BS”D
THE PRAYER SPACE
PREPARATION - part 2
By
Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Schwartz
Greetings
friends...Top of the week to you... it seems like we just
met-eh?....my, how time flies when you're having a good time
....anyway, enough of this chit chat, we've got work to do...If
you'll
recall what we spoke about last week [i hope you do--at least some
of
you...]----- we spoke about getting into the proper head-space
prior to
beginning your prayer service...Before we move on to a
new realm in the
world of Prayer and G-d Consciousness, let's come to some
type of
closure on what we began discussing, namely-- ' preparation for
Prayer
Space'
1. FLOW [BLOCK
BUSTING] PREPARATION PRACTICES----[In addition to the practices
we
elaborated on last week, these practices also fall in this
category]------pray to overcome obstacles, pray and declare your
nullification of all foreign thoughts and other disturbances...
A
PRAYER FOR
BUSTING THROUGH THE MIND OBSTACLES IN THE UPCOMING RAYER
SERVICE------may it be your Will that my prayer be conveyed to You with
a clear mind....a prayer that truly expresses my deepest yearning and
desires.....May it be your Will that any distracting thoughts and
feelings that are not an integral part of the prayer
service----that
are not a part of the Holy sparks that I am meant to be elevating
in
the prayer itself, should be null and void, as if they don't
even
exist----so that I may be completely focused and concentrated on
you
in my prayers...
2. TOTAL SELF
EXPRESSION PREPARATION PRACTICES-----------------[ Here's some
practices that are included in this realm ]---------proper place,
proper time, candles, special clothes and ritual clothing [Tallis and
Tefilin..etc...], pipe smoking meditations, the 'Merkava Meditation',
heart opening meditations,visualizing yourself in the Land of Israel or
in the Garden of Eden or singing and dancing
A.
A
PERMANENT PLACE--------Try to find [without any negative confrontation
with people] a permanent place to pray-----The very fact that this
place is set aside for prayer on a consistent basis, will invest the
'place' with Holiness
B. AN
AUSPICIOUS TIME--------Try to pray at the most auspicious time----
Sunrise for the service in the morning and sunset for the
service for Mincha /afternonn and Maariv/Evening [before and
after
sunset respectively]
C. OPENING UP
THE PSYCHE---------
C1. THE
MERKAVA MEDITATION--------This Meditation opens up our receptivity for
the Divine fusion inside of us......Focus , one at a time , on as
many
personality traits or powers and then fuse with them, the corresponding
Divine Trait---for example--Start with your will [and then fuse that
with G-ds Will], and go on to your intellect and to your emotion and to
your speech and action and to specific traits as well, such as giving,
enabling, closing....etc...
C2.OPEN YOUR
HEART----------Go through all the areas of your life where you
feel
stuck or helpless. With deep emotional passion, ask
Hashem to help you
out [where you cannot help yourself]......................Another
way of opening up your heart, is to sing and dance and generally
celebrate all of the wonderful and miraculous acts of providential
kindness that G-d has and is doing with you all the time
3.
INTERPERSONAL CONNECTION PREPARATION PRACTICES-------------[ Here's
some practices that are included in this realm ]---------charity,
loving one's fellow person as they love themselves, forgiving one and
all, connecting with the mystical dimension called'All of Yisrael',
connecting yourself with 'Tzadikim',
PEOPLE
CONNECTIONS---------------Give a certain amount of charity or commit to
give it, in order to connect yourself to those in need.
Then, connect
yourself to KOL YISRAEL [All of Yisrael] and realize that when we can't
break through on our own, we can join our prayers with the mystical
dimension called KOL YISRAEL, and we CAN break
through! Next Focus
on loving your brothers and sisters [in the
soul sense] as
you do yourself.....Next forgive all those who need your forgivness in
your heart....Next connect yourself spiritually with all the righteous
people alive today and those who are not....
3.
G-D FUSION PREPARATION PRACTICES------[Here's some practices that
are included in this realm] --------Divine breathing meditations,
spontaneous -longing to connect -prayers, Emulation meditations,
Wordless or One word mantras directed to Hashem [such as
'Tatee!'---Daddy!], spiritualize the entire environment as being all
G-dly-visualizations, pray to pray and meditate about G-d's
greatness
and your smallness.....
