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Understanding and Respecting the Body’s Need for Rest · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an illness strikes, the body, its energy must go to
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  recuperation and rebuilding its basic strength for a
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  practitioner of yoga. As well as those who have a
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  developmental or emotional Consciousness or an aesthetic
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  sense, the recuperation and rebuilding phase can be irksome.
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  As there is a desire to continue the normal activities and
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  progress and whatever the individuals Focus normally
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  tends. B, we tend to begrudge the time,
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  the needed for the bodies recuperation and we exhibit
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  impatience. And in some cases we overdo the
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  activity at to earliest age, these are due to the Guna of
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  rajas as it rebounds from the weakness, and indolence
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  associated with a serious health, condition or illness.
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  This tendency, however, needs to be both understood and rejected
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  by the speaker, in order to do. So, the individual needs to have
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  a clear insight to the actual needs of the body and have the
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  patience to supply those needs without disturbance.
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  The body is an outstanding instrument when it is
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  participating in the process and having its basic requirements
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  met when it is struggling under some weakness.
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  However, it needs. Report when there's a basic
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  piece and Equanimity in the beam, it can abide even during
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  physical discomforts or inconveniences as well as
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  illnesses and other bodily weaknesses.
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  When this is operative in the being, the individual can take
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  an attitude of calm towards the time and effort needed, while
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  not accepting the illness or weakness as something to be
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  either welcomed or accepted. So that the energies of the
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  Mind, vital being and the body itself can be marshaled toward
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  the recovery and strengthening of the body.
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  SRI aurobindo notes quote after an attack of influenza, the
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  first thing to do is to keep throughout a perfect Equanimity
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  and not to allow thoughts of disturbed anxiety or depression
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  to enter you, it is quite natural after the severe attack
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  of influenza that there should be weakness and some
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  fluctuations in the progress to recovery.
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  What you have to do is to remain calm and confident and not worry
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  or be restless. Be perfectly quiet and prepared
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  to Just as long as rest is needed.
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  There's nothing to be anxious about rest, and the health.
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  And strength will come in quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother living within the yoga approach to psychological health
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  and growth. Disturbances of the body and
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  physical Consciousness. Rest quiet, Goodwill Pages. 86
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  to 88.