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Overcoming the Habit of Illness of the Body · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The first time we experience something, it starts to create a
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  groove in our neural network nerves or responsive centers.
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  As the experience recurs, the groove becomes a pathway.
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  Eventually, the pathway becomes an embedded habit.
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  When a similar vibration is experienced, it automatically
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  follows the established patterns, which is why it is
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  harder to break a habit than to avoid starting one to begin
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  with. Many of these habits are
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  embedded deeply in human DNA through many millennia, as well
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  as in the patterns we create as we educate our children and
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  socialize them into the society and it's established ways of
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  doing things. Illness follows a similar
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  pattern as a vibration repeats itself.
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  If there is a past experience, the body immediately knows what
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  kind of illness it is going to be, and the very cells of the
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  body begin vibrating to that pattern.
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  We see certain individuals seem to be prone to certain types of
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  illnesses as they have deeply entrenched patterns of reaction
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  in their bodies that convert the vibration into that form,
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  affecting a specific area of the body.
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  Thus, some people are prone to sinus issues, some to lung
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  issues, some to throat issues, some to digestive issues, some
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  to headaches, etcetera. To overcome these patterns
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  requires conscious awareness. First, one establishes the
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  separate witness consciousness, observing the nature, including
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  the reactions of the body. Then one can observe how these
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  vibrations arrive, what action they take to come through the
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  protective world where they tend to embed themselves, and how
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  they set up their pattern to create what we then call an
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  illness. Once one can observe these
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  various stages, it becomes a matter of finding methods to
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  break the chain of the reaction or pattern at some early point
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  in the process. It is interesting to note that
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  the action of mind and will can play a considerable role in
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  strengthening and supporting both the vital envelope and the
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  physical body. We have historical instances
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  where certain doctors had such a strong will that they entered
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  fearlessly into areas of epidemics and treated patients
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  without themselves becoming I'll.
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  There are also instances where certain physicians exhibit such
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  a strength of healing energy that by their very presence and
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  aura, they help to cure patients of various types of illnesses.
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  Shrioro Bindo recounted the story of how a wandering sanyasi
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  cured his brother of a serious illness.
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  The Sanyasi requested a glass of water, cut it with a knife while
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  intoning a powerful mantra over the water.
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  After drinking the water, the brother was quickly cured of the
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  illness. In this case, even a full blown
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  serious illness could be reversed through the power of
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  consciousness, setting up a new vibrational pattern in the
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  patient. The habit of illness is capable
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  of being changed. People who have a history of
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  certain weakness of the body have shown that over time they
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  can transform this weakness into an indomitable strength, Sri
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  Aurobindo writes quote. What I meant was that the body
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  consciousness, through old habit of consciousness, admits the
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  force of illness and goes through the experiences which
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  are associated with it, For example congestion of phlegm in
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  the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of
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  breathing etcetera. To get rid of that one must
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  awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses
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  to allow these things to impose themselves upon it.
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  But to get that still more, to get it completely is difficult.
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  One step towards it is to get the inner consciousness separate
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  from the body, to feel that it is not you who are ill, but it's
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  only something taking place in the body and affecting your
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  consciousness. It is then possible to see this
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  separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its
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  reactions to things, how it works.
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  One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother looking from within, Chapter 4.
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  Ordeals and Difficulties pages one O 6 to one O 7.