headphones in bed and best thing ever listened to. He makes so much sense and I never over think in 20 yrs. I switch on and then off ❤ 💪

the listening is just a pointer to the means and tools (breathing, awarness) which are in each of us. While listening and after, practicing to make the shift in the body and conciousness energy field perception , connecting more and more with our deeper , tranquil still identity... is our action/will/work to do.

Yes that's right people come. Frist good to hear it 👍

That's interesting ❤

I've heard or read somewhere that these are recordings оf different years. Yes, indeed they were put together when both were sold together on tape. They are different in spirit, it is noticeable, and recorded in different conditions. The previous part ("Start meditating now") is generally softer in content, clearer in the method of meditation, but the second ("How to stop thinking") is cooler and, perhaps, more effective, despite the lack of a method as such.

I'm a fan of Eckhart Tolle but I recommend "barry long's start meditating now: how to stop thinking part 1 ". In fact this audio is a part 2 to that mediation tape it's incredibly intelligent, profound and helpful and explains things gives steps that other teachers haven't mentioned or explained Hope that helps 🙏👍

Vippasana technique is like what you are describing..

Thanks for this. You have help me good one 👏 peace

Nice one 👍

Thanks! In my opinion, the first lesson starts from the very beginning I like to listen back from 10:45. and yet, twenty years ago, when I first found this record on the Internet, it was divided into two parts. The second one started here at 45:40. And someone also attached the beginning of the recording Barry Long - The End of the World ( The attached excerpt of the recording is given in the following comment).

This is Barry Long speaking. Everything that i say in this tape is either true or false. There is no in between. But please don't believe me. Test each statement in your own experience. Only in that way can you ever know the truth. Much of what i am going to say will be new, unsettling and disturbing. It will linger in you. To the extent that you are real it will keep coming up in your awareness. It will cause a lot of self-searching. In what follows I am making a positive statement about life, now and the future of life on earth. But in the present depressed condition of humanity, it is likely to be perceived initially as negative. Whether you agree or disagree with what is said is unimportant. The only question is what are you going to do about it. And only you need to know the answer. I suggest you play the tape often. It will take a good while to absorb all the ideas. Each time you listen you will discern new truths. Because the spiritual energy released will have been working in your subconscious from the last time loosening and breaking up the old habitual thought patterns. If you are serious in the search for what is true and who is not searching for it in some way or other this tape will bring you closer to the wonder and beauty of life. The life within you which is life on earth... http

Thinking and not thinking are both good.

That’s just another thought. Just be still and ignore the thoughts. Don’t think.

Try it, and you'll find out .

The fact that you asked "what are the benefits" speaks volumes.

You can only think about either the past or the future. If you think about the past, you will only be regretful or you will miss it. If you think about the future, you can only worry or set yourself up for disappointment

Clarity, contentedness and a deepr appreciation of feelings and emotions. The idea is not that you stop thinking completely, its that you stop all of the primitive and evolutionary reactions and emotions to certain thoughts; these reactions are no longer benefitial in the world we live in, and it winds up doing (considerably) more harm than good to you both physically and mentally. Think of it like this: our fight or flight system was designed to be used only in a short burst of time. In the past our cortisol levels would spike so we could be more aware and out run the lion. Hours later it would re-balance to baseline. In todays world people live in the fight or flight response for periods of years at a time. What was once triggered by a dangerous predator is now triggered by debt, bills, things you've sen on social media, etc.

Many of us would like some peace of mind. The problem is for most is that you cannot control a certain continuous train of thoughts. These can be negative.

Eckhart Tolle did used to come to Barry's meetings back in the 80's in London.

@@thebarrylongchannel wow! didn’t know about that. Wonderful. Changing the world with their teachings and I will be forever grateful. Thank you for uploading Barry’s teachings!

at least you weren't thinking while doing it!

OMG ME TOO! I woke up at the end of lesson 6.

It’s not weird, it’s just shows how tired you are of incessant thinking. People don’t know how tired they are because they never tried stopping thinking, hence when trying it they fall asleep. After some months/years of doing this you won’t fall asleep, you’ll instead be rejuvenated and become more present and more still. This stillness is pure energetic consciousness, or intelligence. You’re in the process of becoming more intelligent, but in that process, your habitual mind must end.

​@@AlOfNorwayya, the human mind is so busy most of the time that it equates stillness with time to sleep.

Barry long passed away many many years ago. This is just a RU-vid channel that uploads his recordings and teachings. Also, Barry Long was well before Tolle. Tolle has even mentioned various times that he has learnt a lot from Barry Long and you can see that in Tolle’s teachings.. :)

Eckhart Tolle spent time with and learnt from Barry Long. Here is a video of ET himself saying so: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IPx3y5Wf5T8.html

ET was a student of BL. He focuses on just that subject he embodies, presence, while his teacher taught the full spectrum of love, life, death and truth.

Tolle had his own mystical experiences before "learning" what it was that "happened to" him, and from there was able to study & discern the vital living "essence" that runs through the various teachings &/or teachers..

When I am hearing (or engaging any other sense), I am not thinking.

Yeah

No, 2003 he died

@@thebarrylongchannel his body died, his truth lives.

He was around a long time before him.

You have it the other way around. Eckhart Tolle sounds a lot like Barry Long.

Eckhart Tolle spent time with and learnt from Barry Long. Here is a video of ET himself saying so: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IPx3y5Wf5T8.html

ET was a student of BL, who told him (ET) to go out and teach.

No. Listen Ekhart is pain it is so slooooow speak 😅