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Getting to know your soul doesn’t mean that you will turn saintly overnight and never experience further breakdowns. The advantage to getting to know your true inner self though, is that you have befriended your cheerleader who will lovingly boost you back in place.
Our greatest difficulty when we incur a meltdown is rising back up. There is such a strong negative force holding us down creating a sense of unworthiness and confusion, that we need a strong column to lift us back up. This pillar is our loving, kind essence that resides within; the spark of G-dliness, our soul.
While the body wants, takes and demands, the soul is humble, altruistic and appreciative. Many times we are blindly led by the body’s set of priorities resulting in pain and disappointment. The majority of the world does not even realize the power of bodily existence. Yet there is another way to live.
The body does not want us to recognize any other existence but it, since this robs it of attention. Thus the entire conflict of body and soul is in their attempt to gain recognition and value of their own agenda. Ultimately pain and suffering will originate from one of these sides when each gains momentum over the other.
The difference though is that the soul holds infinite wisdom and with training can spot the body’s negative attributes and elevate them to become more G-dly. The key is in catching and interpreting where our thoughts and reactions come from. When we recognize that it is a reaction of the body, we must counteract its response before it creeps in and takes over.
One such negative attribute is the all-encompassing feeling of worthlessness after we stumble. However, when we recognize where it is coming from, we can respond accordingly and not allow it to overwhelm us.
Today’s Daily Dose of Emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Chaya Sorah bat Chana Devorah, a 39 year old mother who just recently had a heart attack. May she merit a complete healing b’riut hanefesh v’b’riut haguf amongst all those in Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen!
