Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 3
Fragment ID: 15017
What I meant was that the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and goes through the experiences which are associated with it – e.g. congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc. To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it. But to get that, still more to get it completely is difficult. One step towards it is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body – to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions.