According to Tolle, the pain body consists of remnants of pain, left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and let go of, join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body. It consists not just of childhood pain, but also painful emotions that were added to it later in adolescence and your adult life, much of it created by the voice of the ego. This accumulation of old emotional pain is called the pain body. (A New Earth p. 136)“Triggers”
Some pain bodies react to only one particular kind of trigger or situation, which is usually one that resonates with a certain kind of emotional pain suffered in the past. For example, someone who in childhood was neglected or abandoned by one or both parents, will likely develop a pain body that becomes triggered in any situation that resonates even remotely with their primordial pain of abandonment (A New Earth p. 177.)
The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain-body. Then, more important, in your ability to stay present enough, alert enough, to notice the pain-body in yourself as a heavy influx of negative emotion when it becomes active. When it is recognized, it can no longer pretend to be you and live and renew itself through you ( A New Earth Page 161.)
Join us for our Embracing Silence meetup this month where we will be
bringing awareness to this thing called the “pain-body”
Thursday April 15th at Bellevue Unity Church at 7:00 p.m.
Thanks,
Adam R. Seward
Individual, Couple, and Family Counseling
www.adamsewardcounseling.net
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