Potentials

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Potentials are Being Co-creators with the Divine

Potentials are … seeing the world as the way the Rebbe sees it. The Rebbe says that the world has changed from what it used to be like. In Kabbalistic terms, the purpose of creation was that this very physical and often dark world would be transformed into a place that Hashem (G-d) dwells in and feels at home in. Meaning a place of light, a place of holiness. There were sparks that needed to be elevated and work to be done to create this kind of world that receives the full revelation of G-d’s light. The Rebbe envisioned it as a small child of three and worked his entire life to create it in partnership with Hashem. He entrusted us to do the same. The Rebbe sees in the spiritual realms that all that has needed to be accomplished has been. Our job is to keep increasing in acts of goodness and kindness as he mentioned to the CNN reporter years ago and to ‘open our eyes’ to see the revelation of light in the world. There is no place that I go nowadays where I don’t see this revelation of light. Everywhere – at airports, at stores, in social media, in the news, in airline magazines (Southwest is the best!), and all over, people and companies are encouraging charity, kindness and love. May we continue to do our best to notice and reveal full divine light until completion so that this world is a safe, holy place to be for everyone. May the energy of those who wish to harm be banished or transformed for good. May the world and each one of us only know Peace. May we complete the job that has been entrusted to us as co-creative partners of the Divine.
29th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials
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Potentials are to Distinguish Between Different Types of Emotional Pain

Potentials are … distinguishing the differences between different types of emotional pain. It effects the potential to heal. One is called ‘dirty pain’ and one is called ‘clean pain’ and the distinctions have nothing to do with dust, dirt or cleaning. ‘Clean pain’ requires grieving and feeling the discomfort sadness, anger, disappointment etc. ‘Dirty pain’ requires thought work and ego dissolving after processing emotional energy. Trying to think your way out of a ‘clean pain’ situation is pointless and adds to suffering. Trying to avoid doing the inner work of ‘dirty pain’ keeps one unnecessarily suffering.
27th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials
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Potentials are Peaceful Simplicities

Potentials are … peaceful simplicities. “Watching and listening to the patterned disorder of the universe is one of the deep soul’s favorite pastimes.” Martha Beck ‘The Joy Diet’. I love Martha’s term ‘patterned disorder’ to describe ‘fluidly moving parts of nature: a fireplace, a river,a field of wind blown wheat …’ I will begin to take notice of these peaceful simplicities ?

26th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials

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Potentials are Dealing With Your Own Fears

Potentials are … dealing with your own fears rather than minding yourself in business that is not yours. If a loved one is experiencing difficulty, it’s easy to want to suggest, change, advise, council, or judge. But that’s not your place. Your place is to deal with your own fear or judgement over what they’re experiencing. Doing our own work is the most healing thing for us, our loved ones and the planet 🙂 Doesn’t mean we don’t lend a compassionate ear, a compassionate word or lend a hand, but that fear and/or judgement keeps us locked into a lower vibrational pattern that needs to shift for the higher good of all.
25th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials
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Potentials are Right in Front of Us

Potentials are … right in front of us. Opportunities to change, possibilities to tap into, resources to discover, habits to decide, negative patterns to shift a moment at a time. Years ago I ignored my creative and intuitive side. Then slowly I embraced it and expanded into it which has been AMAZING. It’s freezing cold winter now and so much funner to stay inside creating, but I’ve decided that getting outside, walking to my exercise class, exercising, shoveling, decluttering, cleaning etc. are part of creating and intuiting. So today, to change a habit, I walked in 13 degrees to exercise class and shoveled for a half hour. I got rewarded for my efforts by noticing a beautiful, very loud woodpecker in a tree who brings the message that when foundations are balanced and integrated, positive potentials are created. Feeling invigorated & grateful?
15th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials

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Potentials are Expanded When You Release Limiting Beliefs

Potentials are … expanded when you’re willing to release the need for limiting beliefs. For 2018, I’m willing to release the need for the limiting mind gremlins that whisper ‘you’re not doing enough’ or ‘you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing.’ I could be in the middle of doing anything and those mind gremlins are rushing me onto something else or telling me all that must be done. When I’m super mindful of what I’m doing, they don’t whisper that loud, but when I’m not, they have a heyday and it can feel like anxiety or scatteredness. And so for 2018 and onward, I’m banishing them 

13th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials

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Potentials are Rescue Missions

Potentials are … rescue missions. Auntie C. is my husband’s mother’s sister. Her life, as well as my husband’s mother’s life, was shaped by a rescue mission. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a Jewish mother of 14 and an older Jewish father. Mimi, my husband’s mother, was born 2 years later. Unfortunately, the parents divorced soon after and the father left, leaving this young mom and 2 girls in a very vulnerable situation. The mother remarried an Arab Christian man who did not like having the Jewish girls and they were put in a Christian convent. The mother had a brother named Uncle Abud who was living in Egypt and when he heard that his nieces were in a convent, he drove to Lebanon, hid them in the trunk of his car and drove them over the border into Israel. Uncle Abud put the girls on a kibbutz (a communal living situation) and the girls were raised without their parents there. C. and Mimi grew up, fought for the freedom of Israel, married and raised families. Uncle Abud’s caring and daring rescue mission allowed the girls to experience the full potential of a life lived in their heritage which they shared with their children. And my husband is extra grateful because in his youth he got to visit Auntie C. in Israel for summers and eat lots of chocolate spread on white bread for breakfast 🙂 We love Auntie C!
12th day of the Jewish month of Teves – the month of Potentials

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