Letting Go of Your Pain Body

We all carry a pain body with us.  You can and should scan your memories and try to find where exactly it is coming from. The little psychological cut you received from the neighbor's daughter when you were young, the homework your parents left for you for they could only advance that far. But there is so much more to it. You probably still carry around wounds from your previous lives, and there is the collective guilt that needs to be dealt with, the aggression against women, the wars, and stuff like that.  You can realize this truth whenever there is a massive tragedy somewhere, like the recent Boston Marathon Bombing, the many school shootings, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Events like that release a lot of collective guilt.    

You can also feel that connection whenever someone close to you goes through tough times. A colleague recently got laid off and revealed that just the day before his wife got fired from her job. That can't be, can it? Or you see your life partner struggling, or your children.  You can feel their struggles, stress, and pain. We don't deny that at times there can be tough stretches even for a spiritual traveler.

We are all one. For a Tao traveler this is not a good sounding concept - we know and feel that this is so. However, we are not helpless in this journey at all. We can consciously heal, and the miraculous thing is that as you do, so does the world you are living in. Heal your own pain body and change the world in the process. When you upgrade your energy frequency, experience for yourself how your immediate environment heals with you. Heal your pain body and stop accumulating new baggage. It is not a walk in the park, but it can be done. Besides, once you are a Tao traveler you don't really have a choice in this anyhow.

So how exactly does one tackle the pain body? Well, first of all try to identify its existence. Study what exactly triggers it for you. What is a red flag for a bull  likewise there are always special situations or people that activate that pain for you. Before you were just on autopilot and either exploded or shut down  in these situations, while today you are aware of these connections and become willing to just swallow the pain without lashing out in return. It is a process. You can absorb only so much pain at a time. Give yourself time-outs if necessary and value the help of your soul siblings who will gladly carry this pain together with you. Don't feel guilty about it. They signed up for this job eons ago, but certainly be grateful for their help.

So as best as you can, just feel the pain without doing anything about it. Over time you will find your way how to cope with it more effectively. It might be a quiet corner where you just cry, or the bedroom where you beat up the pillow to release the stored aggression. It might be your therapeutic outlet, painting, or writing, or just being with loved ones. It could be the nature walk with your soul partner, or a meditation session.  See for yourself that once you have made a process out of dealing with your pain you are almost over it. Every pain body attack lingers only so long; soon you have a pretty good idea about it and can already anticipate the day of recovery. See for yourself that you will be rewarded generously for your endurance. When this bag has been removed from your shoulders you will feel born again!

Releasing a pain body is a process. For every bag that you let go off successfully there is another one to follow just as every stretch of sunshine is eventually followed by some dark clouds. Yet, once you make it a conscious process it does get easier. Remember that you get only as much pain to deal with as you can handle at a time. So naturally you will leave a little homework for later periods. Yet, once you start dealing with your pain body consciously trust that it is only a matter of time before you have transcended your struggles.

The one thing you still have to do though, ask whether there are still aspects of yourself that you don't want to associate with.   If you look deeply, you know that you are not willing to let it be.  Even the things already passed for several decades, you are still hoping, insisting that things should be different; they are not supposed to treat you this way.  Your heart is still screaming, “I don’t want this”, “I don’t accept this”, “ this is not fair”.  You are not willing to finish.  You are not willing accept it as it is.  You are not willing to forgive.  The urge, the stubbornness is still inside. Unless you are willing to accept every facet of your being, the pain will never go away completely. Keep a diary for the rainy days. If you get an insight about yourself during the dark days you know that you are making fast progress. Pain is not supposed to be there along a spiritual path. So if you experience it nevertheless, know that a treasury will be waiting for you to compensate you for your hard work.

Everyone is doing their best always, as are you. Know that once the Tao has gotten a hold of you you are Home already, you just don't know it yet. Forgive yourself and forgive others who may have caused your wounds.  True forgiveness brings you the peace you are longing for.  Resistance makes you stiff, resistance makes you suffer. Learn to let go of the pain inside and be reborn.

By Christian and Su Zhen