Cut the link between emotion and thought

When pain body is activated, how to lessen grip on me?  Despite awareness, feel agitated and at its mercy.  How to flap wings to release energy?

What is the trigger?  Certain thoughts in the head.  How to turn it off?

Observe link between thought processes and emotions.  Important to cut the link.  Pain body feeds on certain thought processes.  By feeding the thoughts, you amplify the pain body.  Ducks do not think about...
Thinking becomes totally contaminated by old emotions inside you, total distortion of reality, thinking through the emotion.  One can be totally deluded at the moment.  No separation from emotion and thought.

See how it arises and catch it at early stage.  See that it is the pain body.

Be the awareness, allow it to be there.  Don't think "I shouldn't be feeling it."  In the spaciousness, it disintegrates.  Be careful it does not feed on your thought.  It requires alertness.  Go into the feeling of the inner body so that attention moves away from mind to the inner body.  Be present as part of your being.  Emotions feed on the mind.  Catch the thought.  Cut the link between emotion and thought by being aware, being alert.  The sword of presence to cut the link.

The duck which flaps its wings leaves no trace of the fight.  Nothing, just gone.

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2 Resources to Help Me Through Depression

A few days ago, I found the most valuable treasure to help me through the dark days.

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And yesterday I found a book by Philip Martin called The Zen Path through Depression which tells me that it's ok to have depression.  It's an answer to my silent prayer.

I already feel presence and stillness.

From totally lost to awareness

Yesterday was an experience to remind me again of my own true self.  It started normally.  But somehow by evening, I was tensed and tired again.  After a short nap, I woke up feeling worse off than before.  My chest hurt, especially when I swallowed my food at dinner time.  Then after my shower with the kids all over me, I started to lose my cool.  I cannot remember everything that happened but I just started shouting and screaming at my kids.  I could no longer hold it in.  I felt I was losing it.  I felt like dying.

I locked myself in the back room for a while after asking the boys to leave me alone.  I was lost in my thoughts and emotions.  My ego was feeding on them, making me like a person gone mad.  I started to look at myself, at my thoughts and emotions.  Tears rolled down my cheeks.  I sat so quietly.  My older sons knocked on the door to find out how I was doing.  I let them in but did not talk to them.  They became quiet.

Then I started to read Eckhart Tolle's new book Oneness with All Life.  After reading the first chapter, I decided to re-red his earlier book A New Earth to better understand what had happened to me.  In reading his book, I felt a calmness over me as my ego diminished.  I became aware of my thoughts and emotions, that they are not who I am.  Watching them, I became awareness.

Eckhart Tolle's new book is out

I was at Borders today and found that Eckhart Tolle has just launched his new book after A New Earth.  The book is aptly titled Oneness With All Life.  I browsed through it and of course, he writes with such calmness.  One actually feels his peace exuberating from the book.  

He also has a book for Children - Milton's Secret.  I have not seen it but I think it is somewhat like what Stephen Hawking's George's Secret Key to The Universe.

Go to his website www.eckharttolle.com to find out more.