Whatever you input into the hard-drive (brain) will result in information/data being processed through the nervous system. As you become more conscious it stands to reason that you will become more choosy about the information input into the hardware/brain/nervous system.
At a certain point along the path of awakening, either conscious or not, we will meet obstacles, usually referred to as 'Samskara's' in Yogic terms. This is essentially where we may come into contact with unconscious material that is, for various reasons, too difficult to deal with under normal circumstances.
BY 'under normal circumstances' I am referring to people that are either not doing a conscious practice of some kind such as Yoga, or are doing some kind of conscious spiritual practice but do not have an experienced teacher/guide.
If you have the tenacity or the commitment or the need to continue through this 'stuff' that emerges you may - if you are doing a regular practice, have to step up the practice, or in some cases, take the practice down a notch or two. If you do not have the necessary 'wisdom to know the difference' then you may get into trouble.
The trouble you may get into would, in medical/psychological jargon be referred to as a crisis/neurotic/psychotic episode and under extreme circumstances a 'nervous breakdown'!
Now to the novice Yogi or otherwise uninformed souls this is hugely traumatic and can lead to a halting of any progress at all. But to the 'informed Yogic practitioner it is the 'golden fleece'.
It is a very bizarre concept to the so called 'normal person' that we as Yogis are looking for crisis on purpose. That is the goal of Yoga - to evoke a crisis. sometimes they are rather mundane such as realising that you 'should' stop smoking. And sometimes they are larger such as realising that you may never have been totally free!
A shock indeed!
This information is here for your perusal to do with as you will.
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