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The Impact of the Mind and the Vital Nature on the Body Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We many times fail to recognize the extent of the impact that
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  the mind and the vital nature have on the body, its health and
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  its capacities for growth, resilience and development.
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  The mind body connection is starting to come into focus.
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  However, when the mind sends repeated suggestions to the
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  body, it impacts the response of the body.
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  It can send positive affirmative messages and the body will
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  respond with a renewed vigor, energy, and resilience.
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  Or it can send negative messages, which then increase
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  the body's sense of helplessness, victimization, and
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  failure. We are constantly taking in
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  thoughts and ideas from our social circle.
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  If we internalize and accept them, they become part of the
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  mental dialogue that we send to the cells of the body.
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  We receive and retransmit what we receive, and in many cases,
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  this occurs subconsciously or entirely unconsciously.
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  Similarly, vital reactions can also impact the body and its
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  strength and weakness. This is where reactions such as
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  fear of harm from a pandemic can play a role in weakening the
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  body and its ability to resist the onslaught of a particularly
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  virulent disease. Some individuals are able to
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  consciously resist these reactions and thus they send
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  strengthening energy to the body consciousness and thereby
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  provide the body additional power to withstand illness.
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  There are many instances of doctors who have waded into
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  wards filled with sickness without fear, and who do not
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  fall I'll themselves. In other instances they may do
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  this for a considerable period of time, but then if the thought
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  creeps in that the disease is insurmountable and they will
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  eventually succumb, then at that moment they open the door for
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  the body to fall. I'll.
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  The mother writes quote. But if when very young, from
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  your earliest childhood, you have been taught all sorts of
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  disappointing, depressing things, things that cause
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  decomposition, I could say disintegration, then this poor
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  body does its best. But it has been perverted, put
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  out of order, and no longer has the sense of its inner strength,
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  its inner force, its power to react if one takes care not to
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  pervert it. The body carries within itself
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  the certitude of victory. It is only the wrong use we make
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  of thought and its influence on the body which robs it of this
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  certitude of victory. So the first thing to do is to
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  cultivate this certitude instead of destroying it.
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  And when it is there, no effort is needed to aspire, but simply
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  of flowering and unfolding of that inner certitude of victory.
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  The body carries within itself the sense of its divinity.
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  There. This is what you must try to
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  find again in yourself if you have lost it.
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  When a child tells you a beautiful dream in which he had
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  many powers and all things were very beautiful, be very careful
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  never to tell him, Oh, life is not like that, for you are doing
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  something wrong. You must, On the contrary, tell
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  him life ought to be like that, and it will be like that.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother Powers within, Chapter 16, Body, pages 127 to 128.