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Just this Breath

1/18/2017

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Insomnia, fears, depression, anxiety. The list was long for the woman in front of me. She just wanted them all to go away. She wanted to feel better already. She tells me how she lies down in her bed afraid of what the night will bring- or what it won’t bring. Afraid that she’ll be up all night and unable to fall asleep. It’s a vicious cycle.

I hold her feet tightly in my hands. I squeeze the heels and the toes. I ask her to focus on the sensation of the touch. I ask her to be with me in the present. I ask her, “So what?” I tell her to at night to lie down in her bed with her pajamas on, say the shema, and that’s it.

“And if I don’t fall asleep?”

“Who cares? So you won’t! Tell that voice, that negative inclination in you that wants you to do circles and circles in your head, that G-d is with you and that you are being in the moment. The MOMENT.

She took a deep breath and sighed. It was a good sigh. A sigh of letting go and being in the moment.

It’s a work in progress, to live in the moment, to be in the moment. Our bodies, our hormones, are so unstable. Constantly changing, the body that G-d created for us to fulfill our purpose, our mission in the this world is connected to the present. How do you feel now? What’s going on now? What will be, what was? It’s not the way to connection. Take a deep breath of four in through the nose, release it slowly through the mouth to a count of eight. Let go. Release. Connect to the moment.
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Perfect Fit

1/18/2017

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I opened the cupboard door and the metal pot came crashing on my head, banging me in my eye. My head throbbed and I could feel my eye starting to swell. I looked up at the cabinet bursting and wasn’t surprised that the pot fell out. The cupboard was stuffed because I tried to make room for “just one more thing.” Women frequently ask me, “How do I know when to push myself and when to say no?  It’s a good question. I think the answer lies in the cabinet.

If after doing the “one more thing” you feel happy, satisfied, good about your decision, good about yourself – do it. If you feel energy, growth, expansion then the “one more thing” is good. It’s good to push yourself, to expand, to make room for more. Sometimes you can rearrange those cabinets and yes, make room for more. Therefore, if you are tired and you push yourself to get up earlier to exercise, to pray, to make yourself a healthy breakfast and afterwards you feel good about it, you know that you needed the push.

But if the “one more thing,” the extra hour of exercise, the one more volunteer task, the one more hour of work makes you feel irritable, exhausted, frustrated, angry or resentful, then your cupboard is full and you are just hitting yourself over the head. Then it’s not coming from a healthy place-the urge that’s pushing you to say “yes” and here you need to confront it by saying no.
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    Elana Mizrahi
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