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Integral Yoga Psychology addresses the totality of human consciousness with two simultaneous systems: one is concentric indicating our outer-inner-true-central Being, another vertical indicating our physical-vital-mental-spiritual Being. Sri Aurobindo’s triple transformation—psychic, spiritual, and supramental—expresses our inward and upward healing processes as the epistemological knowledge of our complete transformation of consciousness. He affirmed:『There is only one way, one path. First, there must be a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic being. … Next, there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts.』Behind our surface personality, our psychic being could be perceived as our individualized, essential child evolving along with the growth of our consciousness inspired by our Divine Mother within with Her Wisdom, Force, Harmony and Perfection.

The healing rationale is that the Psychic Map of the Inner-Child represents the cosmological macrocosm and microcosm that the Inner-Child is a metaphor symbolizing our psychic becoming and wholeness with four irreducible factors: cosmic essence, personal essence, vulnerability, and protection. As children, we needed to look outwardly to rely on the environment providing us our dependency needs and thus formed and became identified with our layer of protection; as grown-ups, we can learn to consciously reverse our attention inwardly to explore our protective mechanisms, open to vulnerability, foster our personal essence, and reunite with the cosmic Mother within through self-reparenting process. Tao Te Ching chapter 40 states:『Reversal is the movement of the Way. Weakness is the function of the Way.』Reversal connotes returning and weakness connotes our vulnerable softness.

Understanding our basic dependency needs and the natural healing drive of self-regulation, we learn to utilize viable methods to explore the manifestations of our four layers’ psyche in daily life to coordinate and harmonize our psychic layers toward a unified whole-person. Rajneesh explained:『If you become one, contentment follows of its own accord. If you are many, discontent is natural. If you are many, you live in constant conflict. If you are one, conflict disappears; you have come home. This is what Taoists call crystallization.』Each of us is a unique child of the cosmic Mother; restoring the metaphysically umbilical connection with our shared Mother as innate healing resource, we can heal and go beyond the restrictions of traumatic experiences or cultural beliefs to attain our human commonality and ultimate transformation—a path from protective, vulnerable, essential, to becoming a supramental child within to make sense and divinize our embodied living. Tao Te Ching chapter 55 states: “One who has the abundance of virtue is like a newborn baby.”