Rabbi Nahman taught: “You can shout loudly in a "small still voice"… Anyone can do this. Just imagine the sound of such a scream in your mind. Depict the shout in your imagination exactly as it would sound. (Cot’d +)...
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Here is a spiritual technique that might resonate with some of you in this particular chaotic, difficult time. It’s a kind of scream. This is from Rabbi Nahman of Breslov, the late 18th c. Hasidic master. 1/x Thread.
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“Keep this up until you are literally screaming with this soundless "small still voice." This is actually a scream and not mere imagination. Just as some vessels bring the sound from your lungs to your lips, others bring it to the brain.” Cot’d +
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“You can draw the sound through these nerves, literally bringing it into your head. When you do this, you are actually shouting inside your brain.” So, you can try that if you want. And here’s another one from him:
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Rabbi Nahman taught a process called hitbodedut—self-seclusion. (The Hebrew for quarantine, like people are doing now, is bidud, same root.) It basically just involves talking to God until you have found the thing you need to say. +
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About allowing yourself to pour out your heart and your feelings and your longings and your dreams, in words, in speech. Ideally it happens out in the forest or a field--if you live somewhere where that's possible, it's definitely social distancing approved.
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But I think alone in your room it also does the thing.
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I think so many of us are still in crisis mode, adjusting to this new reality, that we haven't given ourselves space to feel all the stuff that we're actually experiencing. Hitbodedut can make space for that. And maybe letting out a profound kind of scream can help us, too.
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Kind of seems like this Rabbi was a spiritual scientist/researcher. Hmmm....maybe that's what most Rabbi's are?
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I have had a book of his teachings for many years. It’s called The Empty Chair. It’s been my go-to for spiritual crisis.
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Salam, the unroll you asked for:
@TheRaDR: Here is a spiritual technique that might resonate with some of you in this particular chaotic, difficult… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1258793018825588737.html … Enjoy :)
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