I have very challenging physical suffering from childhood abuse, which manifests through illness and pain. I’ve done non-dual practice and embodiment work, but the physical pain seems very real. Am I creating it? Is the narrative just mind, but the physical suffering real? Rupert says: ‘I would suggest that the physical pain is very real, but it’s being supported by your narrative. Whatever happened to you all those years ago is not happening to you now. Your mind just has to catch up. Your mind is rehearsing the old event, keeping it alive, justifying the physical pain. You have to trace your way back through all the layers until you get to a place in yourself that nobody has ever violated, that has never been hurt. That’s your real healing. It’s that recognition that will change the narrative, and the change in the narrative will have a gradual effect on your physical symptoms. You are not a wounded, traumatised person. You’re a beautiful, fresh, young being that has never been scarred.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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