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Any rational system of exercises suited to one's need and capacity will help the participant to improve in health. Moreover it is the attitude that is more important. Any well-planned and scientifically arranged programme of exercises practised with a yogic attitude will become yogic exercises and the person practising them will draw full benefit from the point of view of physical health and moral and spiritual uplift. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-letters#p25</ref>

...She had an accident in the knee long ago and this leg is a little weaker than the other one—there was a possibility of an upsetting. She noticed that so long as she had the correct attitude she felt nothing, there was nothing, it seemed to have gone altogether. As soon as she fell back into the ordinary consciousness, the illness returned… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/11/10-december-1969#p1</ref>

It is true, the body must have much goodwill—mine happens to have goodwill. And it is not a mental goodwill, it is truly a bodily goodwill. It accepts all inconveniences.... But it is the attitude that is important, not the consequences (I am sure that the inconveniences are not indispensable); it is the attitude that is important. Well, it must be like this (gesture of open hands). In fact I have found that in the majority of cases surrender to the Divine does not necessarily mean trust in the Divine—because you surrender to the Divine, you say, "Even if you make me suffer, I surrender myself", but it is an absolute lack of trust! Yes, it is really amusing, surrender does not imply trust; trust is something else, it is... a kind of knowledge—an "unshakable" knowledge which nothing can disturb—that it is we who change into difficulties, sufferings and miseries what, in the Divine Consciousness, is... perfect Peace. It is we who bring about this little transformation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/11/18-december-1971#p28</ref>

...I have always felt that this attitude of my body perceiving its own imperfection was indispensable in order to keep a living and constant humility in the physical consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/sadhana-of-the-body#p21</ref>

"In fact, Mother, what is the yogi's attitude towards the outward appearance?"

The usefulness of knowing the true purpose of life instead of living in ignorance and falsehood.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/27-december-1968#p1</ref>

''What is the meaning of "outer aspiration" and "outer attitude"? What is the best outer attitude?''

Unless one practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant—even its aspiration is ignorant and so is its goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and disfigure the Divine Presence.

That is why the yoga of the body-cells is indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/25-february-1967#p2</ref>

It [the true physical mind] can press upon it [the physical vital] the true attitude and feeling, make the incoming of the wrong suggestions and impulsions more difficult and give full force to the true movements. This action of the physical mind is in dispensable for the change of the whole physical consciousness even to the most material, though for that the enlightening of the subconscient is indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p49</ref>

====To Women about Their Body====

The attitude you take towards something quite natural and unavoidable. Give it as little importance as possible and go on with your usual life, without changing anything because of it.

<ref.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/to-women-about-their-body#p6,p28</ref>

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