One of the things that finally clued me in – aside from denouncing all the popular culture myths of what love is – is Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

It always breaks my heart a little when people get a divorce. Even celebrities. It’s worth mourning.

It occurs to me when others divorce, or when I have considered ending my own marriage, that the people trying to escape are never, ever going to escape. They will find temporary relief from the pain.

They will either live alone and long for someone or they will find someone new with similar issues and problems, who touch on the exact same nerves and sore spots.

Because the issue isn’t with your current spouse. It’s with you. His issue is his issue and yours is yours. You think you’ll escape yours when you leave him, but God/The Universe will hand it right back to you in the shape and form of someone else equally dysfunctional. Because we all are. Dysfunctional, I mean. Until we wake up and get a spiritual clue.

Eckhart Tolle says it like this,

Humaninty is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race. This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular. Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict ridden as the are now. As you may have noticed, they are not here to make you happy or fulfilled. If you continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born in this world. For those who hold on to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion and madness.

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True Love, Right Now

A tip for your self esteem during a lifestyle change. . .

Don’t weigh-in if you’re on your period and experiencing the PMS Pain Body. If you do – you will take it personally that you’re right back where you started.

Take the week off. Not from exercise – because I’ve found that if you are carrying the pain of all women, everywhere, since the dawn of time – that vigorous exercise and yoga is a really good thing to do with all that negative energy. The endorphins to the brain are priceless too.

But, definately boycott the scale during that time. It’s just another way to show yourself some kindness.

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Boycott the Scale during Pain Body PMS

I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

He introduces the idea of a Pain Body. The Pain Body is also discussed in great detail in his other book A New Earth.

Basically, he says that one part of the human condition is a pain body. We have personal pain bodies that result from things that happen specifically to us. But, we also have collective pain bodies that come from being members of a group – women, for instance.

Tolle says that because of several thousand years of oppression, repression, violence, rape, battery, harassment, slavery and sexism baby girls are born with a collective pain body associated with being female. Carl Jung spoke of a collective consciousness, a similar idea.

PMS and menstruation is when women tend to identify with or lose ourselves in our pain body, Tolle says. This results in physical symptoms like cramps or headaches for some women, but also in bad attitudes, negativity, anger or frustration in many women.

In other words – one explanation of PMS would be psychic pain for all crimes against femininity throughout history – starting with Eve. There’s a great deal to be pissed about.

The degree to which this affects women is determined by how much they identify with the collective pain body of women or being a woman.

Feminists, for example, might identify with the pain body deeper because their identity as women is stronger and they are aware of and focus on crimes against women in general. Feminists identify strongly with “what men have done to us” and the resulting pain.

Likewise, a “submissive wife” would feel a high degree of the feminine pain body as she associates a large part of her identity with “the curse of Eve” and taking care not to step out of her “proper role.”

Both are a version of a “victim identity” and keep women in bondage to the past. But, there is true power and peace available to women in the present moment, says Tolle.

The cure for PMS and identification of the Collective Feminine Pain Body, Tolle says, is to stay present during our PMS or our menstruation cycles and recognize our bad attitudes, cramps, emotional roller-coaster as “just the pain body” and try to dissolve and “transmute” the anger, pain, unforgiveness into forgiveness, love and peace for the crimes against womanhood historically.

Thus transforming our psychic pain into true psychic and spiritual power.

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PMS = Women’s Collective Pain Body

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Tracee on Lisa.fm Tomorrow.

*** Don’t miss my debut discussion of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61) on Lisa.fm Book Club, online radio at 3 PM Pacific on March 25.

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A New Earth Radio Chat

Me, of course.

Are you too going to make time to discuss the Flowering of Human Consciousness as Eckhart Tolle describes?

If so, please join me at So Sioux Me where I’ll be discussing the online course simultaneously over the next 10 weeks.

Awaken tonight at 8 pm Central time at Oprah.com and So Sioux Me.

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Human Consciousness Flowers Tonight

Starting Monday, March 3rd, Oprah Winfrey and best selling author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle will team up to teach a live weekly webcast centered around Mr. Tolle’s book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)“.

This revolutionary webcast is being hailed “the biggest classroom ever.”
I’ve finished the book and found it to be enlightening and awakening just as promised. Please, join me over at So Sioux Me to have an in-depth discussion beginning March 3 after the online course.

It’s free. You just have to buy the book, which is less than $10 on Amazon. Buy it here A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)“.

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A New Earth Community

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Last Day To Win A New Earth

Leave a comment over on A New Earth Oprah Giveaway to win.

For other contests hop over to Prize-A-Tron, a blog about blog contests. Groovy.

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Another A New Earth to Giveaway

That said, I would point out that you can score a copy for under $10 at Amazon at through this link, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61). In todays’ world, $8.40 is really one super-sized lunch.

Surely, it’s worth two Grande Mocha Lattes to deconstruct yourself and be part of creating A New Earth. The online class, beginning the first Monday in March on Oprah.com, is free remember.

Kam A, I very much hope you enjoy your free copy. I’ll email you directly to get your mailing address. If the prize goes unclaimed for 48 hours I’ll award it to the next name drawn. See the original contest post here.

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Oprah University Contest Winner