Easing Into Relaxed Awareness When Experiencing Intense Physical Pain 

Sending love to the Lady who asked the question ❤️❤️❤️

I found that as soon as I started to accept and nourish the pain sensations the less intense the pain. For many years I tried to get rid of this pain, figure it out, find its root, but then I turned to love and gave the pain the gentle & compassionate attention it was seeking. I enjoyed watching this exploration.

One of the problems with *different levels of truth* is that it can be gaslighting or even abusing in the wrong context, even though it's not intended by the advisor. A good example is when teaching non-resistance to someone who's in pain. I see kim eng explain how to label the pain of the questioner as sensation, and to endlessly accept, like it'll be there forever (to bypass the need for the ego to want it to end asap.) The advise completely disregards the fact that the questioners pain may be pointing to physical, nutritional or psychological/ emotional changes she needs to make in her life. It's not "blaming" other people, to realise that you can choose to eliminate people from your life, move location or put up stronger boundaries. I'm talking from experience, I wanted a lot of escape when I started my awakening journey, but even meditation and detachment can be escapism! Pain has a valid function, it points to aspects of our lives that aren't working, but we need the inner work simultaneously, so that we don't endlessly project our problems onto external factors. But it's a fact that when you start to wake up, changing diet and sometimes your whole social circle is actually common. Another good example is eckharts video on forgiveness. You can drop to a space of realisation that nothing needs forgiving. Unfortunately, this is what we all do, but we do it from repression, and denial of our parent's and other's abuse, but keep our pain and it adds to the painbody. Most people need emotional work to come to that Level of truth: that your life is the perfectly orchestrated story of awakening through pain, and you thank your perpetrators, now recognised as teachers. I love their teachings, but every truth needs proper context.

My heart goes out to the lady questioner. Sure there's a time for "accept and surrender" and then there's a time to take a practical approach and find the root cause and diagnosis of your ailment.

"This too shall pass" is what also helped me while I was observing the acute pain in my body.

I’m sorry everyone but this is the first time I have disagreed with the answer given to this poor lady, I honestly don’t believe she has to accept this pain forever! This is a heartless response to someone in deep need, she needs medical attention etc as pain like that would be debilitating. I’m sure Eckhart would have given a very different answer, also would have been more compassionate.

Sometimes there is no answer and then it might be better not to answer and to just hug and be there with the other.

It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who feels this way. My next step when this pain arises is to accept it as forever.

I respect the various teachers who have answered questions like this. But for some of us, who are not enlightened, and sometimes experience pain at a level of (for example) 11 or more on that "scale of 1 to 10" the medics ask about ... it's a real problem that can't always be solved at the present moment by acceptance or surrender. Even Christ cried out on the cross ... having already prayed to God to let this cup pass from his lips, as he anticipated what he was going to have to endure (that's my interpretation anyway). This body is a temporary garment, but for now we *are* living in it.

Here and now life manifests in me in That way: I feel pain I accept this I accept the resistance also I observe my inner perfect body, my breath,the silence If the pain is for ever or not is just a believe, a thought For now it is as it is and I accept this It doesnt mean I will not make anithing I find constructive to solve it.

Thinking about the future seems totally contradictory to be in the now. What amplifies the sensation of pain is thinking that it will last forever, which is opening the door to the 'poor little me'. What worked for me is to stop labelling discomfort as pain (reference to the past) as well as to stop dwelling into the idea that it won't ever stop, which perpetuates the feeling. Last time I did that kind of pity party I ended up crying in despair. Now this is only my experience, what works for me might not work for others.

Pain is a signal that calls attention to do something. That level and type of pain resonate with possible trauma. In case of trauma, the pain dynamic sometime gets stuck in a loop, the pain calling for a body response. Simply attending to complete awareness in such case could be like staying in your house on fire but being deeply aware. Trauma body therapist could help.

I like the response of Kim, do not label the pain, the more you label it, the more it is created. I hope she emphasises more on the process of accepting things and how your mind can detach from the body pain. I understand the comments here that the lady needs help from health practitioners but even if she sees all of them, the healing will still start in your mind, accepting the reality, accepting the help, etc. So the healing can begin.

