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=How to Cultivate What is Health and Healing?=Good health is the exterior expression of an inner harmony. We must be proud if we are in good health and not despise it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/illness-and-health#p8</ref><center>~</center>It is good health, a solid body, well poised; when one does not have the nerves of a little girl that are shaken by the least thing; when one sleeps well, eats well.... When one is quite calm, well balanced, very quiet, one has a solid basis and can receive a large number of forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-april-1953#p13</ref><center>~</center>What people generally call "healing power" is a very great mental or vital power that imposes itself through the resistance of Matter—but this isn't that at all! It's the contagion of a vibration. And then it's irrevocable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/july-12-1967#p23</ref>

==What Health in its Natural Form== When one is normal, that is to say, unspoilt by bad teaching and bad example, when one is born and lives in a healthy and relatively balanced and normal environment, the body, spontaneously, without any need for one to intervene mentally or even vitally, has the certitude that even if something goes wrong it will be cured. The body carries within itself the certitude of cure, the certitude that the illness or disorder is sure to disappear. It is only through the false education from the environment that gradually the body is taught that there are incurable diseases, irreparable accidents, and that it can grow old, and all these stories which destroy its faith and trust. But normally, the body of a normal child—the body, I am not speaking of the thought—the body itself feels when something goes wrong that it will certainly be all right again. And if it is not like that, this means that it has already been perverted. It seems normal for it to be in good health, it seems quite abnormal to it if something goes wrong and it falls ill; and in its instinct, its spontaneous instinct, it is sure that everything will be all right. It is only the perversion of thought which destroys this; as one grows up the thought becomes more and more distorted, there is the whole collective suggestion, and so, little by little, the body loses its trust in itself, and naturally, losing its self-confidence, it also loses the spontaneous capacity of restoring its equilibrium when this has been disturbed.  If one takes care not to pervert it, the body carries within itself the certitude of victory. It is only the wrong use we make of thought and its influence on the body which robs it of this certitude of victory. So, the first thing to do is to cultivate this certitude instead of destroying it; and when it is there, no effort is needed to aspire, but simply a flowering, an unfolding of that inner certitude of victory. The body carries within itself the sense of its divinity. There. This is what you must try to find again in yourself if you have lost it.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/31-july-1957#p13,p15,p16</ref><center>~</center>There is a physical Nature which is perfectly harmonious, which has an absolutely... how to put it... yes, harmonious working, without any disorder, without disequilibrium, without any rupture of harmony, which would be expressed, if it existed upon earth, by a perfect health, a growing force, a continuous progress; and then all that one would like to obtain from one's body one would obtain; and this can go as far as an almost unimaginable progress of perfection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/29-june-1955#p7</ref><center>~</center>A body is not a cloth—nor is a sick body a torn cloth. A body weak or sick can renew itself, recover its vitality—that happens to thousands of people. A cloth has not a renewable vitality. It is only if one is old beyond fifty-five or sixty that the renewal becomes difficult—even then health and strength can be kept or recovered enough to keep the body in a good condition. … The body is an instrument for the sadhana no less than the mind and vital, and it should be kept in a good condition as far as possible. Not to care for the body, thinking it is of no importance compared with the inner state, is not the rule of this Yoga. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p34</ref> But to tell the truth (the Prerequisites?true truth of what I KNOW), I don't think there's any climate a body can't adapt to.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/may-29-1962#p13</ref> ==Misunderstandings of Health and Healing==

Health naturally depends upon Of course injections are all the sadhanafashion; but even that for everything it is "inject, inject and again inject". Medicine has gone through three stages in modern times—first (at the beginning in Molière's days) it was "bleed and douche", then "drug and diet", now it is "serum and injection". Praise the Lord! not for the illnesses, but for the doctors. However each of these formulas has a part truth behind it—with its advantages and disadvantages. As all religions and philosophies point to the Supreme but each in a different direction, so sureall medical fashions are ways to health—though they don't always reach it. <ref>https: //incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p20</ref><center>~</center>Doctors advise marriage because they think satisfaction of the sexual instinct is necessary for the health and repression causes disturbances in the system. This is true only when there are other factorsis no true giving up of the sexual indulgence, but only a change in the way of indulging it. Nowadays a new theory has come up which confirms the Indian theory of Brahmacharya, viz. that by continence ''retas'' can be changed into ''ojas'' and the vigour and power of the being enormously increase. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/july-6-1958sex#p11p72</ref>

…whatever Health protected by twenty thousand precautions is the effort, whatever gospel of the difficulty, whatever time doctor; but it takes, whatever number of lives, you must know that all this doesn't matter: you KNOW you ARE the Master, that the Master and you are the same. All that's necessary is ... to know it INTEGRALLY, and nothing must belie it. Thatnot God's evangel for the way out. When I tell people that their health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner life, not the deepest)body, itnor Nature's because of this.[Based on Aphorism 399] <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0110/octoberaphorism-25394-1960395-396-397-398-399#p59-p60p6</ref>

ObviouslyIt depends on the consciousness [whether one wants to ''live'' a long life]. As it is, at present, logically you are rightmost people do not get tired of life; they die because they must, not because they want to—at least, that is true of the vital; it is only a minority that tire of life and for many of these it is due to the discomforts of old age, continued ill-health, misfortune. Supposing a consciousness descended in the body that got rid of these discomforts, would people get tired of life in the healing capacity same way merely because of its length or would they have some source of perpetual interest within as well as without that would keep them on—that is there; so if the question. Of course physical immortality would not mean that one has is tied down to the healing capacitybody, there but that one is the capacity not subject to remedy wear disease and teardeath, but can keep or leave the body at will. I don't know whether Ashwatthaman lives on because he cannot die or because he won't die—whether it is for him a doom or a privilege. ObviouslyThere are by the way animals that live for many centuries, but as they have not the philosophic mind the question for them does not arise—probably they take it as a matter of course.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1128/marchtransformation-and-25the-1970body#p79p35</ref>

You may have a physical aspiration also; that the body may feel the need to acquire a kind of equipoise in which all the parts of the being will be well balancedask me whether your illness comes from yoga. By no means—far from damaging health, and that you may have the power yoga helps to hold off illness at build up a distance or overcome it fast when it enters trickily, and health that the body may always function normally, harmoniously, in perfect health. That is a physical aspirationrobust and unfailing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/7illness-octoberand-1953health#p11p1</ref>

The faith There is a sort of traditional belief in many minds that the practice of Yoga is inimical to the health of the body and tends to have a bad effect of one kind or another and even finally leads to a premature or an early dropping of the body. Ramakrishna seems to have held the view, if we can judge from his remarks about the connection between Keshav Sen's progress in spirituality and the illness which undermined him, that one was the result and the desirable result of the other, a liberation and release from life in spiritual things this world, mukti. That may or may not be; but I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of the body is asked the natural and general result of the sadhak practice of Yoga or that that practice is not the cause of an ignorant but a luminous faithinevitable breakdown of health or of the final illnesses which bring about their departure from the body. On what ground are we to suppose or how can it be proved that while non-Yogis suffer from ill health and die because of the disorders of Nature, Yogis die of their Yoga? Unless a faith direct connection between their death and their practice of Yoga can be proved—and this could be proved with certainty only in light particular cases and even then not with an absolute certainty—there is no sufficient reason to believe in darknesssuch a difference. It is called blind more rational to conclude that both Yogis and non-Yogis fall ill and die from natural causes and by the sceptical intellect same dispensation of Nature; one might even advance the view, since they have the Yoga Shakti at their disposal if they choose to use it, that the Yogi falls ill and dies not because of but in spite of his Yoga. At any rate, I don't believe that Ramakrishna (or any other Yogi) fell ill because of his trances; there is nothing to show that he ever suffered in that way after a trance. I think it refuses to be guided is said somewhere or he himself said that the cancer in his throat of which he died came by outer appearances his swallowing the sins of his disciples and those who approached him: that again may or seeming factsmay not be,—for but it looks will be his own peculiar case. It is no doubt possible to draw the truth behindillnesses of others upon oneself and even to do it deliberately; the instance of the Greek king Antigonus and his son Dimitrius is a famous historical case in point. Yogis also do this sometimes; or else adverse forces may throw illnesses upon the Yogi, using those round him as a door or a passage or the ill wishes of people as an instrumental force. But all these are special circumstances connected, no doubt,—and does with his practice of Yoga; but they do not establish the general proposition as an absolute rule. A tendency such as X's to desire or welcome or accept death as a release could have a force because of her advanced spiritual consciousness which it would not walk on have in ordinary people.  On the crutches other side there can be an opposite use and result of proof the Yogic consciousness: illness can be repelled from one’s own body or cured, even chronic or deep-seated illnesses and long-established constitutional defects remedied or expelled and evidenceeven a predestined death delayed for a long period. <ref>https://incarnateword. in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p8</ref> =What is Health in Different Parts of Being?=It is an intuitionevident that if spiritual force exists,—an intuition not only waiting for it must be able to produce spiritual results—therefore there is no irrationality in the claim of those sadhaks who say that they feel the force of the Guru or the force of the Divine working in them and leading towards spiritual fulfilment and experience to justify . Whether itis so or not in a particular case is a personal question, but leading towards experiencethe statement cannot be denounced as per se incredible and manifestly false because such things cannot be. If I believe Farther, if it be true that spiritual force is the original one and the others are derivative from it, then there is no irrationality in self-healingsupposing that spiritual force can produce mental results, vital results, physical results. It may act through mental, vital or physical energies and through the means which these energies use, or it may act directly on mind, life or matter as the field of its own special and immediate action. Either way is ''prima facie'' possible. In a case of cure of illness, someone is lying ill for two days, weak, suffering from pains and fever; he takes no medicine but finally asks for cure from his Guru; the next morning he rises well, I shall after strong and energetic. He has at least some justification for thinking that a force has been used on him and put into him and that it was a spiritual power that acted. But in another case medicines may be used, while at the same time find out the way invisible force may be called for to aid the material means, for it is a known fact that medicines may or may not succeed—there is no certitude. Here for the reason of an outside observer (one who is neither the user of the force nor the doctor nor the patient) it remains uncertain whether the patient was cured by the medicines only or by the spiritual force with the medicines as an instrument. Either is possible, and it cannot be said that because medicines were used, therefore the working of a spiritual force is per se incredible and demonstrably false. On the other hand it is possible for the doctor to heal myself—if I have faith felt a force working in him and guiding him or he may see the patient improving with a rapidity which, according to medical science, is incredible. The patient may feel the force working in transformationhimself bringing health, energy, rapid cure. The user of the force may watch the results, see the symptoms he works on diminishing, those he did not work upon increasing till he does work on them and then immediately diminishing, the doctor working according to his unspoken suggestions, I can end by laying my etc. etc. until the cure is done. (On the other hand on he may see forces working against the cure and unravelling conclude that the spiritual force has to be contented with a withdrawal or an imperfect success.) In all that the doctor, the patient or the user of force is justified in believing that the cure is at least partly or even fundamentally due to the whole process spiritual force. Their experience is valid of transformationcourse for themselves only, not for the outside rationalising observer. But if I begin the latter is not logically entitled to say that their experience is incredible and must be false. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force#p2</ref>==Physical==To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with doubt the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can go into places infested with the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness, so long as it is whole and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance. This body is built up, on the one side, of a material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the other, of the vibrations of our psychological states. Peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance. It is a very sensitive medium with more doubtfacile and quick reactions...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p11</ref> ==Vital==It's a vital that's very intense in its desires (which may not be ordinary desires at all), but with a sort of almost aggressive intensity, how far am I likely and... essentially dissatisfied. ...But every time the vital comes into play (and one is obliged to go on let the vital play because of the physical health; one can't "calm" it down totally because that would make the journey? physical body suffer), it's like that.... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2806/doubtdecember-and31-faith1965#p29p16</ref>

