Healing Your Pain Body

Have you ever noticed how certain situations—small, seemingly insignificant moments—can trigger a wave of emotion that feels much bigger than the moment itself? Maybe a comment from a loved one stings more than it should, or a simple inconvenience spirals into frustration and anger.

That, my friends, is the pain body at work.

Eckhart Tolle describes the pain body as the part of our energy field that holds onto stored physical sensations and emotions from past experiences. It’s like a reservoir of unresolved pain, a living energy within us that gets activated when something reminds it of the past.

The first step to healing your pain body is awareness. You must recognise that you have one.

So, how do you know when your pain body has been triggered? Pay attention to moments when your reaction is much larger than the situation calls for. If a small inconvenience or a minor disagreement feels overwhelming, chances are your pain body has woken up. It’s not just responding to the present—it’s carrying the weight of the past.

And here’s where things get interesting…

One painful event in your body, like breaking an ankle or suffering a back injury, can set off a chain reaction. It doesn’t just activate the physical pain—it stirs up all the unresolved distress connected to it. Maybe an old feeling of helplessness resurfaces. Maybe a buried fear of being unsupported emerges.

So when pain—physical or emotional—arises, I invite you to take a step back and become the observer.

Eckhart Tolle says, "If you are present, the pain body cannot feed anymore on your thoughts, or on other people’s reactions. You can simply observe it, and gradually, its energy will decrease."

Rather than reacting, rather than fueling the fire, you observe it. You feel it without letting it consume you.

Healing your pain body doesn’t mean avoiding pain. It means transforming your relationship to it. You don’t have to be ruled by old wounds. You can bring them into the light of awareness, where they lose their grip, where they dissolve.

And that, right there, is freedom.

So the next time your pain body wakes up, try and remember: You are not your pain. You are the awareness that sees it.

And awareness? That’s where healing begins.

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