The Real Enneagram, a Podcast by the Institute for Conscious Being
The Real Enneagram, a Podcast by the Institute for Conscious Being
Dr. Joseph Howell
Episode 22 The Pain Body and the Enneagram
28 minutes Posted Jun 3, 2019 at 4:00 pm.
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In this episode, we learn that we can find hope and trust in the present moment as we allow our healthy energies to reframe our pain body. Eckhart Tolle's description of pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. Its survival depends on your unconscious identification with it, as well as on your unconscious fear of facing the pain that lives in you. But if you don’t face it, if you don’t bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again. 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.