The Hathayogic method is ...but in order for you to bring an immense be completely cured, your vital force into the body must be converted, and by this and by certain processes keep it strong and in good health and a capable instrumentwhat I call "to be converted" isn't to surrender—to be converted is to understand. To be converted is to adhere.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2806/transformation-anddecember-the31-body1965#p4p52</ref>

For We are aware of a vitality working in this bodily form and structure as in the spiritual life plant or lower animal, a vital existence which is also for the most part subconscious to give us, for we only observe some of its movements and reactions. We are partly aware of its operations, but not by any means of all or most of them, and rather of those which are abnormal than those which are normal; its wants impress themselves more forcibly upon us than its satisfactions, its diseases and disorders than its health and its regular rhythm, its death is more poignant to demand us than its life is vivid: we know as much of it as we can consciously observe and use or as much as forces itself upon us by pain and pleasure and other sensations or as a cause of nervous or physical reaction and disturbance, but no more. Accordingly, we suppose that this vital-physical part of us also is not conscious of its own operations or has only a suppressed consciousness or no-consciousness like the ruleplant or an inchoate consciousness like the incipient animal; it becomes conscious only so far as it is enlightened by mind and observable by intelligence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-boundaries-of-the-ignorance#p6</ref> ==Mind==Finally, the body obeys the mind automatically in those things in which it is formed or trained to obey it, but the relation of the body to the mind is not in all things that of an automatic perfect instrument. The sadhak however body also has a consciousness of its own and, though it is a submental instrument or servant consciousness, it can disobey or fail to obey as well. In many things, in matters of health and illness for instance, in all automatic functionings, the body acts on its own and is not a servant of the mind. If it is fatigued, it can offer a passive resistance to the mind's will. It can cloud the mind with tamas, inertia, dullness, fumes of the subconscient so that the mind cannot act. The arm lifts itself no doubt when it gets the suggestion, but at first the legs do not obey when they are asked to walk; they have to learn how to leave the crawling attitude and movement and take up the erect and ambulatory habit. When you first ask for the Divine Force hand to aid him in keeping his health draw a straight line or recovering to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught, and afterwards it if he does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body consciousness different from the mind consciousness which can do things at the mind's order but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument. It can even be so trained that a mental will or suggestion can cure the illnesses of the body. But all these things, these relations of mind and body, stand on the same footing in essence as part the relation of his sadhana mind to vital and it is not so easy or primary a matter as Augustine would have it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p30</ref>=What is Health in Relation to Other Qualities?= ==Joy== And within... oh! It's like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being.... At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call 'equilibrium'—that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (''Mother shapes great waves''): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of life—yes, physical life—the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that his body may it's here; it is here, it mustn't be forgotten, it's here—but it's kept down by this... tension.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-14-1961#p11</ref> ==Harmony== I have said that from a young age children should be able taught to respect good health, physical strength and fit balance. The great importance of beauty must also be emphasised. A young child should aspire for beauty, not for the sake of pleasing others or winning their admiration, but for the love of beauty itself; for beauty is the spiritual ideal which all physical life must realise. Every human being has the possibility of establishing harmony among the different parts of his body and in the various movements of the body in action. Every human body that undergoes a capable instrument for rational method of culture from the very beginning of its existence can realise its own harmony and thus become fit to manifest beauty. When we speak of the Divine Workother aspects of an integral education, we shall see what inner conditions are to be fulfilled so that this beauty can one day be manifested. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2912/seeking-thephysical-divineeducation#p8p12</ref>

Whatever There are three states, we could say: the state of Harmony—that is the one we reach towards all the time, and sometimes we catch it may be—the power for a few seconds, then everything works out as if by miracle; then the usual state of Disorder, in which we are constantly on the verge of something unpleasant, in a precarious balance; and when the disorder grows more visible, there is what they call an "illness ," but it isn't real. You see, we think the body is in good health, that it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to prevent fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the sadhana ought not to exist. The Yogic consciousness body is always off balance (more or less), and its activities must be there whether there it is health something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter into Harmony, and then everything is fine. Last night I experienced this again, and that's why I can assert with certainty: all sensations are false.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessjuly-and10-health1965#p1p6</ref>

==What Why is the ProcessHealth and Healing Important?==

You know, in a very precise, material and detailed way I am developing the power to heal. I don't do it deliberately, thatThat's just how it is. And then (laughing)the one thing needed—important, I am given opportunities very important: to test, to experiment on my own body—there's always something keep the matter. Suddenly something goes wrong and I apply my handbody in good health, or simply do in a concentration, some movement or other, and everything disappears—but materially: the power to healsort of balance. We must keep our balance. You know, I apply my hand and then the Force goes throughVery important. ItThe rest doesn's very interesting. Only (laughing), I am the laboratoryt matter! That's not so funny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0704/marchjuly-224-19661963#p6p40</ref>

But I know in an absolute way that once this whole mass heard the authentic story of one of these African women who are accustomed to walk for miles carrying heavy loads. She was pregnant and the time of delivery came during one of the day's marches. She sat on the side of the physical mind is mastered track, under a tree, gave birth to the child, waited for half an hour, then she rose and adding the Brahmic consciousness is brought into it in a continuous new-born babe to the former luggage, went on her wayquietly, you CAN as if nothing had happened... you become the MASTER This is a splendid example of what a woman can do when she is in full possession of your her healthand strength. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0112/octoberto-women-about-25their-1960body#p51p46</ref>

I went down into a place ... a place simply in the human consciousness, thus necessarily in my body ... I have never seen anything more timorous, fearful, feeble and mean! It's ... it must be a part of the cells, part of the consciousness, something Do not forget that lives in apprehension, fear, dread, anxiety ... It was truly, truly dreadful. And we carry that within us! We aren't aware of it, it's almost subconscious—for you see, the consciousness is there to prevent us from yielding to that—it's cowardly, and it can make you fall sick IN A MINUTE. I saw it, I saw things that had been cured and overcome succeed in myself (cured in the true manner, not in an outer way), and then they return! It's cured, but then it begins again.So then I went in search of its origin. It's something in the subconscient—in the cells' subconscient. Its roots are there, and on the least occasion ... And it's so very, very ingrained that ... For example, you can be feeling very good, the body can be perfectly harmonious (and when the body is perfectly harmonious, its motions are harmonious, things are in their true places, everything works exactly as it should without needing the least attention—a general harmony), when suddenly the clock strikes, for example, or someone utters a word, and you our yoga one must have just the faint impression 'Oh, it's late, I'm not going to be on time'—a second, a split second, strong and healthy body... the whole working of the body falls apart. You suddenly feel feeble, drained, uneasy. And you have to intervene. It's terrible. And we're at the mercy of such things! To change it, you have to descend into it—which is what I'm in good health that the midst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once it's done, it will be something. When that way towards transformation is done, I'll explain it to you. And then I'll have the power to restore you to healthfound.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0115/novemberillness-5and-1960health#p10-p13p3,p5</ref>

But because of my inner work, The first time I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of came here and spoke with Sri Aurobindo about what was needed for the CareWork, he told me (he also wrote it to me) that for the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization secure achievement of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for Work we would need three powers: one was the divine work is favored—of course not conspicuously sopower over health, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domains—governmentsecond was the power over government, money and health—things always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you didn't have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to third was the catastrophe, the fall. And it's ALWAYS at that point that... (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns around—not before, not one minute beforepower over money. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0401/octoberjuly-196-19631958#p8p10</ref>

I have some interesting things to tell If anyone among you. It's about this cold. An extraordinary healing power ... All the phases in their most acute formhas received spiritual forces, with the study forces of the processDivine Ananda, and each phase gone through in a few hoursfor example, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). Usually, when you have a cold, you go through one phase, then another (you know how it he knows from experience that unless he is)in good health he cannot contain them, then it goes lower down, then you cough, thenkeep them... All that was gone through quickly, He begins to weep and in two days it was over. And with the whole processcry, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes, acts, and at once.gets restless to expend what he has received.. Oh, it was very, very interesting, because there was the part played by the inconscient, the part played by conscious reactions, the part played by the will (tremendous, an enormous part), the part played by mental suggestion (tremendous too), He must laugh and... the action of the supreme Vibration. The whole thing in detail, day talk and nightgesticulate, constantly; to such a point that at moments I stood stillotherwise he cannot keep them, like that, to follow the coursehe feels stifled. And it lasted (I saw you on Saturday) for... Sundayso by laughing, Mondayweeping, Tuesday: those three daysmoving about he throws out what he has received.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/february-8-1967#p1</ref>

