Eckhart Tolle's "pain body" tormented him for nearly 30 years. Until one night in 1977 he had an epiphany.
For nearly thirty years - practically as long as he can remember - he has been burdened with this ominous, palpable burden of negative energy. But one night, when Eckhart Tolle's aching body brought him to the brink of despair, he suddenly had an epiphany:
"I could no longer live with myself. And at that moment an unanswered question arose: who is this "I" who cannot live with myself? What is "I"? I felt drawn into the void! I didn't know then that what really happened was that the mind-created self, with its burdens, with its problems, which lives between the unsatisfactory past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no "I". Just a sense of presence or 'being', just watching and observing."
This quote is at the heart of Eckhart Tolle's pain body theory and is a cornerstone of his teaching.
Who is Eckhart Tolle?
Ulrich Leonard Tolle, also known as Eckhart Tolle, was born in 1948. Today he is considered one of the most influential and prolific spiritual teachers in America and Canada. He received an unconventional education and was introduced to various religious and spiritual philosophies at an early age.
His books have been on the bestseller lists for decades, and his following continues to skyrocket. His words and way of thinking have helped millions of people and offered us a different way to experience our own emotional reality.
Eckhart Tolle's concept of pain originated in 1977, but was better articulated in his 1997 bestseller The Power of Now.
The pain body feeds like a parasite.
According to Tolle, the pain body is a semi-autonomous energy form that resides within most human beings and is composed of emotions. The remnants of pain built up in us when every strong negative emotion was unseen, incompletely accepted and then allowed to decay combine to create it. It consists not only of the pain experienced during childhood, but also of the painful emotions added later in adolescence and even adulthood. It possesses its own primitive intelligence, slightly resembling that of a cunning animal, which is directed above all to its survival. Like all forms of life, it also needs food.
Any painful emotional experience can be used as food by the pain body, so it thrives on the soil of negative thinking and relationship drama.
Consider the following example. You've had an extremely hard day's work. You go home and maybe someone is waiting for you - be it a friend or a lover. This person immediately starts asking you what's wrong and that only puts more pressure on you.
Something dark rises in your stomach and you feel terrified of yourself and your life. Everything is so wrong. No one wants this person to ask questions, remind you of your failures and weaknesses. If only you were alone.
You just want to disappear.
And suddenly that thing in your stomach takes over your brain. Your limbs are not your own. Not your voice, not your mouth, not the words that come out of it. You start saying ugly things, hurtful things. You are speaking, but something else is being heard.
Eckhart Tolle says that the pain body does just that. It hides in the corners of your mind and is the sum of all our fears, insecurities and negative thoughts that we basically lock away. These are the negative voices that have been telling us bad things about ourselves that we have ended up internalizing and mimicking when cornered.
This is our own self-destructive behavior pattern.
Eckhart Tolle describes the pain body as follows:
“Like every other entity in existence, the pain body wants to survive. And it can only survive if it makes you unconsciously identify with it. Then it can rise up, conquer you, "become you" and live through you. [The pain body] ... must receive its "food" through you. It will feed on any experience that resonates with its own kind of energy, anything that creates additional pain in any form: anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, violence, and even disease.
When the pain body takes over, it will create a situation in your life that reflects back its own energy frequency to feed on. Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. She finds it quite indigestible."
The pain body is our anxiety, our depression, our lack of self-confidence. As much as pain is a natural part of the human condition, we must find ways to process it. Coming to terms with pain is an important step in avoiding the pain body taking control.
The pain body is addicted to unhappiness.
You may feel shocked when you first realize that there is something in you that constantly strives for emotional negativity and seeks unhappiness. However, it takes more awareness to see it in yourself than in another person.
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