Widening the Consciousness: Practical Exercises and Benefits

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If we observe what happens to
our inner psychology, when we

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experience physical pain, we
will see that.

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We mostly tighten ourselves up
Tenzing the body focusing

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intently on the experience of
the bodily Pain by doing.

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So we actually intensify the
pain experience through this

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focus and it takes over our
consciousness.

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A similar process occurs when we
are faced with vital pressures,

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that seemed to threaten our
Vital Integrity or well-being.

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We become defensive and create
walls to protect ourselves.

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The mind also has a similar
habit, intends to reject or find

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ways to minimize ridicule or
otherwise diminish, the impact

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of ideas that run contrary to
our own cherished ways of

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seeing, and Thinking the mothers
approach is opposite to.

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What is the normal?
Instinctive way we respond, when

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when consciously Works to widen
relax and open up.

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The being one comes into contact
with a wider existence, that

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spreads, and releases the
tension, and the pain and opens,

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two forces of healing and
strength that are available at

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those greater levels.
Spiritual Seekers such as the

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reissues of the rig Vedic times
speak of the vast Consciousness

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and it is the intent of these
exercises to come into contact

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with and be permeated by that
vast existence.

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The mother observes quote.
The method of relaxing, the

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contraction may be different in
the mind, the vital or the body.

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But logically it is the same
thing.

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Once you have relaxed attention,
you see first, if the

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disagreeable effect ceases, but
if the pain continues, you must

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after having relax this
contraction, begin trying to

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widen yourself, you feel you are
widening yourself.

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There are many methods some find
it very useful to imagine.

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They are floating on water with
a plank under their back.

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Then they widen themselves,
widen until they become the vast

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liquid mass.
Others make an effort to

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identify themselves with the
sky, and the Stars, so they

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widen widen themselves,
identifying themselves more and

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more with the sky others.
Again, don't need these

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pictures.
They can become conscious of

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their Consciousness and large
their Consciousness, more and

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more until it becomes Unlimited.
One can enlarge it till it

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becomes vast as the Earth and
even the universe.

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When one does that one becomes
really receptive.

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As I have said, it is a question
of training in any case from an

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immediate point of view, the
method is just the same.

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You must act upon the
contraction.

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One can act through thought by
calling the peace tranquility,

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the feeling of peace takes away
much of the difficulty like

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this.
Peace, peace, peace.

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Tranquility.
Calm.

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Many discomforts even physical
like all these contractions of

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the solar plexus which are so
unpleasant and give you a times.

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Nausea that sensation of being
suffocated of not being able to

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breathe.
Again can disappear though.

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It is the nervous center which
is affected.

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It gets affected very easily as
soon as there is something which

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affects the solar plexus you.
Say calm, calm, Calm become more

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and more calm, until the tension
is destroyed.

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And quote, reference SRI,
aurobindo in the mother living

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within the yoga approached, a
psychological health and growth

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widening, the Consciousness
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