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Heal The Pain Body: Free Yourself From Physical, Emotional And Spiritual Pain

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4 Steps To Healing The Pain Body

woman suffering from pain body, how to heal the pain body in 4 stepsMost of us have a tendency to focus one dimension of pain at a time, but the truth is our pain won’t change permanently until we learn how to heal the pain body.

That’s because pain is always multi-dimensional, a complex that always involves some variation of tangled up physical factors, mental/emotional (a.k.a. psychological) factors and spiritual factors.

Because of its multi-dimensional nature pain is better represented by the term “pain body,” a term coined by the well known author, spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle.

In this blog post I’ll be talking about what the pain body is, how it ends up in us, why it’s the reason that pain becomes a chronic fixture in our bodies and lives and the 4 step process for healing the pain body.

I’ll also be talking about how, in the process of healing our pain body, we end up healing our physical and psychological pain and advancing our spiritual growth and evolution, as well.

What Is The Pain Body?

When people end up reaching out to me for help, often it’s pain of some sort that has prompted them.

Even when it seems obviously physical I might ask questions about what’s going on in their lives.

For example, are there any new relationships, new jobs, have they recently moved, are there any new stresses, have they experienced a recent losses of any sort?

I want to get a sense of where the physical pain is and how it got there and what their experience of it is, for sure.

I also want to understand what’s going on around it, how do they feel about it, what they think is going on and I want to have a sense of the timing of the appearance of the pain and where they are on the continuum of their lives.

Because no matter how obvious it seems, physical, psychological and spiritual pain are never separate, they always exist as an interwoven tapestry of experience.

This tapestry of physical, psychological and spiritual pain is the pain body.

This is crucial to understand if you wan to learn how to heal the pain body.

Physical Pain

a collection of photos showing a man experiencing pain in various parts of his body, physical pain is part of the pain body

Let’s first compare physical and emotional pain.

Interestingly pain research shows that, while the brain does seem to process different kinds of pain differently, in the structure of the brain physical pain and emotional pain share much of the same circuitry.

If you think about it for a second I bet you’ll agree that your experience bares this out.

For example, the physical sensations associated with back pain will be tangled up with the emotions and the thoughts related to what that back pain means to you.

Maybe you have resentment about a past event that you perceive as the cause of your back pain, like a car accident or an injury at work.

Even if you’ve broken your arm in a fall, something obviously physical, there’s going to be thoughts and emotions that come up as a result of that injury.

Maybe you’re worried about the effect your pain or the injury will have on your ability to do your work or play with your kids or participate in other things that you love, in the future.

If you pay close enough attention you’ll notice that your relationship to the psychological factors actually plays into your experience of the physical pain.

Mental And Emotional Pain (a.k.a. Psychological Pain)

woman in despair, pain body

Likewise, when you’re experiencing psychological pain, the associated emotions and thoughts will be interwoven with varying degrees of unpleasant physical sensation.

For instance, if you’ve ever experienced a tough breakup or lost someone who was close to you, you know that the resulting emotional pain and anguish has a physical component to it.

It’s called “heartache” because your heart actually hurts in a physical way.

Again, if you look closely you’ll find that your experience of the psychological pain is impacted by the way you relate to the physical components of that pain.

Spiritual Pain

Whether physical or psychological, at the root of all pain is the embodied sense that there’s something fundamentally wrong with our humanness.

This deeply held belief sabotages our ability to connect with our gifts and share them with the world, which keeps us from accomplishing the unique purpose that each one of us came to accomplish.

When people urgently come to my office for help with physical or psychological pain I find that there’s a way in which they’re taking the pain to mean that there’s something wrong with them.

They feel fundamentally lost or off track in their lives.

That underlying feeling makes all their pain ten times worse.

When I can show them that actually they’re right on track and that the pain can actually be used to help them find their way back to themselves, it creates a huge release on all levels.

And even if the physical or psychological pain is still present, there’s a way in which the urgency around it softens and it drops more into the background.

