Thoughts on 'The Pain Body'

For those of you who are familiar with Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, and of the best-seller, A New Earth, know well his teaching about The Pain Body. Tolle calls it 'accumulated pain'.


Let us start first with a definition given by the author:
"This accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body and mind. If you look on it as an invisible entity in its own right, you are getting quite close to the truth. It's the emotional pain body. It has two modes of being: dormant and active.
.The pain body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. It can then rise up, take you over, "become you," and live through you. It needs to get its "food" through you. It will feed on any experience that resonates with its own kind of energy, anything that creates further pain in whatever form: anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, violence, and even illness."

I always wondered why some people are attracted to violent movies, why they enjoy feeding on drama, the more , the juicier. If the goal in life is to find joy , peace and happiness, does it make sense to entertain the drama and the pain? It makes as much sense as wanting to be healthy but continuously eating junk food.
This is one of the great contradiction of human nature: we want to be happy but engage willingly in activities that tend to prove that unhappiness is more what we really long for. Why would so many start arguments so often, complain  or criticize constantly?

That pain body has many buttons: push any of them in a person close to you and you get a reaction. The same goes with us, we know our triggers and fall in the pit of a negative reaction every time one is activated. Don't we hate it though? Why would we do something we hate?

In his book, A New Earth,  Eckhart Tolle gives a definition of a negative emotion. He writes: " An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning. Fear, anxiety, anger,bearing a grudge, sadness, hatred or intense dislike, jealousy, envy -- all disrupt the energy flow through the body, affect the heart, the immune system, digestion, production of hormones, and so on."

Our mental health and our physical health, both are greatly affected by negative emotions. Therefore it is critical for anyone desiring to live a healthful life to find a way to eliminate those toxic energies.

The Emotion Code is a great tool to achieve this: not only does The Emotion Code help us release emotions we are conscious of but it also is a very effective tool to help us release those that are trapped in our subconscious, many of them being inherited.

There is a great desire in all of us to live a healthful life: people make effort to buy good food, live in a good environment, avoid source of stress, exercise,  but unless the toxic environment within is also addressed and dealt with, complete health will never be achieved. So releasing negative trapped emotions is indeed a very valuable component to an ongoing, successful health management plan.
©  Doris Crompton