Kabbalah for inner peace : imagery and insights to guide you through your day

kabbalah For Inner Peace Offers A Contemporary Approach To The 4,000 Year-old Spiritual Tradition Called Visionary Kabbalah. This Practice Weaves The Wisdom Of Kabbalah With Short Mental Imagery Exercises. Through This Path, We Discover New Perspectives, Create Change, And Open Ourselves To Spirit. With More Than 60 Exercises, The Book Takes Us Though A Typical Day And Addresses The Challenges That We Frequently Face, From Centering Ourselves In The Morning To Alleviating Insomnia At Night. In Between, Dr. Gerald Epstein Teaches Us To Conquer The Inner Terrorist Of Anxiety And Self-doubt, Master Our Financial Worries, Cope With Physical Pain, And Deal With Past Trauma. myjewishbooks.com we Rarely Post Kabbalah Books Here, Which Has Become An Unseemly Industry, But This Book Is Different...dr. Epstein Discusses Why Goals Should Be Abandoned And Replace With Aims And Intentions. Rather Than Being In Love With The Future And The Past, He Teaches How To Refocus Our Love On The Present. Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day (2008) Praise for KABBALAH FOR INNER PEACE Also by Gerald Epstein, M.D. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Table of Contents Introduction: PRACTICING MENTAL IMAGERY IS PRACTICING KABBALAH The Relationship Between Spirit and the EverydayWorld Why do I say that image is the sacred language of the Divine? Remembering Ourselves Into Wholeness A Personal Note Imagery As Prayer The Four Planes of Existence: Vertical Causality This book's direction 01: LEARNING THE PRACTICE OF MENTAL IMAGERY: THE TREATMENT THAT OFTEN TAKES ONLY SECONDS The Room of Creativity How to Start How to Breathe How to Begin Imagery How to Do an Imagery Excercise The Ice Cubes Exercise Self-Restoration How You Know Your Imagery Has Had an Effect 02: THE KABBALAH OF MENTAL IMAGERY: WORKING WITHOUT A GOAL The Marriage Tree A Zen Exercise of Mental Imagery for Experiencing Process, Not Product The Zen Master Exercise 03: EXERCISES FOR BRINGING FRESHNESS TO THE DAY The Question Mark Exercise The Centering Exercise How to Use These Exercises 04: ABOUT BALANCE AND PATIENCE The Job Exercises 05: MALADIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE: ANXIETY AND PAIN How to Confront Anxiety The Room of Silence Exercise The Desert Storm Exercise The American Indian Exercise (originated by Native American tribes) The Elevator Exercise The Net of Anxiety Exercise How to Confront Pain The Prisoner of Pain Exercise The Sander Exercise The Crystal Exercise The Red Circle Exercise 06: MONEY WORRIES, MONEY TRAPS The Sweet Fruit Exercise The Stream of Money Exercise The Hot Air Balloon Exercise (created by Dr. Lydia Craigmyle) The Beggar Exercise 07: WHEN WE LOSE OUR FOOTING: SELF-DOUBT, INDECISIVENESS, DISQUIETING FEELINGS How To Confront Self-Doubt The Serpent's Curse Exercise How To Confront Indecisiveness The Mummy's Wrappings Excercise How to Confront Disquieting Feelings Wiping the Mirror Clean Exercise 08: SURVEYING OUR BODY'S HEALTH How to Monitor Your Health The Lake of Health The Field of Health 09: DEALING WITH PHYSICAL AILMENTS: INFLAMMATION AND MUSCLE SPASMS How to Create Mental Imagery for Physical Ailments The Fireman's Hose Exercise The Muscle Expansion Exercise 10: IDENTIFYING AN AILMENT'S SOURCE Identifying the Source The Woman with a Leg Cramp 11: COMBATTING INNER TERRORISTS: THE KABBALAH OF ACTION How We Create Our Inner Terrorists An Inner Terrorist At Work What the Inner Terrorists Want How To Recognize Inner Terrorists How to Confront the Inner Terrorists The Flushing Exercise (devised by Dr. Peter Reznik) The Key to the Prison Door Exercise 12: HEALING THE PAST How to Heal the Past The Correcting the Memories Exercise The Burying the Past Exercise Retracing the Past Exercise 13: SLEEP TIGHT: IMAGERY EXERCISES TO BRING SLEEP Closing the Door on the Day Flowers in the River (devised by Sheryl Rosenberg) Interrupted Sleep Children and the Dark The Sandman Exercise 14: AWAKENING TO SPIRIT