From the book by Yehuda Berg, The Power of Kabbalah:
“In life we have two possible choices:
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To react to the situation—and in this case our soul will resist the Light, which will leave us in the darkness of the one-percent world.
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To actively resist the impulse to react, thus connecting with the world of the ninety-nine percent.
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The second option removes the Bread of Shame and opens the path of the Light, which fills our life in the given circumstances. In other words, when we resist reaction, we transform some aspect of ourselves—and this is the meaning of our existence. We automatically connect with the world of the ninety-nine percent and receive the corresponding amount of Light.
And so our fifth spiritual principle states:
IN THE MOMENT OF TRANSFORMATION WE
CONNECT WITH THE WORLD OF THE
NINETY-NINE PERCENT!”*
This is the shortened version of how, in practice, the “formula of transformation” looks—how we turn reactivity into proactivity (together with a practical example from me):
1. An obstacle appears.
For example, your friend explodes and shouts at you.
Or your friend manipulates you and tells you that if you do not do a certain thing, they will kill themselves.
2. You realize that it is not the obstacle, but your reaction that is your real enemy.
You feel upset, angry, and hurt, but you understand that your real enemy is not your friend, but your feelings of offense, anger, and hurt—in short, that you are taking their behavior personally.
Or you feel extremely afraid and, despite your sound reason, you are overwhelmed by a huge sense of guilt if you do not act as they tell you. Even so, you realize that your real enemy is not them, but your reaction of fear and guilt.
3. You switch off your reactive system in order to open the path of the Light.
For example, instead of shouting back and not speaking to each other for months, you renounce any reaction. Even if you bear no guilt, you respect your friend’s right to choose how to react to life situations. You decide that what matters more to you than who is right or wrong is your decision not to take things personally and to understand what the challenge for you is in this specific situation.
Or instead of doing what your friend wants—which you do not want to do, but would do out of fear and guilt—you refrain from reacting. You realize that what matters more to you is to follow your decision not to submit to manipulation and to the imposition of responsibility that is not yours.
4. You express your active nature.
You connect with the realm of the ninety-nine percent, and the emotions that arise in your subsequent actions come from the Light. Positive feelings and behavior arise automatically. You will notice a surprising change in the situation you are facing.
This is what the formula of transformation looks like according to the interpreter of Kabbalah, Yehuda Berg—this moment of experiencing our own God-likeness, in which we become active creators of our own life through the effort to step out of the stimulus–reaction pattern.
The idea of transformation is a central theme in every spiritual teaching. It is the goal of the individuation process. Neale Donald Walsch also writes about it (“What do you want to do with what is happening to you now?”), as does M. Scott Peck (“resistance to entropy”).
If this post reaches you now through the “games of synchronicity,” it is here to support you in your effort to connect with the creative principle in your life and to bring more consciousness into the way you react. And to choose another response—one in which you do not feel like a victim, do not blame, and do not blame yourself, but act in alignment with your highest image of who you would like to become by the end of your life.
Kameliya
Note: The quoted passages are translated from Bulgarian.