G-D FUSION
PRAYER TO PRAY PROPERLY--------------Take a few deep
breaths......Every time you inhale, focus on Hashem's love for you, and
every time you exhale focus on your love for Hashem....Now begin to
pray [say a prayer to be able to pray in your own words, or here's one
if you like];
Dear G-d,
I yearn for
You with all my heart at all times.....
I ask for your
help to enable me to express myself properly to you in my daily prayer
service........
Let it be Your
will Hashem, that my prayer be acceptable before you......
Allow me to
truly express my love and appreciation to you.....
Allow me to
express myself from the place of my true will....Allow me to truly
connect with and pray for what I lack and need to
rectify.......Enable
me to truly intend that all that I pray for be for Your
sake---for the
sake of giving you the Delight of removing the source of my
lackings
in their corresponding source in the upper Divine realms.
******before
we go onwards into the 'spiritual-space' of prayer itself as well as
many other expressions of our 'Bridges/Masters Program', I'd like
to
just reiterate that accessing the proper mind space is
of benefit in
all situations......Basically , it's the same as getting in to a state
of expanded consciousness....Here is a list of some of the tools [that
I have drawn from my 'booklets' ] that you can use to get into the
'SPACE';
TOOLS AND
MEDITATIONS FOR BEING IN THE PROPER 'SPACE' OR HOW TO LIFT YOURSELF
INTO EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS [from my 3
booklets---'Parsha Tools' and 'Paradising Your Life' and 'Jewish
Transcendence Meditations']
from the 'Jewish
Transcendence Meditations' booklet
S----- S EPARATE-ING ONESELF [FROM OBSTACLES]
flow meds, life-ing meds, spiritual warrior meds, first aid
for the broken hearted meds, Kabbalistic Healing
P -----P
RESCENCE-ING
p.l.u.g.
i. n. meds, lower soul meds,
A------A
LL-ING
rosh
hashonah meds, kabbalistic sexuality meds, soul awakening meds, A. of
f.a.b. meds, sefirotic allignment therapy meds
C-------C
ONNECT-ING TO PEOPLE
people-ing
meds, marriage-ing meds
E-------E
LEVATE-ING
letting
Hashem in meds, transcendence meds, beyond meds, conscious community
meds, shabbat dvaikut meds, Divine unification meds, surpise and
delight me meds, a kotel med
from'The Paradising My Life'
booklet
S----- S EPARATE-ING ONESELF [FROM
OBSTACLES]
co-creating
P -----P
RESCENCE-ING
infinitizing
my life
A------A
LL-ING
18 features
of a Tzadik, 32 Torah approaches, ratzoning
C-------C
ONNECT-ING TO PEOPLE
soul
familying, bridge person, paradise-ing relationships
E-------E
LEVATE-ING
hearing
your inner Divine voice
from the 'PARSHA TOOLS' booklet
S----- S
EPARATE-ING ONESELF [FROM OBSTACLES]
constricted
consciousness [yaakov] cope, exodus from exile, impossible cope, primal
scream, darkess bust, helpless dvaikus , light into the darkness, me
against the world ordeals, coping with deception
P -----P
RESCENCE-ING
soul
resonating, seeing our future presume, Holy eating, correct seeing,
opening our hearts, maximizing the Mitzvah, preemptive initiating, Yom
Kippur Tshuvah point, Joy[ Sukkot], channelling wealth
A------A
LL-ING
Holy
selfishness, my Torah take, inventory-ing
C-------C
ONNECT-ING TO PEOPLE
grooving
on giving, seeing negative people positively, all encompassing
communication, the everyone in me, Holy interpersonalizing,
matchmaking, parenting, enabling
E-------E
LEVATE-ING
Bar-Mitzvah-ing,
my personal Divine Coach, above nature-ing
stay
tuned friends for much more with help from THE ONE ABOVE 24\7,
cuz all
of it [and yours truly as well] is A WORK IN PROGRESS
and happy birthday [every day] to all those who are busy
being born!
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