It may be helpful to view it as pain energy. Not yours, not personal, but pain energy, which seeks to renew and regenerate itself by feeding off of pain, creating more pain and suffering for itself or others. Eckhart Tolle calls it the "pain body"...
I Feel Stuck!
Reducing The Gravitational Force Of My Mind?
Hey, I’ve been following Eckhart Tolle and this blog for a couple of months now and I also try one of the practices, for example the observation of the mind. But whenever I try to observe it without judgment, it's very hard because my thoughts have too much power. Got any tips on how to escape the mind?