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A person with a strong, active pain-body has a particular energy emanation that other people perceive as extremely unpleasant.
some people will immediately want to remove themselves or reduce interaction with him or her to a minimum.
It requires a high degree of Presence to avoid reacting when confronted by someone with such an active pain-body.
perhaps she should have asked what I had not done. I had not reacted, not confirmed the reality of her story, not fed her mind with more thought and her pain-body with more emotion.
In Zen, such a glimpse is called satori. Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion.
Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.
Some pain-bodies react to only one particular kind of trigger or situation, which is usually one that resonates with a certain kind of emotional pain suffered in the past.
That pain is sometimes misinterpreted as falling in love.
When you recognize your own pain-body as it arises, you will also quickly learn what the most common triggers are that activate it, whether it be situations or certain things other people do or say.
If you are with your partner at the time, you may tell him or her: “What you just said (or did) triggered my pain-body.” Have an agreement with your partner that whenever either of you says or does something that triggers the other person’s pain-body, you will immediately mention it.
A better opportunity for the pain-body to arise may come whenever you lose Presence,
The pain-body needs your unconsciousness. It cannot tolerate the light of Presence.
Rather than pulling them into unconsciousness, the pain-body becomes their awakener, the decisive factor that forces them into a state of Presence.
it is not the pain-body, but identification with it that causes the suffering that you inflict on yourself and others.
Gnothi Seauton—Know Thyself. These words were inscribed above the entrance to the temple of Apollo at Delphi, site of the sacred Oracle.
many remain unconscious, trapped in their egos throughout their lives—will
When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego. At that stage, you may also realize that you were doing to others what you thought others were doing to you.
This basic misperception of who they are creates dysfunction in all their relationships.
Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
