What if you are not your thoughts, and what if the emotions that keep repeating are not flaws, but unprocessed energy asking to be released?

In this episode of Live Your Jam, host Ellen McGinnis continues the conversation from Your Mind As Ally, Not Dictator and takes listeners deeper, beneath the thinking mind and into the heart.

This episode explores why mental noise blocks intuition, how emotional energy becomes stored in the body, and why resistance to pain creates repeating patterns in our lives. Ellen breaks down the concept of the pain body, how it feeds on rumination and emotional reactivity, and why awareness and presence dissolve its grip.

Drawing on the teachings of The Untethered Soul and The Power of Now, this conversation reframes healing as openness, surrender, and allowing emotions to move rather than suppressing or feeding them.

This episode is for you if you feel stuck in old patterns, emotionally triggered by familiar situations, or ready to live your jam from the inside out, with clarity, peace, and presence.

When you stop identifying with your thoughts, freedom begins.

You will learn: 

• Why you are not your thoughts, but the awareness behind them
• How mindfulness and meditation quiet mental noise
• Why intuition is blocked by rumination
• The heart as the body’s emotional center
• How emotional energy becomes stored through resistance
• Michael Singer’s approach to releasing emotion
• Eckhart Tolle’s concept of the pain body
• Why emotional reactions often belong to the past
• How awareness dissolves emotional charge
• Letting emotions move instead of suppressing them
• Surrender as a path to healing

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We talk about:

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:00 You are not your thoughts
• 05:00 Mindfulness, meditation, and intuition
• 07:30 The heart as the emotional center
• 09:00 Stored emotional energy and resistance
• 12:00 Repeating patterns and emotional loops
• 15:00 The pain body explained
• 18:00 How the pain body feeds on reaction
• 21:00 Recognizing when the pain body is active
• 24:00 Awareness and presence as medicine
• 27:00 Allowing emotions to move
• 30:00 Surrender versus control
• 33:00 Personal story of healing through presence
• 36:00 Freedom through witnessing

Resources:

• Power of Now: https://eckharttolle.com/power-of-now-excerpt/ / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXm65gtyAA
• Untethered Soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnGj7DUOsMg / https://untetheredsoul.com/untethered-soul

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