When the mind is in an egoic state, it causes the emotional body to form habits and core beliefs that often cause us to suffer and hold stress. Eckhart Tolle refers to this as the pain body.
Each thought elicits a corresponding emotion for we are creatures of both thought and feeling. In fact, we are mostly feeling in that the subconscious constitutes 95% of our being We have thousands of different thoughts a day therefore we have thousands of different emotions running around out body causing one chemical reaction after another. The emotional body tends to use the limbic system while the mind tends to use the CNS/PNS. Clearly then we can see that we are putting unnecessary stress on both our mental and physical systems by allowing both the conscious and subconscious mind rise in incessant thoughts and feelings that quite often oppose each other is detrimental to our wellbeing. It is unnecessary as the egoic state of mind is not our natural state of mind.
As previously stated, we have thousands of different thoughts and feelings running our mind and body and we know that not all of them agree with each other. In fact, we are more at war with ourselves than we are at peace. Truthfully speaking, we are as a house; divided against itself. This analogy is nothing if not apt
When we begin the road less travelled on our journey back home to ourselves, we learn to keep our conscious mind in our subconscious awareness which is in and felt as the present moment. Our first port of call them is healing the emotional body that became damaged while in our egoic state. This must be done before the mind can truly hold a meditative state. One’s thoughts and emotions must be resting in peace. Only then will the ego breath its last liberating us from the egoic experience.
As we bring our conscious mind, our presence to our emotional body we begin cognizing or become conscious of what has been haunting us. I use the word haunting as I find it quite apt in this case. Our feelings and emotions are a huge part of our being which we tend to suppress due to them being felt as painful and more often than we can bear. So we don't look at them. We don't address them. We don't allow ourselves to feel what our thoughts inspired. We distract ourselves with any number of things from drugs to over work to incessant gaming. Because we have given them little voice and attention, they have stayed within our body, unresolved, while we move on with life, forgetting they are there. This in turn causes us to be subconscious, unconsciously, ill and ease within ourselves, while wondering consciously why we feel this way. The only way back to healing our emotional body is to let them rise and address them. Once you allow the feelings to rise the reasons and thoughts that created them will rise again also giving you insight into yourself you never had before. In this manner you can get rid of redundant core beliefs and habits that no longer serve you.
You will note that in the word emotion is motion. Emotion is what inspires the body to act on thought which in turn inspires the body to move, to bring motion, to create life in the outer world. If emotion is not spent, it will instead stay within the body as pressure which over time builds up. Until this motion is spent it will cause havoc within us and be reflected with some kind of disease due to the body not being subconsciously, unconsciously ill at ease.
Once the two minds are working as one and we are at peace with ourselves, our conscious awareness as the mind, son or Incarnate Soul will begin to expand like one light after another going on in a dark warehouse, lighting up what was once invisible to us. We start to become conscious of what was once unconscious. Our Spirit being Soul aka Awareness was always there, we were just not conscious of it due to our presence of being - our consciousness being lost in thought – outside of Temples Awareness. Now we are conscious of this Awareness, we as mind conscious awareness, begin to merge with the conscious awareness of Spirit and Self-Realization is experienced.
~ Tracy Pierce
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