The body is a simpler mechanism for direct attention, if you can avoid ‘normal’ habit. Generally, when you get a pain, a discomfort, you immediately start ‘wondering’ - is it a sickness, should you go to a doctor, not go to a doctor, is it this or that, what should you do, tell your mother or not, worry about it or not, do ‘something’ or not? The sensation brings up all kinds of mental struggle. With whatever is uncomfortable, you start struggling - what are you going to do, going to do, going to do? And the last thing you do - is give it attention! And as we know, attention is light and light heals!
Now, we are in this wonderfully fortunate position. That’s why we wanted a body so much - so we could do something with our negative energy - to evolve! That which we could not do without a body.