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Breaking Out of Jail by: Shifra Hendrie
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| Saturday, November 8, 2008 |
Out of prison: The Kabbalah of Transformation
The real value of a human being is primarily determined by the extent and direction in which he secured the release of the car.
- Albert Einstein
Who are you? Are you a parent, child, friend, spiritual researcher, doctor, lawyer, professor, businessman? The husband or wife?
And what kind of person are you? A good person, if not a good person? Smart or stupid, graceful or clumsy? Are you talented, bold, wimpy, without fear, fear, articulate, shy? Do you take risks, or are you afraid to try new things? Do you like to leave it all hang, or are you silent as a clam? Whatever your answer, you'll almost certainly a fairly precise beliefs and opinions about yourself. And these beliefs and opinions, whether expressed or not, and define the limits that you certainly, as if they were made of concrete and steel.
A few years ago, a beautiful young tiger was imported from India and delivered to a local zoo in the United States. A beautiful and vast habitat was built for him, with waterfall, trees, rocks, valleys and caves. Although the building was under way, the tiger is housed in a small temporary cage, approximately 30 by 30 feet. He spent his days in continuous rhythm of the cage from one end to another. This cage was originally intended to house the tiger on a very temporary basis - for only a few weeks, but the building has taken longer than expected and the tiger actually remained in the cage for several months. When habitat is finally over, the cage was lowered into it, opened and removed. The tiger almost immediately resumed the pace - 30 feet forward and 30 feet. It is no longer need the cage to limit and the limit, which cage that once surrounded the tiger was transplanted in the spirit of the tiger.
A mechansim is familiar to those who train elephants. When the elephant is young and small, it is strongly committed to something large and heavy; a game or a tree. The elephant pulls and tugs, but can not free themselves, and finally in place, limiting his movements to the length of the rope. Once this happens, the tree can be replaced by a game that now much larger elephant can go back in an instant. Only it is not. Stake, rope, and confinement have become indelibly associated in the elephant mind.
Does this ring any bells for you?
Have you ever say to you: "I can not, I'm just not that type"? If you answer "no" Look hard, because in one area or another we all do. Some people can not parachute from the plane. Some of us can not keep our homes organized. Some of us can not stop overeating or overdrinking. Some can not talk about our feelings. Some can not get ourselves to work, and others can not stop working. And we almost always think we know in a given region, if we have what is needed or not.
Just like our zoological friends, the ties that bind us are almost always thicker, more solid and real as they exist in our heads than in the physical world. How we react to our beliefs about ourselves, life, other people and what we can and can not do is no different from the reaction of the tiger for his months in the cage or the elephant at its rope.
We do not start life with fixed ideas about who we are and what we can and can not do, but we are beginning to develop quickly enough, and continue to strengthen as we go along. If you decide as a small child that your ideas are not important, chances are that throughout life, you will continue to act on that belief, avoiding sharing your ideas with others and therefore have little influence on people around you. This type of behavior, of course, continue to ensure that very few people look at your opinions or advice, continuously providing more evidence of your original conviction. It is a definition of a vicious circle. However, remember that this does not make you unusual. Almost every human being, whatever its functional education, has fixed ideas about who he is - and who is not.
But Kabbalah explains this phenomenon in a more profound.
Since caught in the act of eating from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden and exiled in a world of hardship, pain, death and the struggle for survival, we human beings have been imbued with feelings fear, insecurity, shame, guilt, self-consciousness, failure, and the feeling of being exiled from the house. Much of our life consists of trying to deny, overcome or compensate for these feelings. At first glance, this seems to be a huge problem. It takes a lot of time and effort to constantly strive to overcome our internal weaknesses and fears. But in fact, this major event, with all its difficult consequences, is neither a problem nor a mistake and actually has a divine purpose.
Kabbalah explains that Gd first looked in the Torah (the Bible) and only then created the world. That means even before Gd created the world, he planned the whole scenario in the Garden of Eden, including food and forbidden fruit of exile that followed. As Paradoxical as it seems at first glance, this scenario is actually fundamental to creation itself.
Let me explain.
Part of the intent in Creation is that we should not remain passive recipients of Gd's largesse. Rather, God has given us the greatest gift of all - the potential to become genuine partners in creation. It is a gift that was not given to even the most holy angels, but was reserved for us precisely because we are souls in very physical bodies, and trapped within our fixed and limited meaning who we are and what is possible for us. Only because we are finished and disconnected from the truth, we have the possibility of exercising a free choice. And only those who are endowed with free choice have the power to create something new, turning darkness into light.
Childhood is intentionally designed to reactivate and give a personal flavor to the limitation of emotional states that have been printed in the human psyche during the exile of the garden. Your experience and predispositions to create your ego-based identity, your character. This part of you tells stories, give advice, make judgments, has reactions, and is programmed to reinforce and defend himself in exactly this way. It is a part of what defines you better than you, but on the other a very restrictive, limiting structure, like a piece of very dark, even opaque glass window on a light background. It is the external surface layer of who you are, which hides all the internal layers. Because it is the most visible part, it seems more real.
But there is a real you. And purpose of each obstacle in your life and all your responses to these challenges is that more true you to shine through.
And then, when, as prophesied, the divine wisdom of Kabbalah has become accessible to the average person, the time has come just for that to happen.
Every Olympic athlete has spent thousands and thousands of hours of testing and expand its boundaries, jumping - or equivalent - to access a latent power that would otherwise never be expressed and break the barriers of what is supposed to be possible again and again.
Whether or not you are an Olympic athlete, you have the same power to break barriers in your own life. In the game of life, we are faced with obstacles almost constantly. Often, these obstacles seem simply too high. Whenever you run an obstacle that seems simply too high, you have a choice. You can stay with your old familiar story about who you are, back away from the obstacle and you resigned to a life smaller. Or you can access in and beyond of the dissimulation of glass in the immense potential of your real me. Here, you already have the untapped power to jump higher and farther than ever, and thus broaden the very limits of the person you have taken you to be.
Whenever you do this, you take a piece of darkness - if your own stories limit, the obstacle on your way, your fear, resignation or self-doubt - and used as the impetus for attract more light, power and vitality of the essence of who you are. This is one reason why you are here.
The next time you hear say or think something like: "I am simply not the type, I can not" or "I'm afraid," think about the tiger and elephant. Conscious you create your own cage is the first step in a snap. Then, as an experiment, ask yourself what you would if you were the type, if you could do it, or if you're not afraid. If you ask this question, May you be surprised how clear and the answers are available.
Then, as a bonus, even if it is not only you, even if you're scared, try to take action on the basis of these responses and see what happens.
It is time to turn some darkness into light.
Authentic Kabbalah is not magic, spiritual tips, or a new age of self-support. It is Jewish mysticism, the deepest in the Torah - the Divine communication given to Moses on Mount Sinai. It is the ultimate mission statement and owner's manual for humans. Learned and applied correctly, authentic Kabbalah will help you reach your potential as human beings created in God's image, and give you a life of joy, purpose, power and passionate vitality.
* Since the Torah prohibits the erasure of the name of God, it is customary to avoid writing letters.
About the author
Shifra Hendrie specializes in helping talented, spiritually mind people create breakthrough results in their lies, businesses and relationships through a unique combination of deep spiritual wisdom and cutting-edge tools for coaching.
To read more of his articles, listen to music classes or download her fascinating f * ree ecourse, "Seven Kabbalah Secrets that can change your life" free http://www.KabbalahOfTransformation.com
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