The pain body is part of the human condition. In this episode, Eckhart talks further about the pain body.

He compares it to the character, Gollum in Lord of the Rings. He says the pain body feeds on suffering and creates

misery for everyone. However, Eckhart explains once we recognize the pain body

for what it is, we don't have to be held hostage anymore because our awareness is the first step

toward freedom.

Eckert goes on to say people with a heavy pain body are often eager to awaken spiritually.

He explains when the discomfort becomes so great they take action to alleviate it.

Eckard admits he was such a person.

Early in life he was deeply unhappy with himself until age 29

when he underwent a profound spiritual transformation. Eckhart explains the

pain body may seem like a huge obstacle.

However, paradoxically, he says it can also act

as a powerful catalyst to awaken.

There's this weird creature.

Golan, I think it's in Lord of the Rings and that that creature is to me I see it as

a personification of the human pain body because it lives in

continuous deep pain and it's beautifully portrayed also in the movie it goes

like movie, it goes like, there's the pain body, you can see it.

You can learn a lot by just

by just watching that and maybe that thing lives in you somewhere. Maybe it

lives in you and occasionally it wakes up and wants to feed on more of the same vibrational frequency that makes up its being.

So it feeds on drama and unhappiness and whatever form it may take.

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