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The Process and Steps of Ridding the Nature of Habitual Movements · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Some believe that it is impossible to change Human
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  Nature. They repeat the proverb that
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  when cannot straighten out a dog's tail, but it will return
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  to, its former status time. And again, some become
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  frustrated and essentially fight with their body, vital being or
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  mind wherever the movement, they desire to change.
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  Resides some try to suppress the movement with force and some
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  through intimidation of torturing the body, when an
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  Impulse arises, which they do not want to accept.
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  The hair shirt, the sillies, the self-flagellation all arise out
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  of the attempt to change human nature, with violence impatience
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  and overpowering force. The sad thing is these methods
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  simply do not work and cannot effectuate long-term.
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  Real change in human nature in many instances.
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  This leads either to depression or turns the individual into a
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  cold bitter from Strated personality who takes out his
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  own failings on others as he cannot deal with them as he
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  wishes within himself. There seems to be no way out.
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  And thus, eventually people believe, human nature cannot
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  change. SRI aurobindo takes a different
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  approach. He first observes the field
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  closely and determined in what part of the being and under what
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  force of impulsion? The Movement as a risen.
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  Then it is a matter of applying skillful means to systematically
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  tackle. The issue and make it ever less
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  relevant to the being through a change of focus toward the
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  higher realizations. One is seeking the power of any
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  habitual movement can be reduced in both its level of occurrence
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  and its intensity of occurrence. The mind, the mental will can be
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  harnessed To deny the movement full expression.
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  This may not succeed all at once, but over time with patient
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  and persistent will it eventually can and does succeed.
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  The movement May remain embedded in the vital being or even in
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  the physical being with a somewhat automatic response to a
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  stimuli and thus May recur at some time when least expected,
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  simply because the guard has been reduced with the apparent
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  success. Continued effort then drives
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  these impulses into the subcontinent layers and from
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  there, they can erupt from time to time or at the very least,
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  make themselves known in the dream state.
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  The practice of psychotherapy attempts to open up, what is
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  hidden in the subcontinent. But for the most part is simply
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  empowers these impulses and thus may be highly counterproductive.
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  People believe that if they gain control over the impulses within
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  their own individual being that they have solved the issue.
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  But in fact, the Oneness of the energetic forces of the
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  universal creation implies that until the movement is eliminated
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  throughout all of nature, it still has its existence and can
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  attempt to infect the individual from there on any suitable
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  occasion. SRI aurobindo observes, quote,
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  when a habitual movement long embedded in the nature is cast
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  out, it takes refuge in some less, enlightened part of the
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  nature. And when cast out of the rest of
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  the nature, it takes refuge in the subcontinent and from their
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  searches up when you least expect it or comes up in dreams
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  or sudden incontinent movements, word goes out and remains in
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  wait in the environmental being through which the Russell nature
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  works and attack from there, as a force from outside.
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  Trying to recover, its Kingdom by a suggestion or repetition of
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  old movements. One has to Stand Fast, ^, return
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  Fades away, these returns are attacks, must be regarded, not
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  as parts of oneself but as invasions and rejected without
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  allowing any depression or discouragement, If the mind is
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  not sanctioned them, if the vital refuses to welcome them,
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  if the physical remains steady and refuses to obey the physical
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  urge, and the recurrence of the thought, the vital impulse.
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  The physical feeling will begin to lose its last holds.
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  And finally, they will be too feeble to cause any trouble and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living within the
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  yoga approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances
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  of the sub-continent, how to deal with the sub content Pages,
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  108 to 109.