HOW CAN I ASSIST THOSE WHO ARE FEELING PAIN?

You cannot create in the experience of another because you cannot think their thoughts . . . It is the thoughts they are thinking, the words they are speaking, or the acts they are doing that is bringing forth the emotional response (agony) from their Inner Being. They are creating their own agony by giving thought to that which they do not want.
Now, what you can do for them is to set the example of joy. Become a Being who thinks only of that which he is wanting; who speaks of only that which he is wanting; who does only that which he is wanting--and therefore brings forth only joyful emotion.
Let us say that someone in pain comes into your experience and as you see them in their painful situation, a desire wells up inside of you that they find the way out of their painful situation, so their pain only brushed you slightly as you quickly identified your desire for their joyful solution. If you then turn your undivided attention to their successful resolution of their painful situation, you would feel no real pain, and you could be a catalyst to inspire an actual solution for them. That is an example of what true upliftment is. However, if you only focus upon their pain, or upon the situation that has caused it, you will activate within yourself the vibration that matches that, and you will also begin to feel pain as you then begin the attraction of that which you do not want.

The Law of Attraction
by Esther and Jerry Hicks, p. 67
published by Hay House