Healing Well of Miriam

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21  Adar 5770

Some years ago, while living in Israel, I began learning the Torah’s teachings about healing. During that time I started using a method of energy healing called “Shefa” (Hebrew for “abundance” or “radiance”). Shefa is similar to Reiki, a more widely known method, but it uses Hebrew prayers in place of Reiki’s symbols. All forms of healing are concerned with restoring balance to the body, although some talk about it more than others. Methods of energy healing fall into the category of “vibrational medicine”, whose stated purpose is restoring harmony and balance to the whole person.

     More recently I began working with a dear friend on another idea in the field of vibrational medicine—using Hebrew words. We know from ancient Kabbalah texts, such as Sefer Yetzirah, that the Hebrew letters were the building blocks of Creation. Each letter has its own vibration, and the combinations of letters that form words have their own particular vibrations. Vibrational medicine operates on the premise that the vibration of one thing can affect that of another; this theorizes that it is the vibration of a medicine effecting a person’s vibration that makes him better. With this in mind, we theorized that perhaps words could have the same affect. This is not a totally new concept. Masaru Emoto has made the idea famous with his photographs of water affected by words and then frozen into crystals. The human body, more than half water, is most certainly similarly affected. As we experimented, we came to words from the Torah and Prophets that had amazing results. It was most interesting to find some of these remedial words in the very texts that described the problems.

     In our research I had been the primary “guinea pig.” My research partner made an appointment to test some of our work with a couple of scientists who have a diagnostic machine that works with vibration. We had made one such test the previous year, but at this point, we had come to a lot more. I was, again, a test subject. Although it confirmed that there had been amazing changes in me over the past year, after the doctor looked at the results, he asked me what I usually did with frustration. Oh! Yes, there had been some significant frustration in the recent months. Of course, it’s only natural to react somewhat; if a person doesn’t have any reaction, he isn’t human. It showed in my informational field…I had been frustrated!…a lot

     I recently settled into San Diego, but in the months before, I had been knocking around from place to place. There had been a few situations that seemed without answers. One day, another dear friend shared something he had been learning from a book on prayer by Rabbi Shalom Arush (translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody). The method of hitbodedut (“self seclusion”—secluded meditation and prayer of the heart in one’s own word) begins with thanking Hashem; you think of everything you can and thank Him. This causes a shift in a person’s heart, as he realizes how much Hashem does care for him. It has a healing effect of stimulating the place within a person that is associated with the sefirah Hod (divine attribute of thanksgiving.

     Each one of the sefirot (divine attributes) is associated with a part of the body; Hod is associated with the lower extremities on the left side. However, each one of the sefirot is also associated with a system of the body; Hod corresponds to the immune system, which we experience in our souls through tamimut (innocence, sincerity, purity). Truly thanking Hashem from one’s heart is not only uplifting, but cleansing…to see beyond oneself and His hand moving, to realize the good in all His ways. This is a way to restore the innocence we lost as we grew out of childhood into more cynical adults. We can see ourselves again as children—His children—and know that we can trust His care as our Father. We can trust that the things He says we are to do, or not do, are for our good. We can know that even those things that hurt in the moment are ultimately for good, that He will never let go of us in this very frightening world.
This world has lost so much innocence over the millennia, but even over the short decades of our contemporary lifetime. How different is this world of our children and our children’s children than in our own childhood! As I pondered this, I thought of the connection of innocence to the immune system. Is there a connection to the rise in auto immune disease…even in children? Is there a spiritual connection between the physical ailments and decline in morality?

     I look forward to the opportunity to share some of these ideas over the coming months as well as at VJRI’s upcoming Bnai Noah conference in May. If you would like to attend the Memorial Day Conference, contact Anita for more information:    anita_jones@windstream.net.