Comment: Research about stress has become very popular today. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin followed 30,000 people for eight years and discovered that stress increases the mortality rate by 43%, but only when the person believes that stress was harmful his body.

As it turns out, the majority of the subjects had narrow blood vessels, but those who were told stress was a beneficial result of threat, blood vessels relaxed and everything was in order.

The scientists reached an interesting conclusion; if during stressful situations you decide to team up with other people, receive the decision to unite with other people, then you create a solid defense against outer influences.

Answer: Of course, that’s natural.

Comment: At the same time, stress kills a lot of people.

Answer: People die from stress because they don’t know how to use it correctly. After all, even in animals a natural protective reaction to stress is to unite, not to separate. People, on the contrary, retire, go into themselves, keep away from others.

At the same time, things become even more restricted, not only blood vessels, but also the ability to think and to make correct decisions. People withdraw into themselves, close, although it should be just the opposite.

Our problem is that we incorrectly use the initial data. We need to be interconnected with each other. And the more we feel a mutual repulsion between us, the more we need to engage in mutual attraction.

It’s about this attitude to life, that the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about.

Comment: In the state of stress, a person begins to work more in the “ I. “ He says, “I am suffering, I feel bad.” He looks for a niche to hide in, or he might try to withstand the stress.

Answer: This is from the incorrect organization of the society. We are not prepared for the fact that now raining down on us is stress, depression, problems with our attitude to the world, to life, to itself, to the home, etc.

We run away from the problems, don’t want to raise a family, don’t want to have children, are not interested in friends, in anybody, and sit alone in front of the computer. A person’s constant attention to his smart phone is a measurement of man’s depression. People don’t want to interact with each other.This is a terrible problem.

Question: Are these pressures given to us on purpose so we will begin to connect to others?

Answer: Yes, of course, the issue will come to an end, either in a good way or through a way of suffering. It could bring humanity to a great war or people will understand that they must unite and adapt the wisdom of unity, the wisdom of Kabbalah, because it very quickly becomes evident that all the other means do not help.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/6/16

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In the News (mignews): “Scientists claim that people who are happy and carefree live less than people who are dismal because a high degree of feeling happiness is crazy and makes a person take unnecessary risk. The researchers found that happiness and even the desire for it – it is bad, it can hurt the psyche, poison life and even reduce its duration. This is according to experts from Yale University in the United States, from the American University of Denver and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This is confirmed by the collected factual material. … Books that give advice on how to become happy are also a bad influence. Readers begin to pursue happiness, suffer failure and as a result feel worse. Scientists advise that one should stop being concerned about happiness and this will bring true happiness.”

My Comment: That is how we become aware that it is a justified but unfulfilled desire that is optimal for existence. The Creator created it so specifically for us to attain the goal of creation.

The desire for fulfillment will never be fulfilled. Above it, we aspire for the unlimited greatness of the Creator, His infinite comprehension, and in this yearning we attain happiness! Kabbalah described the conditions for attaining happiness almost 6,000 years ago…
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In the News (world.crisis.ru): “The chairman of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League Viktor Makarov noted that among presenting problems, as well as traditional addictions, in leading position of patients demands for help right now are: anxiety, panic attacks, insecurity, and fears about the future. And the same fears about the future, more and more are coming to the fore in Europe. Until recently, for residents of developed countries if they had insurance, fear of the future was unknown. Now, financial security cannot protect against problems associated with the destruction of healthy human values. …

“He [Alexander Yuriev – Doctor of Psychology, professor of Russian politics, head of the Laboratory for Scientific policy advice of the St. Petersburg State University] noted that the post-global changes lead to significant changes in consciousness and behavior of modern man. A socially and politically injured person believes that the main condition for survival and success is the ability to show no qualities that could provoke aggression in friends or rivals. A traumatized person tries to hide his emotions: no surprise, no indignation, no joy, no sorrow, no superfluous words. He believes that only complete impermeability gives him peace of mind, security and success. Behind this is the experience of its sharp polarization of society into enemies and friends… . But this tactic of conduct is useless in times of post-globalization: man is ‘defined’ by sites he searches on the Internet, by his circle of friends, by his party, with whom he is connected, and his routes of its transportation around the city, the country, the world – he lives in a ‘glass house.’…

“A.I.Yurev said that fear is displaced by only one – the meaning of life, and the main meaning of life – it’s love. He stressed the direct relationship between of all these factors, the force of vitality, the meaning of life, a person’s goals and values. …

“Numerous problems of the planet suggest that we need a fundamentally different platform, a different outlook on life and approach to psychology. …

“Just as all physical illnesses appear as metabolic disorders, as well, all social problems, mental illnesses are a consequence of a violation of a healthy relationship between human beings. It is the restoration of the right relationships and values that the work of psychotherapists should be aimed. For this, you need a precise definition of spirituality.

