Hi Placebo,
I think you can easily use these two ways. What Tolle says about future and the past is that they are no more than concepts. Only Now is real. Thinking about past failures or pain keep that pain alive. Thinking about future with fear of something traps you as well. But making plans is ok. What Tolle says is that only "emotional time" is a trap. Planning, making decision for a future is completly ok and we should do that to know where we are going and what we want to acheive.
Accept yourself, your life situation as it is, do not judge it in emotional way. But you can review your life situation and make plans to improve it. That's completly ok in Tolle's approach. Being in Now help us to see things without fear and worry and this is good place to start improving things we want to improve.
This is how I "feel" Power of Now. I guess other people can feel it in different way. |