The Open Door

During the Season of Repentance the Gates of Heaven open wide for our prayers. We do an examination of conscience  – confessing our errors, asking forgiveness of others, as well as forgiving others who have brought pain to us.  We repent – making a turn back to spirit, truth, and the path of Life. 

Here is a Yom Kippur Imagery Exercise from Colette Aboulker-Muscat, abridged; the full exercise can be found in Simcha H. Benyosef’s Empowered to Heal: Therapeutic Visualizations Drawn for the Lunar Months.

THE OPEN DOOR 

• Close your eyes and breathe out three long slow exhalations.
• Imagine the two hands of God removing from you envy, rivalry, and hatred. 
• Breathe out one time and imagine the two hands of God opening for you the doors of prayer, law and tranquility. Let the doors close. 
• Breathe out one time and imagine the two hands of God opening for you the doors of good deeds, charity and compassion. Let the doors close.  
• Breathe out one time and imagine the two hands of God opening for you the doors of repentance, forgiveness, and redemption.
• Sense and feel the exultation and the dance of joy coming from having passed through these three doors. Sense now the blessing of the light.
• Breathe out and open your eyes.