Understanding the Action of the Subconscient

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The field of psychology in the
West has developed over the last

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couple of centuries with a focus
on the influence of the

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subconscious levels on our
external lives, fixating on

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trauma, past events and their
effect on the way we respond to

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circumstances in our lives.
This has led to techniques such

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as psychotherapy, dream
interpretation, regression

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therapy, and hypnosis as
mechanisms to unlock the

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subconscious realm to gain an
understanding of what what lies

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hidden there.
Western psychology has notably

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failed to expend much effort on
understanding levels that are

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super conscient or
circumconscient.

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Sri Aurobindo has included these
planes or levels in his more

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comprehensive review of human
psychology.

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Without an understanding of
these additional segments of our

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existence, it is virtually
impossible to truly resolve the

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issues that arise through a deep
examination of the subconscious

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errors.
And thus such such examinations

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as Western psychology have
undertaken have revealed a

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number of dangers for the
individuals involved who get

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labeled as having certain
conditions and who create a

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surface personality around the
existence of those conditions

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and act to actually strengthen
and embed them further rather

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than find ways to resolve them
and move forward freely without

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them.
Thus, few people ever succeed in

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going beyond the need for
therapy in the currently

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understood methods and
techniques of psychological

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practice without the active
intervention of the forces

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active at the Super conscient
levels.

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Such a review of the sub
conscient acts primarily as a

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stirring up an awakening of
those forces that lie hidden

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there, Fiorobindo writes, Quote.
The subconscient is a concealed

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and unexpressed inarticulate
consciousness which works below

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all our conscious physical
activities.

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Just as what we call the
superconscient is really a

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higher consciousness above from
which things descend into the

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being, so the subconscient is
below the body consciousness,

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and things come up into the
physical, the vital, and the

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mind nature.
From there, just as the higher

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consciousness is super conscient
to us and supports all our

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spiritual possibilities and
nature, so the subconscient is

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the basis of our material being
and supports all that comes up

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in the physical nature.
Men are not ordinarily conscious

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of either of these planes of
their own being, but by sodna

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they can become aware.
The subconscient retains the

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impressions of all our past
experiences of life, and they

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can come up from there in dream
forms.

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Most dreams and ordinary sleep
are formations made from

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subconscient impressions.
The habit of strong recurrence

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of the same things in our
physical consciousness, so that

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it is difficult to get rid of
its habits, is largely due to a

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subconscious support.
The subconscient is full of

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irrational habits.
When things are rejected from

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all other parts of the nature,
they go either into the

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environmental consciousness
around us, through which we

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communicate with others and with
universal nature and try to

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return from there, or they sink
into the subconscient and can

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come up from there even after
lying long quiescent, so that we

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think they are gone.
When something is erased from

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the subconscient so completely
that it leaves no seed, and

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thrown out of the
circumconscient so completely

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that it can return no more than,
only can we be sure that we have

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finished with it forever.
End Quote Reference Shriorobindo

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and the Mother, The Hidden
Forces of Life, Chapter 2,

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Hidden Forces within pages 36 to
37.