==How Does To be well balanced, to be able to absorb what one receives, one must be very quiet, very calm. One must have a solid basis, good health. One must have a very solid basis. That is very important.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-april-1953#p14,p15</ref><center>~</center>As a result of this new relation between the Physical Healing Happen?==Spirit and the body, the gnostic evolution will effectuate the spiritualisation, perfection and fulfilment of the physical being; it will do for the body as for the mind and life. Apart from the obscurity, frailties and limitations, which this change will overcome, the body-consciousness is a patient servant and can be in its large reserve of possibilities a potent instrument of the individual life, and it asks for little on its own account: what it craves for is duration, health, strength, physical perfection, bodily happiness, liberation from suffering, ease. These demands are not in themselves unacceptable, mean or illegitimate, for they render into the terms of Matter the perfection of form and substance, the power and delight which should be the natural outflowing, the expressive manifestation of the Spirit. When the gnostic Force can act in the body, these things can be established; for their opposites come from a pressure of external forces on the physical mind, on the nervous and material life, on the body organism, from an ignorance that does not know how to meet these forces or is not able to meet them rightly or with power, and from some obscurity, pervading the stuff of the physical consciousness and distorting its responses, that reacts to them in a wrong way. A supramental self-acting self-effectuating awareness and knowledge, replacing this ignorance, will liberate and restore the obscured and spoiled intuitive instincts in the body and enlighten and supplement them with a greater conscious action. This change would institute and maintain a right physical perception of things, a right relation and right reaction to objects and energies, a right rhythm of mind, nerve and organism. It would bring into the body a higher spiritual power and a greater life-force unified with the universal life-force and able to draw on it, a luminous harmony with material Nature and the vast and calm touch of the eternal repose which can give to it its diviner strength and ease. Above all,—for this is the most needed and fundamental change,—it will flood the whole being with a supreme energy of Consciousness-Force which would meet, assimilate or harmonise with itself all the forces of existence that surround and press upon the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p24</ref>

==How I have told you first of all that all illness without any exception—without exception—is the expression of a break in equilibrium… First, I am speaking only of the body, I am not speaking of the nervous illnesses of the vital or of mental illnesses… That is, if all your organs, all the members and parts of your body are in harmony with one another, you are in perfect health. But if there is the slightest imbalance anywhere, immediately you get either just a little ill or quite ill, even very badly ill, or else an accident occurs. That always happens whenever there is an inner imbalance. … First of all, from the point of view of the body—just the body—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic. I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the parts of your body: nerves, muscles, bones and all the rest. Now, if an organ by itself is in disequilibrium, it is an organic disequilibrium, and you are told: that organ is ill or perhaps it is badly formed or it is not normal or an accident has occurred to Deal with Painit. But it is the organ that is ill. But the organ may be in a very good condition, all your organs may be in a very good condition, but there is still an illness as they do not function properly: there is a lack of balance in the functioning. You may have a very good stomach, but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the body may also be excellent, but something happens to it and it does not work properly any more. Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p29,p31</ref><center>~</center>“An illness of the body is always the outer expression and translation of a disorder, a disharmony in the inner being; unless this inner disorder is healed, the outer cure cannot be total and permanent.”<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p12</ref><center>~</center>"Disease" no longer means anything, it really doesn't: it's distortions of vibrations and shiftings of vibrations, and... (what can I call it?==) encrustations—from the point of view of movement, it's like bottlenecks, and from the point of view of the cell, it's like encrustations: it's what remains of the old Inertia out of which we came.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/november-28-1964#p9</ref>

... So it is very difficult to make a general rule.But there is a preparation which may be of a general kind. That is, to accustom the body methodically to understand that it is only the outer expression of a truer and deeper reality and that it is this truer and deeper reality which governs its destiny―though it is not usually aware of it.One can prepare the body through a series of observations, studies, understandings,1 by showing it examples, making it understand things as one makes a child understand them, either by observing its own movements―but generally, in this, one is comparatively blind!―or by observing those of others. And in a more general way, this preparation will be based on recognised studies, on clear facts. Like this, for instance: that a certain number of persons, placed in exactly similar circumstances, experience, each one of them, very different effects. One may go even further: in a given set of definite circumstances, there is a certain number of particular, definite individuals, in apparently quite identical conditions, and for some the effects are catastrophic, while others escape without any harm.During the war there was a very large number of such examples for study. In epidemics it is the same thing; in cataclysms of Nature, like tidal waves or earthquakes or cyclones, it is the same thing.The body understands these things if they ==What are shown and explained to it as one explains things to a child: "You see, there was something else that acted there, not only the plain material fact by itself." And, unless some bad will is there, it understands.This is a preparation.Gradually, if you make use Causes of this understanding, you must, with a methodical work of infusing consciousness into the cells of the body, infuse at the same time the truth of the divine Presence. This work takes time, but, if done methodically and constantly, it produces an effect.So you have prepared the ground.Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot. At that moment all will depend, as I said at the beginning, on the approach most familiar to you. But we can give an example. You are in pain, in great pain; it is hurting very much, you are suffering a lot.First point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it", etc., all this sort of thing. The more you go on thinking like this and feeling like this and the more your attention is concentrated on it, the pain increases amazingly.So, the first point: to control yourself sufficiently not to do that.Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits. If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind―it may be a mental peace, it may be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and qualities, this is an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace.... Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.This is not always enough.But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, but with a little life in it―that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease.If you can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it.You may try and yet not succeed. But you must know how to try again and again and again, until you do succeed. But if you do those three things at the same time, well, there is no pain which can resist.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-julyIll-1956#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>health?==

What you have to do is to remain calm In short, the sources of an illness are manifold and confident and not worry or be restless—be perfectly quiet and prepared to rest as long as rest is needed. There is nothing to be anxious aboutintricate; resteach can have a multitude of causes, and but always it indicates where is the weak part in the health and strength will comebeing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/specific-illnesses-ailments16-andjune-other-physical-problems1929#p5p9,p10</ref>

But that's how Usually, unless one has taken good care to make it worked otherwise, the impulses—the impulses of desire—all the enthusiasms and passions with healingall their reactions are the masters of human life. When One must already be something of a sage to be able to undergo a rigorous discipline of the body and obtain from it the Power was ordered, regular effort which can perfect it. There is no longer any room therefor all the fancies of desire. You see, he said as soon as one gives way to excesses, to immoderation of any kind and a disorderly life, it becomes quite impossible to control one's body and develop it was even effortlessnormally, all he had not to do was to put mention that Power , naturally, one spoils one's health and as a result the most important part of the ideal of ordera perfect body disappears; for with bad health, impaired health, one is not much good for anything. And it is certainly the satisfaction of supramental harmony, desires and impulses of the vital or the unreasonable demands of certain ambitions which make the body suffer and it would act instantlyfall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0409/march8-9may-19631957#p9p3</ref>

To separate yourself If one cherishes desires, there is bound to be disappointment and suffering, especially if at the same time one does Yoga and takes up the spiritual life. For such desires, demand for vital affection and love from men and demand for physical comforts are not consistent with the thing and call spirit of Yoga in the Motherwhich one must turn one's force heart to cure it [is the Yogic method]—or else to use your own will force Divine and be vitally pure and in physical things must be content with faith what one gets and equal-minded in the power to heal, having the support of the Mother's force behind you. If you cannot use either of these methods then you must rely on the action of the medicineall conditions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicinesdesire#p3p37</ref>

Remain quietAll ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or wrong movement there [in the vital], within, concentrated only on receiving strength it has sometimes a more physical and health, confident that we are with you all sometimes a more psychological character. Medicines can counteract the time, and you will soon be all rightphysical results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdoctors-and-healthmedicines#p46p6</ref>

As for curing you by the ForceIn other cases, if the main obstacle body lacks receptivity altogether or if its receptivity is your own vital movements. All this egoistic insistence on your own ideasinsufficient, claims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological state which has brought about the wickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you illness and the reactions they cause—have had this effect acts on your liver and stomach and nervesthat. If you give up all that and live quietly and at peace with others, thinking less of yourself and others and more But if the cause of the Divineillness is refractory, not much can be done. Let us say the origin is vital. The vital absolutely refuses to change, it would make things much easier and help clings terrifically to restore your healththe condition in which it is; then that is hopeless. Quietness of You put the mind force, and usually it provokes an increase in facing your the illness is also necessary—agitation stops , produced by the action resistance of the Forcevital which did not want to accept anything. I speak of the vital but it can be the mind or something else. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/doctors-andmarch-medicines1951#p10p12</ref>

These pains are a part of It's something in the pressure of subconscient—in the old nature cells' subconscient. Its roots are there, and on the body; least occasion ... And it's so very, very ingrained that is why we consider it ... For example, you can only be healed by feeling very good, the Peace body can be perfectly harmonious (and Power bringing when the body is perfectly harmonious, its motions are harmonious, things are in their true places, everything works exactly as it should without needing the least attention—a general harmony), when suddenly the clock strikes, for example, or someone utters a new movement of word, and you have just the physical nature therefaint impression 'Oh, it's late, I'm not going to be on time'—a second, a split second, and ... In the stage whole working of the struggle between body falls apart. You suddenly feel feeble, drained, uneasy. And you have to intervene. It's terrible. And we're at the two naturesmercy of such things! To change it, you have to descend into it—which is what I'm in the peace does not always remainmidst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once it's done, but it will remain longer and longer as be something. When that is done, I'll explain it to you get . And then I'll have the habit of opening constantly power to restore you to ithealth. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/november-5-1960#p12,p13</ref> =How to Cultivate Good Health?= Care should be taken of the body certainly, the care that is needed for its good condition, rest, sleep, proper food, sufficient exercise… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p93p81</ref><center>~</center>So far I have referred only to the education to be given to children; for a good many bodily defects can be rectified and many malformations avoided by an enlightened physical education given at the proper time. But if for any reason this physical education has not been given during childhood or even in youth, it can begin at any age and be pursued throughout life. But the later one begins, the more one must be prepared to meet bad habits that have to be corrected, rigidities to be made supple, malformations to be rectified. And this preparatory work will require much patience and perseverance before one can start on a constructive programme for the harmonisation of the form and its movements. But if you keep alive within you the ideal of beauty that is to be realised, sooner or later you are sure to reach the goal you have set yourself. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p13</ref>

To heal [illness] by the true force is obviously In all cases, as well for boys as for girls, the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which exercises must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1</ref>It is only by emerging from graded according to the mind's prison strength and consciously soaring into the light capacity of the spirit thateach one. If a weak student tries at once to do hard and heavy exercises, through he may suffer for his foolishness. But with a conscious union with the Divinewise and progressive training, girls as well as boys can participate in all kinds of sports, we will be able to let Him give us back the balance and thus increase their strength and health which we have lost.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1112/marchto-women-18about-1970their-body#p10p39</ref>

Illness You are young, you have plenty of time before you. And to be young, to be really young, we must not be accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by always, always keep on growing, developing, progressing. Growth is the force sign of transformation especially in the vital youthfulness and the body. But it there is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed no limit to take this obscure form the growth of illnessconsciousness. All illness should be rejected I know old people of twenty and all suggestions young people of illness; the Force should be called fifty, sixty, seventy. And if one does manual work, one keeps in to cure by the assent to good health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3113/illness-andaspiration-healthtalks#p4p23</ref>

