Exceeding the Limits Set By Our Minds to Harness Powers of Health and Fitness

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We generally remain locked
within the framework of our past

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training and experience.
We create walls around ourselves

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that circumscribe what we
believe we can accomplish, what

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we can do, what is real, and
what is possible.

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As long as we remain primarily
fixated on the past, we limit

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our opportunity for growth and
development in the future.

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We deny possibilities based on
never having experienced them

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previously, or if we have tried
and not succeeded, we conclude

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that the attempt was doomed to
failure, either due to it being

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an illusory goal or due to our
own lack of fitness and capacity

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to achieve the goal.
This limiting mechanism is

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something that the mind, with
its limited framework and

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vision, imposes on our vital
nature and our physical body.

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Something is either not
feasible, too difficult, or we

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are simply not adaptable enough
to succeed at it.

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At least that is what our inner
voice tells us.

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If we reflect for a moment, we
can see that such limiting

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concepts in our minds have not
guided us well in the past.

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We believed for ages that the
moon was unapproachable, but

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during the 1960s humanity was
able to harness rudimentary

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techniques of Space Flight and
actually land people on the

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moon.
We believed that certain

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diseases were incurable.
The history of the bubonic

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plague known as the Black Plague
in Europe is such an example.

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Fear ran rampant and people
died.

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Over time, with research and
consideration of potential

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vectors, the disease was indeed
brought under control.

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Leprosy was a feared disease
which was eventually brought

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under control.
Smallpox was a worldwide mass

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killing disease which was
eventually eradicated.

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These successes were brought
about by people who refuse to

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listen to the voices of denial,
the claims of impossibility, and

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who overcame the fear of trying.
It is clear that just because

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something has not been done in
the past, it cannot be worked

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out and developed in the future.
These examples, however, relate

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to humanity as a whole, not any
specific individual.

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Someone might then believe that
the sum of humanity is greater

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than the parts of humanity, and
that what humanity can

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accomplish collectively is not
applicable to any individual's

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own situation.
This, however, would be easily

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found to be inaccurate.
While humanity has had

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successes, as noted above, they
were built on the contributions

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of a series of individuals
either working on their own or

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collaborating.
We're building upon the work of

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others before them.
Forerunners in various fields

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have seen, intuited, or worked
out solutions to concerns that

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others simply disbelieved.
When we turn to the individual

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case, however, it is also clear
that many things can be

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accomplished through patient,
persevering, and consistent

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efforts.
Focus and receptivity.

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In this way, even the physical
body has been pushed far beyond

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limits that were considered
impossible to attain even just a

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few short years or decades ago.
We hear of individuals who have

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systematically trained
themselves to withstand extreme

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cold temperatures or to generate
inner psychic heat through the

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practice of TOMO.
We hear of people who were

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partially paralyzed in an
accident, who do not accept the

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limitations, and who eventually
regain full use of their limbs.

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There are others who struggle
with various academic subjects

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until one day, through their
persistent efforts, the

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proverbial light goes on and
they now understand what was

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incomprehensible to them
previously.

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We find people who develop
powers of intuition,

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clairvoyance, clairaudience,
various powers of will and

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expression through focus and
commitment, and a sense of

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receptivity to those powers
simply by not believing that

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such things are impossible.
If we were limited by what has

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occurred in the past, or even in
our own past, we would not be

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able to grow, to learn, to
progress, to develop new

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capacities at all.
Yet we see that all of these

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things are not only possible,
but are the normal condition

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that pertains to much of
humanity when people are not

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simply under pure survival mode
at all times.

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Even then, we hear of situations
where people have lifted cars to

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free a trapped child, even
though the car was far beyond

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any weight limit they could have
conceived.

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They simply did not think about
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They just did it under the force
of necessity.

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Shrioro Bindo notes, quote Above
all, do not harbor that idea of

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an unfit body.
All suggestions of that kind are

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a subtle attack on the will to
city, and especially dangerous

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in physical matters.
The first business is to expel

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it.
Bag and baggage, appearances and

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facts may be all in its favor,
but the first condition of

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success for the Yogin, and
indeed for anybody who wants to

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do anything great or unusual, is
to be superior to facts and

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disbelieve in appearances.
Will to be free from disease,

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however formidable many faced,
or constant its attacks, and

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repel all contrary suggestions.
End Quote.

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Reference Srioro Bindu and the
Mother, Looking from Within,

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Chapter 4, Ordeals and
Difficulties, page 108.