Dissolving Body Pain - Joanne Ronan Moore

Submitted by Catherine Jane on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:49

Dissolving Pain Body

A New Earth

Eckhart Tolle

 

What is the pain body:It is an accumulation of all our hurts, the ones we replay in our mind. In fact, the human mind is hooked on mind chatter and keeping negative emotions alive. These negative thoughts are the story you have told yourself about you. Sometimes we have derived a sense of ourselves and are conditioned by past events. These thoughts which evolve as negative and repetitive thought patterns are not accurate.  They are not who we are.

 

The Pain Body, not fully faced, stays alive.

 

These are the steps for dissolving the Pain Body

 

Watch for any sign of unhappiness in yourself in whatever form…it may be awakening the pain body. This can take the form of irritation, impatience, somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your relationship and so on. Catch the pain body the moment it awakes from its dormant stage.

 

Observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious.

 

Focus attention on the negative feeling inside of you. Know that it is the pain body. Accept that it is there. Don’t think about it---don’t let the feeling turn into thinking. Don’t judge yourself out of it. Stay present and continue to be the observer of what is happening to you.