All Aspects Of The Pain Body Must Be Considered

The point is that physical and psychological and spiritual pain always manifest simultaneously, overlapping, intermingling and twisting into a kind of psychosomatic knot.

That knot of tangled up physical, mental, emotional and stagnant spiritual energy is the pain body.

And in general the whole “pain body” will need to be considered if we expect the physical injury, the psychological wound or the spiritual impasse to completely heal.

If the whole pain body is not addressed it’s likely that some sort of physical, psychological or spiritual residue will continue to resurface in our bodies and lives.

Pain Body Triangle

pain body triangle

We can consider that the pain body exists as a triangle of physical components, psychological components and spiritual components.

If only one of the legs of that triangle are addressed, the other two legs will reassert the overall pattern.

Addressing Physical Component Only

Let’s say the physical components are addressed through something like physical therapy.

That’s great but the psychological and spiritual components have a lot of inertia and will want to reassert the pattern.

Addressing Mental And Emotional Components Only

Let’s say the psychological components are being addressed through cognitive psychotherapy.

That’s great but it doesn’t take into account that the pattern is being stored in the physical body or the larger spiritual forces at work in our lives.

Again, the pattern will reassert itself.

Addressing Spiritual Components Only

Likewise, let’s say the spiritual components are being addressed through meditation.

That’s great but the psychological and physical factors will want to reassert the pattern.

However, if two legs of the triangle are addressed then the third will fall into line and the pattern can be reorganized.

How To Heal The Pain Body By Leveraging Various Healing Modalities

woman and a man receiving biosoul integration session in Louisville, CO

So the inside scoop on how to heal the pain body is to combine therapies or find healing modalities that can meet at least two of the legs of the pain body triangle at once: for instance a combination of meditation and physical therapy, psychotherapy and chiropractic, prayer and psychotherapy, etc…

There are healing modalities that can affect the whole continuum, Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy, Network Chiropractic and Somato-Respiratory Integration, Somatic Experiencing and body centered psychotherapies that utilize powerful brain/body, trauma unraveling techniques like EMDR and Brainspotting, to name a few.

And I feel like I need to mention the work that I do, something I call BioSoul Integration.

Difference Between The Shadow Self And Pain Body

In my last blog post I talked about shadow work and our shadow self.

I feel like the pain body is similar to our shadow, it just involves some different terminology.

It also comes from a different kind of source.

The concept of our shadow self and shadow work come out of psychology, a more bottom up approach where we’re trying to pull ourselves up through our darker, denser parts to achieve spiritual healing.

On the other hand the concept of the pain body is born of a more top down approach where we’re connecting more with our authentic, spiritual nature first, and letting that sort of trickle down and transform our darker, denser parts.

Here’s a video I did on the topic of shadow work and integrating your shadow self:

Eckart Tolle: Leading Expert On How To Heal The Pain Body

Picuture of Eckhart Tolle, author and spiritual teacher

Image courtesy of www.EckhartTolle.com

As I mentioned earlier the concept of the pain body was invented by a man named Eckart Tolle.

Just to talk a little bit about Eckart Tolle, he is one of the most well known spiritual teachers today.

He’s written very popular books The Power of Now and A New Earth.

He was a regular on Oprah.

That wasn’t always the case, however.

As early as he could remember he had always been consumed by fear and depression and negative thoughts.

At one point when he was about 30 this pattern of depression and negativity really peaked out.

One night while he was laying in bed in terror and depression he thought, “I can not live with myself any more.”

At that thought it suddenly occurred to him that that statement implied that there were two of him, the him that was observing this and the him that he couldn’t live with any more.

In that moment there was a significant dis-identification with the part of himself that he couldn’t live with any more and an immense expansion of the part of him that was watching it all.

When he awoke in the morning the constantly fearful, depressed person that he used to be was gone.

In it’s place was a deep, deep body/mind silence that seemed to defy all explanation, the peace that passes all understanding that is spoken of, most commonly, in the Bible.

Some years after integrating this experience Eckart Tolle started to teach about the “pain body” which he describes as a kind of entity that we’re not conscious of, a semi-autonomous being, that lives within us, that feeds off of negativity and drama.

