Friday, September 25, 2009

Natural Healing

Our Sages, z’l, teach that the world is a large human body (and likewise, the human body is a small world), from this we see that we are all part of one incredibly intricate pulsing, breathing organism. Individually we all perform our own functions, the fingers touch and interact with the outside world, while the liver purifies, the nerves communicate. But together, we all serve one end, to maintain the life and health of the overall body.

The realization is: We each have a vital and irreplaceable role in the perfection of this world. And even more so, we should realize that every person we encounter does too. It is taught that we should treat every one has if they are potentially the Massiah. On an even higher level of understanding: when we all do our parts accordingly, we collectively bring about this realized state of full body health, or ‘messianic times’.

Really internalizing the interconnectedness of everyone allows us to understand what it means to ask for forgiveness. In Hebrew, the word for forgiveness is ‘michila’ which translates into ‘circle’. Since we are all one being, one interconnected world, everything should ideally be existing in a state of harmony. When we hurt somebody, either intentionally or accidentally or somebody hurts us, booboos and riffs are made in the circle. In order to repair the fractures, we must repair the relationships with each other so the blood can flow and we can return to the perfect circle.

Medically, in a real human body, a broken bone heals and is stronger than it was in the first place. Likewise with repairing relationships. When we ask for forgiveness, forgive others, and forgive ourselves, we strengthen the circle, reaffirming that we were once conncected and that we came apart temporarily. It's only when we are part of the bigger picture, that we can clearly recognize and perform our vital role in the body.

We should have a quick and complete healing in body and soul, Refuah Shelamah!!

And on that note, I would like to ask everyone for forgiveness, to mochel me, and that I completely forgive you. And may G-d bless you that this year you have life, blessings, peace, happiness, health, tranquility, completion, prosperity, deliverance, consolation, and favorable decrees from the Heavens, that you are remembered and inscribed in the Book of Life, and that you find your space in the circle and that together we bring the divine energy into this physical world in a revealed way so we can point our finger at it and say “there it is”

1 comment:

SK said...

wow- the machol/mechila connection is so cool! i've got to meditate on that a bit...what an insight!
thank you thank you thank you!
BE BLESSED WITH ALL BLESSINGS!