It is similar with To this japa: an imperceptible little change, general education of the senses and one can pass from a more or less mechanicaltheir functioning there will be added, more or less efficient and real japaas early as possible, to the true japa full cultivation of power discrimination and light. I even wondered if this difference is what the tantrics call the 'power' of the japa. For example, the other day I was down with a cold. Each time I opened my mouthaesthetic sense, there was a spasm in the throat capacity to choose and I coughed adopt what is beautiful and coughed. Then a fever came. So I lookedharmonious, I saw where it was coming fromsimple, healthy and I decided that it had to stoppure. I got up to do my japa For there is a psychological health just as usualthere is a Physical health, a beauty and I started walking back and forth in my room. I had to apply a certain will. Of course, I could do my japa in trance, I could walk in trance while repeating harmony of the japa, because then you feel nothing, none sensations as of all the body's drawbacksand its movements. But As the work has to be done capacity of understanding grows in the body! So I got up and started doing my japa. Thenchild, with each word pronounced—the Lighthe should be taught, in the full Power. A course of his education, to add artistic taste and refinement to power that heals everythingand precision. I began the japa tiredHe should be shown, illled to appreciate, and I came out of it refreshedtaught to love beautiful, restedlofty, cured. So those who tell me they come out of it exhaustedhealthy and noble things, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it whether in Nature or in the true wayhuman creation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0112/october-6vital-1959education#p11</ref>

Each spot of the The body in its normal state, that is symbolical of an inner movement; to say, when there is there a world no intervention of subtle correspondencesmental notions or vital impulses, also knows very well what is good and necessary for it; but for this to be effective in practice, one must educate the child with care and teach him to distinguish his desires from his needs.He should be helped to develop a taste for food that is simple and healthy, substantial and appetising, but free from any useless complications.In his daily food, all that merely stuffs and causes heaviness should be avoided; and above all, he must be taught to eat according to his hunger, neither more nor less, and not to make his meals an occasion to satisfy his greed or gluttony.. The particular place From one's very childhood, one should know that one eats in order to give strength and health to the body affected by an illness is an index and not to enjoy the nature pleasures of the inner disharmony palate. Children should be given food that suits their temperament, prepared in a way that has taken place. It points to the originensures hygiene and cleanliness, it that is a sign of pleasant to the cause of the ailmenttaste and yet very simple. It reveals too This food should be chosen and apportioned according to the nature age of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speedchild and his regular activities. It indicates should contain all the treatment chemical and the cure. If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open dynamic elements that part are necessary for his development and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately gobalanced growth of every part of his body. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/0312/16-junephysical-1929education#p8p7</ref>

To medical This is the Higher Mind in its aspect of cognition; but there is also the aspect of will, of dynamic effectuation of the Truth: here we find that this greater more brilliant Mind works always on the rest of the being, the mental will, the heart and its feelings, the life, the body, through the power of thought, through the idea-force. It seeks to purify through knowledge, to deliver through knowledge , to create by the innate power of knowledge. The idea is put into the heart or the life as a force to be accepted and worked out; the heart and experiencelife become conscious of the idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the feelings and actions become the vibrations of this higher wisdom, are informed with it, filled with the emotion and the sense of it: the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even in the body the idea works so that, for example, add full the potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or the idea of strength calls in the substance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the idea generates the force and form proper to the idea and imposes it on our substance of mind, life or matter. It is in this way that the first working proceeds; it charges the Divinewhole being with a new and superior consciousness, lays a foundation of change, prepares it for a superior truth of existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p23</ref> ==What are the Prerequisites?== …whatever the effort, whatever the difficulty, whatever time it takes, whatever number of lives, you must know that all this doesn't matter: you KNOW you ARE the Master, that the Master and you are the same. All that's Grace necessary is ... to know it INTEGRALLY, and your healing capacity will have no limitsnothing must belie it. That's the way out.  When I tell people that their health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner life, not the deepest), it's because of this. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1501/doctorsoctober-and25-medicines1960#p10p59,p60</ref>

Catch hold of a peace deep within In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it. Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and push overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it into decides to get cured; it is not the cells of drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the bodyitself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. With  But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the peace will come back ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of the healthwhole being suddenly drawing itself up, with its head lifted high—I am my own master. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1501/peaceoctober-and-quiet-faith-and17-surrender1957#p25p3,p4</ref>

It is difficult to say exactly which of the two possibilities would be more helpful to recover your health. But in You may have a general way a change is more helpful for physical aspiration also; that the body at may feel the beginning than need to acquire a kind of equipoise in which all the long runparts of the being will be well balanced, as and that you may have the thing most detrimental power to hold off illness at a distance or overcome it fast when it enters trickily, and that the body's welfare is the lack of interest may always function normally, harmoniously, in life and surroundingsperfect health. Anything new can wake up this interest for the time being—but the effect That is never very lastinga physical aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/general7-october-1953#p15p11</ref>

The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in darkness. It is called blind by the sceptical intellect because it refuses to be guided by outer appearances or seeming facts,—for it looks to the truth behind,—and does not walk on the crutches of proof and evidence. It is an intuition,—an intuition not only waiting for experience to justify it, but leading towards experience. If I believe in self-healing, I shall after a time find out the way to heal myself—if I have faith in transformation, I can end by correcting your way laying my hand on and unravelling the whole process of living that you can hope transformation. But if I begin with doubt and go on with more doubt, how far am I likely to secure good health.go on the journey?<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1528/generaldoubt-and-faith#p25p29</ref>

In principle, everything For the spiritual life to give and not to demand is possible by uniting consciously with the rule. The sadhak however can ask for the Divine Force.But a method has to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be found, able and this depends on fit for the case spiritual life and the individual.The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws energy from others.The second indispensable condition is to know how to draw energy from above, from capable instrument for the inexhaustible impersonal sourceDivine Work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/12seeking-januarythe-1972divine#p2,p3,p4,p5p6</ref>

In Whatever it may be—the power of the first case, they are illness to prevent the faculties that develop sadhana ought not to exist. The Yogic consciousness and its activities must be there whether there is health or illness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in man as he opens /cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p1</ref> ==How to Deal with Pain?== To heal [''illness''] by the higher mind and overmind, and through those regions he receives true force is obviously the light of best—provided the Truthbody is amenable. These faculties are not It has a direct expression consciousness of the supreme Truth, but its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a transcription, an indirect reflection of it. They include intuition, foreknowledge, knowledge by identity and certain powers such as that of healing and, to an extent, of acting upon circumstancesfull response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/23doctors-apriland-1960medicines#p4p1</ref>

It is in fact something very superficialonly by emerging from the mind's prison and consciously soaring into the light of the spirit that, through a conscious union with the Divine, but still it should we will be cured. It is your body that does not feel very strong able to let Him give us back the balance and is sad because it does not health which we have a sound balance of health. The best cure is plenty of open-air exercise and abundant foodlost. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1611/16march-march18-19351970#p4p10</ref>

I don't need to tell you where your headache comes from; I suppose you know… what is not good is too much preoccupation with it, anxiety, despondency in illness etc. Only when you become absolutely regular in your material life will you be able to have good , for these things only favour the prolongation of ill-healthor weakness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/6illness-septemberand-1935health#p4p81</ref>

I do not also quite catch what you mean about Knowledge, when it goes to the inner beingroot of our troubles, has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it were. If As soon as you mean by the vikās touch the development quick of the sadhanatrouble, to recover health as soon as you, diving down and strength is very necessary for that. The body is an instrument for down, get at what really ails you, the sadhana no less than the mind and vital, and it should be kept in pain disappears as though by a good condition as far as possiblemiracle. Not Unflinching courage to care for reach true knowledge is therefore the body, thinking it is very essence of no importance compared with the inner state, is not the rule yoga. No lasting superstructure can be erected except on a solid basis of this Yogatrue Knowledge.. ..<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnesssentimentalism-andsensitiveness-instability-healthlaxity#p35p10</ref>

The complete immunity from body had based its sort of sense of good health on a certain number of vibrations, and whenever those vibrations were present, it felt in good health; when something came and disturbed them, it felt that it was about to fall ill or that it was ill, depending on the intensity. All that has changed now: those basic vibrations have simply been removed, they no longer exist; the vibrations on which the body based its sense of good or ill health—removed. They are replaced by something else, and something else of such a nature that "good health" and "illness" have lost all illness for meaning! Now, there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which our Yoga tries can only come by represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: it's no longer a question of a stomach or a total heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and permanent enlightenment disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the below from above resulting harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (it's a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?" (what the body calls "the removal desire to learn"), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure (''laughing'') that you'll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning. While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be done otherwisefine again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3104/illnessjuly-and20-health1963#p38p39</ref>

===Through Receptivity=Useful Practices for Dealing with Pain==

It depends on the part. The method But there is almost the same for all parts of the being. To begin with, the first condition: to remain as quiet as possible. You a preparation which may notice that in the different parts be of your being, when something comes and you do not receive it, this produces a shrinking—there is something which hardens in the vital, the mind or the body. There is a stiffening and this hurts, one feels a mental, vital or physical paingeneral kind. So, the first thing That is to put one's will and relax this shrinking, as one does a twitching nerve or a cramped muscle; you must learn how to relax, be able to relieve this tension in whatever part of the being it may be.The method of relaxing the contraction may be different in the mind, the vital or accustom the body, but logically it is the same thing. Once you have relaxed the tension, you see first if the disagreeable effect ceases, which would prove methodically to understand that it was a small momentary resistance, but if the pain continues and if it is indeed necessary to increase only 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 outer expression of 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 truer and the stars, so they widen, widen themselves, identifying themselves more deeper reality 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. As I have said, it is a question of training. In any case, from an immediate point of view, when something comes this truer and one feels that deeper reality which governs its destiny―though it is too strong, that it gives a headache, that one can't bear it, the method is just the same, you must act upon the contraction. One can act through thought, by calling the peace, tranquillity (the feeling of peace takes away much of the difficulty) like this: "Peace, peace, peace... tranquillity... calm." Many discomforts, even physical, like all these contractions not usually aware of the solar plexus, which are so unpleasant and give you at times nausea, the sensation of being suffocated, of not being able to breathe again, can disappear thus. It is the nervous centre which is affected, it gets affected very easily. As soon as there is something which affects the solar plexus, you must say, "Calm... calm... calm", become more and more calm until the tension is destroyed. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p17,p18</ref>