“Spirituality is a state of the inner unity of man with the surrounding world, a sense of (or at least an understanding) of the interconnectedness of all created beings as the children and parts of the Most High, the one whole. Spirituality gives the state and feeling of happiness (I – part of the Almighty living in harmony with Him). When this harmony is broken, there is an infinite number of different kinds of problems and diseases. Mental health is the foundation of the physical, psychological, and social health. …

“The social body is sick when the healthy relationships between human beings are destroyed, when the mental health of the people is broken. This can be compared with the liver, kidneys, stomach ceasing to cooperate with each other. Conversely, society is healthy and strong when there is high spirituality – when one takes care of the interests of others as their own interests. …

“Every year, more and more scientists are coming to the conclusion that the world that surrounds us is based on the holographic principle. …

“The holographic principle of the universe means that every part of the universe at any given time contains complete information about all that exists. Scientists have found that every cell in the body at any given time has complete information about the entire body – so that from any single cell the full body could grow. …

“And this connection exists between everything that exists. All humans and animals.

“We are all part of a living unity, even though the physical eye mistakenly consider themselves separated from each other.

“The research results of many modern scholars suggest that we are all part and parcel of a single energy-system, which is the right thing to call God.

“The essence of all religions, all spiritual exercises is to transform egotism (selfishness) in love. Egocentrism (selfishness, self-interest) – is to take care of their welfare. Love – a concern for the welfare of others. …

“We are part of a living unity, we are always connected with each other as part of one organism with the name of God, even though the physical eyes perceive ourselves as separate. When you cause suffering to others, you indirectly cause suffering to yourself – as a part of the body, which causes damage to another part, hurts itself.

“People can easily maintain human relationships with each other as long as they at least theoretically know that they are eternal, that they are the soul, not the body. Even if they do not devote themselves seriously to God, if it committed to only some – for example, older family members. But they have knowledge of his purpose and God. …

“Socialism is good only if there is God. We need to get return to this now… .

“The spirit of consumerism is a disease of the soul, a disease of society. The health of the soul is in finding happiness in serving others. … A consumer society is a society of unhappy people. …

“The body breaks down when the metabolism in the body breaks down. Metabolism in the social organism – is the relationships between people.

“A cell of the body communicates with the body not directly but through the cells that surround us. And we serve God, not directly, but through His particles that surround us.”

My Comment: The thinking man independently comes to the same results Kabbalah has been speaking about for thousands of years. But he will not be able to reveal the method of correction of humanity, only his corruption and what the desirable correction is. Because the correction occurs through the Upper Light, which is controlled only by those studying Kabbalah. And someone that does yet study Kabbalah cannot even understand the working principle of the Surrounding Light. The correction must be done first by the one who studies the method.
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Research (mignews): “To make it easier to overcome the difficulties of life, you need to compare yourself with those who are worse off than you.

“Each of us certainly feels regret. It may be rash acts [that] ensued fatal consequences and unfulfilled dreams. To survive disappointment and envy of those who have achieved the desired, you should compare your success with those less fortunate than you. According to scientists from the University of Concordia, this rule is equally applicable to both the young and the elderly.

“’We learned how people of different ages cope with regrets. One of the most common mechanisms is social comparison, which can be either positive or negative, depending on whether people believe that they are capable to change something. In general, when they compare themselves with those who are worse, they do not feel so bad as comparing with the more successful people, which makes them unhappy,’- told the authors of the study.

“’Emotional stress associated with regrets can cause hormonal disorders and malfunction of the immune system, making people become vulnerable to various diseases. We believe that a comparison of his situation with the less profitable improves emotional well-being and prevents health problems,’ – scientists conclude.”

