eckhart tolle teachings

The Pain Body

How to Dissolve the Pain-Body

The real problem is not the pain-body itself, but our identification with it. And once an identification is seen and named, it will lose its power over you.

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The Pain-Body: A Doorway to Transformation

Our pain-body reactions are doorways of transformation. It's possible to begin to identify the triggers that set off your pain-body. This, in fact, is the most important work you can do.

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How to Transform a Pain-Body Moment

Moments of reactivity are potent opportunities to transform your consciousness. Learn how to transform a pain-body moment.

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The Secret to Breaking Free of the Pain-Body

It is not the pain-body, but identification with it that causes the suffering that you inflict on yourself and others. Eckhart reveals the simple secret to breaking free of the pain-body.

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Eckhart on Dense Pain Bodies

Some people carry dense pain bodies that are never completely dormant and cause endless cycles of emotional pain in themselves and others.

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A National Tragedy and the Pain-Body

The pain-body is the aggregate suffering endured by humanity caused by the identification with the mind or ego. Most of us enjoy brief periods of respite from the ego, but some are trapped at all times in this egoic state - alienated from the world, from their community, and especially from themselves.

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The Pain-Body of Nations

Nations have pain-bodies and there is a way to understand them that paves the way for Presence.

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