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TheFlyingMan · 01-20-2007, 03:07 PM

Eckhart Tolle (Power of NOW, A New Earth) has mentioned that as we observe and bring our presence to the pain-body, it transmutes into even more presence / stillness.

Do you think we should draw out the pain body on purpose to observe it? Like think bad thoughts to get angry and then observe it to transmute it? Or is that simply lowering our presence only to raise it again?

I also had my pain body triggered just now. I was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour or so and I got pissed off. Strangely enough I was observing myself get pissed off but I still started yelling. Normally I catch myself starting to get upset and within a few minutes I return to peace without any external signs that I even got upset. This time I blurted out a few obscenities in (very loud) anger - but was still sorta watching myself do it. Has this ever happened to anyone?

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TheFlyingMan Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 168	Power of NOW - pain body question Eckhart Tolle (Power of NOW, A New Earth) has mentioned that as we observe and bring our presence to the pain-body, it transmutes into even more presence / stillness. Do you think we should draw out the pain body on purpose to observe it? Like think bad thoughts to get angry and then observe it to transmute it? Or is that simply lowering our presence only to raise it again? I also had my pain body triggered just now. I was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour or so and I got pissed off. Strangely enough I was observing myself get pissed off but I still started yelling. Normally I catch myself starting to get upset and within a few minutes I return to peace without any external signs that I even got upset. This time I blurted out a few obscenities in (very loud) anger - but was still sorta watching myself do it. Has this ever happened to anyone?