Increasing Wholeness
Jewish Wisdom and Guided Meditations to Strengthen and Calm Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2015
208 pages
978-1-58023-830-4 (ISBN)
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Combines Jewish tradition, contemporary sciences and world spiritual writings with practical contemplative exercises. Will help you balance and integrate mind, body, heart and spirit, reach out to the Divine, and be more fully present and effective in your life.
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Elie Kaplan Spitz
Increasing Wholeness
Jewish Wisdom & Guided Meditations to Strengthen & Calm Body, Heart, Mind & Spirit
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06/2015
Jewish Lights Publishing
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Elie Kaplan Spitz
Increasing Wholeness
Jewish Wisdom and Guided Meditations to Strengthen and Calm Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit
Book
06/2015
Jewish Lights Publishing
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Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz is the author of Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World and Does the Soul Survive? A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose (both Jewish Lights). A spiritual leader and scholar specializing in topics of spirituality and Judaism, he teaches, writes and speaks to a wide range of audiences. He has served as the rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel in Tustin, California, for more than a decade and is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly Committee of Law and Standards.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Preface: Welcome to Increasing Wholeness
- Introduction
- 1. Seeking Greater Wholeness
- Identifying an Obstacle to Inner Peace
- Breath, Eyes, and Mood
- Epsom Salt Bath
- 2. Body: Our Portal to the World
- Uniqueness Abounds
- Sensual Wakefulness
- Walking Meditation
- Shalom Meditation
- Guided Meditation of Praise
- A Blessing Practice
- Blessings of Dawn
- Body-Mind Calm
- 3. Heart: Fueling Engagement
- Quieting the Inner Drama with Touch Points
- Receiving and Giving a Blessing
- Corresponding with God
- Harvesting Gratitude
- A Daily Recitation of the Modeh Ani
- A Quick Bibliodrama
- 4. Mind: Alertness to Reality
- Identifying Holy Moments
- A Listening Exercise
- Shema Meditation
- Discerning Patterns and Directing Your Future
- Intensive Meditation with a Focus on Mind
- 5. Spirit: Intuitive Wisdom
- Intuitive Answers
- Conjured Sensuality
- Intuitive Gifts
- Hearing Your Calling
- Experiencing Daily Prayer
- YHVH Meditation
- Intensive Meditation with a Focus on Spirit
- 6. Hand: The Power to Touch
- Baseless Generosity
- A Tzedakah Box Practice
- Prioritizing Charitable Giving
- A Gemilut Chasadim Practice
- Chesed (Compassion) Meditation
- Writing an Ethical Will
- 7. Inner Peace: Balanced from Within
- Walking in the Light
- Looking Back
- When at Peace
- A Taste of Wholeness
- Revisiting Obstacles to Our Completeness
- Infused by Light
- A Final Blessing
- Afterword: Crafting a Practice
- A Sabbath Retreat
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index of Practices
- About the Author
- Copyright
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