My Comment: This is the right advice for departing from depression and worry, but after moving from the negative state (the left line) to the positive state (the right line), we must stop ourselves in the satisfactory state (the middle line) to actually weigh and respond to the situation.
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Question: The first human head transplant is about to take place in 2017. How will a person feel after such an operation?

Answer: Similar questions were raised when the first heart transplant was planned, and what has changed? What is so special here?

A head is simply the control unit that manages the body by sending signals so that the body will operate properly, nothing more than that. The body will continue to function as long as the head is precisely connected to the body. I don’t see anything supernatural in it.

How many heart transplants take place today? When such an operation took place for the first time in South Africa, it seemed to be a revolution, but no, they simply placed a new pump to make the blood flow. It is the same with the head.

The head is not an organ that records information. The recording of all the information is in the space that surrounds us and the head is only a modem that connects the body with the space that surrounds us in order to operate the body according to the orders that it receives from there.

All the laws, the records, the information, everything, are stored in the space around us. Our brain perceives this information, processes it, and conveys the orders to the body and thus operates it so that it can perform certain actions besides the general functioning of the body and that’s all.

Thus the brain, like the mind, basically carries out all our egoistic desires. The brain serves the desire.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/20/15

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Comment: On March 20^th the world celebrated the International Day of Happiness. The UN adopted a resolution proclaiming the International Day of Happiness, an initiative of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Answer: Of course, I would like there to be happiness 365 days a year.

There are many days marked on the calendar like women’s day, etc. It is desirable that on these days the whole of humanity plays a special game in happiness: to make everyone happy – for one day. That would be great!

Maybe then we would realize that it is possible. If you just think of how to make everyone happy and everyone else thinks the same about others, happiness suddenly appears. Happiness doesn’t exist in the world but it suddenly begins to appear from somewhere, and the whole world becomes imbued with this cloud of happiness.

If that happened, we would all create a cloud of happiness together, which would engulf us, envelop us, and we would float on it and feel that we are in paradise.

The chain of happiness that would return to a person would reveal to him the positive force that is concealed in our world, which we cannot feel because we don’t resemble it. But if we behaved as described above, we would generate happiness from our world and begin to use it and live in happiness.

Then a person would consume only 20 calories a day in order to live and even less because the force of happiness would permeate him and fill him. This would be the strongest source of energy.

Gradually immersing ourselves in this state, playing with happiness, we would attain eternity and most importantly become immortal. After all, what actually kills us is the state of unhappiness that our egoism brings us.

The wisdom of Kabbalah offers us to be happy and shows us how to do it. So I am for true happiness 365 days a year.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/20/16

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Comment: Many studies have been conducted about happiness. Scientists claim that happy carefree people live on less than gloomy people. At the same time, many studies conducted by the Yale, Denver University, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem indicate that books about how to be happy actually bring the opposite. The readers of such books acquire a lot of information and begin to chase happiness, but this chase doesn’t lead to success and they begin to feel even worse.

Answer: The pursuit of happiness eventually leads to misery if one cannot attain happiness. If a person feels even slightly dissatisfied, he is already miserable.

If happiness came down to a weekend fishing trip or getting a ticket to a football match, it would be possible to attain happiness, it would be within reach. But if you’re running after some transcendental happiness, it can be found, and is possible, but how you attain it is unclear.

From the perspective of the ego, our whole life is a totally empty chase because happiness keeps evading us. We run after it, but it keeps getting further and further way. We still chase it and it draws even further way. This is how our life ends without attaining happiness.

Therefore, there are many things that satisfy people today: there are drugs, sports or other temptations like programs on the Internet or TV, and there is no need to chase happiness. A person can watch a football game or a program and feel happy.

Moreover, the public opinion is the same belief that happiness is right within our reach. One day you have a drink after work, the next day you can meet with friends and another day you can go out and have fun with your kids.

This means that our life is arranged so that a person would be satisfied and feel good without problems. It is like injecting different types of drugs to people, a emotional, spiritual, or informational drug. This gives the person the opportunity to calm himself without thinking about more lofty matters.

Comment: Still, there is a hole in this theory since depression is on the rise.

Answer: The hole is not because the media are trying to suppress any desire to something that is sublime, but because our ego keeps popping its head crying out: “What is the point?!” Here the media are invited to hit it on the head with a hammer so that it will lower it again.

