Festival of Lights! Illuminations for the year.

I want to share - Rabbi Yitzchak Schwartz powerful Chanuka Meditations:

*******These meditations are designed to harness the unique power of bringing light into darkness--that is available to us in many ways on Chanukah--to draw from, into the rest of the year

A. WHAT YOU DON'T SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

Yisrael's gift to the world is to glorify what cannot be measured and seen.

Scan the highlights of your day, week or life. Repeat (in a mantra fashion)over and over, the following statement, "The hidden aspect of this is _____". Allow answers to come to you until you open up the dimension of hidden glory as much as possible

B. OHR GANUZ --THE HIDDEN LIGHT

While looking at the candle[s],squint your eyes and focus on the lines that radiate out. In your mind's eye, extend those lines endlessly from one end of the universe to the other. While you visually extend the lines, also conceptually extend the lines, and see the entire span of your life and all the lessons that you can derive, as well as the span of history and it's lessons...

C. 'AIN BRAIRA' ---THE POWER OF 'NO CHOICE'

Identify one challenge in your life, that you have no choice other than to somehow miraculously succeed, despite impossible odds working against you. Project with absolute clarity, how, with Hashem's help, you overcome and succeed. Continue in this way with other such challenges

D. THE 'PARATROOPER' PRINCIPLE

Focus on areas of life, past, present or future, that are presently sunk in darkness, [ie...confusion, stuckness, impossible challenges...etc..], whether it be your own darkness or that of others. Fill yourself up with the light of the Shechinah---ie...Feel yourself surrounded and filled up with G-d's loving, caring and nurturing Light. Now begin to shine that Light onto the people and redeemable parts of yourself that are trapped in the darkness until you begin to sense that they are liberating and elevating

May our lights shine forever bright!