grateful today

Because I meet the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, and because I have this astonishingly sharp pain in my side that Western medicine insists does not exist (bless their hearts) – I’ve gotten interested again lately in Eckhart Tolle’s teachings about the pain body .  Here are some quotes from The Power of Now.

“The pain body may seem to you like a dangerous monster that you cannot bear to look at, but I assure you that it is an insubstantial phantom that cannot prevail against the power of your presence… Just as you cannot fight the darkness, you cannot fight the pain-body…Watching it is enough.”

And check this out!

“When you start to disidentify and become the watcher, the pain-body will continue to operate for a while and will try to trick you into identifying with it again…  At this stage, it may also create physical aches and pains in different parts of the body, but they won’t last.”

Huh!  Wily little pain body!

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