Bringing Life to Life Turning from Our Errors Exercise The Ten Commandments Exercise (from the Old Testament) The Rising with the Sun Exercise Joining the Divine Exercise 15: FINDING SPIRITUAL FREEDOM The Exercises Three Freedom Exercises 16: LETTING IN THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE The State of Being Dependent The State of Being Unconditioned The Space of Freedom APPENDIX: NOTES ON HOW-TO CREATE YOUR OWN IMAGERY The Pictures in Words Using Imagery to Defuse Distressing Feelings Moving Image, Changing Image Re-Applying Our Imagery Troubleshooting The Other Senses Lighting the Darkness The Perfect Rightness of Imagery Index of Imagery Exercises About the Author This book could easily be retitled:Eeverything you wanted to know about Non-Deterministic Psychology but were afraid to ask. As Dr. Gerald Epstein, the editor of this collection of cross cultural articles on this topic writes: In the course of my odyssey exploring new directions in psychology, I have been privileged to meet many fine scientists, philosophers and seekers who shared their visions on a new psychology. Their views of reality were not rooted in the cause and effect - logical, analytic and mechanistic - thinking of the natural scientific model that were the underpinnings of Freudian and dynamic psychology. Instead, they were steeped in the emerging field of the new physics (Kurt Godel), holography, discoveries of left-right cerebral functioning, and oriental meditative practices: All these paradigms shared a non-deterministic, acausal view point of how the universe – from atom to Adam - function in an open system. Here life is not pre-determined by what has happened in the past (linear causality). Rather it is “an undivided flowing movement without borders”; A holographic universe of constant change on a physical (time-space) plane and of revelation on a sacred/spiritual plane. This collection of essays is the fruit of my encounters with remarkable visionaries and clinicians. David Bohm, Ken Wilbur, Ken Phillips, David Shainberg, Swami Dayananda and others present their views of a non-deterministic, acausal psychology in relationship to mental imagery/imagination, healing, Vedanta, Buddhism, I-Ching, myth, dreaming, and clinical applications and research. Based on Visionary Kabbalah, this book offers over 60 mental imagery and visualization exercises to meet the challenges of daily life and bring balance to ourselves. Anyone can perform these at any point during the day to create lasting positive change, to heal, and to evolve toward a more spiritual existence. Encompassing a 24-hour day, this book begins with imagery exercises to bring freshness to our day, and ends with exercises to fall asleep more peacefully. In between, Dr. Epstein teaches us how to conquer the “inner terrorists” of anxiety and fear; to deal with physical ailments and pain, handle money troubles, and connect with spirit. While this book touches on Kabbalah its main focus is on using mental imagery (sometimes referred to as visualizations or guided imagery) for the life's daily challenges. Dr. Epstein's previous work, Healing Visualizations, dealt in depth with imagery exercises for physical and emotional ailments . Here, in addition to providing imagery for pain and inflammation, he teaches the reader how to approach life in a balanced manner - the first step in our becoming free beings. Offers a contemporary approach to the 4,000 year-old spiritual tradition called Visionary Kabbalah. This practice weaves the wisdom of Kabbalah with short mental imagery exercises. Through this path, one may discover new perspectives, create change, and open one' self to Spirit. With more than 60 exercises, the book takes you though a typical day and addresses the challenges that we frequently face, from centering ourselves in the morning to alleviating insomnia at night. In between, Dr. Gerald Epstein teaches us to conquer the inner terrorist of anxiety and self-doubt, master our financial worries, cope with physical pain, and deal with past trauma