7. Our Body Begs For Attention

We should understand one secret: attention is energy.

That is why it feels so good when somebody attends to us. When we are attended to, when somebody takes time to attend to us, when somebody serves us, we blossom! We even feel elated.

We can see that politicians seem to be always, continuously energetic. Do you know why? Everywhere, thousands of people listen to their speech. We can see that if the crowd is more, the volume of their voice will rise. It goes up because the attention creates more energy in them.

If we are well attended to, we feel energetic. We feel alive. When we do not live inside our body, when we do not attend to our body, we will feel that our body has shrunk. Our body really contracts, it shrinks. It just begs us, 'please give me your attention, please.'

This begging of our body is called pain. Pain is nothing but the begging of our own body asking for our attention; asking for our presence. Our body wants us to attend to it.

Why does our body do that? It is because we continuously live outside our body. Our body is here; but we are somewhere else. Our body is in the house; but in our mind, we are already in the office. When we are in the office, our mind is in the house. If we continuously live outside the body, our body will go without any attention. Pain is the way our body creates attention for itself. Pain is the way our body calls for attention when we don't attend to it properly. We need to understand one thing: pain is nothing but unawareness.

If we do not live with awareness in the 'now', 'here', our body will not be attended to. Our body will not have the attention of our being. When we give our attention, we will see that the pain simply disappears. When we do not live the real life, we will be only living with reasons. Our mind will be one way; our body will be in another way. And if we do not live truthfully, we create a new energy field around us called pain body.

Understand that if we continuously live in the past or the future, we are not present inside our system. When we are not present, the energy flow inside our system never happens totally and properly.

Attend to the 'now'. This state alone can confer upon us peace of mind, relief from worry and bliss. Be in the present, be pain free and blissful. This is the real enlightened state.