tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819769475022015979.post3008850035141260812..comments2023-02-12T15:24:30.284+00:00Comments on Give an Earthly: Baby Steps: Back into the Frayearthlytreasureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247034421266467240noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819769475022015979.post-36658913019069452292011-06-27T20:27:26.244+01:002011-06-27T20:27:26.244+01:00Ha! ask my husband how much candid positivity was ...Ha! ask my husband how much candid positivity was sloshing around here this morning!! Very growly mama! We have been SOOOOO sick here this year- from last Nov till last week there has been at least one, if not more of our household really sick - we have had swine flu, other flu, umpteen coughs and chest infections, ear infection, tonsilitis, hand foot and mouth, stomach abscess, two vomitting bugs, and diahorrea bugs and a baby who teeths for 4 months at a time for one flipping tooth. Hardcore breastfeeding a needy baba and lack of sleep are an evil combo - we're there right now, and I'm threatening to quit the feeding... I am with you sister! Baking stuff always cheers me up! <br><br>I HATE the crankiness that comes with being sick... but I find it is actually part of the physical/ spiritual purging of illness... but also the idea of the pain body - Eckhart Tolle in his superbly insightful book A New Earth has a concept he describes as the pain body <br><br>"This accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body and mind. If you look on it as an invisible entity in its own right, you are getting quite close to the truth. It's the emotional pain body. It has two modes of being: dormant and active.<br><br>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 own kind of energy, anything that creates further pain in whatever form: anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, violence, and even illness.<br><br>Once the pain body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others."(see Choosing to live on my blog if you don't know what I mean) comes into play too with illness...<br><br>Be gentle with yourself, you'll come right xDreamingaloudnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08664045557725853106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819769475022015979.post-10856725467045600572011-04-28T12:25:36.625+01:002011-04-28T12:25:36.625+01:00Ok ok you definitely win on the illness front - my...Ok ok you definitely win on the illness front - my god I don't know how you manage! <br /><br />Fantastic quote, I will have to look that one out. I think for me part of the healing process is definitely to keep myself under wraps until I'm ready for the big bad world again, but the danger comes when I stay there too long and don't want to resurface!<br /><br />I envy your library; it sounds magnificent! By the way, I've found fresh ginger (perfect in honey and lemon) is really rather brilliant at keeping chest infections at bay - both for mamma and babba (by proxy). <br /><br />xearthlytreasureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247034421266467240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819769475022015979.post-83139851635184516892011-04-27T23:00:52.261+01:002011-04-27T23:00:52.261+01:00Ha! ask my husband how much candid positivity was ...Ha! ask my husband how much candid positivity was sloshing around here this morning!! Very growly mama! We have been SOOOOO sick here this year- from last Nov till last week there has been at least one, if not more of our household really sick - we have had swine flu, other flu, umpteen coughs and chest infections, ear infection, tonsilitis, hand foot and mouth, stomach abscess, two vomitting bugs, and diahorrea bugs and a baby who teeths for 4 months at a time for one flipping tooth. Hardcore breastfeeding a needy baba and lack of sleep are an evil combo - we're there right now, and I'm threatening to quit the feeding... I am with you sister! Baking stuff always cheers me up! <br /><br />I HATE the crankiness that comes with being sick... but I find it is actually part of the physical/ spiritual purging of illness... but also the idea of the pain body - Eckhart Tolle in his superbly insightful book A New Earth has a concept he describes as the pain body <br /><br />"This accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body and mind. If you look on it as an invisible entity in its own right, you are getting quite close to the truth. It's the emotional pain body. It has two modes of being: dormant and active.<br /><br />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 own kind of energy, anything that creates further pain in whatever form: anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, violence, and even illness.<br /><br />Once the pain body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others."(see Choosing to live on my blog if you don't know what I mean) comes into play too with illness...<br /><br />Be gentle with yourself, you'll come right xAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08664045557725853106noreply@blogger.com