Dis-Identifying from Your Emotions
by Edwin Harkness Spina
As our last lesson explained, anger arises when expectations
do not match reality. Saying "I am angry," is one of the
most disempowering phrases you can ever utter. Not only does
saying it deny the reality of the situation, more
dangerously, using the word "AM" equates an emotion with who
you are. This is a surefire path to suffering.
The ego is responsible for misleading you into identifying
yourself with your body, emotions and thoughts. You may have
a body, feel emotions and think thoughts, but none of these
are who you are. You are a magnificent spiritual being.
Identifying with anything other than your true spiritual
nature will eventually lead to suffering.
In his latest book, A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle defines the
"pain-body" as "the energy field of old, but very-much-alive
emotion that lives in almost every human being." It contains
both individual and collective elements. In other words,
this is your emotional body, which contains all of the
accumulated emotions and feelings that you have become
attached to. For all of us who are not yet self-realized,
this emotional body becomes a pain-body that is activated by
various stimuli.
Identification with your pain-body can totally blind you to
your true self. In some cases, when your pain-body is
activated, your personality can change overnight, as you
forget who you are and "become" your pain. The Law of
Attraction tells us that this is a self-reinforcing cycle.
Pain attracts more pain, and when the conscious mind is
contributing, your pain-body grows even faster.
If you suffered from a bad experience in the past, whenever
a similar experience arises, your pain-body automatically
recalls the memory. Instantly, it reminds you of this by
secreting the same chemicals that produced the initial
feeling, just like a tuning fork that begins to vibrate when
a nearby turning fork plays the same note.
Worse, you get addicted to these chemicals (even when
they're not good for you) which reinvigorates your pain-
body.
Your goal is to break your identification with your pain-
body, and identify with your true self. There are two
practices that can help you to accomplish this.
Presence
The first is to bring "present awareness" to the situation.
This is in keeping with the mystic directive, "know
thyself." When you are aware that you are being triggered,
rather than simply reacting, you can remain detached, and
separate your emotions from your true self.
Tolle believes you will eventually become so sick and tired
of being stimulated by your own and other's pain-bodies that
you will, in desperation, seek to dis-identify with them.
This can happen in an instant, since all that's needed is to
shine present awareness on the situation.
This is what happened to him, and explains the revelations
that others undergo, when they "snap" from overwhelming
suffering and spontaneously gain Presence. The downside of
relying on overwhelming suffering is that it can take a
while to get "fed up," and "snapping" does not always
produce a positive result.
Purification
The second approach is the path of purification, that is,
eliminating the negative energies that are lodged in your
emotional body. This also requires present awareness, but
can be dramatically facilitated by an external source of
high-vibrational energy.
Physics tells us that higher frequency energy is more
powerful than lower-frequency energy. When you infuse higher
dimensional energy into a lower dimensional form, the lower
energies must leave or be transformed.
By eliminating the lower density, negative energies, you
will not be stimulated by another's pain-body. Your
tolerance will grow exponentially, as you will no longer
unconsciously resonate with others' emotional pains. You
will remain compassionate, but detached.
Of course, without changing your thoughts or, at least,
becoming aware of the thoughts that precipitated the painful
emotions, clearing out your pain-body will be only a
temporary solution. But when your emotional body is cleared,
you will be less likely to identify with it. Unhealthy
feelings will become the exception, rather than the rule.
You will come to identify with your true self, and not your
emotions.
When your emotional body is clear, the Law of Attraction
will work in your favor. People who were previously
attracted to the emotional pains in your energy body will no
longer be attracted. Purification eliminates the toxins that
attract "toxic people." When this pain is replaced by love
and higher vibrational energies, you will attract higher
minded, spiritual people and will actually repel angry or
fearful people.
As Jesus said, "For he that hath, to him shall be given: and
he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he
hath." This is the Law of Attraction in biblical terms. You
must decide what you want to attract. Presence and
purification lead to identification with your true self;
unconscious thoughts lead to pain and suffering.
To eliminate lower-vibrational, negative energies that lead
to stress, anger, pain and suffering, and infuse yourself
with higher-vibrational energies that help you connect to
your true self, visit:
www.EnergyCenterClearing.com/ECC.html
Best wishes,
Ed
P.S. Your feedback is welcomed - please send your comments to me at:
ehspina@mysticwarrior.us
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