What is the Pain-Body?
Some Facts About the Pain-Body (PB)
"There are two levels of pain:
the pain that is being created now, and the pain of the past that still lives on in your mind and body. This of course includes the pain that you suffered as a child, caused by the unconsciousness of the world into which you were born.
The accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body and mind. If you look at it as an invisible entity in its own right,
you are getting quite close to the truth.
It's the emotional Pain-Body."
Eckhart Tolle, ("The Power of Now")
Through my experience in Chinese and Tibetan Medicine, I have come to see the human body as an energy field that can become cluttered with layers of stagnant energy, called negative e-motional charge. Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, calls the cumulative layers of NEC the "Pain-Body" and refers to it as an entity. He says:
The cells in which past physical or emotional trauma is stored, operate in a survival pattern based on something that is no longer real or current for anyone but the person maintaining the pattern. When an unresolved issue or trauma impedes the flow of energy in the body-mind system, stagnation is created in a particular part of the body, often the organ, joint or muscle most associated with the trauma. We know further that areas of stagnant energy contain negative e-motional charge (NEC) that literally split and subdivide the human energy field in separate compartments without communication between them. When "we hold off the trauma," we are allowing more layers of NEC to follow the original one making the situation even more complex. A simple example is: you hurt your ankle while running late to your office. you feel very upset for that. You get angry at yourself for not paying more attention when walking and you may blame yourself by saying things like, "Stupid, you never pay enough attention!" "You are gonna be late and your boss will be upset with you". By now, your body is not only feeling the physical trauma in the form of real pain, but you are adding by default; self-condemnation, anger, guilt, fear and unforgiveness towards yourself. This process may go on and on.
Acupuncturist, Tapas Fleming writes in her book You Can Heal Now: "...at the moment when a problem or a trauma happens, (physical, mental or emotional) we have the feeling that life is unbearable and we say 'NO' to whatever is happening to us. Some variations to this theme include: 'this is too much for me; if this happens, I won't survive.' The implication to that inner statement is, 'I'll deal with it later, file it away, I'll face it when I can, when it is not life threatening'. But we seem to put off forever something that we don't want to deal with now, and the imbalance of the undigested trauma stays with us. We can put time and distance between us and the event, but the experience itself is still on hold. Another response may be to deny that the problem happened. However the more we keep it locked in the 'so called Past', the more strongly we are connected with it, and the more unresolved issues we hold off, the more narrow and limited our lives will become."
Unprocessed traumatic experiences create suffocation and contraction of the positive e-motional charge (PEC) which leads to massive dysfunction in our bodies-mind system. The disproportion between positive and negative e-motional charge (Pain-Body) is such that the natural bodily activities are deeply affected. Just think for a moment, the amount of Life force that it has taken to "hold" that NEC stored in the cells all this time! Now imagine for a while how you would feel releasing that NEC, allowing the transformation to take place. When we use this technology we do not erase the memory. The stuck Life force is liberated, leaving the cells' natural energy free to be used for self-healing and growth.
"Ignorance is the foundation of all suffering"
The Buddha.
Since very young, we learned to resist our feelings, damaging ourselves physically, mentally and emotionally. We did this because we didn't know what we were doing and because we imitated others (ancestors, parents, teachers, TV programs, publicity, books, etc.) When we discriminate a feeling, we are resisting its existence. We are trying to change it for something else that matches our self-image. When we resist "what is" and the existence of present feelings, we cannot digest the experience. This is how the NEC is stored in the body-mind organism creating the Pain-Body.
The Pain-Body is the accumulation of negative emotions that were not acknowledged or allowed, they were never processed and they were always resisted. Perhaps we planned to do this at some time in the future, when conditions were better, and that time has never
What supports the Pain-Body is "unconsciousness"
The Pain-Body is an inner energy field, almost a "separate entity", with its own agenda. This is an energy field of negative beliefs, and the negative decisions that we make about our life and ourselves, may affect our reactions when "the right button is pushed." Sometimes the stimuli are "nonsense" and others don't understand our dramatic overreaction. This creates more negativity in our thoughts and perceptions, attracting more uncomfortable circumstances into our experience.
