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Inner Growth Differs from Modern Concepts of Growth of Awareness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We have seen a phenomenal growth of practices that bring
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  attention to our daily actions. Mindfulness training asks us to
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  attend each movement, each step each bite of food and each
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  thought and emotion. Clearly, with the amount of
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  distraction we suffer from, as a result of our love affair with
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  technology, mobile phones tablet, computers, internet
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  television radio, and streaming, audio and music.
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  There's barely any time in our lives to Simply attend to what
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  we are actually doing. We eat while interacting with
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  our mobile phone texting or surfing the internet, we play
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  music while we work. And in many cases, television is
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  running constantly day and night as a background to all our
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  activities. Even students in school are
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  constantly distracted with the invasion of Technology.
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  Thus, we lose track of the actual functioning and needs of
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  our body, our life energy and our mind.
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  It is also true that we are not in touch with the actual
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  underlying motive Springs of thought, feeling and action that
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  lie in the subconscious levels of are being or which enter us
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  from the environment and external forces, awareness
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  training of various types May focus on getting in touch with
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  this level of perception. Because of the confusion between
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  the idea of personal growth and the idea of inner growth, we
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  believe that mindfulness practices are part of our
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  spiritual growth. Dr. Dalal clarifies, that the
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  training and awareness. And its various forms is
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  primarily to enhance the action and power of our external being
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  and personality and is not in and of itself.
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  A spiritual practice nor does it necessarily lead to spiritual
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  experience or spiritual inner growth, awareness if focused on
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  developing a relationship to the soul, And it's linked to the
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  universal creation and the Divine May of course, be part of
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  the spiritual awakening and development.
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  This however is a different form of practice than what is
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  predominantly known as awareness training.
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  Dr. Dalal notes, quote inner growth needs to be
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  distinguished. Also, from what is commonly
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  called growth of awareness sought to be fostered by various
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  modern psychological methods and techniques.
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  The term awareness as used in modern psychology has acquired a
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  wide range of meanings and connotations ranging from the
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  detection of a very weak sensory stimulus such as a dim light to
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  the acquisition of Site into the unconscious Dynamics, which
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  motivate one's actions. From the Viewpoint of yoga
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  psychology. What is called awareness in?
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  Gestalt therapy and other similar approaches of
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  psychological growth refers to awareness of the outer or
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  Surface being consisting of physical vital, and mental parts
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  of the human makeup. Growth of such awareness lies
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  and becoming more and more aware of one's body feelings emotions
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  and thoughts. Inner growth, on the other hand,
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  pertains to the progressive. Awakening and awareness of the
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  inner and higher parts of the being and quote, reference, SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, introduction. Pages Roman 11:49.