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| Mystical Musical Meditations in Jerusalem |
May the following Tshuvah meditations help connect us to the
deepest aspects of our selves and our lives:
1. A RETURN TO OUR SELVES
Tshuvah ----the Hebrew root word has three meanings:
a. “return” back to where we came from
b. “turning towards” a certain direction or orientation
c. “response” to a certain question or challenge
When we combine all three definitions into one, we come up with something like this:
Tshuvah is the inner drive or response to orient ourselves to return to becoming the primordial self
that we are called upon to become deep inside of ourselves,
or in shorter fashion,
Tshuvah is our drive to become who we are really meant to become.
RETURN TO YOURSELF MEDITATION
Look deeply into your Soul. Ask yourself what it is that you are truly meant to do in this life, who is it that you are truly meant to become. Picture yourself after this life, in the post life, and you are being congratulated by a mixed host of Heavenly and earthly beings. They are all celebrating the fact that you were able to become, while alive in your physical existence, the ultimate you. They are showing you what you did and how you did it, in a full-feature video. Watch the video in your mind's eye and take note of as much detail as you can. You can watch it again and again to catch, in subsequent viewings, what you didn't catch the previously. Pay close attention, this is the roadmap of your future where you will blossom into becoming the ultimate you!
2. RECOLLECTIONS
One of the first steps in doing Tshuvah is to be able to recall our past.
When we recall our past, then we discover what Hashem has given us and derive great joy from this.
We can also discover what we did right, and would like to keep doing right, as well as what we did wrong and would like to refrain from doing anymore, or doing these things in a different way.
We also can discover, through recalling the many events of our recent past, what Hashem is guiding us to do with our lives. Specifically, the unfolding process of becoming our ultimate selves.
RECOLLECTION MEDITATIONS
Here are some possible realms that you may have been engaged in. The reason I chose the following realms is because I have previously composed the teachings and meditations and tools for deeper exploration and self-actualization.
However, please feel free to recall the events of your last year in any way that works best for you. For example, try out your levels of inspiration, being influential, being receptive, rights and wrongs, responsibility taking, living the standards of truth and justice. Also, as you'll soon see, the first recollection is detailed and the next ones are not, You can just apply the guidance of the first one to the others.
HEALING RECOLLECTIONS
Try to recall if during the course of the year you were active in healing. If so,
what type of healing?
Tshuvah ----the Hebrew root word has three meanings:
a. “return” back to where we came from
b. “turning towards” a certain direction or orientation
c. “response” to a certain question or challenge
When we combine all three definitions into one, we come up with something like this:
Tshuvah is the inner drive or response to orient ourselves to return to becoming the primordial self
that we are called upon to become deep inside of ourselves,
or in shorter fashion,
Tshuvah is our drive to become who we are really meant to become.
RETURN TO YOURSELF MEDITATION
Look deeply into your Soul. Ask yourself what it is that you are truly meant to do in this life, who is it that you are truly meant to become. Picture yourself after this life, in the post life, and you are being congratulated by a mixed host of Heavenly and earthly beings. They are all celebrating the fact that you were able to become, while alive in your physical existence, the ultimate you. They are showing you what you did and how you did it, in a full-feature video. Watch the video in your mind's eye and take note of as much detail as you can. You can watch it again and again to catch, in subsequent viewings, what you didn't catch the previously. Pay close attention, this is the roadmap of your future where you will blossom into becoming the ultimate you!
2. RECOLLECTIONS
One of the first steps in doing Tshuvah is to be able to recall our past.
When we recall our past, then we discover what Hashem has given us and derive great joy from this.
We can also discover what we did right, and would like to keep doing right, as well as what we did wrong and would like to refrain from doing anymore, or doing these things in a different way.
We also can discover, through recalling the many events of our recent past, what Hashem is guiding us to do with our lives. Specifically, the unfolding process of becoming our ultimate selves.
RECOLLECTION MEDITATIONS
Here are some possible realms that you may have been engaged in. The reason I chose the following realms is because I have previously composed the teachings and meditations and tools for deeper exploration and self-actualization.
