Attached to your pain?

To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain

can be quite a shocking realization. The moment you realize this, you

have broken the attachment.  The pain-body is an energy field, almost

like an entity, that has become temporarily lodged in your inner space.

It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is  no longer

flowing.  Of course , the pain-body is there because of certain things

that happenned in the past.  It is the living past in you, and if you identify

with it , you identify with the past. A victim identity is the belief that the

past is more powerul than the present, which is the opposite of the truth.

It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible

for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your

true self.  The truth is that the only power there is, is contained within this

moment:  It is the power of your presence....and the past cannot prevail

against the power of the now.

                                                Eckhart Tolle  The Power of Now