May she be blessed

Too simplistic and non at all empathetic as response from Kim... I wonder what happened for the woman that asked the question and if that answer did ease at all some of her suffering🤔

In Vipassana meditation it is taught that the pain goes away if you observe it. I sat two ten-day courses and can testify to that. The pain should never be resisted because through it the body wants your attention. When you give it, the body shows exactly what's wrong. Sometimes pains point to subconscious issues, like lack of forgiveness. Sometimes, when you focus on pain in meditation, you get images of past traumas which you have not let go. So by focusing on pain you can resolve it because the body will show how exactly it was caused. The pain disappears when you release that which caused it. Vipassana and in general Buddhist meditators, if they meditate deeply enough, experience spontaneous healings even though illnesses are advanced. The spontaneous healing is also known as a particular meditation stage in Buddhism.

Thank you for this! I find physical pain to be one of the clearest reminders to come back to what I am.

Chronic pain sufferer for 18 years. This was brilliant!!!!!!!!Her words NAILED it!!!!

I remember long ago meditating for a while, and then having this very vivid and strange pain manifest and spread around my foot. Later, I found out that some water had leaked and touched me, but my mind was abstracted from its conventional interpretations.

i want eckhart

I so enjoy Kim's videos. I would love to see more of them

Kim explains complete acceptance very well. I get it clearly. I like her pointers. And I loved the drop the label of pain and just watch and feel the sensation, too. Very helpful. I am in pain right now. So I tested right then, what Kim said about dropping the label pain and just feel the sensation a in my body and it is true. it helped. I got to check what Kim is saying and it is true and it worked and helped. Kim helps me so much, too, sometimes even more than Eckhart. Thank you, Kim. I love and appreciate both you and Eckhart so much. Thank you.

WOW, that is what I call true accaptance, I feel that is so strong, so sacred. Thank you so much, that was what I needed to hear to go fully into the emotion of trust.

Ok, um, I don’t see the tortuous thought of this ‘pain will last forever’, as being helpful.

I think dealing with chronic pain that it needs to be surrounded by love & not an imagining that it would last forever. I deal with chronic illnesses & there is a place for compassion with this because it can truly change your entire life. Personally, I think it's almost best to hear about dealing with chronic pain from someone that has been through it oneself. You really have no idea how much it feels like its killing everything within you when going through the acute pain & then the chronic pain. I think society still has some learning to do when it comes to chronic pain patients. It has to be understood from the inside.

Beautiful video 🤩

This was powerful consciousness. Giving the pain a solid form. Wow

This is true surrender. Thank you, Kim Eng.

I so much understand this feeling. I needed this message.

thanks kim !

I lived with pain for 15 years and my acupuncture turned me on to a patch that stimulates your body to make stem cells. No kidding if been pain free for 7 days straight! I’m a hypnotherapist so I truly understand the subconscious and softening into the pain which helps shift the resistance but this is huge! It’s photo or light therapy.

Thank you

Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle! 💙☯️🙏

Lots of love ❤️ to this lady💚❤️♥️💜💛💙

Thank you❤️

Trauma is stored in the body. The body needs healing through various body healing techniques and self love. It doesn’t have to be forever.

I love the idea of not labeling anything in life, the more I practice this the more I a dissolving any pain I experience. I am feeling the pain of others now but I am not sure if I am dissolving there’s. Thanks for so much insight 😍✌️

Bruh. This was so deep. True acceptance is accepting the reality of the pain being eternal. Wow

Grateful 🙏❤️

The power of our minds are quite powerful!

I faced physical pain during my Hernia surgery. The effect of local anaesthetia went away for some reason in the final 12-15 minutes of the surgery. The pain was unbearable. I started to move my body a little bit out of pain, but the surgeons said to not move your body and just some how bear it. I was somehow forced to do it. But i managed it.

Sending my love to her too..!

Shouldn’t she try and figure out what’s causing the pain?

Thanks you!

Explains me and I receive this wonderful insight to see. 🙏🌄

Blessings to all.

Intense Pain requires medical attention. That’s a signal to get her body checked. Stomach pain is very common and medical therapy is usually very effective. I had intense pain of esophagus because of reflux disease which I tried so hard to calm myself with meditation. In retrospect, I think there was an idiotic resistance to me not to seek proper medical advice. When I got checked and started medication, my pain went from 8/10 to 2/10 in a few days. First see your doctor if you have pain!

