Enter the mysterious ‘pain body’ which, according to Tolle, is old pain that we carry around with us. From the day you wet your pants at school and felt ashamed, to the pain of your first heartbreak and that anger with your father … all that emotion, if not felt, expressed and let go of at the time, stays with you and informs how you respond to day-to-day life, even fifty years after the event. We unconsciously look for situations that confirm that our ‘pain body’ is right. So, for example, insecure people will find constant affirmations that nobody likes them and will even seek relationships
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