HOW TO GET RID OF APATHY AND HOW TO HAVE MORE ENERGY?

A Kabbalistic teacher once told me, «The most important in Kabbalah is to learn how to be altruistic and get rid of selfishness.»

• While observing fast;
• Doing Paranayama (breathing exercises);
• Due to Solitude;
• By giving a vow of silence (Mauna);
• Walking  in the nature, or just being outside, on a by the large body of water, in the mountains, observing the nature;
• Creating some art or crafts which don’t give you any personal gains;
• Praising (worshiping) highly spiritual persons for his/hers deeds and qualities;
• Laughing and smiling from the bottom of our hearts;
• Helping someone (again, not for benefit or profit);
• Practicing modesty and humility;
• Eating food full of Prana (chi/Qi, or life force) eg. unprocessed and/or sprouted grains, cereals, clarified butter, honey, fruits, vegetables;
• Sleeping from 9-10 pm till 2 am (nervous system rests only during these hours);
• Having massage therapy or practicing self massage;
• Pouring cold water on ourselves, especially in the morning. It will be even better if you are standing on the ground barefoot;
• Charity of our time and money.

• We are sad or depressed;
• Unsatisfied with our destiny, regretting our past, not accepting our future;
• Striving towards selfish goals;
• Feeling upset, offended, insulted;
• Living a life without purpose;
• Overeating; eating heavy, stale, non-sattvic foods.
• Having wandering minds, unable to focus;
• Eating fried, overcooked foods. (It is also important who cooked a meal. If a person was angry or had other negative emotions, if it was cooked in a microwave oven, or with preservatives, pesticides or other chemicals were added);
• Consuming foods that have no Prana, like coffee, black tea, refined sugar, flour, meat alcohol;
• Eating on the run, in a rush;
• Smoking;
• Having aimless conversations, especially when we are criticizing someone (prajalpa);
• Breathing rapidly or shallow;
• Being in the sun from 12 pm to 4 pm, especially in a desert;
• Being promiscuous, having sex without love;
• Sleeping too much, after 7 am, or having lack of sleep;
• Having mental and physical tension;
• Being greedy.

1. ELEMENT OF EARTH: Eating unprocessed food, living closer to nature, watching trees, walking barefoot on the ground. Recently I was talking to a famous doctor of Ayurveda, who had written a dissertation on a medical topic. He said that if a person moves closer to nature, far from big cities where he/she had to commute using transit, walk on asphalt paths, he will have a stronger immune system and start to live a healthy life.
2. ELEMENT OF WATER: Drinking water from wells and creeks. Swimming in a river or sea. Abstaining from caffeine, alcohol and soda.
3. ELEMENT OF FIRE: Staying in the Sun (except between noon and 4 pm) and eating the foods that contain sun’s energy.
4. ELEMENT OF AIR: The most important element to get Prana from is by breathing fresh air, especially in the mountains, forest or on a sea shore. Smoking or being in the overcrowded places will deprive you of your Prana.
5. ELEMENT OF ETHER: Cultivating positive thinking, kindness and being in a good mood. That is the basic level. If a person lives close to the nature but is always angry or annoyed, excess of Prana will destroy him. On the other hand someone with inner balance, kind and fearless could live in a city for a while, if that is necessary. But he/she has to escape to nature from time to time. Churches, temples and monasteries are the sources of Prana in the cities.

Black color absorbs the light and white color reflects it. It is seems like a simple truth that we all know, but if we think about that, it has a deeper philosophical meaning. Most of us associate the light with something pure, giving energy, happiness and health. For instance, the Sun – there would be no life on Earth without Sun. In many spiritual and religious schools one of the main God’s attributes is light. It is truth for Kabbalah, Islam and some Indian religions. People who had experienced clinical death said that Higher Reality is the light that is full of Divine Love. Even without all these philosophical concepts, just think who do we call sunshine? It is someone who radiates the light and kindness, and is not selfish. In earlier times, people saw halos, surrounding saints heads. If a person is greedy, jealous or selfish, no one will call him/her sunshine, most likely gloomy. If a healer, who has divine abilities, will look at your energy body and describe the organs that are affected or not functioning properly, he will say that he sees black spots surrounding them. You must have heard about black holes in the Universe. They are still being studied, but one of the main feature of a black hole is that it’s energy substance absorbs everything and nothing can escape it. It is some kind of a cancerous cell or an organ on the body of the Universe.

What is a cancer cell? Medical research has shown that a cancer cell is not something that comes from the outer environment, those are the cells of the body or organism that were serving the organism and performed a certain function. But at some point they changed their behavior patterns and were no longer willing to serve. They start to grow aggressively by breaking their barriers, spreading (metastasis) and devouring healthy cells.  Malignant tumors grow very rapidly and need oxygen. The breathing itself is a process everything is involved in, but their functioning becomes largely based on selfishness, that is why they lack the oxygen. Then tumor cells use autonomic, primitive form of generating the energy fermentation (that doesn’t require oxygen).  In this case every cell can ferment energy or breathe separately from the organism. In the end, the malignant tumor will destroy the organism and be destroyed. But at the beginning malignant cells were very successful, growing very fast, better than the healthy cells.

With love,

Rami