To the lady who asked the question: I cannot believe that you describe my situation, we even look alike! As much as I agree with Kim, there is a physical cause for the pain as well. A lot of resistance from the physicians in the last three years following my car accident. However, just last week the neurologist from my native country pointed that it might be an injured/stuck vagus nerve. Nerve injuries are hard to detect and silent. The most physicians have no idea and blame the pain for psychological reasons. Now I am searching for a doctor with nerve injury knowledge. Please, if you get this message, you might educate yourself if it applies to you. Sending lots of love and support! We will get over it and get more happy and healthy than ever!

This was very timely in my life.

Shes so brave... Reminds me of having rheumatoid arthritis. She will do well with an indica cannabis

Eckhart speaking about suffering makes me cry. Like now. He is the only one that I don’t get upset when he talks about self made suffering. I too have physical pain hurting me for 10 years from my young years. He said don’t argue with what is . I learnt from him not to argue too. But I sit and my tears off down though I surrendered too. This is surrender or depression? I like to sleep and never wake up . I love when eckhart speaks with compassion in his eyes about suffering and I just cry not out of resistance but out of feeling weak and surrendered to What IS.

My heart goes out to the depth of sincerity from the sweet lady asking the question. No corresponding depth, insight or assistance from Kim.

thank you

Wow , I really got this and understood . Thank you

Due to a serious accident that caused multiple broken and crushed bones that all required titanium implants, meditation now helps enormously. I only took the toxic pain killers during my 2 months in a rehap hospital and hated how they make me feel so when I got home I found another means of coping and that is meditation.

Kim has a good way of explaining intense body aches and pains by accepting the present sensation. Accepting the sensation of pain. Excellent description of easing into awareness to relax intense pain.

This is exactly how I endured natural childbirth twice without drugs...🙌🏼💪🏼

Kim appears to take bits and pieces of Eckhart's teaching (labeling the flower etc.) and tries to do the same as him but she doesn't seem to have his insight, it just doesn't resonate the same way - the universal consciousness vibrations seem to be missing. With Eckhart consciousness radiates from him from the inside out - it's like he's on fire but in a calm and very peaceful way. Kim often sounds a little sharp too when she questions people. It would be preferable if she go and practice on herself some more (as we all must do) before trying to help others. It's the same as if I got up there now and tried to teach, I would be poor at it too because I am not conscious or practiced enough yet and she appears not to be either. Just telling someone they have to accept anything as if they chose it forever without that advice coming from pure consciousness is futile. Without it coming from the energy of pure love and absolute consciousness it means absolutely nothing. It's just a piece of 'advice' (and not even really that) nothing more. Sorry.

Being in the present moment is very helpful, and accept our pain is also helpful. That also explain that happiness is not a given to us. A healthy person breathing naturally, it's there whether we are aware of it or not. Happiness is not like that, its more like breathing to a lung cancer patient who gets to breath a little easier when one has to think about it and work on it.

If it is true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, then it stands to reason that pain by any other name would still HURT. Just like when miss Kim acknowledged the beauty and the sweet essence of the rose, it did not change it's form, nether did it cease to be a rose. Likewise, pain still HURTS whether or not we choose to accept it, reject, or acknowledge it as something else. If this poor woman had a gaping, profusely bleeding stab wound, she could not stop the pain, nor the flow of blood, nor could she close and heal her wound simply by changing her perception or level of acceptance/resistance. That is a ridiculous and absurd notion. To try to convince this woman, or to even imply that she possesses all the power in the world within herself to control or heal her own disease/pain process is to place a heavy, burdensome yoke around her neck that she cannot possibly bare. 😞

Thank you for post .surrender to present moment .

I hope the poor woman gets a diagnosis for her pain. As a retired nurse having worked in palliative care I dislike seeing people suffering. She seemed like a woman crying out for help and probably didn’t get it in my opinion. I have secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and a form of arthritis. I have gone through the grieving process and accept it is what it is. I dislike taking medication but when the pain becomes unbearable I do because that’s my choice. The woman asking the question is no where near accepting of her pain. And why should she be when she doesn’t know the cause. I wish her well. 🙏

Passed 20 kidney stones (Oxylates don't like me) so...I know pain and pain can certainly stem from emotion and psychosomatics and it can come from the bodies pain receptors when an situation arises that needs direct intervention. I hope this woman sought ought medical advice to rule out a more serious issue.

pain is one of the big ones really, sometimes nothing but absolute unconditional surrender is the only way

