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==Nature & Types of Habits in Us== There are within us millennia of deeply ingrained bad habits, which l are pessimistic, anticipating decay, and anticipating catastrophe… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-24-1967#p37</ref>
All There is something in the complications and miseries and misfortunes are that are there within us are justbeing which clings desperately to its habits... a bad habitThe inner habits, the inner reactions, the inner way of seeing, the way of thinking, of directing one's action, it is this which refuses to change, which finds it so difficult to change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0304/november14-27may-19621951#p40p21</ref>
There is something in the being which clings desperately to its habits...the inner habits, the inner reactions, the inner way of seeing, the way of thinking, of directing one's action, it is this which refuses to change, which finds it so difficult to change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-may-1951#p21</ref> ===Habits that Form Identity===
When a being is born upon earth, he is inevitably born in a certain country environment. In a set of social, cultural, national, sometimes religious circumstances, a set of habits of thinking, of understanding, of feeling, conceiving, all sorts of constructions which are at first mental, then become vital habits and finally material modes of being, which all have a collective conceptions of its own of which we are unaware. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p38</ref>
Social habits are something terrible; your - one's consciousness is stuffed with them from the time you are when one were quite small; when as a baby you are one is already told how something should or should not be done—these are ideas which usually parents or teachers have received in the same way when they were very young and to which they are accustomed and submit by habit; these are the most dangerous influences because they are subtle, . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/20-july-1955#p9</ref>
===Habits of Different Parts of Our Being=One's Personality==
There are many [defects We have a certain habit of a particular logic of causes and effects, of the physical consciousness]—but mainly obscurityconsequences of all things, the relation between all movements. It is for us a fact which we accept, inertiaeven without thinking about it, tamasbecause we have always lived inside it. But if we had not always lived inside it, we would see it in another way. And one can make this experiment: if one goes out of the determinism of the world as it is at present—this world which is a passive acceptance mixture of the play of wrong forcesphysical, inability to changevital, attachment to habits, lack mental and of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss something of experiences a spiritual influence or realisations gainedinfusion (quite veiled), unwillingness to accept everything that happens is the Light or to follow it, incapacity combination of all this—if we go out of all that (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to we can do what it admits to be ), if we rise above the Right physical, material world as it is, and the Bestenter another consciousness, we perceive things totally differently. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/levels-of23-the-physicalnovember-being1955#p2p22</ref>
==Storehouse of Habits: Subconscient==
They are all the imprints deep-rooted in the subconscient, the dirty habits one has and against which one struggles. All sorts of stupidities—they are there in the subconscient, deeply rooted. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/29-march-1951#p16</ref>
==Why? The Need to break Break from Grooves of Habits==
===To Discover One is free only when it is the True Identity===Divine who makes decisions in each of us, otherwise men are the slaves of their desires, their habits, of all conventions, all laws, all rules. And the more they think themselves free, the more bound they are! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/february-7-1970#p75</ref>
One must go deep within oneself and discover that one does not exist. Only the Divine exists, and so long as you have not made that discovery, you cannot advance on the path. When one has made this discovery, one becomes aware that one was nothing but a bundle ==To Get Rid of habits. In everyone there are these hundreds and hundreds of "selves" who speak and in hundreds of completely different ways—"selves" unconscious, changing, fluid. The self which speaks today is not the same as yesterday's; and if you look further, the self has disappeared. There is only one who remains. That is the Divine. It is the only one that may be seen always the same. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/8-april-1953#p23</ref>Habitual Surface Reactions==
===To Rid There are three occult sources of Habitual Surface Reactions===our action—the superconscient, the subliminal, the subconscient of which we are not aware. We are aware of is the surface being which is only an instrumental arrangement. The source of all is the general Nature,—universal Nature individualising itself in each person; for this general Nature deposits certain habits of movement, personality, character, faculties, dispositions, tendencies in us, and that, whether formed now or before our birth, is what we usually call ourselves.
There are three occult sources of our action—the superconscient, the subliminal, the subconscient of which But what we are not aware. We are aware of is on the surface is being which is only an instrumental arrangement. The source constantly set in motion, changed, developed or repeated by the waves of all is the general Nature,—universal Nature individualising itself coming in each person; for this general Nature deposits certain habits of movementon us either directly or else indirectly through others, personalitythrough circumstances, characterthrough various agencies or channels. Some of this flows straight into the conscious part and acts there, faculties, dispositions, tendencies in usbut our mind ignores its source, appropriates it and regards all that, whether formed now as its own; a part comes secretly into the subconscient or before our birthsinks into it and waits for an opportunity of rising up into the conscious surface; a good deal goes into the subliminal and may at any time come out—or may not, is what we usually call ourselvesmay rather rest there as unused matter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p6,p7</ref>
But that this is not so; he one can change. There is another consciousness deeper within him [humans] man - his true inner being, which is his real self, but is covered over by the superficial nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/anger-and-violence#p28</ref>
===Freedom from Slavery of Habits=To Discover the True Identity==
One is free only when it is must go deep within oneself and discover that one does not exist. Only the Divine who makes decisions in each of usexists, and so long as you have not made that discovery, otherwise men are you cannot advance on the slaves path. When one has made this discovery, one becomes aware that one was nothing but a bundle of their desires, their habits, . In everyone there are these hundreds and hundreds of "selves" who speak and in hundreds of all conventionscompletely different ways—"selves" unconscious, all lawschanging, all rulesfluid. And The self which speaks today is not the more they think themselves freesame as yesterday's; and if you look further, the more bound they are! self has disappeared. There is only one who remains. That is the Divine. It is the only one that may be seen always the same. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1105/february8-7april-19701953#p75p23</ref>
==How to Improve Habits: Helpful Practices ==
===Will Power=== In his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and unable to get rid of or resist its habitual movements. There are three things that help. First the psychic being; the second is the inner consciousness always awake. Lastly, the Mother's force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p62</ref>
Begin with a small thingPeople who get angry, the habit of flying into a small detail. you insist on it with the same regularityrage; one fights against that, you seerefuses to get angry, either not to do it or to do it—you insist on it and compel yourself to do it. You make the same kind rejects these vibrations of effortanger from one's being, but it is more of this must be replaced by an inner effort. After taking these and succeeding with themimperturbable calm, you can unite with a greater force and try a more complicated experiment. And graduallyperfect tolerance, if you do this regularlyan understanding of the point of view of others, you will end up by acquiring an independent a clear and very strong willtranquil vision, a calm decision—which is the positive side. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0607/315-novemberjune-19541955#p17p13</ref>
===Surrender The important thing is to Divine=== get rid of the habit of the invasion of troubling thoughts, wrong feelings, confusion of ideas, unhappy movements. These disturb the nature and cloud it and make it more difficult for the Force to work; when the mind is quiet and at peace, the Force can work more easily. It should be possible to see things that have to be changed in you without being upset or depressed; the change is the more easily done.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/silence#p18</ref>
The method of detachment from the insistence of all mental and vital and physical claims and calls and impulsions, a concentration in the heart, austerity, self-purification and rejection of the old mind movements and life movements, rejection of the ego of desire, rejection of false needs and false habits, are all useful aids,but the strongest, is self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p19</ref>===By Will Power===
Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to Begin with a small thing, a small detail. you insist on it with the Divinesame regularity, to offer all one is and hasyou see, either not to do it or to do it—you insist on one's ideasit and compel yourself to do it. You make the same kind of effort, desiresbut it is more of an inner effort. After taking these and succeeding with them, habits etcyou can unite with a greater force and try a more complicated experiment.And gradually, and to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledgeif you do this regularly, you will end up by acquiring an independent and action everywherevery strong will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/surrender3-november-1954#p4p17</ref>
===By Perseverance===
When one wants to change something of the material life, whether the character or the functioning of the organs or habits, one must have an unfaltering perseverance, be ready to begin again a hundred times the same thing with the same intensity with which one did it the first time and as though one had never done it before. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p22</ref>
===By Detachment===
Detach means to stand back and refuse to look on the movement as his own (the soul's own) and look on it as a habit of past nature or an invasion of general Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p6</ref>
 
