Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
- So the pain-body, when it has taken you over, will create a situation in your life that reflects back its own energy frequency for it to feed on.
- Anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, violence, and even illness
The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness.
- It is afraid of being found out.
- Its survival depends on your unconscious identification with it, as well as on your unconscious fear of facing the pain that lives in you.
Re-source: Re-embody
If you don’t bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again.
- The pain-body may seem to you like a dangerous monster that you cannot bear to look at, but I assure you that it is an insubstantial phantom that cannot prevail against the power of your presence.
Some spiritual teachings state that all pain is ultimately an illusion, and this is true.
- St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: “Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.”
Just as you cannot fight the darkness, you cannot fight the pain-body.
- Trying to do so would create inner conflict and thus further pain.
Watching it is enough. Watching it implies accepting it as part of what is at that moment.
- Unconscious– It implies a complete absence of the watcher.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
