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If we live only in the outward physical
consciousness, we do not usually know that
we are going to be ill until the symptoms of the
malady declare themselves in the body. But if
we develop the inward physical consciousness,
we become aware of a subtle environmental
physical atmosphere and can feel the forces
of illness coming towards us through it, feel
them even at a distance and, if we have learned
how to do it, we can stop them by the will
or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital
physical or nervous envelope which radiates
from the body and protects it, and we can feel
the adverse forces trying to break through it
and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the
nervous envelope. Or we can feel the symptoms
of illness, fever or cold, for instance, in the
subtle physical sheath before they are manifest
in the gross body and destroy them there,
preventing them from manifesting in the body.

— Sri Aurobindo