Welcome to session 2 lovely brave soul!

“This session is about more reflection and less judgement. Change is a by-product of awareness, with an open-mind move through this session and bring awareness to the wounded shadow and the parts of you that require healing.”

To begin, bring awareness to this concept – trauma is anything that overwhelms the brain and the brains ability to cope. It does not have to look like a specific incident or textbook definition; it can be an experience that is had over your whole life time. For example, an emotionally unavailable or unstable parent.

What is the pain body?

This concept and word is made popular by the spiritual author ‘Eckhart Tolle’. He uses this term to describe how all the events in our life that caused emotional pain and trauma are carried around by a person in our ‘pain-body’. These emotions in the pain-body in turn control our thinking and every day activities.

Our job is to be present with the pain body and recognise when it changes from doormat to active, which is when something triggers a very strong emotional reaction. When this happens and it takes over your mind, the internal dialogue now becomes the voice of the pain-body. Your pain-body is talking to you internally. Everything that your inner voice says is layered with old, painful emotions of the pain-body. Every interpretation, judgement about you and others, about your situation will be totally twisted by the old emotional pain.

It’s important to be present with the pain-body as this happens, try not to identify with it or believe every negative though that arises. According to Tolle, if you are alone the pain-body will feed on every negative thought and then gets more energy which makes it active. The pain-body will feel depleted after a while and then revisit a few hours weeks, or months later.

It normally revisits and makes itself feel better by if it can feed of someone else’s reaction! Our pain-bodies love partners and family members, Haha! The pain-body will provoke this person and knows exactly what to do or say to trigger a negative response inside of you.

So, if you are not present and aware of your pain-body or the moment you will then react. And the pain-body loves that! Now both the pain-bodies are awake and feeding off of each other.

Then a few hours, day, weeks later your pain-bodies are no longer feeding off of each other as they are full and replenished. You can possibly find yourself saying to your partner or family member “what was that all about, I don’t even remember how that started”.

To work with this concept it would be helpful to begin to see the first signs of the pain-body (in ourselves and in the other). As you realise it, hold space for it and if possible voice it to your partner “my pain-body got triggered when you said that”.

Bam – some powerful stuff, right?

My Perspective On This

Most times we never had the chance to deal with any trauma as it arose or we were in fight or flight mode trying to survive. This would then cause that emotional pain and trauma to be stored as an energetic blueprint of that experience or emotion. As we continue through our lives we build onto these stored energetic blueprints, layer by layer, creating a full entity around us called the pain-body.

We are essentially a walking map of all our conditioning, emotional pain, trauma and belief systems. This map is deeply stored in the physical body as well as the subconscious mind. And, in our everyday lives this map or blueprint is what we use to send information to the conscious mind. Our conscious mind is how we react and respond to everything we do and say on a daily basis.

The 95% subconscious mind governs the 5% conscious mind. So, imagine the possibilities if we can begin to go into the subconscious mind /blueprint/pain body and rewire it for GREATNESS!!