Matrix Healing Discover Your Greatest Health Potential Through the Power of Kabbalah

1 WHAT IS MATRIX HEALING? TRADITIONAL JEWISH RIDDLE, CITED IN NATHAN AUSUBEL, A TREASURY OF JEWISH FOLKLORE-- RIDDLE: A man dreamt that he was on a ship at sea with his father and mother, when the ship began to sink. It was possible to save only himself and one other person--either his father or mother--not both. What should he do? ANSWER: He should wake up! I'LL never forget the first time I met Joan, a patient who had come to me after being diagnosed with an advanced form of breast cancer. Joan was a shy, quiet woman in her early fifties, dressed in a light gray suit and dark blue blouse. The only touch of color in her outfit was a small yellow enamel pin in the shape of a daffodil, pinned to her lapel. There was something about the image of the little flower, alone against the expanse of pale gray cloth, that I found both moving and painful. Like many of my patients, Joan had been to a number of other doctors before she'd come to me. She'd already had a double mastectomy and subsequent treatments of chemotherapy. But, as sometimes happens, the cancer had come back. Joan had heard about my efforts to integrate a spiritual perspective with the latest in medical care, and she thought such an approach might help her defeat the disease that seemed so determined to remain with her. As we spoke, I was struck by the way every aspect of Joan's life seemed to come down to two unpleasant choices. As a young woman, she'd had the chance to take an exciting job in another city. But she worried that such a choice might disrupt her relationship with her fiance, who was just getting started in his own career, so she turned the job down. Later, after she'd gone back to college to become a social worker, she decided that she wanted to get further training in psychoanalysis and become a private therapist. By the time I met her, she had successfully completed her training and established her career--but now she was haunted by the worry that her demanding practice was depriving her three children of her time, energy, and attention. So when Joan asked me to tell her how Matrix Healing might apply to her situation, I found myself telling her the story of the man and his dream. "That's the perspective that Matrix Healing can offer," I explained. "Most of us have an outlook on life that is far too limited. But Matrix Healing can help us wake up to all sorts of new possibilities." Joan was intrigued by the concept of the Matrix--the parallel reality that each of us can access right here and now. A rational person with a strong faith in science, she was drawn to this vision of science and spirituality coming together, supported by the latest research in quantum physics, neurology, psychology, and medicine. She began to see that this research all pointed in the same direction: to the notion that we human beings have far more control over our bodies, our health, and our lives than most of us ever suspected. NEW FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE AND HEALTH Although quantum physics supplanted classical physics a century ago, the implications of the quantum revolution have yet to penetrate biology and in particular, neuroscience. --JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, M.D., AND SHARON BEGLEY, THE MIND AND THE BRAIN When I was in medical school, all my professors agreed absolutely: there was the human body, and then there was the reality "out there." Things from "out there"--germs, bacteria, viruses--invaded our individual bodies, causing illness. More things from "out there"--drugs, medicine, surgery--could penetrate us "in here," curing illness. Both getting sick and getting well were seen as purely objective processes that could be measured, quantified, and, eventually, controlled. Although doctors might disagree on this or that cure, they all agreed on one thing: the patient's own consciousness was irrelevant. What matteKellman, Raphael is the author of 'Matrix Healing Discover Your Greatest Health Potential Through the Power of Kabbalah', published 2004 under ISBN 9781400048960 and ISBN 1400048966.