PARADISING
MY LIFE - HEARING OUR INNER VOICE
Happy birthday to
me today! I have a very special birthday wish.
I want to be
born! I want to
give birth to a life that I love living all the
time - I want to be
constantly
paradising my life! I want to live it [paradise], and
of course part of
living it, is to
share it with others [that's where you come
in]. Even though it's a
birthday wish,
it's not a new wish. I've been working on it for
years. It's so easy
to get
sidetracked. There are so many 'second best' things to do
that come up,
and before you can
blink an eye, you're stuck doing something
good, but not
something you
really want to do. That's the nature of 'Ratzon'
[primal will or
simply really,
really doing what you want in life]. It's the
most elusive thing in
the world. I
suppose it's that way because good things don't
come easy and
Ratzon-ing is so
crucial to us - - if we're really living
in Ratzon, we're really
doing what we came
into this world to do!
Anyway, what I
originally and ultimately had in mind for myself
and any of
you who wanted to
join in, for this summer's weekly email
presentation, was to
try to achieve
some type of level of paradising our lives. We
are trying to
connect to this
through 3-week topics, excursions or
explorations into various
aspects of
'Paradising consciousness'. Our present exploration
is a holistic look
at the inner
Divine Voices that are potentially available to us
with a bit of
spiritual
investment. In order to not fall prey to losing our
original elusive
Ratzon of
Paradising our lives and at the same time, not lose
track of the
'Voices', I
propose the following;
1. Let's reframe
the inner voices [some of those that we have
collected last week
and perhaps will
continue to collect, along with other ones that
are more
directly
applicable] into a framework of Paradising our lives.
2. The paradising
framework that I have in mind is a formula
that I have come
up with over the
years, and is expanding all the time - -I call
it P.L.U.G. I.
N. appropriately
enough. [see below for an elaboration of what
PLUG IN is and
how to begin
applying it]
3. The main goal
involved in hearing our inner voices, is to be
able to RECEIVE
from the deepest
parts of ourselves, the inner Divine guidance
needed to live
the lives we truly
want to live. If we can't hear what Hashem
wants from
us, which is
ultimately what we want for ourselves, then how can
we live in
Ratzon or
paradise?!
4. Therefore, I'll
present to you the basics of the PLUG IN
formula, and get you
started with a few
of the inner Divine Voices
needed to start
the PLUG IN process... and it's up to you and I
to take it from
there, and open up
ourselves to more voices and maximally PLUG
IN [... I
won't recopy the
'voices' list that I brought last week because
it's too lengthy,
but I would
suggest referring to the list as an added resource
to open up each of
the PLUG IN
categories]. I am as usual also adding last years
Parsha Tools
essay at the end...
HEAR
AND P.L.UG.
I.N.
YOUR INNER VOICE
Learn to maximally
open up the ability to hear your inner
'voice' speaking to
you from all parts
of your psyche, as it addresses itself to
your ability to
P.L.U.G. I.N. to
living a life that you love. Here's a taste of
what we'll be
exploring;
P=PRESCENCE - - -
- - Be
'present' with all that is going on right now, all
that is
immediately in front of you, all that is deep inside of
you and what
is all around you.
The type of inner
voices that can help you to be in a state of Presence,
are first of
all, the voices
brought above, focusing you on all that's going
on inside and outside of
yourself right
now....in addition, try to hear the voices inside
of you informing you of
other people's
effect on you as well as the inner part of
yourself that corresponds to
other
people.........try to hear the strength of your presence-ing
- - -when is
it stronger and
weaker, and how it grows and matures with
time...
L=LOWER SOUL - - -
- - Integrate into your
conscious life your lower self in
a healthy way.
[i.e. .... we are
definitely not referring to the part inside of
ourselves
who's very purpose
in life is to destroy us, sabotage us, throw
us
off... etc…
sometimes referred to as the evil inclination or 'Yeitzer
Hara']. If this
lower self or
inner child is left out, squashed, blinded...etc.
..., then any and all
attempts to be
great and high and paradised will fail due to a
constant inner
struggle, not to
mention the fact that if we successfully
integrate the lower self,
then we empower a
huge amount of energy into all the rest of our
psyche....
The inner voices
to focus on here are all those objecting voices
that are holding us back
from doing what we
think we should be doing....On the positive
side of the picture, we should
be listening to
all of the voices that are calling us to be open
and wild and adventurous and
fun-loving...etc.
...when all of these ways of being would
benefit us...
U=UNIFY - - -
- - -
connect together all the disparate components of your
life into one
powerful unified unit.
The types of inner
voices that can help you out here, are the
voices constantly
urging you to be
one-dimensional, yet not to leave anything
out...also hear the voice
informing you of
your interconnectedness with all that exists [referred
to also as
microcosmic power]
and how all that you do affects always some
corresponding aspect in
the
universe....hear your core motivation as often as possible
which will naturally
unify all the
other motivations that you have under it's
umbrella....hear the
voice informing
you in any given situation, what is the
unifying, essential
factor involved...
G=GROOVING - - -
- - - - take pleasure in all
aspects of life, people
and Hashem, who's
making it all possible
The voices to
awaken are the voices of natural delight that you
feel as well as the
isolated delight
that you can feel in a less than delightful
situation....for example dig deep to
hear the most
redeeming and pleasure point in difficult people
and hard situations ....also
hear the voices of
delight of the past 24 hours and week and
month and year, that are often
subconscious and
need to
be recalled with a
bit of concerted effort....
I=INFINITIZING - - -
- - - - open up, expand,
liberate and eternalize all
constricted,
finite, enslaved and temporal aspects of your life
The voices to
listen for are all tose that direct you to expand
and maximize your
capacities and
that call for you to say yes to what you normally
say no to...similarly hear the
voices that propel
you to achieve the miraculous and the
impossible, not neccessarily with your
own ability, but
rather on the strength of the ONE ABOVE...
N=NITZUL [TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF ALL YOUR RESOURCES] - -
- - - -
-
Salvage and take
advantage of all of the resources and abundance available
to you from the
past, in the present or potentially in the
future.
Hear the voices
calling on you to not lose a drop...hear the
voices calling
on you to remember
all that you can about a given
subject....hear the voice urging
you to trust in
yourself and your ability to draw down tremendous
abundance, just as
you have in the
past....hear the voice calling in you to take
great pleasure and feel
great gratitude
for all the abundance that already exists inside
of you.....