That is a great message. Thank You Kim❤️

Thanks, i bought online the power of now, still on the way

Great technique. I'm gonna try it ... but also visiting a doctor also is a good idea. Through all the acceptance people forget, that they can still change the situation through action

I see the journey this lady is on, a journey to find relief from the immense suffering of intense physical pain. It’s a tough road. I had a tumour in my pelvis that caused pain so fierce I had body convulsions and often passed out. I went in and out of a coma over the period of two days. The incredible pain lasted for three and a half years. I was never free of it. Twice I had major pelvic reconstructive surgery which in itself took two years to be able to walk again from. Accompanying the extreme sensations in the pelvis, there was extraordinary headaches and tension in the shoulders and feet. I drifted in and out of a coma after the second operation. It was grace that saved “me”. There was nothing I could do. There is nothing this lady can do. The I that we believe ourselves to be has absolutely no power. Life has put the pain there, and only life can take it away. By grace, I was taken on a journey through Buddhist monasteries, cancer wards and yoga ashrams, endless reading and listening to talks and reading all the spiritual works. Somehow, a yoga teacher was found who worked in ways that truly helped to heal the body although I didn’t know it at the time. I stumbled across his studio in the Himalayas. I didn’t carry on the practices he taught me until after six months of being at home and suddenly, I started practising. Just one posture, a supported backbend using cushions. Over the last three and a half years, I honed this one posture, practising deep breathing for about an hour a day. IT CURED ME. Completely healed. And now the relaxation is has provided me with just gets deeper and deeper. How this happened is a mystery. Call it grace or total surrender of the I. But really, there is no I so there’s nothing that can surrender. You’re already in a state of surrender; you just haven’t realised it yet. Nothing can practice presence or anything. Only when it is realised that there is nothing you can do, will life bring you relief. Perhaps. It’s ignorant to think there’s anything you can do. It’s a total mystery.

I've dealt with intense physical pain and had a lot of healing. And this never would have worked for me. Because nothing in the physical realm is forever. But I did work with totally accepting and totally allowing the pain in the present moment. But I also noticed my thoughts about the physical pain. LIke "I"m dying, or something horrible is happening or my body is ripping....etcetera. Then I saw that it was THOUGHTS that intensified the pain. So the labeling part is good...because basically those were horrible labels that I was giving it. I wish Kim had asked some questions to really know what was happening because this woman....seemed very aware and connected to herself. Having a little more information would make more sense to me.

Accepting means you accept the present moment. Accept the form of the present moment as if it'd last for eternity. That's acceptance. True acceptance means you are willing to feel this emotion, this pain in your body, this form, forever.

Forgot to say it tool me 10 yrs to figure out i had celiac disease so cut out wheat & gluten too it can cause a plethora of conditions 💕

imagine you dive in a deep lake and that will get u out of the never ending mind.just practice is needed...stillness arrives..thanks E.T...for no words of what it si..from uruguay

I get why Kim said accepting it as of it would last for eternity, but the way it landed makes people close down to her message and contract around it. The main thing is that the questioner is making a judgment about what is happening to her. She is making her experience wrong. The body senses the judgement she's made and increases the pain because the body does not feel safe under her perception that there's something wrong. The body takes the messages you send to it literally.

I'm sitting unsure on the response given to her in this moment and my mind and body are OK with being where I am. I am watching my thoughts whirl in being apprehensive in writing this creating a tenseness. I will also examine the thoughts and replace them with new freeing ones which will work for me. Some of us were taught not to challenge those who 'speak' with authority or title. I must be one so off I go to reprogram by undoing that messaging and putting in messaging that will quickly calm my brain in the now and beyond and allow me to own my internal wisdom always. ❤

Ty for this great video..I totally get this..The word pain itself creates a fight against it, now, if we take the word away, and see it as a sensation, allow it, let go of resisting, it can help..Ive been noticing tension in my upper stomach area and I noticed I was automatically tensing up.. .it's there though stationary now..it feels stuck....the word pain, to me, creates an immediate fight against it, it's subtle, but it is a tensing up against it more, so, now I can let go of the word, because it's meaning is considered, unwanted, it's a saying no, this isn't good, so, it's the meaning that the word pain represents, that makes us fight against it, fight the feeling, so, if we can let go of the meaning, not denying the feeling, but letting go of the meaning, by saying, it's a sensation, then allow the feeling, allow the sensation without fighting it, letting it be..I'm doing this now...its helping...Im only now realizing my body in pain, when before it was just natural, I didn't realize it, I'm also noticing automatic tensing up..in the same area, so it's old emotions that feel stuck, but I can only allow, and let it be, I can't make it go away, so, I'm just allowing it to be there and it will go when it will..I can say, I release any tension in body, or not say anything and just let it be, knowing it will go when it is supposed to, Thank you Kim .Love You and Eckhart too!!!! 🙏☮️♥️

