Maurice Nicoll writes of a “time-body” storing up our past emotional suffering, and a negative emotional part feeding on and expresses negative emotions. Barry Long and Eckhart Tolle cover both aspects with one concept: the unhappy/emotional body (or pigmy) and the pain-body respectively. All images on this site comparing similar statements by the authors on these subjects are featured below. (Read in-depth comparative analysis on the topic here.) Cycle through the pics using the forward and back arrows at the top. To view quotes in other categories, use the links at the bottom of the page.
When two people marry, they’re also said to marry each-other’s Time-bodies (Nicoll) or pain-bodies (Tolle).
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Both Nicoll and Tolle state that violent films can “feed” the negative part of the Emotional Center (Nicoll) or pain-body (Tolle).
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Nicoll and Tolle describe how negative or painful emotions are used as “food” or “energy” for the negative part of the emotional center or pain-body respectively.
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The negative emotions of parents will cause their child to accumulate negative emotions too. This then fosters the growth and development of a negative emotional part or pain-body in the child, according to Nicoll and Tolle.
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Both Barry Long and Tolle state that people have a parasitic entity living within, called the emotional body / pigmy (Long) or emotional pain-body (Tolle). Their description of this entity has numerous similarities, such as that it is made of energy, is cunning, does not want to be found out, has dormant and active periods, and can cause aches and pains in the body.
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Nicoll, Long, and Tolle all state how past emotional pain or suffering continues to exist in people within the Time-body (Nicoll), pigmy (Long), or pain-body (Tolle). They all suggest this body is alive and carries the “living past” in us.
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Both indicate negative emotions can harm health and lower one’s resistance to illness.
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