What Re-Reading Eckhart Tolle Reminded me About Relationships

I am currently in London enjoying a sense of peace and freedom for the first time since I crossed the border from Canada to the United States during COVID. In fact, I had dinner last night with a 22 year old who was intuitively traveling for the same reason — whatever is percolating in the United States, from an energetic perspective, has been incredibly challenging for intuitive and sensitive souls. So in this new place of getting back into my meditation practice, I heard my inner voice tell me to re-open A New Earth. I am glad I followed my intuition.

For a large portion of this book, Tolle talks about the pain-body or the unhealed aspects of our soul that gets triggered and the energy our ego feeds off of. I have always resonated with the concept of relational spirituality that seeks to see our relationship with a higher power as an attachment relationship that influences our relationships in real life. If we see the Universe as all knowing and punishing, we are likely to have more abusive relationships in our living life. Yet, what re-reading about the pain body reminded me is that many of us are actually addicted to emotional pain.

“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. Its survival depends on your…