===By Surrender to Divine===
 
Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits etc., and to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p4</ref>
 
The method of detachment from the insistence of all mental and vital and physical claims and calls and impulsions, a concentration in the heart, austerity, self-purification and rejection of the old mind movements and life movements, rejection of the ego of desire, rejection of false needs and false habits, are all useful aids,but the strongest, is self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p19</ref>
===How to Change Different Parts of The Being?===
To change one's body one must The physical consciousness is full of inertia—it wants not to move but to be ready moved by whatever forces and that is its habit. This inertia has to do millions of times be cured by putting it into contact with the right forces from above. To aspire for the same thinghigher wideness, purity and peace, because so that that may occupy the body is a creature physical and the true Force work instead of these invading ideas and impulses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p20</ref> The spirit of habits vital falsehood, dramatic and functions by routineromantic, obscurs the reason and shuts out common sense and because to destroy a routine simple truth. To clear the vital, one must persevere for yearsget out of it all compromise with falsehood—no matter how specious the reason it advances—and get the habit of simple straightforward psychic truth engraved in it so that nothing may have a chance to enter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/30the-marchnature-of-the-1955vital#p24p15</ref>
In his physical consciousness One must have the human being is always weak and unable to get rid habit of or resist its habitual movementsmental concentration. There are three things The habit of meditation, reflection, analysis, deduction, mental organisation. Otherwise, if one is just "like that help. First the psychic being; the second ", if one lives life as it comes, then it is exactly like a public square: there are roads and on the inner consciousness always awake. Lastlyroads people pass by, the Mother's force always there and receiving also a response then you find yourself at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anythingcross-roads and it all passes through your head—sometimes even ideas without any connection between them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/levels-of-the8-physicaljanuary-being1958#p62p9</ref>
===True Connection with Divine===
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