 So I talk a lot about the power of your thoughts when it comes to procrastination in these videos and today I'm going to talk about the ultimate next level in Getting past procrastination and that's your emotions your emotions are one of the biggest blocks in this So how do we deal with negative emotions that hold us back and cause us to procrastinate? I'm going to talk about a concept in this video. It's from Eckhart Toll and in my opinion, it's his Best concept the best thing he ever came up with really in all of his teachings and that is called What he refers to as the pain body? What is the pain body? Well, it's pain and the body put together the pain body is basically the remnants of all the trauma past failures past unprocessed emotions that you have Built up and it's like a trapped energy in your body Now this pain body this negative emotion flares up from time to time Now I'm going to read you a little quote here from Eckhart Toll when he's told tolle. I'm not quite sure Like our tolle I call him but I'm going to read you a quote here He's talking about this thing called the pain body. So let's try and find out what he means by it So he says the pain body wants to survive just like every other entity in existence And it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it It can then rise up take you over become you and Live through you it needs to get its food through you It will feed on any experience that resonates With its kind of energy anything that creates further pain in whatever form anger destructiveness hatred grief emotional drama violence and even illness So the pain body when it has taken you over will create a situation in your life that reflects back its own energy Frequency for it to feed on It finally says pain can only feed on pain Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible so the pain body The real reason I'm bringing this up today is because I've worked with a lot of people in procrastination and A lot of our focus has been on correcting beliefs correcting thinking patterns limiting beliefs and maladaptive thinking patterns Now you can get all of those things lined up You can learn all that stuff, but there will still be this thing called the pain body that's there So really I'm talking here today about managing expectations Just because you've got your thinking better and you're questioning these limiting beliefs that are there Does not mean that your negative emotion is just going to disappear like that. It's not going to change like that One of the biggest mistakes we make when it comes to this pain body this entity that latches on to us and makes us Identify with it. We say to ourselves. I am anxious. I am afraid. I am angry, etc. etc I am lonely Is that we resist it Okay, we fight against it rather than just allowing it to be but Also this identifying ourselves from it Not identifying ourselves with the pain body We create a gap between us and that pain and then we don't have to act out of that pain that pain That pain body is a bottomless pit That will never be fully satiated. It wants to consume and wants to create more and more pain Now the reason it flares up from time to time is because It wants to survive and it knows that if it causes you too much pain You will draw a line under and you will take radical action not to put up with it anymore It will become intolerable. So it comes in it feeds Has this negative emotion which causes us to act out in self-destructive ways To perpetuate more and more pain and then it goes away Because it doesn't want to push you too far. It's like a parasite that latches on to us Right now I don't want to use too much strong negative language because I don't want you to even be afraid of this thing called the pain body because all its power comes from us Identifying with it and also resisting it wishing that it goes away Rather than first of all, here's the trick. Here's what I want to really share with you today How do we move past this this pain body? One of the best things we can do is first of all, we don't identify with it We don't resist it, but we can figure out when it tends to flare up for us and be ready to start to Feel those emotions Disidentify from those emotions and let them pass through. So for instance, it could be on your commute to work every day It could be before you go to sleep It could be when you come home to your partner at the end of the day Okay, you find yourself drawn to certain behaviors that will you know will perpetuate misery and suffering for you Okay, you could oversleep. You might want to You could stay up too late. You could have an argument with your partner Okay, you could constantly continue to rush in the morning to be late for work a pattern It goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks. This is the pain body We know consciously it doesn't make sense, but we keep on Allowing it to sustain itself off of us So first identify when are these times for me personally that it tends to flare up and then be ready to Feel it not resist it and not act from it. Okay, so I really think this is such an important topic for us because As I said, the pain body concept is probably I think Eckhart told his biggest Contribution to healing spirituality if you want to call it that So guys food for thought there if you like this video if you have any more questions, of course, you can ask me there You can contact me on my website Like the video if you want it helps me a lot You can subscribe to the channel if you like this content and you can also contact me for one-to-one Sessions online so I'm a licensed therapist and a psychologist and I do one-to-one online counseling with people to move past this self-sabotage and procrastination and Very trauma effectively. Okay, so I'll leave it there for today guys. Thanks so much for watching and have a great day And I'll talk to you again soon