Yes, but it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of During the right kind, not merely war there was a force very large number of mental thought or will, but something more and deepersuch examples for study. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance. You must have heard something of the method of Coué in healing diseases. He knew some secret of this power and utilised In epidemics it with considerable effect; but he called it imagination and his method gave is the faith he called up too mental a form. Mental faith is not sufficientsame thing; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the body. If you can create in yourself an integral force cataclysms of this kind in all your beingNature, like tidal waves or earthquakes or cyclones, then nothing can resist it; but you must reach down to is the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the very cells of the body.<ref>http://incarnatewordsame thing.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p18</ref><center>~</center>I do not see how the method of faith in the cells can be likened to eating a slice of the moon. Nobody ever got a slice of the moon, but the healing by faith in the cells is an actual fact and a law of Nature and has been demonstrated often enough even apart from Yoga. The way to get faith body understands these things if they are shown and everything else is explained to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has them—it is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult world began to have thinking and aspiring creatures upon it. It is to open always, always to the Light and turn as one's back on the darkness. It is explains things to refuse the voices that cry persistently, a child: "You cannotsee, there was something else that acted there, you shall not, you are incapable, you are only the puppet of a dreamplain material fact by itself."—for these are the enemy voicesAnd, they cut one off from the result that was coming by their strident clamour and then triumphantly point to the barrenness of result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour unless some bad will is a known thingthere, but the difficult is not the impossible—it is the difficult that has always been accomplished and the conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in the earth's history. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be sounderstands. <ref>https://incarnateword This is a preparation.in/cwsa/29/faith#p50</ref><center>~</center>These auto-suggestions [Gradually, if you make use of being restored to good health]—it is really faith in this understanding, you must, with a mental form—act both on methodical work of infusing consciousness into the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers cells of the inner beingbody, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on infuse at the body—in same time the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions truth of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of healthdivine Presence. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mindThis work takes time, vitalbut, body consciousness. Where all this is completely if done or with some completenessmethodically and constantly, it produces an effect. So you have prepared the effects can be very remarkableground. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37</ref>

First point: do not stress the pain by telling yourself, "KnowledgeOh, how painful! Oh, this pain is unbearable! Oh, when it goes is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to the root of our troublesbear it", has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it wereetc. As soon as you touch the quick , all this sort of the trouble, as soon as thing. The more you, diving down go on thinking like this and feeling like this and down, get at what really ails youthe more your attention is concentrated on it, the pain disappears as though by a miracleincreases amazingly. Unflinching courage to reach true knowledge is therefore So, the very essence of yoga. No lasting superstructure can be erected except on a solid basis of true Knowledge....<ref>httpfirst point://incarnatewordto control yourself sufficiently not to do that.in/agenda/10/november-29-1969#p47</ref>

I have noticed something very interesting. Suppose there is But if by widening this movement you can add a pain, some sign or other that something in the body is out sort of order. In the consciousness—in the consciousness—you are absolutely indifferent, which means that whether it's mental formation with a little life or death, disease or healthin it―not just cold, there is equality; but if the body reacts according to its old habit, "What should be done to get over it?" and all that it involves (I am not speaking of with a reaction little life in it―that the mind, but here, in only reality is the body), the thing takes root. Why? Because it has to stay there... (laughing) to enable you to study it! If, on the other handdivine Reality, and all the cells have learned their lesson and say right away, "Lordof this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, Your presence" (without words—the attitude), pfft! the thing goes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/november-23-1965#p20</ref><center>~</center>But it keeps increasingDivine, and that sort our body is a more or less deformed expression of "crouching" is greatly lessened this sole Reality―if by the knowledge and experience that if you are per-fect-ly calmmy aspiration, all goes well—alwaysmy concentration, even in I can bring into the worst difficulties.... Very recently, the day before yesterday, there was (always on the physical level; it can't be called "health," but it's cells of the body's functioning) a rather serious attack, which found expression in a rather unpleasant pain; it came with unusual brutality. Then, immediately, the body remembered and saidconsciousness of this sole Reality, "Peace, peace... Lord, Your Peace, Lord, Your Peace..." and it relaxed in Peace. And in an objectively perceptible way, the pain went away. <ref>http://incarnatewordall disorder must necessarily cease.in/agenda/05/october-30-1964#p4</ref>

This explanation is clear; You may try and the healing was the result of tapasya. It's self-explanatoryyet not succeed. Something was even saying to my body, to the body's SUBSTANCE, "O unbelieving substance, now But you won't be able to say there are no miracles." Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I don't must know who, because it doesn't come like something foreign how to me any more, it's like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but "that which knows," whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, "From now on, O unbelieving substancetry again and again and again, until you can't say there are no miraclesdo succeed." Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain But if you do those three things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesn't come from at the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; it's rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and that's what was being addressed and being shown certain movementssame time, certain vibrations and so forth: "You seewell, from now on you can't say there are is no miracles." In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesn't follow the beaten path, but does things... in His own waypain which can resist.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0308/february4-24july-19621956#p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>

The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation... as intense and concentrated as when you're trying to melt into … it is the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a conscious will for everything to work out in a good way here [which acts on the material plane]. "In a good way"... I mean I said to the Lord, "YOUR Good, the true Goodmatter, not.... The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived." And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed—the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had... vanished. "Lord," I said, "You have given me a gift of health...."<ref>http://incarnatewordmaterial fact.in/agenda/03/february-24-1962#p19</ref>

I could never cut myself off from people or cut myself off from the world. I had You bend down to answer all these calls and these questionspick something up, I had you stretch up to send find something right at the necessary forcetop of a cupboard, you open a door, the necessary lightyou close it, the healing poweryou have to go round an obstacle, I there are a hundred and one things you do constantly had and which you can make use of for your physical culture and which will demonstrate to purify all these formations, these thoughts, these wills, these false movements that were falling on me. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/may-21-1960#p6</ref><center>~</center>In its normal state, the body always feels you that it is not its own master: illnesses invade the consciousness you put into it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon which produces the effect, a hundred times more than just the material fact of doing it. Its sole power is So, you choose the power to defend itselfmethod you like best, to reactbut you can use the whole of your daily life in this way…. Once To think constantly of the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that harmony of the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if of the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without beauty of the body's willmovements, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be curedof not doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. But this implies only You can obtain a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it rhythm of movement and gesture which is not true freedomvery exceptional. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0109/october17-17july-1957#p3p7,p8,p9</ref>

===Through Force=Useful Practices for keeping Good Health==

you cannot imagine the immense flood It is only by correcting your way of force living that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it evencan hope to secure good health.<ref>http://incarnateword. When you feel it, something in you shrinks because it /cwm/15/general#p25</ref><center>~</center>It is too much and produces a kind of instinctive fear in your cells; body that does not feel very strong and when you receive it, more than three-quarters of it is thrown away like an overfilled vessel! It gushes out, spills over, sad because you are it does not able to hold it. I have met a very large number sound balance of people who complained that they were receiving nothing, that health. The best cure is to say, they said they did not have the forces they needed. It was because they were absolutely incapable plenty of receiving them, open-air exercise and there was a hundred thousand times more force than what they could receiveabundant food. It is like that<ref>http://incarnateword. You are all in a sea of tremendous vibrations, and /cwm/16/16-march-1935#p4</ref><center>~</center>Only when you are not at all aware of it because you are not receptive. And there is such a resistance become absolutely regular in your material life will you that if something succeeds in entering, three quarters of what enters is thrown out violently because you are not be able to contain it.have good health.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/6-september-1935#p4</ref><center>~</center>The ordinary period of sleep most people give themselves is 8 hours. In bad health (I do am not speak speaking of this usually, but since we are talking about the subject, I am telling youacute illness) it can extend to 9. And perhaps 12 hours is excessive unless one day I shall give you examples of it. It is something unbelievable. For example, just take the consciousness of the Forces, like the force of love, the force of understanding seriously ill or recovering from illness or else has underslept for a long time and the force of creation (for everything, it body is the same: the force making up arrears of protection, the force of growth, all that, and the power for progress, for everything)needed sleep. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/16-september-1953sleep#p29p17</ref>

===Through FormationBy Quietude and Peace===

When you have The first thing to do is to keep throughout a thought, a well-made mental formation which goes out of you, it becomes an independent entity perfect equanimity and continues on its way and it does that for which it was made. It continues not to act independently allow thoughts of disturbed anxiety or depression to enter you. That is why you must be on your guard. If What you have made such a formation and it has gone out, it has gone out to do its work; is to remain calm and confident and after a time you find out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing worry or be restless—be perfectly quiet and prepared to rest as long as rest is needed. There is nothing to have a thought like that, that this formation was not very beneficialbe anxious about; now that it has gone outrest, it is very difficult for you and the health and strength will come. [as told to get hold a person recovering from a severe attack of it againinfluenza] <ref>http://incarnateword. You must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and is moving -other-physical-problems#p5</ref><center>~</center>Remain quiet, within, concentrated only on its way.... Supposing in a moment of great anger (I do not say receiving strength and health, confident that we are with you do soall the time, but still when and you were in quite a rage against someone, you saidwill soon be all right. <ref>http: "Ah! couldn't some misfortune befall him?" Your formation has gone on its way//incarnateword. It has gone out in/cwsa/31/illness-and -health#p46</ref><center>~</center>As for curing you have no longer any control over it; and it goes and organises some misfortune or other: it is going to do its work. And after sometime by the misfortune arrives. HappilyForce, you do not usually have sufficient knowledge to tell yourself: "Oh! It the main obstacle is I who am responsible", but that is the truthyour own vital movements.Note that All this power of formation has a great advantageegoistic insistence on your own ideas, if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations and if you make them properlyclaims, they will act in the same way preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the wickedness of others. You can do a lot of good to people just by sitting quietly in , complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and the reactions they cause—have had this effect on your room, perhaps even more good than by undergoing a lot of trouble externallyliver and stomach and nerves. If you know how to think correctlygive up all that and live quietly and at peace with others, with force thinking less of yourself and intelligence others and kindnessmore of the Divine, if you love someone it would make things much easier and wish him well very sincerely, deeply, with all help to restore your heart, that does him much good, much more certainly than you thinkhealth. I have said this often; for example, to those who are here, who learn that someone Quietness of the mind in their family facing your illness is very ill also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p9</ref><center>~</center>Catch hold of a peace deep within and feel that childish impulse push it into the cells of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to attend to body. With the peace will come back the sick personhealth. <ref>https://incarnateword. I tell you, unless it is an exceptional case in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and there -surrender#p26</ref><center>~</center>These pains [nervous pain in the stomach] are a part of the pressure of the old nature on the body; that is nobody to attend on why we consider it can only be healed by the sick person (Peace and at times even in such Power bringing a case), if you know how to keep new movement of the physical nature there. In the stage of the right attitude and concentrate with affection and good will upon struggle between the sick persontwo natures, if you know how to pray for him and make helpful formationsthe peace does not always remain, you but it will do him much more good than if remain longer and longer as you go get the habit of opening constantly to nurse him, feed him, help him wash himself, indeed all that everybody can do. Anybody can nurse a person. But not everybody can make good formations and send out forces that act for healingit.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/1illness-julyand-1953health#p13,p14p93</ref>

