Term

Pain-body

An image from Tolle's book, not a medical term: accumulated old emotional pain that wakes up from time to time and looks for new drama.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle

Explained in

• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

  A reserve of unresolved grief and hurt that builds up inside a person over the years, one that wakes up from time to time and looks for a reason to grow — through an argument or a spiral of dark thoughts.

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