Human mind consists of two parts. One is the known part of mind referred to as the objective or conscious mind and the other the secret chamber of mind called subjective mind or subconscious mind. The routine operations like thinking, deliberating, reasoning, planning and controlling the body organs for physical actions are done by the conscious mind. On the other hand, most of the secret and significant activities of life are managed by the subconscious mind.
Things belonging to past memory become stored in the secret mind. Roots of permanent attributes of personality like habits, addictions, temperament, attitudes, intrinsic likings and disliking’s sprout in the secret mind. Many a time, on having sufficient information about the harmful consequences of an activity, the reasoning faculty of outer mind of a person dissuades the body to act in a particular manner. Nevertheless, in such moments, unknown to the person, the secret mind counteracts, forcing the individual to act otherwise by succumbing to an allurement to a known harmful object or activity. That is why, people, find it difficult to give up addictions in spite of being aware of their harmful consequences. In other words, informing about the harm, the logic in the conscious mind forbids to act, but the addiction ingrained in the secret mind forces the body to repeat the activity.
The secret mind also affects our responses to events and activities related to other persons. For instance, one hardly reacts on knowing about the death of an unknown person. On the other hand, information of death of an intimate friend or a family member makes one inconsolably unhappy. Similarly, in the routine of life, we casually meet so many persons every day and hardly ever remember them, but a particular individual leaves such a deep impression on us that we desire to meet him again and again.
Casual happenings, sights and sounds around us do not leave much impression on our outer mind. On the other hand, when the phenomena are intensely stimulating, the impressions recorded by the conscious mind are carried over to the deep recesses of the secret mind with extraordinary consequences. The secret mind hardly involves itself in analysis or reasoning, but once something gets stored into it, it passionately holds it in storage for a very long time. Since all autonomic functions of the body like beating of heart, circulation of blood, respiration, digestion of food, sleeping and awakening, are controlled by this very secret mind, whatever information is stored in it , decisively influences the functions of the body.
A spontaneous strong belief carried to the secret mind can instantaneously kill or cure a person. It is said that once a tiger leaped to attack a hunter. Though the victim received only superficial wounds in the encounter, the very thought of certainty of being killed by the ferocious animal so much frightened him, that he died on the spot.
Experienced doctors too sometimes become sick because of the psychological impact created on their secret mind by prolonged treatment of chronically ill patients for long periods. One doctor is reported to have become paralyzed after treating paralytic patients for a long time. On hearing the verdict of sentence of death itself, many convicts are known to have died, much before the actual execution of the capital punishment. The reason in such cases is acceptance by the secret mind of an event as inevitability. The body abides by the decision of the secret mind and immediately acts accordingly. In Prana therapy the therapist endeavors to influence this very secret mind to make it work for healing the patient.
Now let us examine how a piece of information reaches the deep recesses of the secret mind. The external faculties in the conscious mind generally do not accept any information as fact without examining its various aspects and carrying out a lot of reasoning. Even after the accuracy of some information is ascertained, unless associated with deep faith and belief, it does not filter down to the inner secret mind. With gradual, repeated, persistent endeavors, the external mind can be made to develop such a degree of faith and conviction in anything. (Addictions to drugs and habits and outcome of “Brainwashing” illustrate this phenomenon.).
It is theoretically possible to condition the secret mind to act for healing the body by “brainwashing” the conscious mind. However, while treating a patient, the therapist does not have enough time and opportunity to use the methodology of prolonged motivation for transforming the mindset of the patient. For treating a patient, the therapist requires such therapy, which could produce miraculous results in the shortest possible time. In such a situation there remains no option but to bypass the external mind and interact directly with the secret mind of the patient. This is the practice followed by the hypnotists. The hypnotist sedates the external mind of the subject by injecting personal Prana energy into the subject and interacting directly with the secret mind of the latter presents astonishing demonstrations.
In the book titled “Par Kaya Pravesh” (Entering into other’s body), this author (Pandit Shriram Sharma, Acharya) has given details of simple techniques, using which, the common man can sedate the outer mind or interact with the secret mind of some other person by other methods. By practicing these techniques it is possible to use one’s own Prana energy for sedating the outer mind of some individual. In the next episode, a simple yogic exercise will be described for sedating the outer mind by using affirmations. (In parlance of Yoga, this exercise is called Shithilikaran.) With the help of this method, even a therapist uninitiated in techniques given in the above book can motivate the secret mind to some extent.
Akhand Jyoti Magazine 2016 Mar-Apr
