Who Pulled the Trigger?
Friday, July 7th, 2006JULY 9 - JULY 15, 2006
“Calm down, you’ll worry yourself sick.” We’ve all been told this at least once in our lives. Expressions like this highlight the connection between the state of our mind and the state of our body.
This week’s Zohar portion, Pinchas, speaks directly to this connection. It says that our negative emotions - notably anger, rage, ego, and all reactive impulses - manifest as disease in our bodies. According to Rav Shimon Bar Yochai, author of The Zohar, if we wish to be disease free, we must be negativity free.
Scary, huh? I can hear you thinking, what about studies linking disease to food, the environment, and DNA? How can yelling at my wife give me cancer?