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=What Happens when is Health and Healing is Not Present?=
Usually, unless one has taken good care to make it otherwise, the impulses—the impulses of desire—all the enthusiasms and passions with all their reactions are the masters of human life. One must already be something of a sage to be able to undergo a rigorous discipline of the body and obtain from it the ordered, regular effort which can perfect it. There is no longer any room there for all the fancies of desire. You see, 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 normally, not to mention that, naturally, one spoils one's health and as a result the most important part of the ideal of a perfect body disappears; for with bad Good health, impaired health, one is not much good for anything. And it is certainly the satisfaction exterior expression of desires and impulses of the vital or the unreasonable demands of certain ambitions which make the body suffer and fall illan inner harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0915/8illness-mayand-1957health#p3p8</ref>
=Why is Health and Healing Important?= It is good health, a solid body, well poised 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,p14,p15</ref> ==Health in its Natural Form== 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.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> ==Subtle Body== 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. 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p11</ref> =What is Illness=?=
Illness without any exception is the expression of a break in equilibrium. Speaking only of the body, not 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p29</ref>
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> "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> =What are the Causes of Ill-health?= The origin of an illness may be in the mind; it may be in the vital; it may be in any of the parts of the being. One and the same illness may be due to a variety of causes; it may spring in different cases from different sources of disharmony. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p9,p10</ref> 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 spirit of Yoga in which one must turn one's heart to the Divine and be vitally pure and in physical things must be content with what one gets and equal-minded in all conditions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p37</ref> It's something in the subconscient—in the cells' subconscient. Its roots are there.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/november-5-1960#p12,p13</ref>
=How to Cultivate Health and Healing?=
==What are That's the Prerequisites?==one thing needed—important, very important: to keep the body in good health, in a sort of balance. We must keep our balance. Very important. The rest doesn't matter!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/july-24-1963#p40</ref>
Health naturally depends upon the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-6-1958#p11</ref>==Potent Thought and Will==
Whatever The potent thought and will of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, or the effortidea of strength calls in the substance, whatever the difficultypower, whatever time it takesmotion, whatever number vibration of lives, you must know that all this doesn't matter: you KNOW you ARE strength; the Master, that idea generates the Master force and you are form proper to the same. To know it INTEGRALLY, idea and nothing must belie imposes it. Health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner our substance of mind, lifeor matter. It is in this way that the first working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a new and superior consciousness, not the deepest)lays a foundation of change, prepares it's because for a superior truth of thisexistence.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0122/octoberthe-ascent-25towards-1960supermind#p59-p60p23</ref>
If one has the healing capacity, there is the capacity to remedy wear and tear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-25-1970#p79</ref>==Physical Aspiration==
For You may have a physical aspiration also; that the body may feel the spiritual life need to give acquire a kind of equipoise in which all the parts of the being will be well balanced, and not to demand is the rule. The sadhak however can ask for that you may have the Divine Force power to aid him in keeping his health hold off illness at a distance or recovering overcome it if he does fast when it enters trickily, and that as part of his sadhana so that his the body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and always function normally, harmoniously, in perfect health. That is a capable instrument for the Divine Workphysical aspiration. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2905/seeking7-theoctober-divine1953#p8p11</ref>
==How Does the Physical Healing Happen?Belief==
It readily takes If one believes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. Depression and discouragement have self-healing, one shall after a very adverse effect; they cut time find out holes the way to heal myself—if one hasfaith in ittransformation, as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak one can end by laying the hand on and unresisting unravelling the whole process of transformation. But if one begins with doubt and open go on with more doubt, how far am I likely to hostile attacks an easy passage. go on the journey? <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/16doubt-juneand-1929faith#p11p29</ref>
===How to Deal with Pain?=Preoccupation==
First point: do What is not stress the pain by telling yourself, "Oh, how painful! Oh, this pain good is unbearable! Oh, too much preoccupation with it is being worse and worse, I shall never be able to bear it"anxiety, despondency in illness 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.Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits. If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, 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 for these things only favour the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus―for we are not talking prolongation 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 ill-health or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very goodweakness.But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―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… <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/4illness-julyand-1956health#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28p81</ref>
==Useful Practices==All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p4</ref>
To separate yourself from the thing and call in the Mother's force to cure it [is the Yogic method]—or else to use your own will force with faith 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 medicine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p3</ref>==True Knowledge==