===Through By Sincerity and Aspiration===

Naturally, it is always the same thing: one must... must sincerely want to be healed, for otherwise it does not work. If one wants to have the experience solely for the experience's sake and then the next minute one returns to what one was before, this does not work. But if sincerely one wants to be healed, if one has a real aspiration to overcome the obstacle, to rise—rise above oneself, to give up all that pulls one back, to break the limits, become clear, purify oneself of all that blocks the way, if truly one has the ''intense '' will not to fall back into past errors, to surge up from the darkness and ignorance, to rise into the light, stripped of all that is too human, too small, too ignorant—then that works. It works, works powerfully. At times it works definitively and totally. But there must be nothing that clings to the old movements, keeps quiet at the moment, hides itself, and then later shows its face and says, "Yes, yes, it is very fine, your experience, but now it is my turn!" Then, when that happen, I do not answer for anything, because sometimes, as a reaction it becomes worse. That is why I always come back to the same thing, say always the same thing: one must be truly sincere, truly. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/26-may-1954#p25</ref>

===Through Working with MemoryBy Calling the Force===

But when you have had either an experience or, like this, some kind of phenomenon or an illness (above all in the case of illness or even an accident), the body remembers for a very long time''Q. If you want to be completely cured, you must cure this memory in the bodyMother, this is absolutely indispensable. And whether you know it or not, you work in order possible to cure the memory develop in oneself the body. When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47</ref>capacity to heal?''

Oh, how I would like it The first condition is to be true: when I put my hands here, like this (''Mother lays her hands on Satprem's shoulders''), it would heal! Because I feel such force in these hands! Such CONSCIOUS force—conscious, you understand: it's vibrant with consciousness, light and force. It should healhave a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws energy from others.It heals me. If I have a pain or something wrong, I put my hand here or thereThe second indispensable condition is to know how to draw energy from above, and it goes away in from the space of a minute or twoinexhaustible impersonal source. So why shouldn't it heal others! Maybe because nobody would be ill anymore! (''Mother laughs'')<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0716/may12-7january-19661972#p1-p4</ref>There is however usually less need of food and therefore less appetite. From the point of view of Yoga if one can keep a certain quiet in the material body, "peace in the cells"p2,p3, the heat is easier to bear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p20</ref>I mean it may be—it may be—that even an inner transformation (a complete conversion of the vital beingp4, for instance) wouldn't necessarily bring an improvement in your health. It is here where.... It's not something I see imperatively. And to go back to ordinary life would be the end of everything—of your physical life and your inner life too. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/may-27-1962#p41p5</ref>

It [inhibition Each spot of the sex-impulse] would not be permanently effective in itself, because the seed would always be body is symbolical of an inner movement; there is there unless removed by a transformation world of the sex-impulse; but the inhibition can help towards this transformationsubtle correspondences.... It is now being recognised The particular place in Europe the body affected by the doctors—who used formerly to say that sex was an illness is an index to be inhibited at the risk nature of complications in the body, inner disharmony that on has taken place. It points to the contrary there origin, it is part a sign of the cause of the seminal force that is used for health, strength, youth etcailment. (turned into ojas, as It reveals too the nature of the Yogins say), another resistance that serves for sex purposes; if a man is perfectly chaste, prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed. It indicates the latter turns more treatment and more into the formercure. Only of course If one could perfectly understand where the external inhibition does not help this changemistake is, if find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the mind indulges in sexlight there, it would be possible to re-thought or the vital or body establish in a moment the unsatisfied sex-desire or sex-sensation. But if all these are stopped then harmony that has been disturbed and the inhibition is usefulillness would immediately go. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/sex16-june-1929#p77p8</ref>

If your husband is in a perilous period of his life and suffering To separate yourself from ill-health and you feel for him, the best thing for him is still that you should tranquillise yourself and call in the Divine Mother's force to his help cure it [''is the Yogic method'']—or else to pass through. Even use your own will force with faith in the ordinary life disquietude and depression create an unhelpful atmosphere for one who is ill or in difficultiespower to heal, having the support of the Mother's force behind you. Once If you are a sadhak, cannot use either of these methods then whether for yourself or to help others for whom you still feel, must rely on the true spiritual attitude action of reliance on the Divine Will and call for the help from above is always the best and most effective coursemedicine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-othersdoctors-and-the-practice-of-yogamedicines#p53p3</ref>

One sees Illness must not be accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the negative side only during force of transformation especially in the attack, because the first thing the attack or obstruction does is to try to cloud vital and the mind's intelligencebody. If But it cannot do is not necessary that, it is difficult for it these difficulties should be allowed to prevail altogether for take this obscure form of illness. All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the time being. For if Force should be called in to cure by the mind remains alert assent to health and clings the refusal of assent to the truth, then the attack suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p4</ref>The complete immunity from all illness for which our Yoga tries can only upheave come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the vital and, though this may be painful enough, yet below from above resulting in the right attitude removal of the mind acts as psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p38</ref> '''Japa''' ...one can pass from a corrective more or less mechanical, more or less efficient and makes it easier real japa, to recover the balance true japa full of power and light. I even wondered if this difference is what the tantrics call the true condition 'power' of the vital comes back more quicklyjapa. If For example, the vital keeps its balanceother day I was down with a cold. Each time I opened my mouth, then there was a spasm in the attack touches the physical consciousness only with its suggestions throat and I coughed and coughed. Then a fever came. So I looked, I saw where it was coming from, and is much more superficial or even I decided that it can had to stop. I got up to do no more than create my japa as usual, and I started walking back and forth in my room. I had to apply a temporary restlessnesscertain will. Of course, uneasiness or ill-health I could do my japa in trance, I could walk in trance while repeating the body—the rest japa, because then you feel nothing, none of all the consciousness remaining unaffectedbody's drawbacks. It is therefore very important But the work has to accustom oneself to keep the right mental attitude even be done in the midst of an attackbody! So I got up and started doing my japa. Then, with each word pronounced—the Light, however strong it isthe full Power. To keep faith is the best help for that—the faith A power that heals everything. I began the Divine is there always japa tired, ill, and I shall pass to Him through whatever trialscame out of it refreshed, rested, cured. That helps to look at other things also So those who tell me they come out of it exhausted, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it in the true lightway. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/dealing-withoctober-hostile6-attacks1959#p59p11</ref>

==Common Errors=By Receptivity===

But there is a considerable difference between the real factYou have resistances in your body, that ishaven't you? When you want to do an exercise, what this can you do with your body [Mother's whatever you want? And when you try to be in good health, does your body] representsalways obey? And when you want to learn your lesson, and X's conceptiondoes your brain follow it without difficulty?.. He has always remained all the way down. This That is whatthe resistance, in fact, had ruined his health for a timeit is all that refuses to progress. And I believe that unfortunately the odd thing amount of resistance is that every time he was ill and CONSENTED to inform me, he was instantly cured—he KNOWS this, but still his first instinct is always much greater than the amount of receptivity. One must work very hard to turn to the gods with his ordinary pujabecome receptive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/january16-4september-19641953#p4p28</ref>

But with regard to health...you cannot imagine the immense flood of force that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it even. When you feel it, something in you shrinks because it is too much and produces a kind of instinctive fear in your cells; and when you receive it, whenever I had an illness (for me more than three-quarters of it was never is thrown away like an "illnessoverfilled vessel! It gushes out, spills over," because you are not able to hold it . I have met a very large number of people who complained that they were receiving nothing, that is to say, they said they did not have the forces they needed. It was still part because they were absolutely incapable of the blows)receiving them, I had and there was a hundred thousand times more force than what they could receive. It is like that. You are all in a trustsea of tremendous vibrations, and you are not at all aware of it because you are not receptive. And there is such a complete assurance resistance in you that if something succeeds in entering, three quarters of what enters is thrown out violently because you are not able to contain it had no reality. And very young (very young... It is something unbelievable. For example, maybe around just take the age consciousness of thirteen or fourteen)the Forces, every time a blow camelike the force of love, I would tell my bodythe force of understanding or the force of creation (for everything, "But what's it is the same: the use force of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" And that stayed until I was over thirty: what's protection, the use force of being ill since you have to get well? And it faded away only little by littlegrowth, with all that growing pessimism, and the power for progress, for everything).<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/october16-10september-19641953#p40p29</ref>

If people had an absolute faith To begin with, the first condition: to remain as quiet as possible. You may notice that in the different parts of your being, when something comes and you do not receive it, this produces a shrinking—there is something which hardens in the vital, the mind or the body. There is a stiffening and this hurts, one feels a mental, vital or physical pain. So, the first thing is to put one's will and relax this shrinking, as one does a twitching nerve or a cramped muscle; you must learn how to relax, be able to relieve this tension in whatever part of the healing power being it may be. The method of relaxing the contraction may be different in the mind, the vital or the Gracebody, but logically it is the same thing. Once you have relaxed the tension, you see first if the disagreeable effect ceases, which would prove that it was a small momentary resistance, 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, perhaps so they would spare widen, widen themselves, identifying themselves quite 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. As I have said, it is a few diseasesquestion of training. In any case, from an immediate point of view, when something comes and one feels that it is too strong, that it gives a headache, that one can't bear it, the method is just the same, you must act upon the contraction. One can act through thought, by calling the peace, tranquillity (the feeling of peace takes away much of the difficulty) like this: "Peace, peace, peace... tranquillity... calm." Many discomforts, even physical, like all these contractions of the solar plexus, which are so unpleasant and give you at times nausea, the sensation of being suffocated, of not being able to breathe again, can disappear thus. It is the nervous centre which is affected, it gets affected very easily. As soon as there is something which affects the solar plexus, you must say, "Calm... calm... calm", become more and more calm until the tension is destroyed.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p17,p18</ref> ===By Faith=== To medical knowledge and experience, add full faith in the Divine's Grace and your healing capacity will have no limits. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1115/marchdoctors-14and-1970medicines#p12p10</ref>