This discomfort that I'm experiencing is an indicater that Source Is responding to my celluar request for energy.... Abraham Hicks even in feeling the throb of a say toothache in going to the "edge " of the pain....there is a beautiful incoming energy that is life giving.....love as space... Kay La

Easy for you to say. Have you ever experienced chronic intense physical pain? My pain is from a physical condition called spinal stenosis. I did not think my way into it.

Exactly what I’m going through now the stomach pain. It’s connected to something deep I feel

I also feel pain in the lower part of my body especially while I sit or meditate and yes it worked with me when I feel it and stop trying to change this feeling but sometimes it becomes so intense and it becomes hard..

Wow, this poor woman! She didn't even ask if she had tried everything in her power in a medical way. Concentrating on pain makes pain worse, this is not good. Truly. Imposing the power of Now to everything and any situation in the world isn't possible.

Compassion for the lady experiencing great pain🙏🏽

. When your body is feeling pain it means there is something wrong with it. If you just accept the pain and not do anything about it you could end up dying or being in pain the rest of your life. Yes you can accept the fact you have pain but you need to go to the doctor to try to find out what is causing it. It could mean you have a disease or it could mean you need to change your diet. There are a lot of things you can do that are proactive that could help with the pain besides just accepting it and carrying on without doing anything about it. I fear these types of responses might cause some people not to go to the doctor and thus end up getting very serious illnesses that could have been prevented.

Mindfulness training helps , good food and drinks , long calm walks , relativation power . Humor helps . Massages .

"accept it as if it would last for eternity". This is a quote from Nietzsche about the concept of Amor Fati (embrace what is / love what is / accept everything)

Accepting? Yes. But I guess the pain is also a (continuous) invitation to "go" to your own solar center, and thus out of your head. That makes a big difference, to me anyways. Doing that may not be easy. But if you *can* do it, you'll get access to a lot of information/wisdom...

I don't think I could accept this pain forever, but in this moment I might be able to accept that I do not accept this pain and I might be able to Not Label this sensation.

It is what it is. There is pain. Or what we labeled as pain. Pain is something unpleasant we don't want to feel so it's normal we create resistance to it. If you manage to observe de physical feeling without labeling or judging and just let it be, perhaps you can let go of it. You will still feel the sensation but you will also, hopefully be at peace with it. For sure it takes practice but you will eventually get more comfortable with it in time. Whoever reads this, I wish you peace.

I was in almost constant stomach pain before I discovered, Anthony William, the Medical Medium. Pleeeeeease read his book, it saved my life, i haven't had tummy problems since i began his protocol.

I have read about the guy Anthony William, also called Medical medium. He has write a couple of books and helped thousands of people. Maybe his food and recommendations can help her to heal her body?

Except my physical pains as if their eternal. Doesn't mean I don't take steps to improve the situation. My resistance of what is is the very thing perpetuating the issue. Thanks

If I am willing to accept "this pain in my body forever," (in my case residual nerve pain following infection) what would be the impetus for making it change? I am willing to accept it as the state of now, that I need to center it, not exacerbate it with labels or judgement, and that there are steps I can take to try and soothe it, including identifying the emotional and social origins of my reactions to it. It is amazing that there are pharmaceuticals that can instantly relieve pain and much of the fear that accompanies it but we avoid using them. It is easier to teach oneself better coping strategy when one is not in physical pain.

Hopefully the questioner saw a doctor. Kim is clearly resisting the reality this woman is presenting to her, "no! You're wrong! You must be doing something wrong, my method works! I'm up here telling the world that this is how the universe works. Don't you dare present me with a problem I cant dismiss!"

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Kim's smile 5:15 ROFL

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She explained that so we'll.

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Having read E.Tollles books i know that a Form is never eternal. So is the pain. "as if it would stay for ever" is a missleading lable.

If you can't get rid of resistance, then can you accept resistance?

I think and feel this would also work with emotional pain like mental illness