| Kabbalah Meditations & Resources From the Kabbalah Centre's book 72 Names of God by Yehuda Berg |
| Weekly Meditations (from Kabbalah Centre's Conciousness Tune-Ups) June 6th � June 12th, 2004 Beyond Anger |
| As a teacher of Kabbalah for the last 15 years, I have helped thousands of people overcome addictions of every kind. What I have learned is that one of the most dangerous of them all is one that you wouldn�t normally categorize as an addiction. It is anger. Yes, anger. An addiction means allowing yourself to be controlled by something outside of yourself, be it drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, you name it. The sages teach us that when you become angry and enraged, you are disconnecting from the Lightforce and permitting a negative spirit to enter you. Every time you give into this force you are behaving like an addict. When you are spiritually disconnected from the Lightforce in this manner, you allow the negative force to feed you a shot of intense energy not unlike a high from a drug. Have you ever been exhausted and ready for sleep when suddenly something makes you really angry? Are you able to go to sleep right away? No. What happens is you draw such a huge amount of energy, and in that moment you have the power to do anything. Let�s face it, it feels good to throw a tantrum, to verbally rip into someone, to break some dishes. But this is immediate gratification. Kabbalah teaches you to get more out of life than temporary satisfaction. Knowing this intellectually, however, is not enough to stop the force of negativity from entering your consciousness. As anger is a powerful force, the only way to stop it is to fight it with something far more powerful. Love. Some people recommend releasing your anger, as one would release the valve on a steam pipe. �Let it out�, they say. Good advice. Take a deep breath. Go for a walk. This saves the people around you from your negativity, but what about you? What do you do with that poison sitting in the pit of your stomach, gnawing away at you? After you restrict, you need to ask yourself why this situation is in your movie. It is a spiritual truth that the things that irritate and annoy you in others point you towards what you need to correct in yourself. The final step to dissolving the anger is to inject forgiveness into the situation. When you disconnect from the Light, the bridge back is forgiveness. Forgiveness creates an affinity with the Light, which is all-loving. Only when you create an opening for love to enter the picture will you be able to destroy the anger and the trigger that caused it. I know this isn�t easy. People do some pretty horrible things and you might feel justified in your anger. But you need to remember a basic rule of Kabbalah � cause and effect. The seed of what brought about the situation is never readily visible and by injecting forgiveness into the situation, you are releasing the control the anger has over you. With the anger no longer obscuring your vision, you will be able to discover the true cause of the anger. Kabbalists have been successfully using this technique for thousands of years and it will work for you too. But don�t expect it to work the first time around. Each instance of dealing with anger in a proactive manner will make it easier the next time around. After enough practice, you will be able to break this addiction no matter how tempting it may be. And no matter who the person or situation is, you must remember that you are always capable of controlling the thoughts in your head. Your mind will tell you that this person is beyond redemption, that they are just plain bad. Don�t listen. Even if they are truly bad, your forgiveness will go a lot further in helping them than your hate. Now, one final point. The Zohar, the fundamental text of Kabbalah, mentions the Anger of the Sages, which is described as a positive anger. What the Zohar is teaching us is that there are times when we must take a stand, and our anger is actually passion for defending what is right. Of course, this is a confusing area, because if misunderstood, this could easily be used to justify your hatred, as you see happening in the Middle East. The litmus test for knowing whether your anger is �of the Sages� or from your ego is to ask yourself, � is this anger pushing me to a level to do more things, to reveal more light � or is it causing me to destroy?� And if it is Anger of the Sages, you still must remember that there is no stronger weapon than love. So goes the _expression, �love conquers all.� All the Best, Yehuda Berg of the Kabbalah Centre CLICK HERE for the Name to meditate on. Use the meditation found below: Meditation: I remove the allure and power of the world�s controlling �idols� by invoking the power of this Name. Anger is purged from my heart. My happiness and peace of mind are generated from within. |