The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives

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Our physical bodies operate
complex functions without active

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oversight or intervention of the
mind.

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We are essentially in the dark
as our organs function, as our

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immune system automatically
responds to pressures, as

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breathing, brain function and
much more go on absent our

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supervision or control.
For the most part, it is true

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that certain functions can be
affected when we turn conscious

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attention to them.
But even this level of

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intervention is limited and
rare.

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We remain very much at the mercy
of the physical systems that

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operate the habits, instincts
and reactive processes that

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govern our physical lives.
We also are generally unaware of

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how illness enters our system
and what, if anything, we can do

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about it.
Internally, we actually utilized

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the power of the subcontinent
when we train our bodies to

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respond through what is called
muscle memory.

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In fact, the intervention of
conscious thought in such a

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process can be disastrous, as
was noted by a world class

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gymnast who withdrew from a
recent Olympic competition when

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she indicated that her mental
process was interfering with the

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body's trained capacities which
led to potential catastrophic

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results were she to continue in
that state.

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On the level of the life force,
we do not generally perceive

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either the direct active
influences pressuring our

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response on a day-to-day basis,
nor the many stored up actions

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which get triggered by specific
sense sights, sounds, events or

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locations.
Much of what we do is based on

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encapsulated responses stored
deep in our memory and only

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accessible to us for the most
part when a triggering event

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occurs.
It was this level of triggered

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responses and suppressed
energies that influence the

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psychological profile of
individuals that interested

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Freud and LED to his development
of his theories of

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psychotherapy.
CG Jung went further to identify

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a collective unconscious where
vital forms, beings, and

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archetypes were accessible to
all human beings and to a great

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degree govern the way we respond
to situations.

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Similarly, on the mental level,
we capture through our senses

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tremendous amounts of data, most
of which does not rise to our

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conscious awareness.
It does, however, impinge upon

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our mental process and influence
decisions we make.

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We receive subtle influences
from our surroundings, from our

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family, friends, peers, teachers
and the society at large and its

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mores and ways of looking at and
evaluating things.

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Much of our decision making
process is in fact guided,

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directed or controlled by forces
about which we tend to have

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little or no awareness,
Shriorobindo observes Quote.

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The superficial observation of
our waking consciousness shows

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us that of a great part of our
individual being and becoming,

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we are quite ignorant.
It is to us the inconscient just

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as much as the life of the
plant, the metal, the earth, the

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elements.
But if we carry our knowledge

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farther, pushing psychological
experiment and observation

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beyond their normal bounds, we
find how vast is the sphere of

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this supposed inconscient, or
this subconscient in our total

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existence, the subconscient so
seeming and so-called by us,

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because it is a concealed
consciousness, and what a small

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and fragmentary portion of our
being is covered by our waking

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self-awareness, we arrive at the
knowledge that our waking mind

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and ego are only a
superimposition upon a submerged

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A subliminal self.
For so that self appears to us,

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or more accurately an inner
being with a much vaster

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capacity of experience.
Our mind and ego are like the

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crown and Dome of a temple
jutting out from the waves while

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the great body of the building
is submerged under the surface

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of the waters.
End Quote Reference Sri

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Aurobindo and the Mother, The
Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter

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2, Hidden Forces within pages 29
to 30.