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Suggestion and Illness, Spiritual Force for Healing and the Use of Medical Treatment · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  whether consciously or subconsciously suggestions,
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  reach the being from the outside world in some cases, impacting
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  directly on the body and in others through the mind or the
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  vital being When these suggestions arrive
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  subconsciously, we only recognize the thought or feeling
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  when it arises within us and we take ownership of it as our own.
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  At this point, it is much more difficult to reject it.
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  As we have already, let it in and made it part of our being
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  The first step, therefore and overcoming the impact of
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  suggestion on the being and it's health is to actually begin to
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  see and recognize it as it tries to enter and see that it is
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  coming from an external source. Some people are able to develop
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  the sensitivity of the vital envelope, so they can feel the
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  pressure on that vital sheath and thus use that to identify
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  the incoming suggestion, and reject those that are inimical
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  to the health of the body life or mind.
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  There is also the force of suggestion.
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  In fact, a very palpable force that can Aid.
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  The being in, strengthening it supporting it and building up
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  its ability to grow and resist the forces of illness and
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  disintegration that pressure, the being ideally as one becomes
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  sensitive to the incoming play of forces, the difference can be
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  distinguished and those that are supportive allowed to work while
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  those that are harmful are Some practitioners of yoga determined
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  to rely entirely on this healing force.
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  And thus, avoid the use of medicinal substances for many.
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  However, this is not workable as parts of the being may not have
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  fully embraced and adapted to the working of the higher force.
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  And thus, they continue to suffer under the pressure of
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  illness or disease, even though the mind and the Heart
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  potentially have recognized the need to Open to that higher
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  potentiality. The body in particular, has a
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  direct relationship to the physical material world and thus
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  is particularly receptive to the use of medicines to act as
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  physical carriers of an energy, and vibration of healing.
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  These medicines, in some cases, play an active role in and of
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  themselves by releasing certain powers of healing and Immunity
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  within the being While in other cases, they simply Focus, the
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  being on the inner strength and although not containing any
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  specific active ingredients, help the body fend, off the
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  assault. SRI aurobindo writes, quote, a
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  suggestion is not one's own thought or feeling, but a
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  thought or feeling that comes from outside from others, from
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  the general atmosphere or from external nature.
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  If it is received it, sticks and acts on the being and is taken
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  to be one's own thought or feeling, if it is recognized as
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  a suggestion, then it could be more easily, got rid of This
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  feeling of doubt and self-distrust and hopelessness
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  about oneself is the thing moving about in the atmosphere
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  and trying to enter into people and be accepted.
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  I want you to reject it for its presence, not only produces
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  trouble and distress, but stands in the way of restoration of
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  health and return to the interactivity of the sadhna.
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  As, for medical treatment, it is sometimes in this acity, If one
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  can cure by the force as you have often done, it is the best.
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  But if for some reason, the body is not able to respond to the
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  force. For example, owing to doubt
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  lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against
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  the disease. Then the aid of medical
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  treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the force ceases
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  to act and leaves all to the medicines.
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  It will continue to act through the consciousness.
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  But take the support of the treatment.
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  So as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which
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  responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary
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  Consciousness and quote reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother living within the yoga approach to psychological health
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  and growth, disturbances of the body and physical Consciousness,
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  faith, and suggestion Pages 94 to 98.