One may without knowing why''Q. Can mere faith create all, conquer all?'' ''A:'' Yes, without having the least idea but it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of the causeright kind, pass precisely from not merely a harmony force of good health to a disequilibrium mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a great uneasiness! One doesn't know why, there is no outer cause, suddenly it happens; one may resistance. You must have been peaceful, content, heard something of the method of Coué in at least a pleasant, tolerable condition, then all healing diseases. He knew some secret of this power and utilised it with considerable effect; but he called it imagination and his method gave the faith he called up too mental a sudden to become furious, discontented, uneasy! One doesn't know why, there form. Mental faith is no reason. One may have been full of joy, gaiety, enthusiasm, not sufficient; it must be completed and then, without any apparent reason, one is sad, morose, depressed, discouraged! It happens sometimes that one is in enforced by a state of depression, and then one passes on somewhere vital and everything is lit up: even a lightphysical faith, a joy—why one becomes suddenly optimistic! This faith of course is rare—it the body. If you can also happencreate in yourself an integral force of this kind in all your being, then nothing can resist it is ; but you must reach down to the same thingmost subconscious, it is also contagious; but still one risks much more catching destructive rather than constructive thingsyou must fix the faith in the very cells of the body. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/0703/275-julymay-19551929#p25p18</ref>

...the healing by faith in the cells is an actual fact and a law of Nature and has been demonstrated often enough even apart from Yoga. The yogi way to get faith and everything else is to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has them—it is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult world began to have thinking and aspiring yogi who does asanas creatures upon it. It is to obtain a spiritual result or even simply a control over his bodyopen always, obtains these results because it always to the Light and turn one's back on the darkness. It is with this aim to refuse the voices that he does themcry persistently, "You cannot, you shall not, you are incapable, whereas I know some people who do exactly you are the same things but for all sorts puppet of reasons unrelated to spiritual developmenta dream"—for these are the enemy voices, they cut one off from the result that was coming by their strident clamour and who haven't even managed then triumphantly point to acquire good health by it! And yet they do exactly the same barrenness of result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour is a known thing, sometimes they even do it much better than but the difficult is not the impossible—it is the yogi, but it doesn't give them a stable health... because they haven't thought about it, haven't done it with this purpose in mind. I have asked them myself, I said, "But how can you be ill after doing all difficult that?"—"Oh! but I never thought has always been accomplished and the conquest of it, difficulties makes up all thatis valuable in the earth's not why I do ithistory." This amounts to saying that In the spiritual endeavour also it is the conscious will which acts on matter, not the material factshall be so.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0929/17-july-1957faith#p6p50</ref>

Prolonged fasting One sees the negative side only during the attack, because the first thing the attack or obstruction does is to try to cloud the mind's intelligence. If it cannot do that, it is difficult for it to prevail altogether for the time being. For if the mind remains alert and clings to the truth, then the attack can only upheave the vital and, though this may lead be painful enough, yet the right attitude of the mind acts as a corrective and makes it easier to an excitation of recover the nervous being which often brings vivid imaginations balance and hallucinations that are taken for the true experiences; such fasting is frequently suggested by condition of the vital comes back more quickly. If the vital Entities because keeps its balance, then the attack touches the physical consciousness only with its suggestions and is much more superficial or even it puts can do no more than create a temporary restlessness, uneasiness or ill-health in the body—the rest of the consciousness into an unbalanced state which favours their designsremaining unaffected. It is there fore discouraged heretherefore very important to accustom oneself to keep the right mental attitude even in the midst of an attack, however strong it is. The rule to be followed To keep faith is the best help for that—the faith that laid down by the Gita which says that "Yoga Divine is not for one who eats too much or who does not eat"; a moderate use of food sufficient for the maintenance there always and health and strength of I shall pass to Him through whatever trials. That helps to look at other things also in the bodytrue light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/occultdealing-powerswith-orhostile-siddhisattacks#p14p59</ref>

Pranayam is safe only if one knows how These auto-suggestions [''of being restored to do it and good health'']—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on guard against the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its possible dangers: occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (1expressed or unexpressed) danger that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health by mistakes #p37</ref> ===Through Calm Presence=== [Mother’s experiences of the Body consciousness]I have noticed something very interesting. Suppose there is a pain, some sign or other that something in the methodbody is out of order. In the consciousness—in the consciousness—you are absolutely indifferent, which means that whether it's life or death, disease or health, there is equality; but if the body reacts according to its old habit, "What should be done to get over it?" and all that it involves (2I am not speaking of a reaction in the mind, but here, in the body) rising of , the vital forcesthing takes root. Why? Because it has to stay there... (''laughing'') to enable you to study it! If, especially luston the other hand, egoism the cells have learned their lesson and wrongly directed strength and forcesay right away, "Lord, Your presence" (3without words—the attitude) , pfft! the awakening of concealed sanskaras of the physical nature or latent karma from past livesthing goes. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2906/sankhyanovember-and23-yoga1965#p18p20</ref>

There When you have a thought, a well-made mental formation which goes out of you, it becomes an independent entity and continues on its way and it does that for which it was made. It continues to act independently of you. That is nothing wrong in taking care of the body in regard why you must be on your guard. If you have made such a formation and it has gone out, it has gone out to health do its work; andafter a time you find out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing to have a thought like that, if the liver that this formation was not very beneficial; now that it has gone wrongout, the instinct it is very difficult for you to refuse too sweet or greasy or heavy foods get hold of it again. You must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out and is moving on its way.... Supposing in a right instinctmoment of great anger (I do not say that you do so, but still when you were in quite a rage against someone, you said: "Ah! couldn't some misfortune befall him?" Your formation has gone on its way. Mother It has gone out and you have no objection longer any control over it; and it goes and organises some misfortune or other: it is going to your abstaining while do its work. And after sometime the illness misfortune arrives. Happily, you do not usually have sufficient knowledge to tell yourself: "Oh! It is I who am responsible", but that is there nor the truth. Note that this power of formation has she insisted on a great advantage, if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations and if you make them properly, they will act in the same way as the others. You can do a lot of good to people just by sitting quietly in your taking dalroom, perhaps even more good than by undergoing a lot of trouble externally. Her objection is only If you know how to what people think correctly, with force and intelligence and kindness, if you love someone and wish him well very sincerely, deeply, with all your heart, that does him much good, much more certainly than you think. I have said this often do; for example, to those who are here, getting ideas about this or who learn that someone in their family is very ill and feel that food childish impulse of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to attend to the sick person. I tell you, unless it is an exceptional case and abstaining even when there is no acute nobody to attend on the sick person (and at times even in such a case), if you know how to keep the right attitude and concentrate with affection and good will upon the sick person, if you know how to pray for him and make helpful formations, you will do him much more good than if you go to nurse him, feed him, help him wash himself, indeed all that everybody can do. Anybody can nurse a person. But not everybody can make good formations and send out forces that act for healing.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1-july-1953#p13,p14</ref><center>~</center>But with regard to health, whenever I had an illness. During (for me it was never an acute state "illness," it was still part of bad liverthe blows), abstinence is often necessaryI had a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality. Only one must not create by wrong ideas And very young (very young, maybe around the age of thirteen or fourteen), every time a nervous incapacity blow came, I would tell my body, "But what's the use of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" And that stayed until I was over thirty: what's the stomach or a chronic nervous dyspepsia. She had no other meaninguse of being ill since you have to get well? And it faded away only little by little, with that growing pessimism.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3105/illnessoctober-and10-health1964#p28p40</ref>

What has caused all A bad suggestion acts very strongly upon it; a good suggestion operates in the trouble for X is his insistence on his ego, its ideas, claims, desires, intentions and his aggressiveness in expressing them so that he quarrels contrary sense with everybody. This quarrelsomeness opens him to all all sorts of forces of the vital plane and their attackssame force. It is also the cause of the damage done to the liver Depression and organs of digestion—for anger and quarrelsomeness always tend to spoil the liver and through discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it, as it the stomach and intestines. As his quarrelsomeness is colossalwere, in its very stuff, so also is the damage done to liver render it weak and digestion extreme. He must get rid of his egoism, quarrelsomeness unresisting and bad feelings towards other, if he wants open to recover his health and his sadhanahostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p83p11</ref>

The healing But when you have had either an experience or, like this, some kind of the nervous pain phenomenon or an illness (above all in the stomach does not depend on more case of illness or less eating—often these pains come when one does not eat enougheven an accident), the body remembers for a very long time. If you want to be completely cured, not only when one eats too much—so it is not by eating less you can must cure it. <ref>http://incarnateword.this memory in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p92</ref>The ordinary period of sleep most people give themselves the body, this is 8 hoursabsolutely indispensable. In bad health (I am And whether you know it or not speaking of acute illness) it can extend , you work in order to 9cure the memory in the body. 12 hours When the remembrance is excessive unless one is seriously ill or recovering from illness or else has underslept for a long time and effaced, the body is making up arrears of needed sleep. <ref>http://incarnatewordtruly healed.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p20</ref>

===Overreliance Unfortunately, instead of destroying the remembrance, you push it back. Most of the time you push it down into the subconscient and sometimes into the inconscient, still more deep. Well now, if it is pushed back, if it is not completely effaced, then very gently, very gently, without seeming to do so at all it comes up to the surface; and something of which you have been cured for years, if by chance it crosses your mind simply like that, just like a little dart, as fast as that, like a passing dart: “Why, at this time I had that”, you may be sure that sooner or later—a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours or days later, it will return. You can… It may come back in a much milder form, it may come back in the same form, it may come even more strongly. That depends on Medical Science=== your inner state. If you are in a pessimistic state, it will come back more strongly. If you are in an optimistic state, it will be much weaker. But it will come back and you will have to begin the battle all over again against the memory of your body so as to destroy it—if this time you are more attentive. If you can destroy it, you are cured. But if you don’t destroy it, it will return. It will take a longer or shorter time, it will be more or less total, but it will return. It can come back in a flash. If you are wide awake and, when it returns, if you have enough knowledge and indeed enough clear-sightedness to tell yourself, “Well, here is that wretched remembrance come back again to play its tricks”, then you can give, can strike a violent blow and indeed destroy its reality. If you know how to do this, then it is an opportunity to get rid of the thing immediately. But it is not very easy to do this.

