Gevurah she’b Gevurah
Day Two of Week 2:Constraint in Restraint
Examine the aspect of discipline in your life. Is it bounded or is it excessive? Does it include the other six aspects without which discipline cannot be effective or healthy.
Our focus this week is on the sefirah of Gevurah, placed on the body at the left shoulder, which brings us to explore a greater awareness of emotional form. The second day of each week brings Gevurah into the sefirah of the week, so today is Gevurah in Gevurah.
Emotion has to do with the energy behind our feelings. Gevurah is the sefirah representing the form of that energy. Today we wish to delve deeper into the forms which carry our emotional energy. All our patterns, our roles and our creations limit the energy of our feelings, giving them shape. Gevurah limits emotional energy to allow it to find its true form for itself.
We judge habitual limitations to be negative and fight against them, but what we resist persists. To encourage expansion, honour all those forms with which we are able to express ourselves. To step beyond our yesterdays we need to take responsibility for our past choices, finding grateful acceptance of who we are, that we might move beyond them.
To honour the current emotional expression of our energies is the challenge of this day. Such acceptance is the key that frees us from old cycles of expression and experience. When we honour ourselves and our past creations, we bring new flexibility into those forms that they might expand into the future full of Life and endure.