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It is said that thought can influence the healing of the body. What is the power of thought? How does it work exactly? What can increase it?
We have been evolving as a human species for generations, and our main development has mainly been in the power of thought. This is the force that took us out of the animal world and made us intelligent beings.
The power of thought has a key role in creating balance in us. Balance is essentially a state where we can realize our desires. Thought examines our various desires, sorts them, helps us understand what desires we should realize now, which ones to leave for later, and which are best put aside from the start.
On one hand, we can say that our “self” is our desires, and the power of thought serves them, i.e., it functions as a calculating device to help manage our desires and their realization. In this sense, thought is the offspring of desire, and it helps us understand how to best use our desires.
On the other hand, by persisting in thought, we can increase our desire for something and reduce our desire for something else. For instance, this is how we can convince ourselves to stop smoking. If we have a desire to smoke, then we can multiply our thoughts about the expected harm of smoking, and by doing so, neutralize our desire to smoke.
In matters of health and illness, positive thoughts can awaken within us forces that lift us from any state, which heal us physically and mentally. Conversely, negative thoughts bring pain and illness, and even death, or in other words, the disappearance of the desire to live. The persistent power of thought can both revive us or take us down.
It is important to remember that we are social beings, and the surrounding society greatly influences us. Such an influence can contain good or bad thoughts, which are respectively called “good eye” and “evil eye.” By developing the power of thought, human beings can expand the boundaries of perception, discover the forces that govern the system of nature, and through them gain control over what happens at every level. The power of thought, then, is a power of control over ourselves, others, and nature.
A view of history shows us that the more the world develops, the more interconnected and interdependent it becomes. This means that we absorb countless desires and thoughts from one another. Media, communications systems, and social networks press on us from all sides, broadcasting messages directly into our minds and hearts, like radio waves that reach everywhere. The problem with so many of the messages we absorb is that they impose the desires of the ones who communicate those messages, which are often solely to benefit those people and not the people who absorb the messages.
Accordingly, we enter into a whirlpool of confusion. We end up not knowing what we truly want, and what we will think in the next moment. We struggle to sort out what is necessary and unnecessary, and how to sort out our lives in general, and make decisions accordingly. At a certain point, a desire to escape and disconnect from everything awakens, and then many people retreat into a niche, trying to flee from the flood of influences over which they have no control.
Such a situation worsens from one year to the next. The inability to maintain balance creates problems in all areas of our lives. Therefore, there is a rising need for social healing, i.e., for the ability to maintain balance and mental-emotional control within the conditions of our current reality.
The integral approach to education teaches how we can impact a significant shift to such social healing within a group setting. By working in small groups of about ten participants each, we learn about human nature, the nature of the world, and the general direction of evolution.
The human being, society, and nature are a single whole, and nature’s general law of development urges us to realize that we are like cells and organs in one body, functioning in complementarity, connection, and mutuality. In nature, integration takes place on its own and develops the web of life. However, in human society, we must do so ourselves by developing the power of thought: to examine, clarify, understand, and decide together that in a connected reality, ego games and power struggles are already passé, and they are likely to end up eventually sinking the boat we are all on.
Tomorrow’s world can only be a connected one, and we need to adapt to it. We should thus begin the work of upgrading to an integral approach to ourselves and the world so that the growing mismatch between the intensifying human ego and the interdependence that closes everyone in will not lead to total collapse.
An integral approach to education involves both a theoretical aspect, i.e., the learning of how humanity has today entered a new integral evolutionary stage, and there is also a practical aspect of creating integral connection among participants: a deep bond at the level of desires and thoughts. Participants in the integral educational approach help each other form a balanced attitude toward everything that surfaces in life, helping each other sort out their desires and decide what is worthwhile to focus on and to discard.
Therefore, the integral approach to education develops a supportive, warm, and loving atmosphere among its participants, which lets them find and maintain their point of balance. The group serves as a Noah’s Ark in the storm’s eye, protecting its members from harmful influences. Gradually, inner blockages open, restraints become released, bad thoughts fade away, and even the body cleanses itself of toxins, and we come to fully realize our lives as healthy and happy human beings. Such is the way to understand how by developing positive, supportive, encouraging, and caring attitudes to each other, we can create a new harmonious and peaceful world.
Based on “New Life 88 – The Power of Thought, Part 1” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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