My dear friends,
Recently, several clients commented to me about their difficult physical issues. As a believer that the stuck emotional and mental energies create health problems, I always share with them the work of Lise Bourbeau and her book

YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU, LOVE YOURSELF.

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Well…. as there is a tendency I experience during “quiet time”, I was guided to one of my favorite authors Eckhart Tolle and his book PRACTICING THE POWER OF NOW. As is my practice, asking for Spirit to guide me to what I need to know in the NOW, my inserted thumb was guided right to the chapter “EGO IDENTIFICATION WITH THE PAIN BODY”. 

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I want to share with you some of Eckhart Tolle’s thoughts found on pages 73-85 in this book.

“The pain that you create now is always some form of NON ACCEPTANCE, some form of UNCONSCIOUS resistance to WHAT IS. On the thought level, the resistance is some form of JUDGEMENT.
On the EMOTIONAL LEVEL, it is some form of NEGAVTIVITY. ( See… HEALTH issues are emotion and/or mental). The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of RESISTANCE to the PRESENT MOMENT and this depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind because mind always seeks to deny the NOW and to escape from it.
 
…EMOTIONAL PAIN, which is also the MAIN CAUSE of physical pain and physical disease…i.e. resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger, depression, jealousy and so on and are all forms of pain.
There are two levels of your pain:
— pain that you create now
— the pain from the past that still lives on in your MIND and BODY. 
 
Some people live almost entirely through their pain-body, while others may experience it only in certain situations such as intimate relationships or situations linked with past LOSS or ABANDONMENT, PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL HURT and so on.

To Heal..

As long as you make an IDENTITY for yourself OUT OF THE PAIN, YOU CANNOT BECOME FREE OF IT. 
 
As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain you will UNCONSCIOUSLY RESIST or sabotage EVERY ATTEMPT that you make to heal that pain…you want to keep yourself in tact and the pain has become an essential part of you.
The pain body is an ENERGY FIELD almost like an entity that has become temporarily lodged in your inner space.
 
It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is no longer flowing…and when you IDENTITY with the pain, you automatically IDENTIFY with the PAST!
 
A VICTIM MENTALITY is the BELIEF that the past is more powerful than the present. It is the BELIEF that OTHER PEOPLE and WHAT THEY DID TO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for your NOW.
 
For who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self you are blaming others for from the PAST.
 
The Truth is that the only power there is, is contained with the Now. …the past CANNOT prevail against the power of NOW.

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“Everything is shown up by being exposed to the Light and whatever is exposed to the Light itself become Light”… St. Paul

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Folks, I really recommend this book(s) by Eckhart Tolle:

– THE POWER OF NOW
– PRACTICING THE POWER OF NOW

Hugs and Blessings Always,

Elizabeth