Tirza Moussaieff
Posted on | November 3, 2008 | No Comments
Psychologist, writer, and imagery worker
The Torah says Redemption will come from women this time. Women give birth to children and are more open and sensitive. They see reality. Men are little boys. But there is hope because women have a lot of power over men. If they guide men with respect and knowledge, I think men will be happy to receive it because they are more lost than women. They are little boys with toys. When they are impotent, they love to use a gun. If you look at the profile of major generals, I wouldn’t be surprised if you find a background of impotency.
Men and women need to learn to use our energies properly, to enhance our power and not dominate each other. If we can respect each other, violence in the family and the community can be headed off. We each have our special talent for what we came to do in the world.
Do you believe in prayer?
Prayer is the process of asking God or the God inside of us. I can see it working with my patients in how they heal. It’s like a parallel universe to the logical thinking that we have been trained in the West. We can analyze forever bur never get to the truth; instead, we have to get out of our minds to experience something different.
There is love all around us, and if we get out of the mind and feel it, then we will see that there is no difference between anybody: Arab, Israeli, black, or white. We see each other as the magnificent beings that we are.
What is God to you?
I am always looking and searching for God. The only thing I can say is that when I ask, an answer comes. I don’t know who is answering, whether it’s an energy or a light. I’ve felt it at different times in my life but I don’t know what it is.
What did you come to do in the world?
I like to think I came to help create paradise.
How can anyone help create paradise?
Grab the person you imagine you hate the most and tell them how much you love them, how great they are, how much you want to express your love but were too embarrassed. Hate doesn’t exist except in our imagination. Do you have the courage to do that? If everyone did that, can you imagine how the energy in the world would shift?
There are only two ways of being: love and fear. All negative emotions come under fear, and we have to remove the fear to see that we love each other. When we remove the veils, everything is available to us.
People have a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety. Sometimes that comes with specific circumstances: a disease, cancer, migraines, difficulties in relationships, or difficulties with themselves. Sometimes it takes a little exploration to identify the emotions that are causing the symptoms. Eventually, dissatisfaction with life overtakes them.
I teach people to clean their negative emotions so they can open their souls to God, to light, and to recognize it inside other people. When we come to a place of feeling that we are God and that everybody is God, then all we can do is celebrate. We would never think of doing anything as ridiculous and crazy as hurting someone else.
When we hurt someone, we hurt ourselves. I would love to have paradise on earth, and I don’t see why not. It’s not the Arabs against the Israelis or the Israelis against Arabs. When someone is in pain, it affects us all. Our happiness cannot be complete until everyone is content. With the war and disease in the world, we are all responsible.
Each person has this power?
Every person has power. We are suppressed Gods walking around hiding the fact that we are God. It’s time to take the mask off. We are all co-creators with God, we can create anything. When a few minds get together, that’s powerful.
We find ourselves reacting from a false self. We are never authentic because we are bouncing off the defense mechanisms we have put up. We never get to a place of operating from the Self. But in Kabbalah, we say the world was created with good and evil. We need to clip off all the husks and get the light out of people and through that, rectify the world.
Even when we watch something terrible going on in some part of the world, instead of being overwhelmed, we can each do something right then and there, even if its just making a prayer.
Is there a difference in the way men and women approach solutions to world problems?
Men are more resistant than women because men in the West are trained to be logical. They have less access to their feelings. Women work differently. First, women tend to participate in the groups. Second, men are much more afraid to open up to miracles than women. They feel that they have to solve things by logic and arms and wars. There is a lot of fear to move towards the other knowledge and wisdom.
How do you use this knowledge to heal people?
All of us carry resentment that slowly eats at our bodies and bones. Most of the diseases come from tension. If we have one negative thought, if we judge someone, we immediately tense up. If we have any feelings of hate, we contract. The more we contract, the less room for the light to come in. The blood doesn’t flow. The energy doesn’t flow. In many years, it manifests in symptoms.
It’s important to recognize genetics, where the weak parts of our body are more prone to disease. But with continuous tension, bad thoughts and negative emotions, diseases do surface. I teach people to clean the negative emotions so that person can open their souls to God, to light and to recognize it inside other people.
Can the problems of this region be solved through minds?
I don’t think intellectualism can solve any problem. We need a power that is clearer and stronger than logic. In everyday language, we need a miracle, but miracles are here all the time if we open to them.
Moussaieff, an imagery therapist, perceives women as the primary force in healing violent conflict. A former clinical psychologist in the United States, Moussaieff studied meditation in India and has taught yoga. Returning to Israel in 1976, she studied with a teacher of imagery exercises for internal changes and healing one’s self. Moussaieff, who lives in Jerusalem, is a PhD candidate in the mystical traditions of Kabbalah.
