Today I would like to recommend Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth” and that you sign up online for Ekhart Tolle and Oprah’s web class.
This book is about living in the present. He explains tools that help us to stay present.
He also discusses the “PAIN BODY”. I felt that this was a eye opening revelation the first time I read the book. Now being able to reread it and watch the class, I have been able to take my understanding to a new level.
He explains that how we feel inside will attract the experiences we feel on the outside. I have always attracted people telling me their painful stories. I can now see for myself that I have focused more on other people’s suffering and pain than on their joy stories. I can also see that I can change that focus just by recognizing it.
Eckhart Tolle describes our pain body as all the negative energy that has not been resolved in our life. If this energy has nowhere to go it stays with us. If we identify with it, the pain body becomes part of our ego. The pain body needs to be fed and that is why a small comment by someone else may cause us to blow up, or a hurt feeling may cause us to feel very depressed.
If we can start to identify our pain body we can learn to detach from it, look at it, but not feed it. Thus we can strive to live peacefully and joyfully.