How Does The Pain Body End Up In Us?

How it happens is a testament to why it’s so unconscious.

The pain body got installed at a time that’s called pre-rational, meaning there was no thinking going on, only feeling.

That’s a hint to how to free ourselves from the pain body, since it got installed during a time when we weren’t thinking, we can’t think our way out of it now, we have to feel our way through it… more on that later.

Back to how the pain body ends up in us and how to heal the pain body.

The Primal Brain, Or Fishy Brain

schooling fish, motivated by primal brain instinct

Starting while we were in the womb, the source layer of our nervous system comes online.

I like to refer to this fundamental layer of our nervous system as the primal brain.

The primal brain is the same part of the nervous system that a fish uses to school with other fish.

It’s the same part of the nervous system that a goose uses to know when it’s time to fly south.

The primal brain is very adept at feeling into our energetic environment and reading the energetic cues it finds there.

And its main concern is survival.

Since we rely on the people around us, usually our family, for our survival, the primal brain is keen on matching the subtle energetic cues it gets from these folks.

Certainly we adopt some of their finer points but we also adopt the unhealthy relationships they have with important human parts of themselves, fear, anger, joy, love, power, especially vulnerability, etc…

That’s not to say we should blame our problems on our parents.

They’re systems, picked up on these things from their parents, and they from theirs and so on going way back.

Collective Pain Body

Certainly we have our own individual pain bodies as a result of the hurts and traumas and accidents that we’ve experienced as individuals since we’ve been born but our individual pain body is being supported by the different collective pain bodies that we find ourselves soaking in when we show up here on earth.

There’s a familial pain body, a female pain body, a male pain body, a racial pain body, a cultural pain body, a generational pain body, a pain body associated with the country we live in, and others.

Our very sensitive primal brain picks up on these collective pain bodies and models itself them.

We should be kind to ourselves about our short comings then because our adoption of them happened by way of an unconscious and innocent survival instinct.

How Pain Body Leads To Chronic Suffering

Addiction To Thought

woman stuck and lost, how to heal the pain body

One characteristic of the pain body is it’s preference for and reliance on unconscious thought to keep it alive.

Most adult humans are completely captivated by the stream of thoughts (internal talk and images) moving through their heads.

This is something that has happened over the last few thousand years as humans have become more and more convinced of the preeminence of thought and as the collective pain body has gained more strength in humanity.

Consequently we’ve developed an addiction to our own thinking intelligence and an aversion to feeling our bodies.

Aversion To Feeling Our Bodies

If we don’t have a connection in our own bodies to that intelligence and the deep state of being (joy, compassion, love) that goes with it, then we’re likely to be tossed to and fro on the ocean of discursive thoughts and surface emotions that go with those thoughts.

We’re happy when things go the way we think they should go and unhappy when they don’t.

Generally we’re pleased with ourselves when the external world seems to validate our worth and displeased with ourselves when the external world appears to be responding unfavorably to us.

Thoughts Create Emotions And Vice Versa

All of those unfavorable things have thoughts and stories that go with them: “The world is against me, no matter what I do I can’t get ahead, no one wants to be with me,” etc…

There are emotions that go with those thoughts.

Emotion is a more body oriented thing, it’s energy in motion.

But because we’re averse to feeling our bodies, that energy squirts into our heads and creates more thoughts, which create more of the emotional sensations that we won’t feel…

…which creates more thoughts and around and around, the energy of the thing getting bigger and bigger.

Unresolved Energy

We’re trapped in this cycle and so there’s all this unresolved energy moving in our bodies that we won’t feel.

This is by design on some level.

As the energy gets bigger and bigger it eventually demands that we stop and give it our attention.

This excess, unresolved energy might manifest as tension in our bodies, defensive posture, organ systems that aren’t working like we’d like them to, emotional issues, illness of some sort, etc…

Unconsciousness Keeps The Pain Body Alive

As long as this cycle remains unconscious, the pain body gets to feed on all of the negativity that is created.

