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Habitual Responses and the Process of Auto-Suggestion Arising from the Action of the Subconscious Level · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a complex interaction between the external mind, life,
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  body complex and the subconscious level of our
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  existence. As we experience various things
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  in our lives, including illness, accidents or various
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  circumstances, our mind tries to build a pattern of recognition
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  and develops a memory. These things then fall into the
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  subconscious level where they remain until a similar
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  situation, circumstance, time frame cycle occurs to trigger
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  that memory and that recognized pattern.
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  This then becomes conscious to our waking awareness as
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  something of an auto suggestion that makes us aware of the
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  pattern and preconditions our mind to accept the situation.
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  Due to the habitual pattern that we have now recognized, we
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  therefore tend to accept as a sort of fate or destiny that
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  certain things will reoccur at particular times of the year.
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  For instance, seasonal illnesses or allergic reactions are
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  strengthened through the subconscious reinforcement of
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  the suggestion, as the pathway and acceptance of the vibration
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  opens up under this pressure. This patterning and auto
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  suggestion works not only for things such as illnesses or
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  allergies, but for all kinds of responses such as a recognized
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  propensity for courtship and mating in the spring, a type of
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  hibernation effect in cold regions during the winter, the
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  habit of midday rest in tropical climates, and the effect of
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  physical training regimens to create habitual patterns of
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  response without active mental intervention to specific types
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  of situations such as athletic competitions or within the
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  framework of a military training and deployment.
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  This type of auto suggestion also creates built in patterns
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  of fear or anxiety in certain situations and creates deep
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  rooted prejudice that results in actions and motivations that may
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  be seen as misogynistic or racist in nature.
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  A disciple asks Mother, there are people who suffer from
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  certain illnesses year after year.
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  We know now if we observe this illness, we see that it comes at
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  a particular time of the year and this goes on the next year
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  also. And it is like that.
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  But the time is fixed. Then what is the reason and how
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  can one get rid of this? The mother responds Quote there
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  could be many reasons. It depends on the person you
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  ask. If you ask an astrologer, he
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  will tell you it is the stars. When the stars come into the
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  same position, the same conditions recur.
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  Well, this is not so wrong. It can be like that.
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  It can also be the individual's reaction to certain types of
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  climate you see, or to the Sun's position where it may be quite
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  simply a bad habit. That's all laughter, and if one
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  forms, if by chance it has happened to you twice
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  consecutively, then you form. You have a good formation, you
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  see, which remains like that with a gesture in the
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  subconscious without showing itself if you don't observe it.
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  And then just when the time draws near, quite gently it
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  pushes up from within and tells you take care the time is
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  coming, the time is coming, the time is coming.
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  So naturally that comes along too.
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  Usually these things are like that, but almost everything that
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  happens in the physical is like that.
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  The first time it may be quite simply a concurrence of
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  circumstances. Then the mind intervenes and
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  makes a construction. Now if one accepts the
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  construction, one is sure that it functions with clockwork
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  precision. But even if one says, oh
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  nonsense, it's only an ideal and does this gestures still.
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  The idea, instead of going away, enters inside into the
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  subconscious, simply the subconscious mind.
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  And there it remains quietly. And then when the time comes to
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  manifest itself from inside like this, it makes a kind of as
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  though it were tickling the memory a little.
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  Nothing more than that. Just that.
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  If it rubs the memory just a little like that, then suddenly
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  one day you remember why last year at this time I was ill and
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  crash. There it is, It is entered, it
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  is entered the zone of the act of consciousness.
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  And a few days later the thing happens.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The
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  Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 2, Hidden Forces within pages 37
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  to 38.