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Namah Vol. 27, Issue 4, 15th January 2020

being is like a 6-year-old child, whose only already encountered and studied it in school.
goal is its safety, before its happiness. It can
also be compared to a machine, saturated “The difficulties come always to make us
with programmes that have been implemented progress. The greater the difficulty, the greater
throughout our lives by event /emotion can be the progress (1).” Alternatively it may
associations that continue to run until they prompt the memory that the difficulty has
have been deprogrammed. already been solved. We are sometimes almost
on a hill, whose shape ahead prevents us
If the subconscious mind does not distinguish from seeing the landscape behind. As soon
between good and bad, according to our as we reach the summit, a new hill might
conscious human and societal norms, it will present itself. This means that we have already
only consider the intensity or the amplitude reached the top of the first to be able to see
of the emotions and not the history of the the next one.
original behaviours. Thus, if we intervene
on our behaviour when we are in a phase of In a battle between enemy armies, or a conflict
exaltation, the information will be passed to between inner forces, strategists will always
the subconscious mind that the amplitude is try to destabilise the one who represents the
too important. Further, it will have the natural greatest danger, while they will ignore the
tendency to level it out when the amplitude one who is harmless. Being confronted with
is identical at the lowest, during a phase of a mental magnetic storm always testifies our
depression. So to say, to bring it back to a ability to overcome it. To be confronted with
balanced level. In addition, the approach will these great electromagnetic turbulences, which
be easier because the cognitive possibilities are these inner demons, attests to our capacity
are intact, or even higher for the return to to overcome them.
equanimity, while they are lessened in a
phase of depression. Otherwise it gives us the opportunity to turn
them into friends, which will ultimately yield
The new difficulties encountered on the the same result: Love and Compassion, to
spiritual path are always the sign of abilities oneself this time, are the only truly effective
to solve them, otherwise they would not weapons.
occur. Ask an eight-year-old child to solve a
second-degree mathematic equation; he will References
not even understand that there is a problem,
because he has never come across this matter. 1. The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume
Ask the same question to a sixteen-year-old, he 14. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
will understand the problem because he has Trust; 1980, p. 236.

Denis Capdeville (Dan) is an NLP and hypnosis practitioner, working at Santé, Auroville, India.

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