However, please feel free to recall the events of your last year in any way that works best for you. For example, try out your levels of inspiration, being influential, being receptive, rights and wrongs, responsibility taking, living the standards of truth and justice. Also, as you'll soon see, the first recollection is detailed and the next ones are not, You can just apply the guidance of the first one to the others.
HEALING RECOLLECTIONS
Try to recall if during the course of the year you were active in healing. If so,
what type of healing?
Here are some possibilities of types of healing, and of
course you may have others:
Unblocking flow - in the body, in the soul, in making a living, in inter-personalizing
Transcending - light into darkness, life breakthroughs, spiritual-warrioring
Experience the positive feelings you get from the gifts that Hashem gave you in the area of healing.
How can you increase the intensity or improve upon your healing abilities?
Are there any new healing ideas being born to you?
How do you see, from the healing experiences of your past, Hashem guiding you to become the ultimate healer that you can be?
SELF-ACTUALIZING RECOLLECTIONS
Do the steps listed above trigger your recall of self-actualizing you have done during the last year?
Here are some variations of self-awareness/actualizations, totally self-expressed -
a. total self-awakeness
b. total self-expression
c. psychically aligned
d. happy
e. express my own unique way in the world
f. my Jewishness
g. above Nature Living
h. living the life I love with Ratzon
i clarity about where I'm at (cheshbon-ing)
SPIRITUAL SELF RECOLLECTIONS
Soul expression, soul answers, expansion/infinitized, co-creation, Tzaddik-ing, Daas-ing, bridging, Baal Tshuvah-ing, Chasidic mastery
G-D CONNECTION RECOLLECTIONS
Letting Hashem in, fusing with Hashem, puppet show-ing, Mitzva-izing reality, unificationizing, Divine emulations, knowing Hashem, Praying Space level
WISDOM RECOLLECTIONS
connect to truth
correct seeing
my take on Torah
life wisdoming
INTERPERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
marriage, parenting, kindred soul-ing, people in general, charity/giving
3. RIGHT AND WRONG
Unlike the outlook of many people and communities today, the Torah teaches in the most thorough and intricate fashion, that there is a right and wrong in everything that we do.
Part of the realm of rightness and wrongness, is the subjective side - what is right and wrong for ME or for YOU - or what is right or wrong for becoming the best you that you can become. But there is a whole framework for knowing what is objectively right and wrong
We live in a time where many people are not exposed to, or are not quite ready to be exposed to or commit to the massive body of wisdom containing the rights and wrongs of traditional , observant , Halachic Judaism. Nevertheless, the Tshuvah dynamic demands of us to at least strive to become better, higher, purer and Holier than what we are presently, all within the context of the Torah's version of right and wrong.
What is one who is only partially on board with all of this supposed to do?
For one, they can check their readiness to accept upon themselves new Halachahs and /or Mitzvahs, as well as strengthening those areas in which they are already holding. The challenge is to “do Tshuvah,” an inner commitment to be real, from a vantage point of where you are at now and where you eventually want to be.
Unblocking flow - in the body, in the soul, in making a living, in inter-personalizing
Transcending - light into darkness, life breakthroughs, spiritual-warrioring
Experience the positive feelings you get from the gifts that Hashem gave you in the area of healing.
How can you increase the intensity or improve upon your healing abilities?
Are there any new healing ideas being born to you?
How do you see, from the healing experiences of your past, Hashem guiding you to become the ultimate healer that you can be?
SELF-ACTUALIZING RECOLLECTIONS
Do the steps listed above trigger your recall of self-actualizing you have done during the last year?
Here are some variations of self-awareness/actualizations, totally self-expressed -
a. total self-awakeness
b. total self-expression
c. psychically aligned
d. happy
e. express my own unique way in the world
f. my Jewishness
g. above Nature Living
h. living the life I love with Ratzon
i clarity about where I'm at (cheshbon-ing)
SPIRITUAL SELF RECOLLECTIONS
Soul expression, soul answers, expansion/infinitized, co-creation, Tzaddik-ing, Daas-ing, bridging, Baal Tshuvah-ing, Chasidic mastery
G-D CONNECTION RECOLLECTIONS
Letting Hashem in, fusing with Hashem, puppet show-ing, Mitzva-izing reality, unificationizing, Divine emulations, knowing Hashem, Praying Space level
WISDOM RECOLLECTIONS
connect to truth
correct seeing
my take on Torah
life wisdoming
INTERPERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
marriage, parenting, kindred soul-ing, people in general, charity/giving
3. RIGHT AND WRONG
Unlike the outlook of many people and communities today, the Torah teaches in the most thorough and intricate fashion, that there is a right and wrong in everything that we do.
