I can't say that I know of any special device for it[to cure stammering]—people have used various kinds of devices to get over it, but behind them all will-power and a patient discipline of the utterance are indispensable.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p19</ref>
=Why Will (Power/ to progress) is Important?=
If you want to learn to work really well, you must be modest, become aware of your imperfections and always maintain the will to progress.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/22-april-1938#p3 </ref>
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In each one the will to progress is the needed thing—that is what opens us to the divine influence and makes us capable of receiving what it brings us.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/26-september-1960-1#p4 </ref>
==Positive Effects of Will ==
===Will for Change===
Each time one makes an egoistic movement or does those things which should not be done, one must immediately catch it as though by its tail and then put it in the presence of one's ideal and one's will to progress, and put the light and consciousness upon it so that it may change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-march-1955#p6 </ref>
===Will to Learn===
…..when one wants to understand the deep laws of life, wants to be ready to receive whatever message is sent by the Divine, if one wants to be able to penetrate the secrets of the Manifestation, all this asks for a developed mind, so one studies with that will. But then one no longer needs to make a choice to study, for everything, no matter what, the least little circumstance in life, becomes a teacher who can teach you something, teach you how to think and act. Even the reflections of an ignorant child can help you to understand something you didn't understand before. Your attitude is so different. It is always an attitude which is awaiting a discovery, an opportunity for progress, a rectification of a wrong movement, a step ahead, and so it is like a magnet that attracts from all around you opportunities to make this progress. The least things can teach you how to progress. As you have the consciousness and will to progress, everything becomes an opportunity, and you project this consciousness and will to progress upon all things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/2-june-1954#p17</ref>
===Will for Perfection===
It is said that one only does well what one is interested in doing. This is true, but it is truer still that one can learn to find interest in everything one does, even in what appear to be the most insignificant chores. The secret of this attainment lies in the urge towards self-perfection. Whatever occupation or task falls to your lot, you must do it with a will to progress; whatever one does, one must not only do it as best one can but strive to do it better and better in a constant effort for perfection. In this way everything without exception becomes interesting, from the most material chore to the most artistic and intellectual work. The scope for progress is infinite and can be applied to the smallest thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p18 </ref>
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All those who wish to live and work at Auroville must have an integral goodwill, a constant aspiration to know the Truth and to submit to it, enough plasticity to confront the exigencies of work and an endless will to progress so as to move forward towards the ultimate Truth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p141 </ref>
===Will for a Unified Nature===
At one time the true being occupies the field of the nature, at another the lower nature used by some contrary Force pushes it back and seizes the ground,—and this we now see, while formerly the thing happened but the nature of the happening was not clear to us. If there is the firm will to progress, this division is overpassed and in the unified nature, unified around that will, there may be other difficulties, but this kind of discord and struggle will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p39 </ref>
===Will to Progress Spiritually===
There are defects in your vital nature which stand in the way of a settled spiritual progress: but they can be eliminated if, dropping all exaggerated ideas of "sin" and unfitness, you look quietly at them and recognise and reject them. Tranquillise in yourself all over-eager demands and desires, all excitement and exaggeration of opposite feelings and impulses; seek first intensity of devotion but also calm strength, purity and peace. Allow a quiet and steady will to progress to be settled in you; learn the habit of a silent, persistent and thorough assimilation of what the Mother puts into you. This is the sound way to advance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p19 </ref>
===Will power for Physical Transformation===
In the very, very old traditions—there was a tradition more ancient than the Vedic and the Chaldean which must have been the source of both—in that ancient tradition there is already mention of a "glorious body" which would be plastic enough to be transformed at every moment by the deeper consciousness: it would express that consciousness, it would have no fixity of form. It mentioned luminosity: the constituent matter could become luminous at will. It mentioned a sort of possibility of weightlessness which would allow the body to move about in the air only by the action of will-power and by certain processes of control of the inner energy, and so on. Much has been said about these things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-april-1957#p8 </ref>
===Will power to Cure===
I can't say that I know of any special device for it[to cure stammering]—people have used various kinds of devices to get over it, but behind them all will-power and a patient discipline of the utterance are indispensable.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p19</ref>
===Will power to Control===
Obviously a layman can't do these things, unless he has a native "psychic" (that is, occult) faculty and even then he will have to learn the law of the thing before he can use it at will. It is always possible to use spiritual force or mind-power or will power or a certain kind of vital energy to produce effects in men, things and happenings; but knowledge and much practice is needed before this possibility ceases to be occasional and haphazard and can be used quite consciously, at will or to perfection. Even then to have "a control over the whole material world" is too big a proposition; a local and partial control is more possible or, more widely, certain kinds of control over matter.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p15 </ref>
==Importance of Will to Progress in Education and Yoga==
The attitude of the teacher must be one of a constant will to progress, not only in order to know always better what he wants to teach the students, but above all in order to be a living example to show them what they can become.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/correspondence#p228 </ref>
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The goal of [Integral] Yoga is always hard to reach, but this one is more difficult than any other, and it is only for those who have the call, the capacity, the willingness to face everything and every risk, even the risk of failure, and the will to progress towards an entire selflessness, desirelessness and surrender.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p3 </ref>
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The possibility and the will to progress. (is the basic thing to be taught to children)
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p45 </ref>
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Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/mental-education#p10 </ref>
==Negative Effects of lack of Will power==
The inertia is there because there was always in your outer being a great force of tamas and it is this that is being used by the resistance. There was also a deficiency of steady will-power in the outer mind which makes it more difficult for the Force to come down than for the Knowledge. When you are entirely open the Force can act on the sciatica and it lessens or disappears, but with the consciousness blocked by the inertia these difficulties come in the way.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p28 </ref>
=How to Cultivate Will to Progress =