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The Usefulness of Suffering · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Dr. Dean ornish held a webinar on Sunday, November 20th, 2022
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  with the vegan Society of Honolulu Hawaii, in, which he
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  succinctly explain the role of suffering in the progress of
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  humanity for those who do not know about his work dr.
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  Ornish has spent decades studying the impact of diet and
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  lifestyle on human wellness. And is conducted peer-reviewed
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  studies with literally thousands of pages.
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  Patients with various forms of advanced heart disease,
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  diabetes, cancer Etc is finding showed that with a switch to a
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  vegetarian or better. Still a vegan diet focusing on
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  low fat and low, refined sugars and carbohydrates combined with
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  exercise stress reduction, techniques, such as meditation
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  and opening the heart through relationships, intimacy, and
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  positive Goodwill. These disease is not only could
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  be arrested from further development, but could actually
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  show substantial reversal. He pointed out that getting
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  compliance with a new routine is generally quite difficult.
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  But that his program has very high compliance rates.
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  The reason was simple, people who started the program, we're
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  suffering physically. And we're in many cases looking
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  at a painful death from a terminal illness, their primary
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  care. Physicians held out, only drugs
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  and surgery as potential options, both with serious
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  potential for additional pain suffering, side effects.
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  And costs, once they started on the ornish program, they started
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  seeing positive results virtually immediately within a
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  few weeks, and this made it clear to them that the future
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  for them was held in these Simple low-tech Solutions.
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  The impetus to, they're making these somewhat major changes in
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  their lives. In terms of switching from a
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  meat-based high-fat, high-sugar diet to in most cases a low fat
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  That vegan diet and in systematically adding exercise,
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  stress reduction and building, positive relationships was there
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  suffering. People do not make changes,
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  particularly major changes in the way they think and act in
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  relate until they experienced some form of suffering.
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  It may be physical in the form of injury or disease.
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  It may be vital and emotional. In terms of closed-off,
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  feelings, loneliness anger reactions and the resultant
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  effects of hypertension high blood pressure stroke and heart
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  attacks where it may be mental as they feel depressed, isolated
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  and Confused The recognition of the suffering, becomes the cause
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  of reaching out for some way to reduce and relieve that
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  suffering for many. Of course, they try to cover up
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  the Pain by self-medicating with alcohol, or recreational drugs,
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  or they create a false front of artificial happiness.
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  Through external though, superficial relationships,
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  entertainments died, versions, Etc.
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  Until they find that these methods don't provide any real
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  solutions. Or in fact, May wind up
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  increasing the suffering. They remain locked in the old
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  patterns, once they reach the point where they see no way out
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  in their normal approach to the situation, they become open and
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  receptive to changes that lead to both personal growth and
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  inner growth. We can see that it has pain
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  suffering difficulties and obstacles that lead to progress
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  as the being actively seeks for solutions.
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  That are not a priority when things are going well and they
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  are enjoying their lives. SRI, aurobindo notes.
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  In sabitri, a legend in a symbol pain.
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  Is the Hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in The
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  Mortals heart. A disciple is what part has
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  sorrow played in the evolution of humanity.
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  The mother answers. quote sorrow desire suffering ambition and
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  every other similar reaction in the feelings and Sensations have
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  all contributed to make Consciousness emerge from the in
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  conscience and to awaken this Consciousness to the will for
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  progress, in quote, reference SRI, aurobindo and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 1
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  emergence, from unconsciousness page,
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