Some of my highlights during Chapter 6 - Breaking Free from the pain body:
BOOK IDEA: Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
- You are not your thoughts but the AWARENESS of your thoughts.
- Learn to accept what ever emotion arises within you.
- Wanting something that is different than it IS causes stress.
- Let go of mental positions (being a 'right fighter') - if you identify with this it's the ego.
- When you begin to awaken, this sometimes means you have to let go of something that used to give you a false sense of self.
- When people begin to become more present, some friends will join you and others will fail to join you....but don't focus your energy on those that did not join you. (ex. run your own race, if you're running and keep turning behind you to see who's behind you - you waste energy turning around)
- It's easier to detect pain body in others than in yourself.
- Question: When we are in the pain body's grip, what are some ways we can get free?
- catch it as it arises (if it's too late the pain body will take over - a small thing happens and you can flare up)
- Realize what kind of situation triggers your pain body and bring consciousness into your body when these triggers happen.
- Be AWARE of the pain body - then they can't renew themselves and they will subside
- You attract certain things into your life that reflect your (inner) state of consciousness.
- It's always more important what your interstate of consciousness is than the external situation.
- Remind yourself to be AWARE of what is going on inside of you.
- Love has no wanting, it wants nothing in return
- The extent to which you can love another human being depends on the extend to which you are connected to your own essence.
- Every human being has their own CROSS TO BARE (in parallel to Jesus on the cross) He has come to the point to accept the suffering in the present moment - no more inner resistance.
- The very moment the worst thing can happen to you - if you surrender to it, there's an opening that allows energy of the divine to come through.
- Grace is hiding behind suffering - but will not show itself until you surrender (suffer consciously).
- When parents argue in front of children - you are creating and reinforcing your children's pain body's
- Children ABSORB your pain body - whether you fight in front of children or do not
- Children don't have the language so they pick up on the 'bad' energy of the pain body.
- When you see a pain body episode in your child, talk to them to help them begin to become aware - questions to ask:
- What was it that came over you when you wouldn't stop screaming?
- Do you remember?
- What did it feel like?
- Was it a good feeling?
- That thing that came over you, does it have a name?
- No? If it had a name, what would it be called?
- If you could see it, what would it look like?
- Can you paint a picture of what it would look like?
- What happened to it when it went away?
- Did it go to sleep?
- Do you think it may come back?
- These questions will help your child begin to become aware.
- The past has no power over the present moment.
- Get still, bring yourself to the present moment.
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