We Invite Pain Upon Ourselves

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One man was seen walking in great pain. Another man asked him, 'What happened? Do you have any sort of stomach ache or leg pain or something?' The man replied, 'No. The shoes I am wearing are too small.' The other man was surprised and asked, 'Then why are you wearing them?'

The first man replied, 'Yes, I am suffering now, but in the evening when I remove the shoes, it is such a relief and great joy. You don't know how enjoyable it is to feel the relief when I remove them!' This may look silly. But if we look into our lives, we are also doing exactly the same thing!

We invite pain upon ourselves. We may not be able to believe this, but every single pain we experience in life is invited by us. It is just like inviting guests to our house, calling them again and again, but when they finally arrive we say we were not expecting them! We invite pain and disease upon ourselves with our immoderate habits and stressful lifestyles, and then forget all about it and complain later when disease happens.

Every time we experience pain, it leaves behind some residual feeling that remains stuck in the body. This accumulated pain creates a negative energy field around us, which we call the 'pain body'. The pain body not only stores, but also starts reproducing many different kinds of pains.

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