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How to Gain Control Over the Subconscient Impact on the External Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Ideally we want some kind of a pill we can take, some kind of
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  an instant solution, some magic formula that will instantly
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  resolve some difficulty we face when a subconscient formation
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  has been triggered. We react without any advance
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  warning when this occurs. It is also the source of many
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  deep seated psychological responses, whether in terms of
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  our emotional response, our physical response, or any
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  habitual patterns we have developed over time.
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  This includes things such as addictive behavior, emotional
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  eating, and various forms of codependent relationships.
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  If it were only so simple to take a pill and have the
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  situations all fully resolved for all time.
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  Just as we find with any attempt to carry out a diet or eliminate
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  addictions to tobacco, alcohol or other drugs, the idea of
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  simply exercising willpower or making a resolution of some sort
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  does not ensure success. In fact, judging by the results
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  most people obtain, it is not truly a matter of being weak
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  willed. Although people then blame
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  themselves and further embed negative emotions and traumas
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  into the subconscious through this self blaming that they
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  undertake or through the external shaming and finger
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  pointing that comes from their family, friends and people they
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  interact with in society. Mass media and social media
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  reinforce these things, both the negative addictive behaviors
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  that the individual grapples with and the failure to resolve
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  it through willpower alone. All of this can be seen as
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  counterproductive in any real sense.
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  Thus, people then try to turn to chemistry, and the society
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  focuses resources on developing pharmaceutical approaches to
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  overcome addictions that are associated with physical
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  activities, including weight loss, drugs and various drugs
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  that help relieve the stress of nicotine or alcohol addiction,
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  et cetera. All of these approaches may be
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  useful to some degree as part of a larger, more comprehensive
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  process. But they fail on their own
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  because they do not get to the root of the issue, which is the
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  encapsulated trauma embedded in the very cells of the body and
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  in the trained memory of the subconscious mind.
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  And they then try to suppress or tamp down the behavior when it
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  arises without actually eliminating the underlying
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  formation that causes these things.
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  It is in fact, For these reasons that Trioro Bindo suggested that
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  rather than rooting around in the subconscient levels, the
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  practitioner should focus the effort on redirecting the
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  attention to the higher super conscient force, becoming
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  receptive to it, and let it work.
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  The light of the higher planes of consciousness can do what our
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  mental, vital physical approaches cannot do, which is
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  expose the interconnected elements of the formation to the
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  light and rewire the reactive process tied to the formation.
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  Pavitra asks how to do it, The mother responds.
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  Quote How to do it, Mother laughs.
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  How to do it? It is the same thing as the same
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  method as knowing how to destroy a formation.
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  You understand it is a certain strength to dissolve things
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  which can undo formations. It depends on the nature of the
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  formation. If it is like this, a formation
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  of an adverse kind, then you need the force of a perfectly
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  pure constructive light. If you have this at your
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  disposal, all that you have to do is to bombard the thing with
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  it and you can dissolve it. But it is an operation which
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  must be performed with inner forces.
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  It cannot be done physically. That is why all physical
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  remedies you see are simply palliatives.
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  They are not cures because they are not strong enough to touch
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  the living centre of the thing. Silence.
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  The same phenomenon occurs with moral difficulties.
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  If one could succeed in destroying their remembrance,
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  destroying in oneself the memory of the state one is in when in
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  that difficulty, If one is sincere, it would be the end of
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  all difficulties forever. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  2, Hidden Forces within page 40.