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The Kabbalah of Conscious Parenting (Part 1)
The Kabbalah Tree of Life provides you with a basic blue print for bringing out your child's higher potential.
One purpose of the Tree is to guide meditators in rising to higher planes of consciousness. Actually, the Tree can be used as guide to rising to higher levels of effectiveness in every facet of practical living.
One fascinating and practical use involves the Tree as a guide for conscious and effective parenting. In Kabbalah, nearness is the same as sameness. For example, to feel closer to God, practice living more like God. The Tree of Life is your map for doing this.
This principle works in reverse as well. Human beings become like those they spend time with. Spend time around a Godly person and you automatically become more Godly. The To apply this principle in parenting, you bring your child closer to God, by parenting your child in a more Godly way.
Before we see how you can use this to guide your child to healthy, happy self-discipline and higher development, let us briefly review some basic aspects of the Tree as they relate with your relationship with your child.
It consists of ten spheres (in Hebrew: Sephirah). These are emanations of Divine Power and Light that infuse and rule all of creation. The first sphere is called Kether, which means Will. It represents the Divine Will that causes all to be. Within you and your child, it represents the way God wants you to parent, and the way God wants your child to behave.
The second sphere is called Chockmah, which means Wisdom. This is the Divine Wisdom that guides creation perfectly. It guides you and it guides your child.
The third sphere is called Binah, which means Understanding. It represents God's Infinite Understanding of all that is, the Understanding that fashions God's perfect plan for creation. It provides you and your child with the power of insight, the power to understand, to recognize and to comprehend.
The fourth sphere is called Chessed, which means Mercy. It represents the Infinite Mercy of God that provides us with the gifts in life that bring us joy, relief, gratitude, ease and generally good fortune. This power operates in you and your child as a motivator for demonstrating acts of kindness, generosity, charity, leniency and forgiveness.
The fifth sphere is called Gevurah, which means Justice or Severity. It balances the giving nature of Chessed by setting limits on how much to give, how much to allow. It represents God's power to establish boundaries so that the universe can function in an orderly way to fulfill a heavenly purpose. Gevurah operates in you and in your child by giving you the power to set boundaries, accept limits, make sacrifices, endure suffering.
The sixth sphere is called Tiphareth, which means Beauty. Beauty is a vehicle to higher inspiration. When you feel touched by beauty your heart opens to the infinite and you access the heavenly planes of eternity. The beauty of nature and art are vehicles through which Divine Beauty flows throughout creation. It operates in you and in your child as your capacities to experience and to express beauty, and to rise into the heights of loving inspiration through beauty.
The seventh sphere is called Netzach, which means Victory. It expresses the intrinsic power to overcome all obstacles demonstrated by the act of Divine Creation. The universe is essentially an emblem of God's Victorious Might. Netzach operates in you and in your child by giving you the power to have faith in ultimate good accomplished by whatever happens, as well as your drive and power to overcome opposition to achieve what your hearts desire.
The eighth sphere is called Hod, which means Glory and Honor. It represents the Absolute Perfection of everything God does. Hod motivates you and your child to demonstrate ever-higher levels of excellence and integrity, to strive for perfection in all ways, on every level.
The ninth sphere is named Yesod, which means Foundation. It represents the Divine Power that supports creation for eternity. In you and in your child this sphere gives you both the power to endure, to be reliable. The Foundation also contains the seed-pattern for creation, and for every individual within creation. This means that it contains the pattern of who you and your child really are, the way of living and growing that is consistent with your essential purposes and designs.
And finally, the tenth sphere is called Malkuth, which means Kingdom. It represents the fact that all of creation is really God's Kingdom, ruled by God's absolute authority over all. Nothing happens without God's acceptance of it. In you and in your child, Malkuth represents your power to rule yourselves and your lives, and your responsibility for doing that, because God shares some power of authority with human beings.
