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Creating Beneficial Thought Forms and Their Positive Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Whenever there is some kind of news headline about a major
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  negative event, such as a school shooting or a catastrophic
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  earthquake or hurricane, we hear major political leaders express
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  thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.
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  Everyone knows that there is no serious force behind this and it
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  is intended to deflect from actually doing anything.
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  It also makes us doubt the efficacy of thoughts and prayers
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  at all. Aside from the deliberate
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  hypocrisy at work here, it is clear that no real force of
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  consciousness and development of a powerful thought form was
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  applied at all. It is merely empty words.
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  Yet we can see examples where the creation of a thought form,
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  whether expressed in words or not, can have a very substantial
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  and beneficial impact on people and circumstances.
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  This can occur when there is a systematic application of effort
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  to develop a formation, or when there is a marrying of a thought
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  with a strong emotion or vital energy to enliven and strengthen
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  it in its action. Some years ago, the
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  Transcendental Meditation movement developed a program to
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  send a number of meditators to certain hotspots for violence to
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  meditate systematically for a period of time.
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  Studies were carried out that showed in the period following
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  the meditation focus, the violent crime statistics went
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  down meaningfully. Of course, these studies could
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  not be done as double-blind, scientifically validated
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  studies, but looked at statistics reported generally
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  before and after. This impact was seen across
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  several decades in a number of specific incidents, seemingly
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  shoring up the benefit of such quiet action on the general
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  populace. The creation of detailed
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  formations is an important part of many spiritual and occult
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  teachings from around the world, including also healing
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  modalities. For example, the Tibetan yogic
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  practice of the development of the psychic heat has as a
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  preliminary practice the process of detailed visualization, with
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  the practitioner seated and visualizing his root guru
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  immediately above his head and the lineage of guru seated one
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  above the other. He then calls forth the psychic
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  gift waves from the guru, which opens his receptivity to the
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  subtle vibration sent by the guru to support the disciple.
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  The combination of the visualization process, the
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  aspiration or call, and the opening or receptivity creates
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  the condition for the formation to turn the practice into
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  realization. The healing modality of Reiki
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  also uses a focus on certain symbols to which specific
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  meaning is provided. Through a process of attunement,
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  the disciple learns how to create the appropriate
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  formation, opening the channel for the flow of the higher
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  energy in and through him and thereby out to the patient or
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  client who is being treated. Reiki also works at a distance
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  without the physical presence of the client, required through a
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  specific set of formation actions to transmit the energy
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  to the intended party. It is interesting to note that
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  Reiki works extremely well on animals who do not have the
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  intellectual doubts that plague human beings, but who simply
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  experience and open themselves to the energy and even at a
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  distance. A Reiki master teacher
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  practitioner reported her own experience in receiving the
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  initial attunements. When she made the required focus
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  and receptivity, she suddenly felt a powerful surge of energy
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  in her chest area. In fact, she had been suffering
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  from pains in that area for several decades prior, But after
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  the atonements, that problem was resolved and the pains were
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  eliminated. She did not consciously try to
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  focus on the area of the pains, but through the visualization
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  and concentration process and the creation of receptivity
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  within herself for the energy of Reiki, the blockage, the source
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  and cause of the pain was eliminated.
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  Of course, the process of creation of powerful thought
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  forms may also help create an atmosphere where people step
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  forward to help solve situations and support needs.
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  It can help create a texture of consciousness that allows
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  changes at the societal level to occur and may even lead to
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  changes in the political dynamic that prevents real positive
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  change from occurring. Such a societal change takes
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  time and persistence, but history shows us that such
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  changes can and do occur, particularly when there is a
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  serious and focused attention to the creation of positive and
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  progressive thought forms to move the society forward.
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  If possible, the thought formation can be most powerful
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  when combined with a form of outer action that engages the
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  emotional being, the vital force, and the physical action.
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  If an individual is not in a position to do all of them, the
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  first step, the creation of the positive thought formation, is a
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  necessary and important aspect. Eventually, as it takes shape,
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  the formation begins to change. The outer action for the
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  individual and for the circumstances and the societal
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  setting focus on creating positive thought.
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  Formations cannot be used as an excuse for refusing to undertake
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  the other steps as they become possible.
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  But random outer action is not as effective as the creation of
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  beneficial forces at the causal level, the mother notes quote.
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  Note that this power of formation has a great advantage
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  if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations,
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  and if you make them properly, they will act in the same way as
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  the others. You can do a lot of good to
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  people just by sitting quietly in your room, perhaps even more
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  good than by undergoing a lot of trouble externally, if you know
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  how to think correctly, with force and intelligence and
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  kindness. If you love someone and wish him
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  well, very sincerely, deeply, with all your heart, that does
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  him much good, much more certainly than you think.
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  I have said this often, for example, to those who are here
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  who learn that someone in their family is very ill and feel the
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  childish impulse of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to
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  attend the sick person. I tell you, unless it is an
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  exceptional case and there is nobody to attend on the sick
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  person, and at times, even in such a case, if you know how to
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  keep the right attitude and concentrate with affection and
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  goodwill upon the sick person, if you know how to pray for him
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  and make helpful formations, you will do him much more good than
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  if you go to nurse him, feed him, help him, wash himself.
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  Indeed, all that everybody can do.
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  Anybody can nurse a person, but not everybody can make good
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  formations and send out forces that act for healing.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindo and the
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  Mother Powers within, Chapter 2. Power of Thought, pages 11:00 to
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  12:00.