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<ref>The Mother. (2003). Aphorism - 69. In On thoughts and aphorisms.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p27</ref>
 
== Dealing with Pain ==
 
… but if the pain continues and if it is indeed necessary to increase the receptivity in order to be able to receive what is helpful, what should be received, you must, after having relaxed this contraction, begin trying to widen yourself—you feel you are widening yourself. There are many methods. Some find it very useful to imagine they are floating on water with a plank under their back. Then they widen themselves, widen, until they become the vast liquid mass. Others make an effort to identify themselves with the sky and the stars, so they widen, widen themselves, identifying themselves more and more with the sky. Others again don't need these pictures; they can become conscious of their consciousness, enlarge their consciousness more and more until it becomes unlimited. One can enlarge it till it becomes vast as the earth and even the universe. When one does that one becomes really receptive.
(The Mother, 31 March 1951)
<ref>The Mother. (2002). 31 March 1951. In Questions and answers (1950-1951).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p18</ref>
== Relaxation ==