No external measure can enable us ''Pavitra: How to react against the harm caused by mental faith in the necessity of drugs. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-18-1970#p10</ref>do it?''

Medical Science has been more a curse How to mankind than a blessing. It has broken the force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the natural health of man and multiplied individual diseases; it has implanted fear and dependence in the mind and body; do it has taught our health to repose not on natural soundness but a rickety and distasteful crutch compact from the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. [Based on Aphorism 386]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-14-1970#p7</ref><center>~</center>Do you know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastic—he had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apart—both serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, 'I congratulate you.' Practically the same phrase in both cases. And they both protested: 'Why are you congratulating me?' (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwardsMother laughs.) 'WhyHow to do it? You did It is the operation—you should be congratulated for my quick recovery.' And in both cases the doctor replied, 'No, no; we only operatesame thing as, the body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify same method as miraculous, and I genuinely congratulate you.' And then the two of them had the same reaction—they wrote knowing how to me saying, 'We know where the miracle comes from.' And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me destroy a remarkable letter a few days before her operationformation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, 'I know that the operation is ALREADY done, that the Lord has already done it, and so I am calm.'<ref>http://incarnatewordyou understand.in/agenda/02/june-24-1961#p53</ref>

==Examples==And this man (I saw his photo, he has It is a magnificent head) sayscertain strength to dissolve things, "I live in God's presencewhich can undo formations." That's what he says, and I don't think he makes any fuss—besides he doesn't have It depends on the time because he goes to bed after midnight and gets up at five every day, starts work at five-thirty and spends nature of the whole day working, that formations. If it islike this, seeing people and people and more people (when that was read out to me, I thought, "And I complain!"). It's admirable. He did some studies, but he isn't a philosopher, he doesn't have any theories: he seems to have been born like that, with healing hands. He probably gets rid formations of infections by dehydrating theman adverse kind, so he cures all then you need the diseases force of that naturea perfectly pure constructive light. And they did (poor man, they must If you have made his life impossible!), they did encephalograms, cardiograms and so on, and they noticed that just when he lays his hands (for a few seconds, two or three minutes this at the most)your disposal, at all that moment his heartbeats suddenly go up from sixty you have to eighty, then fall back do is to normal. And he doesn't seem to be making any fussbombard the thing with it, unlike that German I told and you about—nothing at all, very simple, very nicecan dissolve it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/october-4-1967#p2</ref><center>~</center>The doctors were quite concerned about the intestinal ulcer. If it had perforated, But it would have been very, very serious—the ordinary recourse is an operationwhich must be performed with inner forces; it cannot be done physically.That is why all physical remedies, you see, so.... The doctors were quite concerned. But are simply palliatives; they didn't show anythingare not cures, I didn't know about it—I found out about because they are not strong enough to touch the ulcer only when it was healed (I mean when it was in living centre of the process of healing)thing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1206/january13-16october-19711954#p47,p48,p49,p50,p51,p52</ref> ==Common Errors==

There are two ways One may without knowing why, without having the least idea of curing an illness spiritually. One consists in putting the cause, pass precisely from a force harmony of consciousness good health to a disequilibrium and truth on the physical spot which a great uneasiness! One doesn't know why, there is affected. In this case the effect produced depends naturally on the receptivity of the person. Supposing the person is receptiveno outer cause, suddenly it happens; the force one may have been peaceful, content, in at least a pleasant, tolerable condition, then all of consciousness a sudden to become furious, discontented, uneasy! One doesn't know why, there is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores orderno reason. Many One may have been full of you here can tell how Sri Aurobindo cured them. It was like a hand which came joy, gaiety, enthusiasm, and took away the pain. It then, without any apparent reason, one is as clear as that.In other casessad, morose, if the body lacks receptivity altogether or if its receptivity is insufficientdepressed, discouraged! It happens sometimes that one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological is in a state which has brought about the illness of depression, and acts then one passes on that. But if the cause somewhere and everything is lit up: a light, a joy—why one becomes suddenly optimistic! This of course is rare—it can also happen, it is the illness same thing, it is refractory, not also contagious; but still one risks much can be donemore catching destructive rather than constructive things. Let us say the origin is vital<ref>https://incarnateword. in/cwm/07/27-july-1955#p24,p25</ref><center>~</center>The vital absolutely refuses yogi or aspiring yogi who does asanas to changeobtain a spiritual result or even simply a control over his body, it clings terrifically to the condition in which obtains these results because it is; then with this aim that is hopeless. You put he does them, whereas I know some people who do exactly the forcesame things but for all sorts of reasons unrelated to spiritual development, and usually who haven't even managed to acquire good health by it provokes an increase in ! And yet they do exactly the illnesssame thing, produced by sometimes they even do it much better than the resistance yogi, but it doesn't give them a stable health... because they haven't thought about it, haven't done it with this purpose in mind. I have asked them myself, I said, "But how can you be ill after doing all that?"—"Oh! but I never thought of it, that's not why I do it." This amounts to saying that it is the vital conscious will which did acts on matter, not want the material fact.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-july-1957#p6</ref><center>~</center>Prolonged fasting may lead to accept anything. I speak an excitation of the nervous being which often brings vivid imaginations and hallucinations that are taken for true experiences; such fasting is frequently suggested by the vital but Entities because it can puts the consciousness into an unbalanced state which favours their designs. It is there fore discouraged here. The rule to be followed is that laid down by the mind Gita which says that "Yoga is not for one who eats too much or something elsewho does not eat"; a moderate use of food sufficient for the maintenance and health and strength of the body.When the action <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/occult-powers-or-siddhis#p13</ref><center>~</center>There is directly upon nothing wrong in taking care of the bodyin regard to health and, if the liver has gone wrong, that the instinct to refuse too sweet or greasy or heavy foods is, on a right instinct. Mother has no objection to your abstaining while the affected part, it illness is possible that one there.... Her objection is relieved; thenonly to what people often do, some hours later getting ideas about this or that food and abstaining even after a few dayswhen there is no acute illness. During an acute state of bad liver, the illness returnsabstinence is often necessary. This means that the cause has Only one must not been changed, that create by wrong ideas a nervous incapacity of the cause is stomach or a chronic nervous dyspepsia. She had no other meaning. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p28</ref><center>~</center>...quarrelsomeness opens him to all all sorts of forces of the vital plane and their attacks. ...for anger and quarrelsomeness always tend to spoil the liver and is still there; through it is only the effect which stomach and intestines. ...He must get rid of his egoism, quarrelsomeness and bad feelings towards other, if he wants to recover his health and his sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p83</ref><center>~</center>Medical Science has been curedmore a curse to mankind than a blessing. But if one can act simultaneously upon both It has broken the cause force of epidemics and unveiled a marvellous surgery; but, also, it has weakened the effect, natural health of man and multiplied individual diseases; it has implanted fear and dependence in the cause is sufficiently receptive mind and body; it has taught our health to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for allrepose not on natural soundness but a rickety and distasteful crutch compact from the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. [Based on Aphorism 386]<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0411/31march-march14-19511970#p11,p12,p13p7</ref>

==How to Heal in Different Parts of the Being?=More on Health and Healing=

===Physical=== The body in its normal state, All the circumstances of life are arranged to teach us that is to say, when there is no intervention of mental notions or vital impulsesbeyond mind, also knows very well what is good and necessary for it; but for this to be effective faith in practice, one must educate the child with care and teach him Divine Grace gives us the strength to distinguish his desires from his needs. He should be helped go through all trials, to develop a taste for food that is simple overcome all weaknesses and healthy, substantial find the contact with the Divine Consciousness which gives us not only peace and appetising, joy but free from any useless complicationsalso physical balance and good health. In his daily food, all that merely stuffs and causes heaviness should be avoided[Based on Aphorism 382 - For nearly forty years behind the wholly good I was weakly in constitution; I suffered constantly from the smaller and above all, he must be taught to eat according to his hunger, neither more nor less, the greater ailments and not to make his meals an occasion to satisfy his greed or gluttonymistook this curse for a burden that Nature had laid upon me. From one's very childhoodWhen I renounced the aid of medicines, one should know that one eats in order then they began to give strength depart from me like disappointed parasites. Then only I understood what a mighty force was the natural health within me and how much mightier yet the Will and health Faith exceeding mind which God meant to be the divine support of our life in this body .]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-382#p2</ref><center>~</center>Visions and experiences need not at all depend upon physical weakness or a pathological taint. It is not safe to enjoy the pleasures judge from individual cases. The majority of those who have developed the palatefaculty do not suffer from these defects. Children should be given food that suits Those on the other hand who cannot keep their temperament, prepared psychic experiences when in a way that ensures hygiene and cleanlinessrobust state of health, that is pleasant to the taste and yet lose them because then they get into a very simple. This food should be chosen external consciousness and apportioned according to feel at ease in it; but the age of the child and his regular activities. It should contain all the chemical and dynamic elements that are necessary true psychic does not depend for his development and the balanced growth of every part of his bodyexperiences on disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1228/physicaloccult-powers-or-educationsiddhis#p7p25</ref>

In all cases, as well for boys as for girls, the exercises must be graded Green light can signify various things according to the strength and context—in the capacity emotional vital it is the colour of each one. If a weak student tries at once to do hard and heavy exercisescertain form of emotional generosity, he may suffer for his foolishness. But in the vital proper an activity with vital abundance or vital generosity behind it—in the vital physical it signifies a wise and progressive training, girls as well as boys can participate in all kinds force of sports, and thus increase their strength and health. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1230/to-women-about-their-bodycolours#p39p71</ref>

You are young, Do you have plenty know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastic—he had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of time before them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apart—both serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, 'I congratulate you.' Practically the same phrase in both cases. And to they both protested: 'Why are you congratulating me?' (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwards.) 'Why? You did the operation—you should be youngcongratulated for my quick recovery.' And in both cases the doctor replied, to be really young'No, no; we must alwaysonly operate, always keep on growingthe body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify as miraculous, developing, progressingand I genuinely congratulate you. Growth is ' And then the sign two of youthfulness and there is no limit them had the same reaction—they wrote to me saying, 'We know where the growth of consciousnessmiracle comes from.' And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me a remarkable letter a few days before her operation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, 'I know old people of twenty and young people of fiftythat the operation is ALREADY done, sixtythat the Lord has already done it, seventy. And if one does manual work, one keeps in good healthand so I am calm. '<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1302/aspirationjune-24-talks1961#p24p53</ref>