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The Power of Imagination in Shaping Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Well, many people discount the value of imagination.
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  Pigeonholing it into the realm of the creative arts without
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  much impact on their lives and ever-expanding.
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  Number of people are realizing the tremendous power.
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  That imagination holds in shaping one's life and future
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  preeminent Geniuses such as Nikola Tesla and Albert.
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  Einstein, touted the power of imagination as essential to the
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  Insight and developments. They fostered in their work.
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  Modern-day Elite athletes actually utilize the power of
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  imagination to tune their bodies and minds and enhance their
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  actual performance. They report that they go over
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  the race or other activity in their mind, step-by-step
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  imagining how things will happen.
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  And thereby, when they actually engage in the action, they find
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  that they achieve better results.
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  Some bodybuilders or even individuals with specific goals
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  for their bodily form and functioning, use the power of
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  imagination to see the future result.
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  And this helps them to achieve that result in some cases of
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  vision acts as a motivating force for persistent activity on
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  their part to achieve the result as SRI, aurobindo notes in his
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  epic. Savithri a legend and assemble a
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  moment seize. The ages toiled to express.
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  That moment of seeing is the power of imagination that sets
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  the action in motion, the foresight acting through the
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  mental faculty is called imagination.
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  Even though it may represent a higher order of reality.
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  Imagination can also play a role in the healing of the body.
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  The power of visualization of a tumor for instance, shrinking
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  and disappearing has been reported in a number of
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  circumstances. Of course, this requires active
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  and dedicated action on the part of the individual, hoping to
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  harness this power for healing of any extremely virulent or
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  difficult health problem. The mother notes, quote
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  imagination is a power of formation.
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  In fact, people have no imagination or not.
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  Formative, from the mental point of view, they cannot give a
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  concrete power to their thought. Imagination is Very powerful
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  means of action. For instance, if you have a pain
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  somewhere and if you imagine that, you are making the pain
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  disappear or are removing it or destroying it, all kinds of
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  images like that. Well, you succeed perfectly,
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  there's a story of a person who is losing her hair at a
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  fantastic rate enough to become bald within a few weeks.
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  And then someone told her when you brush your hair, imagine
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  that it is growing and will grow very fast and always while
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  brushing her hair she said, oh my hair is growing so it will
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  grow very fast and it happened. But what people usually do is
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  tell themselves. Ah, well, my hair is falling
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  again, and I shall become bald. That's certain, it's going to
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  happen, and of course it happens.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to 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.