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Suggestions Can Cause Illness, or Cure Illness: the Link Between Mind, Emotions and the Physical Body · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are names for various impacts that the mind has on the
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  health of the physical body. For instance there is
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  hypochondria which is noted when an individual accepts a
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  suggestion in the mind that they are suffering from a particular
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  illness. Even if they are not at the time
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  having that particular illness, the very suggestion tends to
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  create an imbalance and can make them very sick and lead to
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  various types of physical. Adams.
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  Fear of illness is another causative factor of actual
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  illness as it opens up a whole in the protective vital
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  envelope. This is particularly visible
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  when there is a pandemic and everyone is talking about and
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  fixated upon a particularly virulent disease.
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  In many cases, the suggestions are subtle and not noticed by
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  the active mind when they arrive.
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  For instance, when may see someone suffering from,
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  Influenza and not actively dwell on it, but the impression gets
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  into the being and the physical body reacts over time.
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  Just as suggestions can help to cause illness, they can also
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  help to cure one of the most telling of these is the
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  functioning of what western medicine calls the placebo
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  effect. They find that giving a harmless
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  pill to an individual can actually lead to the body's
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  prompt immune response and cure. The placebo effect is actually a
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  very significant causative factor in healing from an
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  illness. Some people try to lump, oh, The
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  APA, the, into the placebo category, but the results on
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  horses and dogs shows that it is something more than that, the
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  subtle vibration that homeopathic medicine set up in
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  the being, although not measurable seems to provide a
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  suggestion to the body about how to vibrate a cure for itself.
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  Another known phenomenon is placing a sick or weak, plant in
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  an environment surrounded by strong and healthy plants.
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  In many cases, the plant will quickly recover its strength
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  when it picks up the vibration of the healthy plant and its
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  environs, many modern-day practitioners, utilize the power
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  of conscious affirmation or suggestion to Aid in the healing
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  process. While in the past doctors relied
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  heavily on A few for mystical e called their bedside manner to
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  project confidence and healing energy to the patient.
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  SRI aurobindo writes quote, the suggestions that create illness
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  or unhealthy conditions of the physical being come, usually
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  through the subconscient for a great part of the physical being
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  the most material part is subcontinent.
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  That is to say it has an obscure consciousness of its own but so
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  obscure and shut up in itself that the mind is not know its
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  movements or what is going on there.
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  But all the same, it is a Consciousness and can receive
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  suggestions from forces outside just as the mind and vital do if
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  it were not. So, there would not be any
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  possibility of opening it to the force and the force curing it
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  for without this Consciousness in it.
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  It would not be able to respond. In Europe and America.
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  There are many people now who recognize this fact and treat
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  their illnesses by making conscious mental suggestions to
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  the body, which counteract the Obscure secret suggestions of
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  illness in the subcontinent. There was a famous doctor in
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  France who cured thousands of people by making them
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  persistently put such counter suggestions upon the body.
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  That proves that only has has not a purely material cause but
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  is due to a disturbance of the secret Consciousness in the body
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth
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  Disturbances of the body and physical, Consciousness, faith,
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  and suggestion Pages 94 to 98.