Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and the thought process, and sets the process of transmutation in motion.
It is as if the pain became fuel for the flame of your conscience, which from then on burns brighter.
This is the esoteric meaning of the ancient alchemical art: the transmutation of lower metals into gold, or suffering into consciousness.
The internal division is healed and you are whole again.
Thereafter your responsibility is not to create more pain.
FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON WHAT YOU FEEL INSIDE YOU.
Identify the pain-body and accept that it is there.
Avoid thinking about him, don’t let the feeling become a thought.
Don’t judge or analyze.
Do not make an identity with pain.
Stay present and continue to be an observer of what is happening within you.
Become aware not only of the emotional pain, but also of “the one who watches it,” the silent witness.
This is the power of now, the power of your own conscious presence. Watch what happens next.
Eckhart Tolle
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