I like what Tolle says on "Pain Bodies" in one of those youtube videos.

I think he makes a very good point here. I can think of myself and my three closest friends. Three of us all live in very different parts of the country, and the fourth lives outside the country. I do not see any of them very often. Two of them are very obviously Pain Bodies themselves (or rather, they allow their pain bodies to surface and control much of their mental intake), and the fourth one is very guarded with the content he views. My two Pain Body friends (and myself) are often pretty miserable. When I talk to those two friends, they often mention how much work they have to do, how stressed they are, and how difficult life is. When I talk to my friend with the well suppressed Pain Body, he is always cheerful, optimistic, and tends to consider life to be pretty good.

If my other friends and I could bring ourselves to suppress our Pain Bodies, then I have no doubt our quality and enjoyment of life would increase substantially. Oddly, I don't think I would want to change the way I am. I feel the way I am gives me freedom and perspective, but that is probably just my Pain Body trying to defend itself.

Errr, I just went way off topic, didn't I?