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Widening the Consciousness: Practical Exercises and Benefits · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we observe what happens to our inner psychology, when we
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  experience physical pain, we will see that.
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  We mostly tighten ourselves up Tenzing the body focusing
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  intently on the experience of the bodily Pain by doing.
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  So we actually intensify the pain experience through this
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  focus and it takes over our consciousness.
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  A similar process occurs when we are faced with vital pressures,
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  that seemed to threaten our Vital Integrity or well-being.
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  We become defensive and create walls to protect ourselves.
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  The mind also has a similar habit, intends to reject or find
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  ways to minimize ridicule or otherwise diminish, the impact
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  of ideas that run contrary to our own cherished ways of
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  seeing, and Thinking the mothers approach is opposite to.
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  What is the normal? Instinctive way we respond, when
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  when consciously Works to widen relax and open up.
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  The being one comes into contact with a wider existence, that
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  spreads, and releases the tension, and the pain and opens,
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  two forces of healing and strength that are available at
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  those greater levels. Spiritual Seekers such as the
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  reissues of the rig Vedic times speak of the vast Consciousness
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  and it is the intent of these exercises to come into contact
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  with and be permeated by that vast existence.
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  The mother observes quote. The method of relaxing, the
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  contraction may be different in the mind, the vital or the body.
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  But logically it is the same thing.
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  Once you have relaxed attention, you see first, if the
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  disagreeable effect ceases, but if the pain continues, you must
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  after having relax this contraction, begin trying to
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  widen yourself, you feel you are widening yourself.
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  There are many methods some find it very useful to imagine.
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  They are floating on water with a plank under their back.
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  Then they widen themselves, widen until they become the vast
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  liquid mass. Others make an effort to
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  identify themselves with the sky, and the Stars, so they
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  widen widen themselves, identifying themselves more and
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  more with the sky others. Again, don't need these
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  pictures. They can become conscious of
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  their Consciousness and large their Consciousness, more and
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  more until it becomes Unlimited. One can enlarge it till it
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  becomes vast as the Earth and even the universe.
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  When one does that one becomes really receptive.
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  As I have said, it is a question of training in any case from an
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  immediate point of view, the method is just the same.
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  You must act upon the contraction.
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  One can act through thought by calling the peace tranquility,
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  the feeling of peace takes away much of the difficulty like
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  this. Peace, peace, peace.
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  Tranquility. Calm.
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  Many discomforts even physical like all these contractions of
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  the solar plexus which are so unpleasant and give you a times.
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  Nausea that sensation of being suffocated of not being able to
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  breathe. Again can disappear though.
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  It is the nervous center which is affected.
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  It gets affected very easily as soon as there is something which
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  affects the solar plexus you. Say calm, calm, Calm become more
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  and more calm, until the tension is destroyed.
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  And quote, reference SRI, aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth
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  widening, the Consciousness Pages 150 to 155,