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The Mechanism of Action Of the Subconscient in Relation to the External Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we respond to a situation, either at the physical level,
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  the vital level or the mental level, we open a pathway for
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  that vibration to impact us in some way.
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  And having once been accepted for admittance, it creates A
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  propensity for us to admit it the next time it comes our way.
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  In this way, a habit of response is built up.
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  This idea is validated by scientists who track neural
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  pathways and who indicate that a repeated experience builds up
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  grooves in the pathways of the brain, which allow impulses to
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  traverse them more quickly and easily.
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  That is why with repeated experience, we respond more
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  quickly than if we have something new to deal with.
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  We use this mechanism to advantage when we are doing any
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  kind of training of the mind, the vital force or the body.
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  But it works also in a negative direction when we find that we
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  have an habitual response to a particular form of bodily
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  vibration in the form of an illness or allergy, or an
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  automatic reaction of anger. When certain specific types of
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  circumstances arise or we have a mental response that is limited
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  and potentially counterproductive when a
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  specific idea is put forth. All of these reactions or
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  habitual responses occur due to a mechanism that stores,
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  experiences, memories, reactions in the very cells of the body,
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  and they lie there, inert and latent, until a triggering
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  opportunity arises. Yogic science calls these
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  suppressed impressions seeds, and they just need a fertile
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  circumstance to sprout up. It is our normal habit to
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  suppress reactions with our conscious mental will or vital
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  force, rather than to actually take steps to work through the
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  issues and then eliminate them. Thus, we tend to have a large
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  store room filled with suppressed ideas, feelings,
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  emotions, perceptions, and reactions that in many cases
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  represent traumas that we re enact from time to time.
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  To fully eliminate such suppressed responses, we not
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  only have to be able to work them out and eliminate them, but
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  we need to close off the pathway that was receptive to them,
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  either by refocusing that location or by blocking it off.
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  The vibration from the wider environment still has its own
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  habit that indicates a specific location or individual is
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  receptive and will continue to try to enter there until such
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  time as it gets the firm message of non interest and thus moves
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  on from the individual's environment.
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  Because of the number of steps involved and the role of the
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  environmental consciousness in addition to the action of the
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  subconscient, this can be a long and tedious process.
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  Because these things tend to remain dormant until a
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  triggering opportunity arises. We may believe that we have
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  conquered a particular response and be surprised when it
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  suddenly springs up again, possibly years later.
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  There are stories of religious or spiritual aspirants who spend
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  years in a monastery or cloister, or meditating in a
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  cave, or living an ascetic life in the desert, who find out when
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  they wind up interacting in a social setting, The things they
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  thought were long gone actually manifest with a force that they
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  had not expected, the mother observes.
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  Quote. But when you have had either an
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  experience or like this, some kind of phenomenon or an
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  illness, above all, in the case of illness or even an accident,
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  the body remembers for a very long time.
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  If you want to be completely cured, you must cure this memory
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  in the body. This is absolutely
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  indispensable, and whether you know it or not, you work in
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  order to cure the memory of the body.
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  When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.
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  Unfortunately, instead of destroying the remembrance, you
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  push it back. Most of the time you push it
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  down into the subconscient, and sometimes into the inconscience,
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  still more deep. Well, now if it is pushed back,
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  if it, if it is not completely effaced, then very gently, very
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  gently, without seeming to do so at all, it comes up to the
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  surface and something of which you have been cured for years.
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  If by chance it crosses your mind simply like that, just like
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  a little dart. As fast as that, like a passing
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  dart. Why, at this time I had that you
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  may be sure that sooner or later, a few seconds, a few
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  minutes, a few hours or days later, it will return.
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  You can, it may come back in a much milder form, It may come
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  back in the same form. It may come even more strongly.
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  That depends on your inner state.
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  If you are in a pessimistic state, it will come back more
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  strongly. If you are in an optimistic
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  state, it will be much weaker, but it will come back and you
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  will have to begin the battle all over again against the
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  memory of your body so as to destroy it.
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  If this time you are more attentive.
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  If you can destroy it, you are cured.
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  But if you don't destroy it, it will return.
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  It will take a longer or shorter time.
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  It will be more or less total, but it will return.
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  It can come back in a flash if you are wide awake.
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  And when it returns, if you have enough knowledge and indeed
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  enough clear sightedness to tell yourself, well, here is that
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  wretched remembrance. Come back again to play its
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  tricks. Then you can give can strike a
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  violent blow and indeed destroy its reality.
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  If you know how to do this, then it is an opportunity to get rid
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  of the thing immediately. But it is not very easy to do
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  this. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  2, Hidden Forces within pages 38 to 40.