The Pain Body as a Call to Presence

We all have our patterns, for better or for worse. We all have patterns that have the potential to cause suffering in some shape or form — suffering to ourselves, and at times, suffering to others.

We have a society that favors eradicating pain rather than embracing it.

Yet pain has a lot of information for us; emotions, in general, are so rich with information that they deserve a little attention.

Yet, we don’t seem to have the education in managing emotions. How to be with strong charges, how to listen, how to meet our emotions and understand the messages they have for us.

Because they do have messages. Not only do they have messages, but even deeper, they have an energy that needs to move.

E-motion.

They want to move.

They need to express.

What happens when they don’t?

They get stuck. We can get psychologically stuck and physically stuck.

Physical pain where emotions are trapped & sometimes disease.

Psychological pain, whereby we loop the same painful narratives of our ‘self stories,’ and wonder why our lives repeat the same old patterns.

What happens when we let them move?

When we let emotions do their thing?

Firstly, we have to feel them.

Considering the immense amount of distraction we have in this world to enable suppression, this first point therefore takes both a willingness and an awareness of bodily sensation to even know they are there.

They require a little interoception.

They require presence.

So a familiar negative thought loop, a physical ache/tension, an emotion, a feeling, a sensation, can all be a call to presence.

They have all been calling us back the whole time, yet we’ve been going out.

The body is incredibly intelligent. It’s always moving toward healing. It knows how to heal. The mind, however, is often not obeying its call. The mind-body split can have us pulled in different directions.

The pain body is a term coined by Eckhart Tolle, which encompasses our deepest conditioned patterns that have the strongest charges for us — these have the power to pull us unconscious. These are what we call ‘triggers.’

Contrary to popular belief, these are not a problem. How we respond can be a problem (attack/defense, etc.).

These are the loudest calls back to presence!

Our bodies, in these moments, are calling us back to a wound that requires our attention for it to heal.

Triggers — strong emotional charges — moments when one loses their power of RESPOND-ABILITY, are a signpost straight back to a fracture point that is looking to move back into wholeness.

Our pain is lighting up our path back to wholeness.

Our pain is a call to presence.

What we aren’t told in our culture is that wounds are doorways; they are doorways into meeting ourselves as great love.

When we become able to meet our pain in presence, we slowly start to see we are not our patterns, we are not eternally bound to this pain body, we are, in fact, the presence itself.

The very thing we were avoiding, the painful thoughts, the painful patterns, were all a call. The body’s innate intelligence is bringing us back home to ourselves.

The kind of therapy I do is assisting your self-study by being a loving presence as you explore your signals back home to yourself.

I help with presence and present-moment awareness, so we feel together what signals your body is giving off.

And we follow them… We follow the natural call of the body and its innate intelligence.

You do not have to have a problem to come to this therapy. On the contrary, your body may be calling you back to your inherent joy, your capacity for love, your zest for life.

Your body knows the score.