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Jewish meditation: Feeling inner love and connection with your inner self

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[Music] so ever relax [Music] close your eyes breathe close your eyes and breathe in and out release all your breath through your mouth releasing all the breath as your stomach contracts tightening the stomach muscles and inhale through the nose as you expand the stomach muscles like you're filling a balloon and now hold your breath and with your eyes closed let your eyes wander upward between your eyebrows exhale through the mouth now slowly as the stomach tightens slowly the releasing your breath tightening the stomach muscles as you push out the air and now inhaling through the nose as the stomach expands holding your breath now even though your eyes are closed you're focusing your eyes upward between your eyebrows exhale now view the mouth slowly make your lips small like a straw as you slowly release the air stomach contracting inhaling through the nose a systemic expanse holding the breath eyes up [Music] exhale [Music] inhale through the nose holding the breath exhales slowly as you release all of your hair the systemic contracts releasing any tension and when you have no more air in your body hold your breath for a moment and when you need to breathe inhale you know our deepest desire breathing normally now our deepest desire is love we want to love and we want to be loved and we want to have that love and what is love love is connection it's to be one you know you spent the first nine months of your life in the undifferentiated oneness of a mother's womb total oneness and ever since you were born all you have ever wanted is to get back to that oneness hopefully you had a good and beautiful warm loving safe family to be one with but nevertheless your deepest desires to be to be one to be loved to be cherished respected recognized significant to be one with others but unfortunately something stands in the way of love love is often blocked the path to love [Music] and what blocks our path to love is our own lack of love for ourselves you see you believe that you're loved only conditionally even though when you were a little two-year-old toddler a beautiful little child loved unconditionally when you got older you began to become loved conditionally that love only comes condition so it has many categories those conditions there's how smart you are there's your body weight there's your looks your abilities there's your financial standing and you'll notice when you meet somebody it's very hard to feel that love rather you feel anxiety it's an anxious experience because you don't know this person yet you're just meeting them and there's all these categories that you don't know about wealth smarts wisdom abilities and so it's really hard to love that person because if they were to outdo you in those categories you would feel very unsafe wouldn't feel good about yourself this is why our Torres says there hafta that I have found Kamala love your neighbor como ha as yourself because only in as much as you love yourself can you love another person meaning if you find out that in the categories of life that they are your equal or below you you will love them but if there are above you'll you will not like them very much you would prefer to talk to somebody else because they remind you of the holes inside your system inside your heart but the Torah gives us a great key to how to love all people now after Loretta qumola ani hashem love your neighbor as yourself that only in as much as you love yourself can you love your neighbor but then there's an e hashem which means i am god now wherever the Torah says I mean I shan't my of God it's usually referring to I am God to pay the reward for this Mitzvah but the Kabbalists teach us ani hashem there means i meaning you parasha because you were created within the Shama and the neshamah is part of a shin and when I generate from neshama when my generator is neshama so this person and me are the same we are equal there are no categories we are the same so when you realize that you who you really are is this neshama your soul you start realizing certain things about yourself one of them is that jury wanted God wants you here because if if you didn't want you here you wouldn't be here and that you also have a purpose and that you loved as God creates you with eyes nose and mouth blessings everywhere all around you a body that perfectly interfaces with the environment around you and he watches every step you are safe he loves you and he's securing you [Music] and he also gives purpose for your life there's a reason you're here which also means that you're capable because he would not create with a purpose if you were not capable of fulfilling it so love begins with you so many people look for love outside of themselves where love begins with you only as much as you love yourself can you love another person and how do you love yourself by knowing that God creates you neshama Killa Killa calm email a portion of God from above that's who you are and when God creates you as a portion of God from above that means this beautiful child inside of you can shine is our light I am loved a sea of love whisper the words I'm a sea of you'll notice as you relate to yourself your identity is the neshamah straight from God you're beautiful good uniquely brilliant capable you will find a deep wellspring of love for yourself and you will feel safe to love others you will become a sea of love whisper the words of a sea of love and everyone can come swim [Music] open your palms you can lay your palms on your arms saya on your legs or on your table desk open them towards the Shimane [Music] and now see that beautiful child that you were two years old standing in front of you put out your arms to that beautiful child let the beautiful child jump up in your arms hold your child that beautiful child wrap your arms around the child [Music] we spur the words I love you hold the beautiful child realize everything you ever thought or believed negative about yourself is not true that beautiful child is you hold the child in touch with the child's heartbeat its beating strong whisper to the child I'm sorry I let you go should never Fletcher get in touch it's okay to cry tell the judge so please take a smile listed take a deep breath let your motor cool [Music] slow down to a crawl through defenses ville failure so beef you everything you thought about you Sophie all that you believed hold it in your head nothing that Devere open to receive [Applause] setting free the child beautiful child in you [Music] do a little dancing single sample song laugh so hard you cry [Music] she's a butterfly [Music] climb the mountainside once again flying the person of your dreams is coming interview nobody can take that dream away somebody who trusts somebody who shares some would like the child to deal with child [Music] [Applause] [Music] everything you thought all the tea redeemed hold it in your head [Music] everyone you love what you to achieve they want to meet the child little child the beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] unless you hear the numbers one through five at the number five opening up your eyes coming up one two three Shalom if you enjoyed watching this well watch some more send it click it forward it join it subscribe to it you know keep coming on in joining me in this amazing movement to make a big difference in the world and the biggest thing you can do of all is to join the yom tov media club calm please go online yom tov media club calm