Unconsciousness around the pain body leads to bad habits, addictions and otherwise unproductive behaviors that it uses to create negativity and drama in a persons life, upon which the pain body feeds.

In fact, according to Eckart Tolle, because of the pain body’s need for drama we might even unconsciously get into an accident or manage to injure ourselves.

Relationships And The Pain Body

pain body causing a couple to fight

The pain body especially likes to use relationships.

Sometimes my wife and I get into a bad mood or get otherwise under-resourced somehow and when this is the case we tend to trigger our respective pain bodies.

We get into an argument and find ourselves saying things to each other that are basically designed to hurt each other.

This is the pain body speaking.

In those moments we don’t realize that these thoughts and emotions are not fundamentally us.

We have identified with them.

Later on after our pain bodies have fed on all the negativity they go dormant, we’re able to connect with our hearts again and it’s like, “what was that?”

Within each of these unsavory situations is an opportunity to let our attention be drawn to our bodies and actually get present and feel the pain body.

This is the solution to freeing our bodies and lives from the pain body because the pain body can’t survive in a conscious environment.

How To Heal The Pain Body In 4 Steps

If you’d rather watch here’s a video I made on how to heal the pain body:

If you like to get your information on the go, here is a podcast version of the above video:

Step 1: Catch Yourself Thinking

Whenever we catch ourselves thinking about conflict, worry, anxiety, etc… we can stop and think, what’s driving these thoughts?

Step 2: Identify The Emotion

Are they based on hurt, anger, fear, etc…?

Step 3: Bring Your Attention To The Sensation

Once you’ve identified the emotion that might be driving your thoughts, bring your attention to your body and see if you can pinpoint the flavor of anger or fear in your body.

Any nanosecond you’re letting your attention rest on the sensations in your body, the pain body is not running the show.

In fact you’re digesting that energy and converting it to wisdom and fuel for your healing.

Step 4: Generate Presence

Just letting your attention rest on your pain body will go a long way toward healing it.

If you want to resolve it completely, you’ll have to go one step further.

That step would be to reach to that energy of the pain body with your heart.

Thank it, even, for creating a window through which you can connect with your authentic self.

Breathe it into your heart.

Have compassion for it like you would any young being who is in pain.

The Benefits Of Healing The Pain Body

If you catch your pain body thinking, identify the pain body emotion, bring your attention to the sensation of that emotion and generate presence by welcoming it into your heart, the pain body will gradually dissolve and you’ll find that it doesn’t have the power over your body and life the way it used to.

You’ll experience:

  • less physical pain
  • less psychological pain
  • believe it or not, better posture
  • more access to your authentic nature which is love
  • more compassion for yourself
  • more compassion for others
  • feeling more connected to yourself
  • feeling more connected to others that you’re in relationship with
  • feeling more connected to nature and God
  • experiencing more flow in your body and life
  • feeling more connected to your purpose
  • more aware of your unique gifts
  • greater passion to share your gifts with the world

As you can see getting present and learning how to heal the pain body in you will have a hugely positive impact on every area of your life not the least of which is your spiritual growth and evolution.

The Next Step

If It Didn't Hurt

Eckhart Tolle has been a major influence in my life and in the creation of MY book, If It Didn’t Hurt: How To Resolve Your Pain And Discover Your Life Purpose.

Though I don’t use the word pain body in my book, the concepts are very much the same.

It’s on Amazon but you can get it for $3 less on my website.

And if you’re not ready to purchase you can read the first chapter for free. 

Know that I’ll always respond.

And I look forward to helping you express more life.

Your’s In Healing,

Dr. Jay

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About the Author Dr. Jay Uecker

Dr. Jay is the founder and owner of BioSoul Integration Center in Louisville, Colorado. He’s a chiropractor, a hands-on healer, an in-person and online soul integration coach and the author of If It Didn't Hurt: How To Resolve Your Pain And Discover Your Life Purpose. For two decades Dr. Jay has been helping people navigate their healing journeys. Over the course of that time he’s worked intimately with thousands of people. Those who are most drawn to Dr. Jay's work are those who are seeking to integrate and embody their soul's essence and their soul's gifts so they can share them with others. Life will keep nudging us in that direction, anyway. BioSoul Integration helps to speed up the process and smooth out the rough spots created by the innocent and unconscious resistance that lives in our primal brain and nervous system. Click the link to get your Personalized BioSoul Integration Guide.

