Thursday
Pain-Body, Different for Everyone..
The pain-body is essentially trapped energy that lives inside your body outside your conscious control.. This trapped energy is a result of feelings or emotions denied or unexpressed during your growing up years that live on in your adult years. Your pain-body masquerades itself as the real you. It makes you believe you are weak, powerless, ineffective, the victim of your own life.
The way to make the pain-body dissolve or disappear from your life is to dis-identify with it. You dis-identify with it by no longer accepting it as the real you. You can not dis-identify with it by ignoring your pain-body when it has taken over control of your body and stops you from doing what you want to do.
You dissolve your pain-body by putting your 'conscious attention' into it until you are able to release the trapped energy that is lodged in your body that is causing you pain. In other words, FEEL WHAT YOU FEEL, without judging what you feel in any way...and your pain-body will begin dissolving naturally.
Tuesday
How to Dissolve a painful feeling.
Allow the 'painful feeling' to lead you to wherever it wants to take you... Yes, it can be a bit scary but it won't kill you and it will set you FREE from the painful feeling if you simply witness, watch, observe where the painful feeling is taking you..
Another way of witnessing a painful feeling is to ask it questions. Here's an example of a spontaneous dialogue that unfolds when you ask a painful feeling questions. Of course, your session with your painful feeling will be different than the example I am sharing with you that a woman friend shared with me.
DIALOGUE WITH A PAINFUL FEELING
(This dialogue was between a woman and a physical and emotional pain she
had experienced for years that she could not dissolve. Her name has been
removed from the dialogue to protect her privacy.)
YOU: Where are you taking me?
PF (Painful Feeling): To the land of powerlessness and guilt.
YOU: Why?
PF: It is how I control your life and stop you from being you.
YOU: Why do you want to stop me from being me?
PF: If I can't be myself, you can't be yourself.
YOU: You are a feeling, what do you mean you can't be yourself.
PF: I am not a feeling...
YOU: Who are you?
PF: A voice from your past, your mother.
YOU: What?? My mother??
PF: Of course, I am the one who always made it a point to make you feel bad when you wanted to be you..
YOU: Why would you do that?
PF: Because being yourself is not good for you
YOU: Who said so?
PF: I did, your mother...
YOU: Why would you do that to me.. I thought you loved me...
PF: I do love you the only way I can love you and that is to stop you from doing what you want to do, stop you from being you.
YOU: It makes me unhappy that you stop me from doing what I want to do.
PF: Well I'm unhappy and I'm your mother and if I can't be happy, why should you be happy?
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The dialogue continued on. With each passing moment the painful feeling became less and less painful. The understanding that came out of having a dialogue with her painful feeling filled this woman with love and compassion for her mother because she connected with the source of her painful feeling and understood it. The moment she did, it the painful feeling disappeared never to return again...
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Non-Acceptance Feeds The Pain-Body
The non-acceptance of anything feeds and nourishes the pain-body. In order for the pain-body to continue to exist within your body as 'trapped energy," it feeds on the pain your mind creates any time you don't accept, in the moment, 'what is.' When, in the moment, you don't accept 'what is' you create pain for yourself that gives the pain-body more power in your life.
Interesting thing about non-acceptance is this. If you don't accept, in the moment 'what is,', it will persist into the next moment of your life, and the one after that and the one after that, etc., etc.. In other words the longer you resist 'what is,' the longer what you don't like will continue to persist in your life..
Acceptance is about accepting in the moment 'what is,' without judgments.. The moment you make any negative judgments about 'what is,' you are no longer accepting 'what is,' you are resisting it.
For example, the non-acceptance, in the moment, that you are fat, makes fat persist in your life. The non-acceptance you have no one in your life to love makes the lack of someone in your life to love persist. The non-accept that you are sick, makes the sickness persist. The non-acceptance, in the moment, that you don't have enough money to pay your bills, makes not having enough money to pay your bills persist.
Deeply and completely accepting 'what is' in the moment can either make you feel powerless and depressed or it can liberate you from those feelings and free you up so you can go play and live your life with as much happiness and joy as you can handle.
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More About the Pain-Body
From Eckhart Tolle - Power of NOW
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary.
It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering – and free of the egoic mind…
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feeds on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable.
So place your attention on feeling the emotion, and check whether your mind is holding on to a grievance pattern such as blame, self-pity, or resentment that is feeding the emotion. If that is the case, it means that you haven’t forgiven. Non-forgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or condition – past, present, or future – that your mind refuses to accept. Yes, there can be non-forgiveness even with regard to the future. This is the mind’s refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the future is ultimately beyond its control. Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life – to allow life to live through you. The alternatives are pain and suffering, a greatly restricted flow of life energy, and in many cases physical disease.
The pain-body has an extremely powerful energetic charge that can easily pull you into unconscious identification with it. You are then actively possessed by an energy field that occupies your inner space and pretends to be you – but, of course, is not you at all. It speaks through you, acts through you, thinks through you. It will create negative situations in your life so that it can feed on the energy. It wants more pain, in whatever form. It is pure pain, past pain – and it is not you.
The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious.
To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain can be quite a shocking realization. The moment you realize this, you have broken the attachment. The pain-body is an energy field, almost like an entity, that has become temporarily lodged in your inner space. It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is no longer flowing. Of course, the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past. A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence. Once you know that, you also realize that you are responsible for your inner space now – nobody else is – and that the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.
-- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Sunday
Releasing the Pain-Body I
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Saturday
Pain-Body and Self-Doubt.
The source of self-doubt is your pain-body. The moment it can make you doubt or second guess yourself in any way that is your pain-body is trying to take control of your mind and make you feel bad. In the most severe cases, the pain-body causes people to go postal and kill other people..
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