New Life 295 – One Emotion And One Mind
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the connection between emotion and intellect? We consist of desire and emotion. Desire forces our brains to develop new capacities and to create connections between emotions to serve the emotions. This is especially true in groups. As shared emotions created in a group become stronger, collective intelligence will also be developed.

Thus, the main thing is not the quantity or quality of personal achievement, but the connection between them. Then the mind becomes integral, just as nature is integral. Nature is built on relationships. In the measure to which we adapt ourselves to the harmony of nature, that is, when the members of a group are integrated between them, the group adapts to the system of nature and becomes smarter.

The more our emotion and intellect are a result of our connection, the more we will succeed. We must develop connection above the egoism and hatred between us. We can use the friction, distance, and projection in the group as stimuli to connect above them. The gap provides the emotional intensity necessary to connect in a way that leads to greater capacity and an intellectually brilliant result.

Our goal as a team is to treat each as the closest possible people in the world, to envision each other as the most important people. I want to feel what is important to the other person and what will bring them happiness. First, I must study the other and annul myself in order to feel the other. What are his inclinations? What does he hate? What does he love? Each one needs to rise above their ego and cultivate the inclination to fulfill the other in what they want, to do good for them. Second, I must see myself as the greatest of all, someone who is able to fulfill the others and bring them positive influence.

We must then ask ourselves what we really want to do together. We want to reach connection between us, as one man in one heart, similar to the operating system of nature. The purpose of the group is to build an integral sense by which we can feel the entire, comprehensive nature. Then we will know what to advance toward in our place of work and in our family. What do we do in the world and in our life? It can only be done with an integral approach. I strive to help all of you maintain the connection and help all of us to realize our common desire together.

An integral solution is above each one’s individual nature. Our leaders cannot do anything to solve the world’s problems because they do not feel what nature is trying to do with us. We are not the ones in control here. The ego learns through suffering, but through the help of the group, through a common deficiency to solve the problem before us, we will be able to understand what is required. Our common mind evolves according to our common emotion and becomes adapted to nature.

Research has shown that a person’s emotional state has a positive or negative effect on their health. Because I am connected to others, my health is influenced by them. The emotional environment, the quality of the system of connections between people, affects the health of each individual within it. A group with balanced connections helps everyone in the group to feel better and be healthier. Living in balance and harmony—elevating the relations between us to a higher degree—will cause physical symptoms to disappear.

In summary, any decision needs to come from our common emotion, which develops a common mind and intellect between us. Only from such development will we be able to make decisions that are in harmony with the larger system of nature.
From KabTV’s “New Life 295 – One Emotion And One Mind,” 1/26/14

This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman

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