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18 comments
Jassimene says August 3, 2019

Hi Jay, thank you for this article. I have been trying to stay present with the pain body (physical contraction and heaviness on my upper back, neck and chest)but its difficult to stay with it for long period of time. My thoughts just jump in and I get back to where I started. Is there anything I can do to help me stay present and aware of the pain body for longer periods of time so I can start healing it? Thank you.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says August 4, 2019

    Jassimene,
    Thanks so much for reaching out. It sounds like you’re doing great. It’s not a quick path. But if you keep at it it will transform your life… and your pain. You’re strengthening a muscle, your attention muscle, and part of it is you’ve just got to keep coming back to bringing your attention to the pain. Every second you’re doing that it’s getting integrated and you’re extracting the wisdom from it… turning it into fuel for your healing.

    The pain body is bound up physical, emotional and mental energy. All of those cause sensations in the body, yes, even thoughts cause a sensation. They’re all tied up in a knot. We get overwhelmed by it because that attention muscle is weak and we don’t have the strength to focus on what’s really relevant and true in any given moment. It hurts, thoughts start spinning, which creates more pain in our bodies that we can’t feel because we have an aversion to feeling our bodies, which creates more thoughts. The sensations get bigger and bigger and it’s designed that way so that we eventually have to feel the sensation.

    If you keep coming back to the pain it will change over time. If you want to speed it up you can learn to kind of pick apart that knot by bringing your attention selectively to the other components, ie the emotional energy, the mental energy and the sensations that go along with them.

    Here’s a meditation on connecting with the thoughts and emotions. You’ll see that I am using a tool to help direct your focus, called labels. You can label what you want to focus on. In the case of thoughts (a combination of images and internal talk) you can use the label HEAR or SEE respectively. In the case of emotion you can use the label FEEL: https://youtu.be/yFKsTXNRVb4

    It’s also good to give yourself a rest by focusing on things that aren’t the pain. Here’s a meditation to develop your ability to focus on restful states and the space around the pain. Very useful for dissolving pain and the pain body: https://youtu.be/MuDbD2DPgMg

    Here’s a link to the playlist that this is from. There are other meditations and commentary there that will help you if you’re wanting to explore further: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFS90Pu67_fu7W5sgQ_x9pg4ig46GMuXG

    All of these are based on the work of Shinzen Young. He has a home practice program that’s pretty cool: http://homepracticeprogram.com/

    Hope that helps. Keep on going. You’re on the path to changing your life.
    Blessings,
    Jay

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      Jassimene says June 18, 2024

      Thank you Jay

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        Dr. Jay Uecker says June 18, 2024

        You’re welcome!

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Louise Blakley says August 11, 2019

With Gratitude.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says August 12, 2019

    Back ‘atcha Louise. Blessings.

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Asha Brown says September 27, 2019