Remain quietKnowledge, withinwhen it goes to the root of our troubles, concentrated only on receiving strength has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it were. As soon as you touch the quick of the trouble, as soon as you, diving down and healthdown, get at what really ails you, confident that the Divine pain disappears as though by a miracle. Unflinching courage to reach true knowledge is with you all therefore the time, and you will soon very essence of yoga. No lasting superstructure can be all righterected except on a solid basis of true Knowledge. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnesssentimentalism-andsensitiveness-instability-healthlaxity#p46p10</ref>
===Through Receptivity=Union with Divine==It depends on the part. The method is almost the same for all parts of the being. 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 being it may be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p17,p18</ref>
===Through Faith===It is only by emerging from the mind's prison and consciously soaring into the light of the spirit that, through a conscious union with the Divine, we will be able to let Him give us back the balance and health which we have lost.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-18-1970#p10</ref>
It must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of the right kind, not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/5-may-1929#p18</ref>==Peace==
===Through Knowledge===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. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>
Knowledge==Widening and Trust== But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, when it goes to but with a little life in it―that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the root cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine, and our troublesbody is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, has in itself a marvellous healing-power as it wereI can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease. As soon as If you touch the quick can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the troubleGrace, as soon as then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If youknow how to do it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24, diving down p25,p26,p27,p28</ref> ==Mother’s Force== To separate oneself from the thing and downcall in the Mother's force to cure it [''is the Yogic method'']—or else to use one’s own will force with faith in the power to heal, get at what really ails having the support of the Mother's force behind you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p3</ref> ==Japa== One can pass from a more or less mechanical, more or less efficient and real japa, to the pain disappears as though by a miracletrue japa full of power and light. A power that heals everything. One can come out of it refreshed, rested, cured. Unflinching courage to reach So those who say they come out of it exhausted, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it in the true knowledge is therefore way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-6-1959#p11</ref> ==Harmony of Movements== To think constantly of the harmony of the body, of the beauty of the very essence movements, of yoganot doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. No lasting superstructure You can be erected except on obtain a solid basis rhythm of true Knowledgemovement and gesture which is very exceptional. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-july-1957#p7,p8,p9</ref> ===Will for Harmony=== We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1006/novemberjuly-2910-19691965#p47p6</ref> ==Receptivity==
===Through Calm Presence===One cannot imagine the immense flood of force that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it even. When one feels it, something shrinks because it is too much and produces a kind of instinctive fear in your cells; and when one receives it, more than three-quarters of it is thrown away like an overfilled vessel! It gushes out, spills over, because you are not able to hold it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-september-1953#p29</ref>
Suppose there is a painSo, some sign or other that something in the body first thing is out of order. In the consciousness—in the consciousness—you are absolutely indifferent, which means that whether itto put one's life or deathwill and relax this shrinking, disease as one does a twitching nerve or health, there is equalitya cramped muscle; but if the body reacts according one must learn how to its old habitrelax, "What should be done able to get over relieve this tension in whatever part of the being it?" Ifmay be.After having relaxed this contraction, on the other hand, the cells have learned their lesson and say right away, "Lord, Your presence" (without words—the attitude), pfft! the thing goesone begins trying to widen yourself—one feels you are widening. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0604/november31-23march-19651951#p20p17,p18</ref>
You cannot imagine the immense flood of force that is at your disposal! And generally you do not feel it even. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-september-1953#p29</ref>==Memory==
===Through Formation===The body remembers for a very long time. If one wants to be completely cured, one must cure this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable. And whether one knows it or not, you work in order to cure the memory in the body. When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47,p48,p49,p50,p51,p52</ref>
When one has a thought, a well-made mental formation which goes out =Future 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. That is why one must be on your guard. If one have made such a formation and it has gone out, it has gone out to do its work; and after a time one finds out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing to have a thought like that, that this formation was not very beneficial; now that it has gone out, it is very difficult for you to get hold of it again. One must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out and is moving on its way… =the Body==Through Sincerity and Aspiration===One 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. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/26-may-1954#p25</ref>
==Common Errors==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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p24</ref>
===Overreliance on Medical Science=== No external measure can enable us to react against the harm caused '''Content curated by mental faith in the necessity of drugs. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-18-1970#p10</ref>Saurav'''
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