This week’s Parsha is Terumah, and the topic I’d like to explore in it is healing. It’s not a big theme in Terumah, but the closest idea is turning ourselves into a sanctuary. The sanctuary needs to be something that is healthy, holy and sacred. We do have a mitzvah to guard our health.
Considering the Amidah and its Kabbalistic roots from the
Arizal, we see it is actually a prayer for healing. “Blessed are you, G-d,
healer of the sick people of Israel.” BARUCH ATA HASHEM - FOFEI CHOLEI AMO YISRAEL.
And the Arizal, as he does in a brilliant fashion in other
prayers, too, uses acronyms or “letter hints” in the very words of the blessing.
He finds a hint to a term in Kabbalistic teachings which is RAPACH, which is
the code name for the Holy Sparks.
Those sparks are the Kabbalistic secret code of healing. Healing
happens when everything connects-up the way it could connect. We are going
through life and trying to heal ourselves every day and trying to complete
ourselves with that which is lacking.
So, the type of healing we do is up to us to complete that which
is lacking on all levels of human experience, whether it be the intellectual
level, the interpersonal level or the physical level. Based on that, over the
years I have gathered healing methodologies serve as common denominators for
the process of becoming whole once again, making that which is lacking into
something that is whole.
To do that, we turn that which is unhealthy into that which
is healthy. As examples, I have gathered some of my holistic, whole-person healing
tools.
1) I’ll start with how to unblock the parts of us which are
blocked. One strategy I use to become unblocked is called Toss Up To G-d Our
Helplessness. That’s when we admit our helplessness and ask G-d to lead us to
help us see life in a healthy way, a holistic way, that which WAS, IS and WILL BE
as God-sees it.
We can take the weak parts of ourselves and energetically
mesh the strong parts of ourselves with the weaker parts of ourselves, and to
keep up a constant dialogue with G-d. We
can talk to G-d about what’s unhealthy about our body and soul, to try to zap
all the darkness in our lives with G-d’s light and to let go of whatever we’re
holding onto even though it’s unhealthy for us. And then we let G-d provide
whatever we need to be filled with.
We want to notice what is not whole, not complete, not expanded
in our life. A big key to healing is to achieve wholeness and turn wholeness
into completeness.
) Another category is Torah Healing. Torah, our Sages teach
us, is the key to everything. Our Sages say, “If your head hurts, engage in
Torah study. If your body hurts, engage in Torah study. And if anything else is
lacking, including your spirit, then engage in Torah study.” It’s like a
cure-all. To whatever extent you are engaged in Torah study, double it. Double
the amount for healing. I have seen people do that.
Torah cures everything, including the inner chaos. This is
one important idea that Torah is all about; it takes the chaos of our lives and
our way of thinking and our evil inclinations and it straightens it all out.
Torah straightens out our crooked way of thinking and our physical pain, as
well as the pain of the world. I think that’s how we can all contribute to
healing the world.
3) Another category is Expansion Healing, which is to look at
things in an expanded way. An example would be – the consequences of my actions
have ramifications forever. It involves trying to see things from a greater,
whole place, and seeing one point among many points. And as any financial
counselor will tell you, that’s how they help people solve their financial
problems, by seeing the whole picture.
Expansion Healing is what I do with everyone I’ve been
guiding and mentoring and counseling. I get them to look at their life in a
more expanded way, as opposed to what’s going on today for one person. We need
to look at all your relationships, too, and that’s how we heal to also free up
the world around us.
4) Another category is Healing of The Subconscious Mind. I
learned a type of healing in Hawaii that fit with my understanding of Kabbalah
as well. It’s called Hooponopono and it can be used anytime you feel resistance
inside to anything you encounter, inside or outside of yourself. You say,
simply, “I’m sorry, forgive me, thank you, I love you.” People who do this form
of healing all day long are healing their lives each day.
5) Another category is It’s All Going To Be All Right.
Everything is being perfected and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel… If
you internalize these truths deeply you can be happy with whatever comes your
way, with what is. And if you believe this deeply, you become healed because
you are looking at life with healed eyes and a healed perspective.
You want what G-d wants and you are engaged in G-d’s desire
and G-d’s will. This is a way to step out of the chatter in your own mind and
look at life from the silence, the essence, the knowing place in your mind.
6) Another category is Divine Providence Healing, where we
try to co-create, with G-d, your desired reality. This can be general desires
like health, wealth and happiness, or it can focus on very serious life problems
that we want G-d’s help to heal, without our own efforts. It is a Divine
experience to have trust and to watch G-d come through for you and with you, for
others. We refer to this as a partnership with G-d.
7) A final category is Kabbalistic Healing. When we frame
our own perspective on life and our engagement with life with the Sephirot, we
are infusing our lives with the perfect bridge/balance of the Sephirot. That
means, you are reorganizing your life, re-aligning and re-harmonizing your life
in that way, all working towards a unity, a unification and healing.
Some of the more esoteric healings involve working with past
lives and understanding there are influences coming from our past lives in our
lives today, and there’s what I call the “smoothness factor,” which comes about
from what we’ve already healed, or not.
Naturally, there’s also the matter of looking forward to the
post-life reality, which means getting yourself in tune with what comes next,
which lasts for millennia. This consideration influences what we say and feel
and do now.
As you can see, there are many ways you can reframe your
life to focus on healing.
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