This should be how the physicatric field heals . Unfortunately Shrinks are still excitedly promoting Lythium! Invented in 1949 . Sad scarey but true. They r stuck somewhere. Just like a lot of religious organization but are a strong organization that the masses don’t challenge or demand change in. Those places should be reformed or people should shut them down. But many are ignorant about the human mind and how it works many are very ignorant about how a lot of legalinstitutions DON’T work! And actually nurture mental illness violence against others n self. It says so in the Bible but I guess many or most over look that passage. It also say anyone that tells the truth will not be respected by they family or the masses. Well not really. The scriptures also are talking about how to heal pain body. Casting out deomonds. It says all who believe can do it! It’s true. Sadly many if not most DON’T believe or want change. Yes some love pain. They may not know it but they do
They say owch convincingly but they do. A lot of people with Picieces Moon or planets or Aquarious planets like pain. It’s very unlikely profits are Picices. Or Aquarious. They artist but not healers unless They are fortunate enough to persue they talents it’s like they either create n heal threw creativity or self n other destruct. I guess that’s true for a lot of us of any zodiac sign. Meditation n writing can cast out deomonds or the pain body. In the Scriptures it’s call the justification by Faith or Grace! Forgiveness cleansing the mind of past trauma.Thankyou for posting your story. A combination of body movement writing meditation playing instrument.Avoiding opiates or speed does cause the uncoucious to wake up.! It’s a constant life long practice a councious person is Strong but still human and in the flesh. Also conciouness can get lonely. Yes if your family n neighbors r mostly sleep it lonely. But conciouness also gives less need for outside validation. It’s a more forfilled state. A person that is conciouness should make allies n have a mate cause you know harmones. But must be mindful of who they are dealing with n who they are. Uncoucious people can trigger a concious person Ego n pain body. Threw repeated exposure to the person that presses buttons n stress. That’s why Drugs should be avoided I think they strength the ego. Yes people that read this type of stuff need to be informed n reminded to pass of drugs. Or take care to at least stay balanced everything in balance.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says September 27, 2019

    Asha, I think you’re on to something. I’d say the psychiatric profession, like all professions, has its place. But I agree, medications of every kind are overused in general and can and do do harm on a number of levels, not the least of which is our growth and evolution as human beings.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says April 25, 2023

    Thanks for your comment,
    Jay

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Shae Hepburn says February 25, 2020

Dr.Jay
Superb info you provided! I have had 3 years cancer/PTSD recovery on super fast mode! Since the cancer remission so much of my PTSD recovery has happened, and yet now after so much work I did on my own healing I wake up most days feeling amazingly good mentally, emotionally and spiritually but my body is riddled with aches and pains. When I start to move my life forward I get unwell. I have no idea if my unconscious mind is trying to tell me I need to release the fear I know I must be still holding in my body following being drugged and raped many years ago,or if this is self sabotage due to fear of moving forward. I was under the impression if I healed my mind total healing would follow, but that’s not what has happened. How can I feel so good on all 3 levels and so not good on the physical ?What am I missing? I just want to be fully alive, vital and well, and it feels so real because I am already experiencing all that on the mental, emotional and spiritual level.I want it so bad because for the first time in years what I thought were lofty goals are becoming real, but if the body doesn’t follow suite then this recovery feels in incomplete.

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says February 25, 2020

    Shae,
    Thanks so much. I’m glad it felt useful to you. Congratulations on your cancer recovery. Sounds like you’ve been doing some really great healing work.

    It IS the body/mind after all. That means that it’s actually the same thing. They’re not separate at all.

    We always have this tendency to see physical symptoms as meaning that there’s something wrong. From a certain perspective, though, I don’t think there’s ever anything wrong. Symptoms, illness, whatever, show up as part of the process of healing… of becoming whole.

    The energy that is bound up in our systems as a result of the stuff we carried in with us, stuff that comes through our lineage, stuff that we picked up from our parents and our culture and the hurts and traumas and accidents that we encountered while we were here… it’s a massive amount of bound up energy. Sounds like you’ve done some serious healing on the level of mind and spirit. That releases the corresponding energy bound in the physical body. Moving and digesting and burning off that energy is likely to produce symptoms.

    Instead of looking at the physical symptoms as something’s wrong, look at it as what happens during the natural course of integrating the changes that have taken place in the mind and spirit. There’s probably parts that are holding on where that physical energy meets emotional energy.

    What emotions are related to the physical stuff? Confusion? Don’t let it hijack your thoughts, stay present with the sensation of confusion in your body. Frustration? Don’t let frustration hijack your thoughts, stay present with the sensation of frustration in your body. Fear? Don’t let fear hijack your thoughts, stay present with the sensation of fear in your body. Feeling like there’s something wrong? Don’t let that feeling hijack your thoughts, stay present with the sensation of something’s wrong in your body.

    Be curious about these sensations and these parts of you. Ask them what they need. If we assume that feeling those things means there’s something wrong… well, that’s another way of pushing those parts of ourselves away. And if we push them away they’re liable to push back.