Part of the realm of rightness and wrongness, is the subjective side - what is right and wrong for ME or for YOU - or what is right or wrong for becoming the best you that you can become. But there is a whole framework for knowing what is objectively right and wrong
We live in a time where many people are not exposed to, or are not quite ready to be exposed to or commit to the massive body of wisdom containing the rights and wrongs of traditional , observant , Halachic Judaism. Nevertheless, the Tshuvah dynamic demands of us to at least strive to become better, higher, purer and Holier than what we are presently, all within the context of the Torah's version of right and wrong.
What is one who is only partially on board with all of this supposed to do?
For one, they can check their readiness to accept upon themselves new Halachahs and /or Mitzvahs, as well as strengthening those areas in which they are already holding. The challenge is to “do Tshuvah,” an inner commitment to be real, from a vantage point of where you are at now and where you eventually want to be.
A RIGHT AND WRONG MEDITATION
Try to recall, both in a general way, as well as in a detailed way, how well you have clung to doing what is right in life.
If possible, make a list of the areas where you came up short. One way to help you remember is to refer to a Yom Kippur or weekday Prayer Book, to the list of confessed sins inside. See how you measure up.
Part of this recollection process is to search out
where you have not been right or ok towards yourself, in regards to
becoming the best ''you'' that you could've become. Search out also, those
areas of Judaism that you have already accepted upon yourself, and how well you
have done in these areas throughout the year, like prayer or charity or belief
in Hashem. Seek out new areas of the Torah's rights and wrongs that you feel
that you are ready now to commit to.
Take note of all that you have collected above, and with a full and contrite heart, commit to right the wrongs and commit to strengthen the “rights” that you already are holding.
4. MAXIMIZING THE ATMOSPHERE FOR TSHUVAH MEDITATIONS
Create for yourself the best possible atmosphere, one that will enable you to remain in a state of constant Tshuvah and connected to your true self and to Hashem;
a. Surround yourself with newness.
Search out any old habits or places or times or personal identity molds, etc., that confine you or condemn you to repeat the same mistakes, that cause you to repeatedly fall into those same old self-defeating traps. Exchange them for new ones, even slightly different ones, if you can, and notice how a change of “background music”, can change your fate, as well as the way you think and feel.
b. Draw down upon yourself, as much as possible, a state of expanded consciousness.
Seek out new ways to cope with problems and challenges, new ways that keep you safe and healthy and flowing and growing no matter how difficult the problem is.
Seek out, constantly, new expansive outlooks and perspectives and beliefs that can keep you connected to your true self, and to the truth in general.
Seek to strengthen personality traits that work well for you and your process, and look to improve those traits that work well for you.
Seek out ways to awaken and express more and more of the totality of your being.
Seek to go beyond yourself and your present capacities, to discover a bigger and better you.
Seek to maximize your connection to Hashem.
c. Surround yourself with an environment that is very conducive to being in an expanded mind state.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages mutual love and compassion and caring.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages the pursuit of wisdom, especially spiritual and Divine Wisdom as taught in the Torah.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages you to cling to the Creator of the Universe in all possible ways.
5. MASTER OF RETURN TSHUVAH MEDITATIONS
Become a Master of Return
Take note of all that you have collected above, and with a full and contrite heart, commit to right the wrongs and commit to strengthen the “rights” that you already are holding.
4. MAXIMIZING THE ATMOSPHERE FOR TSHUVAH MEDITATIONS
Create for yourself the best possible atmosphere, one that will enable you to remain in a state of constant Tshuvah and connected to your true self and to Hashem;
a. Surround yourself with newness.
Search out any old habits or places or times or personal identity molds, etc., that confine you or condemn you to repeat the same mistakes, that cause you to repeatedly fall into those same old self-defeating traps. Exchange them for new ones, even slightly different ones, if you can, and notice how a change of “background music”, can change your fate, as well as the way you think and feel.
b. Draw down upon yourself, as much as possible, a state of expanded consciousness.