The Pain-Body is very big in our civilization; it is everywhere--books, movies, television--wherever we go, we'll see it's expressions. These are expressions of resistance, of anger, envy, oppression, resentment, fear, guilt, shame and all other forms of negativity. It is friction that was never resolved in our system, friction that was never observed, allowed and transformed, but rather stored and put on hold. When we go through a negative experience, usually we make a decision, such as; "I'm not good enough," or "I won't be able to make it"; " I'm dumb", or "this is too much for me". Countless decisions. When we believe in those decisions, they get imprinted in our energy field and they run our life from then on. Most of those decisions were made at a formative age, or were absorbed from our mother's energy field in the womb.
The main reason that we don't want to deal with the Pain-Body is because we don't know how. In addition, we don't know how because we never knew of its existence. We were not aware of it!
The Pain-Body is the accumulation in us of all the negative experiences we have had, all the resistance, all the complaints. Most of it is unnecessary suffering. Unconsciously, we get used to a way to perceive life that causes us suffering. It is because of ignorance and imitation. We don't know what we are doing to ourselves.
The Pain-Body can be released when we transform the stagnant NEC in our system. We digest NEC when we fully acknowledge and allow our feelings, without reactivity, and without judging ourselves, for the way we feel. Practicing this work, you will be consciously visiting your energy field, perhaps for the first time in your life. You will be bringing awareness to your mental and emotional reality. It is not the expression of the emotions that is relevant, it is owning them, being present to them. Not because they are "your" emotions, but because they are happening in you "now". And when you accept fully what is happening in the now, it passes through you; it doesn't get stuck.
"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning someone new shows up.
this one's a joy, this is sadness,
here comes a meanness and here
some glimmering of awareness.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond."
Rumi
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Some Facts About the Pain-Body (PB)
The Pain-Body is the residue of pain.
It is the result of the accumulation of "past resistance."
You know when something insignificant triggers an incredible reaction. Something goes wrong or somebody says something that you don't like.
The Pain-Body is Life force that is not flowing freely; it is stuck like a river dam. Pressure accumulates and pain arises.
When the Pain-Body arises, it amplifies the sense of unhappiness and lack to a dreadful level.
The Pain-Body is a human condition. Don't take it as a personal problem.
Everybody has a Pain-Body; human pain that every human being inherits.
Countries have a Pain-Body too, and the people that live there share the collective Pain-Body.
We create more pain when we try to fight or run away from it.
The symptoms of the Pain-Body are different in different people.
It may be felt like a turbulence, a constriction, an empty hole in the solar plexus, heaviness, heat, dizziness, and a sense of dread or intense anger.
The Pain-Body may be passive or aggressive.
The Pain-Body may be dormant or active. Some Pain-bodies have no dormant state; they are always active.
Many people's Life Force is trapped in their Pain-Body. There is no flow. Their aliveness is absorbed by it.
The Pain-Body needs to come out periodically to be fed. The feeding time varies from person to person.
When it feeds, it takes over the mind, creating destructive and negative thinking.
The Pain-Body has an addictive quality. When it has succeeded in taking over you, the last thing you want is peace; "you want to suffer".
The Pain-Body feeds on the feedback from other people's reactions.
When the Pain-Body is ready to arise, it will try to provoke your partner's Pain-body reactions.
The Pain-Body loves the Drama. This is an essential part of most relationships. When "drama" happens, your mind-which is already aligned with the Pain-Body-will find all kinds of rationalizations to add to a heated discussion.
The recognition of the Pain-Body is the beginning of the healing process. As the Life Force becomes free, there is an increase of vitality and aliveness.
When you accept and watch the Pain-Body, you are cutting the links to your mind and it cannot get control of it. All that is left is a turbulence in an energy field of pain.
Your Pain-Body is not your enemy. You are not fighting it or trying to get rid of it. Just watch it. You are accepting the pain that is already there.
The stronger the Pain-Body, the stronger may be the motivation to transform it.
Karma is dissolved when the Pain-Body is transformed.
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