New Earth: Chapter Six, \"Breaking

¶ … New Earth: Chapter Six, "Breaking Free"

In A New Earth, chapter seven, "Breaking Free," author Echkart Tolle begins by noting that the beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain-body (Tolle 99). He notes that it is essential for one to attempt to eliminate the link between our presence and our bodies, as our bodies truly hold no representation of who we are. In understanding that every human being is an emanates an energy field that corresponds to his or her inner state, and in understanding that most people can sense this, one has the capacity to better eliminate a life with a consistent focus on the pain-body and all the problems that a reliance on this body tends to bring.

Tolle notes that many acts of violence are committed by two otherwise normal people temporarily turning into maniacs, their actions of which defined by the statement "this is totally out of character" (Tolle 100). Tolle notes that this is the exact association with the pain-body that many people tend to have. They allow themselves to be caught up in the physicality of the moment and eliminate the need or even the identification of their inner spiritual self and the fact that it exists above all else.

It is in living a life with association to the pain-body that people can drift into a state of unconscious living. Instead, one must attempt to break away from this and find their own presence in their minds and spirits, rather than in the chaos of the world and its never-ending problems. It is in removing the focus on the pain-body and finding a peace in ourselves that we are able to live in a more natural state of presence. Such a presence exists without the negative energy that an association with the pain-body often brings. Tolle notes a session with a patient who relied significantly upon focus on the pain-body in her own life, and in moving to eliminate this she emanated a much lighter presence. Upon leaving the session, another individual entered and noted the tangible feeling of bad energy in the room, which had been expelled from the woman during her session in her realization that she need not focus on the negative, thereby offering her a lightness of self.