    Life is not screwing with you. Your body is not screwing with you. Your body and your life are conspiring to help you feel what you need to feel in order to accomplish what you came here to accomplish. Trust what’s happening.

    That would be my two cents.

    Sounds like you’re doing great. Keep going.

    Let me know if I can further help you in any way,

    Blessings,
    Jay

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      Ralph says April 5, 2020

      Dr. John Sarno wrote a lot about this topic of pain and how it relates to the psyche. His books first helped me realize the same thing you are saying here. That led me to reading the Power of Now from Tolle, and I now consider my physical pain and digestive issues as part of my pain body. I had previously been going to doctor after doctor to find a physical cause, and they never could. They just said I have IBS, which isn’t really a disease, but a collection of uncomfortable symptoms. Now I know it is my pain body. Just knowing what it is makes a big difference.

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        Dr. Jay Uecker says April 7, 2020

        Ralph,
        There’s so much undigested emotion tied up in things like IBS. Your body and your life are not messing with you. What emotions do your symptoms bring up. Give yourself permission to feel the sensation of those emotions in your body. Every nano-second that your presence is resting on those sensations you’re digesting the bound up energy there. You’re on the right track my friend. Let me know if I can help. Blessings, Jay

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Julia says March 1, 2020

Thank you so much for this amazing article ❤️

Even though I intuitively know that I’m doing the “right” thing in healing my pain body it’s nice to get some confirmation

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says March 1, 2020

    Hey Julia,
    Glad my article was confirming. Great work.
    Blessings,
    Jay

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Annabel Brooks says November 16, 2020

Am very interested in your work. Thank you. Annabel

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Carmen says December 26, 2020

Hi, what are your thoughts about a negative memory that makes your stomach go into knots out of sadness and anxiety? This triggering thought just pops into my head causing a wave of sadness. Why would my brain continue to bring this image up when it causes so much pain? Is this thought what feeds the pain body and the solution is to not reject it but have compassion for it, separate yourself from it and refer to it as your pain body wanting to feed itself?

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    Dr. Jay Uecker says December 26, 2020

    Carmen,
    Well, thoughts and feelings trigger each other. But I’d say the feeling is the more fundamental. The thoughts are secondary, usually riding on a wave of suppressed emotion. It keeps coming up, likely, because you’ve judged some important part of yourself and continue to push it away. Generally thoughts are a representation of the many layers of meaning we’ve created around an event like the one you’ve experienced. All that stuff may or may not be true. But you can use your thoughts to get down to the core of things. What are the themes that show up in your thoughts around this event? Is it loss of power or betrayal or feeling worthless… things like that? Then bring your attention to your body and try to notice the flavor of, for example, loss of power if that’s the theme you’ve pinpointed. See if you can taste the flavor of loss of power in your body? Thoughts will bubble to the surface. Let them be there and keep coming back to the sensation of loss of power (or whatever it is) in your body. Every split second that you can just let your attention rest on that sensation, you’re integrating the suppressed energy. Your heart is starting to open to that part of yourself that got split off when this event happened, you’re becoming more whole. Commit to doing this and you’ll be transformed.

    If you want to go the extra mile, actually reach to the sensation of loss of power (or whatever the theme and the sensation) with your heart. Or breathe it into your heart. Thank it. Feel appreciation and gratitude for the sensation of the theme.

    I know this might seem far fetched right now but keep going until you can see the good things that came of this event and have to admit to yourself that it was a gift. I’ve found that traumatic events are things that happen to help us heal a habitual loss of power that’s already there or a sense of being betrayed that’s already there or whatever the theme is. These things get stored in our systems when we’re in the womb and follow us through our lineage. So fundamentally it’s stuff that’s not even yours. Keep doing what I’ve said above and transforming it in this way will eventually reveal your unique gifts. Then you can serve others with those gifts and this thing that happened can be turned into a gift for you and everyone on the planet.

    Hope that helps.
    Blessings,
    Jay

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