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in the Divine Force to help you in your withdrawal and refusal. If
you can do this quietly and resolutely and patiently, in the end
your inner will will prevail against the habit of the outer Nature.
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To be conscious [of the sexual movement] is the first step, but
by itself it is not enough; there must come an automatic force
of rejection which the moment desire and passion arise throws
it off so that it ebbs back from the mind or vital or wherever it
touches. This comes either by a strong will of rejection becom-
ing habitual in its action on the consciousness, or by the de-
tached inner being developing an automatic dynamic strength
in itself so that it is not only not touched, but refuses these
things by an active purifying power or, finally, by the full emer-
gence of the psychic and its government of the mind, vital and
body. The last is the most rapid and easy way. Till then these
things recur. But probably in yourself there is still some sense of
the old idea of sin or fault which makes you feel troubled. You
must take it as an adjustment of the nature that is going on
in which old movements which you no longer accept as yours
return from force of habit and get a habitual response from
some part of the being. But if that part of the being can be
made to reject it, then the response begins to fade away. You
must not allow yourself or your mind to feel troubled by the
returns; for that only weakens the power of resistance. There
should be calm dissociation of yourself from these things; then
the detached inner being will become more easily dynamic and
able to reject them from the vital nature.
CWSA 31: 508-09

Too much importance given [to sex troubles], too much tension
does sometimes make the struggle worse. To dissociate quietly
and to reject steadily without being moved by the recurrence is
the best way — if one knows how to do the trick.
CWSA 31: 510

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