Feeling the Pain: 3

One who clearly understands that Hashem feels his pain, can approach Hashem in prayer even when he feels distant. If, however, he is coming from a place of jealousy, lust or the pursuit of honor, then he will feel distant and incapable of opening his mouth and heart to Hashem. "How can I possibly speak His words."
He feels as if his father has told him, "Go back to the place where you fell and don't return until you have cleaned yourself." He will then feel as if he is all alone battling the mud. But with the awareness that Hashem is with him in his pain he knows that even if he is still in the mud Hashem is with him, next to him, and feeling the pain that is pounding in his heart. It is from that feeling that he begins to daven.
Similarly, if one approaches a Tzaddik to complain about his lowly state, the Tzaddik is not standing at a distance looking critically at how far the person has fallen. Rather, the Tzaddik completely immerses himself in the other's pain - how much his heart hurts because he has fallen so low - and from there he can raise him and help him escape to the good.

Feeling the Pain: 2

Imagine if a child has gone on a self-destructive path and distanced himself from his father. The father may be hopefully anticipating the day when the son will change his ways, and be upset with his foolish behavior, but at the same time, even when the son is on this path, the real pain felt by the father is due to the painful distance between himself and his son and his son's difficult struggles.
The son, distant as he is, will turn his heart to his father, knowing that despite his distance his father is not rejecting him and is not leaving him to struggle alone. First and foremost the father feels the child's pain - no matter how far he is.
Believing that Hashem always feels one's pain leads a person to recognize that Hashem does not only feel the pain of the person's distance, and hope he comes closer, but also the pain the person feels because he realizes how distant he is.

Feeling the Pain: 1

When a person is in pain, God feels his pain as well. Even though He is aware that the suffering is for the person's own good, and the suffering is only due to the person's lack of understanding, still the reality is that the person is suffering, and God suffers along. It's similar to a parent who is feeling the pain of a child taking unpleasant medicine. The child is crying and the parents know it's for his own good. Even though logically they know there is nothing about which to be upset, they feel it.
In the same vein, if a person is troubled about his spiritual state - by feeling that he is not achieving his spiritual goals - God feels his pain as well. Why focus then on one's (perceived)  lowly state; why feel distant from God who he views as standing angrily wondering why the person isn't closer? Why not focus on the truth that as he is in pain due to his spiritual state God is right there with him feeling it as well!

Unique: 4

The concept of setting aside time for meditation has a long tradition in Judaism. However, generally the concept was to devote the time to focusing on separating from the physical world, engaging in self-reckoning, and contemplating the existence of God.
Rebbe Nachman taught something else entirely. He taught a path by which one can reach holy places, touch the sparks of Moshiach ben Dovid, to come close to Hashem in the highest manner possible, just as Adam was prior to the Sin. To achieve ה' בדד ינחנו, to find God in one's meditation and to be led by His voice and to fully unite the bestower and recipient.