Seek out new ways to cope with problems and challenges, new ways that keep you safe and healthy and flowing and growing no matter how difficult the problem is.
Seek out, constantly, new expansive outlooks and perspectives and beliefs that can keep you connected to your true self, and to the truth in general.
Seek to strengthen personality traits that work well for you and your process, and look to improve those traits that work well for you.
Seek out ways to awaken and express more and more of the totality of your being.
Seek to go beyond yourself and your present capacities, to discover a bigger and better you.
Seek to maximize your connection to Hashem.
c. Surround yourself with an environment that is very conducive to being in an expanded mind state.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages mutual love and compassion and caring.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages the pursuit of wisdom, especially spiritual and Divine Wisdom as taught in the Torah.
Seek to immerse yourself in a setting that encourages you to cling to the Creator of the Universe in all possible ways.
5. MASTER OF RETURN TSHUVAH MEDITATIONS
Become a Master of Return
Return to a constant awareness of your deepest and most
authentic self, and to an awareness of your purpose of being on this
earth, as well as an awareness of Hashem inside you and all
around you
a. Know yourself as best as you are able.
Look into your past year and recall as much as you can - who you have become, what you have accomplished and any other valuable information that you can gather.
Create an annual awards ceremony like the Oscars for yourself. Include such categories as “your greatest creative achievements”, as well as your greatest interpersonal, intellectual, and coping achievements, etc., from these recollections and self-discoveries, allow the new you to emerge or to be born or to be projected or to be yearned for. Discover in this “new you” your essential self. Experience how this “new you” feels like it has come back home.
b. Master the art of turning away from falseness and inauthenticity, from within you and from without you.
Seek out the company of people who are authentic, truthful and who mean what they say and say what they mean. If you must be around people who are not like this, try to bring out in them their good, authentic and truthful sides, the best that you can.
Seek out in yourself the greatest possible levels of truth and authenticity, don't settle for anything less. There are always deeper and truer levels to achieve.
c. Know that by transforming your past failings into springboards for growth and healing and all kinds of other goodness, you can reach levels that are higher than that of the greatest Tzadik, and your act of Tshuvah can impact in the greatest possible ways, your surroundings, as well as the entire world and the entire generation!
Search in your past, for the inner motivations you had in those areas that you failed in, or missed the mark or caused damage to yourself or to others. Go back and change those motivations, with regard to what you did then, as well as to similar challenges that you face now.
a. Know yourself as best as you are able.
Look into your past year and recall as much as you can - who you have become, what you have accomplished and any other valuable information that you can gather.
Create an annual awards ceremony like the Oscars for yourself. Include such categories as “your greatest creative achievements”, as well as your greatest interpersonal, intellectual, and coping achievements, etc., from these recollections and self-discoveries, allow the new you to emerge or to be born or to be projected or to be yearned for. Discover in this “new you” your essential self. Experience how this “new you” feels like it has come back home.
b. Master the art of turning away from falseness and inauthenticity, from within you and from without you.
Seek out the company of people who are authentic, truthful and who mean what they say and say what they mean. If you must be around people who are not like this, try to bring out in them their good, authentic and truthful sides, the best that you can.
Seek out in yourself the greatest possible levels of truth and authenticity, don't settle for anything less. There are always deeper and truer levels to achieve.
c. Know that by transforming your past failings into springboards for growth and healing and all kinds of other goodness, you can reach levels that are higher than that of the greatest Tzadik, and your act of Tshuvah can impact in the greatest possible ways, your surroundings, as well as the entire world and the entire generation!
Search in your past, for the inner motivations you had in those areas that you failed in, or missed the mark or caused damage to yourself or to others. Go back and change those motivations, with regard to what you did then, as well as to similar challenges that you face now.
See how this new elevated and pure motivation represents a '”new
you” and see how you can lift yourself and the outcome of your choices up
to a new pristine level of being, a level of being that if it is
pure enough, can impact your present, your past, and that of the entire world. Carry
on in this way, in regard to as many life choices as you can.
May we all become true Baalei Tshuvah - Masters of Tshuvah.
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