BLOG 32: TAPPING INTO THE INFINITE

Blog 32:    23rd  March 2010

Tapping into the Infinite

-          Laibl Wolf, Dean, Spiritgrow - The Josef Kryss Wholistic Centre, Australia

One person sees an insurmountable obstacle. The other sees an exciting challenge. What determines the reframing process? Why do so many people employ a tried and failed screensaver of the mind – defeatism, while others revel in hues of bright green – a go signal?

The key distinction lies in the dynamics of self confidence, self worth, self esteem, and self belief – unleashing the power within. The defeatists’ psyche is a fragile montage of broken jagged glass edges. The slightest misstep will cut and maim. The victor’s mind-set is in the form of a flow, a surge of energy, a spiritual surfer whose synergy with the wave guarantees an exciting and successful quest for the shoreline.

Slave mentality characterized the original exodus. A doubt-stricken mutinous rabble fought tooth and nail to subvert its future. If it were not for the indomitable spirit and self belief of its charismatic leader, Moses, the Exodus would have imploded. One man molded the collective consciousness of a fledgling nation. One man reframed the deadening expanse of sand and dune to see a highway to freedom while the millions feared the terrors of the unknown. 

The reframing process is not a neat logical exercise. As a mind-manager I can set out the ABC’s of mental steps to reframe and shift perception. But success comes at a tipping point. And that point lies not in the brain but in the heart. Academic understanding, alone, cannot produce a paradigm shift. It has to be alloyed to a self-belief that draws on the infinite wellsprings of the soul.

Karate: slamming the edge of one’s hand against the brick can become a bloody gory failure of torn skin and shattered bone. Or the same kinetic energy can slice through the stone like putty. The difference lies not in the power expended. It lies in completing a circuit – the circuit of mind, body and soul. If the soul is not tapped, even the mind cannot assist the body. The ABC’s may be there, but the infinite has not been enlisted.

Have you experienced that surge, that power, that infinite capacity that comes with absolute self confidence? It is awesome. Nothing can stand in your way. It defines a Mohammed Ali in the boxing ring, a Roger Federer on the court, and a Roger Bannister on the athletics field. Their great successes came not from mere technique and strategy – body and mind. Their extraordinary successes were the result of unbounded belief that ‘it can be done’ when no-one else believed it possible.

That was Moses. He believed that he could transform a slave nation and propel it into the annals of history – a trajectory that finds the enigmatic survival of the oldest extant culture, the Jewish people, still vibrantly active on the world stage. He possessed the magic, not of the magician, but of the power beyond the conscious. Each one of us possesses that same aptitude.

A wise master, the Alter Rebbe, once said that should relive daily  the existential experience of being a Moses - a training exercise to touch the infinite within. To simulate our inner ‘Moses’ we must assume the same posture as those forbears did – hence the Matza (unleavened bread), wine, bitter herbs, afikoman, (‘desert’ Matza) employed in the (upcoming) Passover ceremony known as Seder (structured replay of the Exodus). By recreating the same spiritual panorama we simulate a success story and apply a formula that profoundly transforms obstacle into challenge, and challenge into success.

May the force be with you.

 (Your comments are invited: Click on reception@spiritgrow.org and let me have the benefit of your insight) 

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