Soul’s Code Pain-Body Index
Think of this as the Soul's Code version of the Body Mass Index, known as BMI. Our Pain Body Index, while far less scientific, measures an individual’s unconscious hurt and anger — the stuff that resides in the psyche’s basement.
The term pain body, to give proper credit, was coined by the spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle.
He isn't just talking about individuals: riots and road rage are examples of a community’s pain body.
Our PBI, inspired by The Harper’s Index, takes statistical stock of America’s collective pain body. The spectrum covers depression and drugs (taken to the extreme in the film, Trainspotting, where Ewan McGregor, struggles to kick a heroin habit), divorce and Dick Cheney (our nation's highest-profile gun nut).
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I found the Pain Body Index slideshow especially interesting and important. There’s some debate whether spirituality in Western countries might be dying out, which would be scarier and worse than any economic or political loss by far.
With psychological problems at epidemic level, divorce and other unhealthy relationships becoming the norm, and the mixing of pornography, among other things, into pop culture, it should be clear that we are in troubled times.
From simple things like aggressive driving to national issues like the fact that for the first time in the history of the US Census more people are choosing to live alone than partnered or in families, it’s never been clearer that something’s wrong and we must fix it.