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Weekly Kabbalah Tune: Get a grip

From 15 to 21 May 2011

New students often ask me to explain the Kabbalah in a sentence. I say I do not need a whole sentence, just one word: Control.

What I mean by control? Certainly I do not mean manipulating people or situations to satisfy our selfish desires. I mean the ability to never be a "victim" and always know how to turn a bad situation good for you and for everyone involved.

In Kabbalistic terminology, control is to see the light in every situation.

And that's where most people failed. When someone in our Life is full of poison unpredictable, when our emotional triggers are being fired, when it seems that there is nothing good that can come out of a situation, we feel helpless and that is when we give up our power. Our challenge is to have the strength and character to always see the light, even in the darkest situations. We can discover

Light to ask two questions:

1. Why is this happening to me me?
2. What is the wider perception here?

Become the first question helps us focus on what the situation came to teach and how we can use to transform our chaos. Means making a change in our response of "how I can get rid of it?" To "do it!." Difficult situations are simply light contained within "klipot" (shells of negativity.) Avoid the situation is essentially reject gifts the Creator. Think about it ...

Becoming the second question, "What is the wider perception here?" moves the focus from us and put it in another way-a-share. Instead of focusing on how the situation is hurting us, best to ask what need is being filled in the other person and how we can help, if possible.

The beauty of this two-step process is that when we look at least a clear answer, the situation begins to resolve itself. This is because when we see the light acting on the situation, we stopped our victim mode and we have entered as control.

This week practice this procedure in any difficult situation you face. No matter how painful it is to look inside you, no matter how hard it is to confront the issues, now is the time to take back the control that is your destiny. It's as simple as cash. Ten one week phenomenal.


All the best, Yehuda