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Habits, Human Life and Achieving Individuality … and Beyond · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  That's the secret begins to examine his life.
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  He quickly finds that virtually all his thoughts, emotions,
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  feelings and actions are based on habitual patterns.
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  Either ingrained in the human encoding as a species or develop
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  through socialization in a society or civilization through
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  family influence, peer influence, educational influence
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  or Through interaction through communication and media,
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  including advertising internet, and the subtle expectation of
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  things built into each Society, very rarely can the secret
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  identify anything that does not have as an underlying basis.
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  One of these habitual factors we are thus, for the most part,
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  very much similar to one another and the field of psychology
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  recognizes this by identifying Sighing, what is normal in the
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  society and graphing responses to various tests or
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  circumstances using bell-shaped curve modeling Etc?
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  Rare exceptions may be due to specific individual
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  circumstances, physical limitations, or developed
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  capacities or may represent a true and unique individuality
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  that has developed. Well, we pride ourselves on our
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  individuality, when we look deeply at these habitual
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  processes, the differences are mostly superficial true
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  individuality arises when an individual is able to go beyond
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  the habits that are either encoded or trained nature and
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  nurture to create a truly unique responsiveness to the world.
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  And its environment forces, pressures and activities.
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  Such a uniqueness occurs when the soul, the psychic being
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  actually comes forward addresses.
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  The unique challenges and opportunities for the souls
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  growth based on its past experience and needs in the
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  current lifetime true and devout, individuality is as SRI
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  aurobindo sews and adventure of consciousness.
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  The mother observes quote, one lives by a kind of habit, which
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  is barely half conscious one lives does not even objectify.
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  What one does, why one does it? How one does it?
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  When does it by habit? All those were born in a certain
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  environment a certain country automatically take the habits of
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  that environment. Not only material habits, but
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  habits of thought, Feeling and habits of acting they do it
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  without watching themselves, doing it quite naturally.
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  And if someone points this out to them, they are astonished.
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  As a matter of fact, one has to habit of sleeping speaking,
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  eating moving, and one does all this as something quite natural
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  without wondering. Why, or how, and many other
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  things all the time, when does things automatically by force of
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  habit? It when does not watch oneself.
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  And so when when lives in a particular society, when
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  automatically does what is normally done in that society
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  and if somebody begins to watch himself acting watch himself
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  feeling and thinking he looks like a kind of phenomenal
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  monster compared with the environment.
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  He lives in there for individuality is not at all.
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  The rule it is an exception. And if you do not have that sort
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  of bag a particular form, which is your outer body and your
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  appearance, you could hardly be distinguished from one another.
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  Individuality is a conquest and as SRI aurobindo says here, this
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  first Conquest is only a first stage in once you have realized
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  within you, something like a personal independent and
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  conscious being, then what you have to do is to break the Come
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  and go farther or example, if you want to progress mentally,
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  you must break all your mental forms.
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  All your mental constructions, to be able to make new ones.
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  So, to begin with a tremendous labor is required to
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  individualize oneself and afterwards.
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  One must demolish all that has been done in order to progress.
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  In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 1 emergence from unconsciousness Pages, 5 to 6.