As Baal HaSulam said, the most important thing for us is: “to float unknowingly in the streams of life as we have always done,” meaning that a person wants to take his mind off this question and continue his life without thinking.

But the fact is that the means we have to suppress our egoism or its fictitious filling is limited. We have nothing left but to listen to what it is mumbling about the meaning of life. In any case, we will still have to answer this question correctly without clogging it with all sorts of false goals and content.

As a result, humanity will awaken from the false feeling of euphoria brought about by drugs and anti-depressants with a great groan around the world, which will be sure to lead it to find the true meaning of our existence.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/17/16

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Comment: Scientists from the University of Grenada in Spain have found that depression is a much more serious and complex problem than we had thought. It is clear that depressions can become a reason for various diseases, ranging from diseases of the heart and blood vessels to cancer.

Answer: Depression can be found as the basis for most disease, suffering, sickness, torments, and the like.

The essential substance of human nature is desire. Unfulfilled desire arouses a sense of dissatisfaction. And a particular degree of dissatisfaction is even felt as torment, to the point of becoming unbearable agony, driving one to suicide, if only to be rid of the suffering.

Depression is the foundation of all problems and its results are revealed on the material level in the cells, in the body, and in everything else. Depression is not only transmitted to other people but also to household pets who are also currently receiving antidepressants.

A kind of depression “belt” has been created around the Earth that influences everyone, even people who are thousands of kilometers from the centers of depression of particular countries feel it.

All of the people on the face of the earth are in constant connection through the higher system that doesn’t satisfy us fully because it expects a particular movement toward it from us. It is possible to move toward the higher system that must fulfill us only through union between us, through resembling it. Without uniting and resembling it, we don’t draw to ourselves the possibility of being fulfilled by it. So the “faucet” is seemingly closed and we are unfulfilled. However, our ego is growing at every moment and puts us into a greater depression.

Question: Is it possible to say that depression is a call from the higher system to approach it?

Answer: It is a call for us to understand that it is up to us to discover the method of fulfillment.

Question: Are we heading toward a generation of intense depression?

Answer: I think that it will not be the entire generation, but a large part of it. Moreover, humanity will enter into such a depression in which people will dream of how to die. They will want to go to sleep and not wake up and will ask the doctor for a such a pill.

Question: But we are now inventing lots of antidepressants….

Answer: That won’t help. We cannot bypass the development of the ego; its lack of fulfillment provokes depression in us. So we constantly increase the dosage and consume stronger and more effective drugs.

Question: What kind of antidepressant will work?

Answer: The only thing that will help is the attainment of a sensation that will fill our inescapable emptiness, our unfulfilled desire. And it is only the Upper Light that can give this. We have already reached this situation.

Question: What is this Light that will become the best remedy against depression?

Answer: It is the feeling of the meaningfulness of existence, the attainment of this meaning supported by ascent to the level in which your desire will be fulfilled by a feeling of connection with everyone, a feeling of the one and only integral system that is full of the Upper Light. The Upper Light will give us this kind of fulfillment, which will bring about an absolute bond with all other creatures and ultimately with the higher power, the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/11/16

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Question: Scientists have found the “Achilles’ heel” of cancer. They have discovered how to fight the disease with the help of the immune system that identifies and annihilates the cancerous tumor.

Answer: Cancer is a cellular system gone out of control. In principle, all of our cells can become cancerous. Functioning correctly and in balance, each cell both absorbs and gives. It absorbs everything required for its own functioning, but it functions only to strengthen and support the entire system of the body.

The main role of the cell is to work for the benefit of the others, and it only receives for itself that which it needs in its existence for the sake of others.  That is how all of the systems in nature operate, except for humans, and our minds.

So as soon as we begin to think only about ourselves, our system starts slowly being “impressed” by our thoughts and desires, and so the same program is excited at the cellular level then the system begins to devour everything for themselves without giving the others anything. This is the principle of the formation of a cancerous tumor.

We swallow everything for ourselves, and that is how humanity becomes a cancerous tumor on the body of the Earth. Our planet is wonderful, but we see what is happening on the levels of the still, vegetative and animate. Everything preys on everything else, and it all is derived from the human level.

Even in the Torah, it is said that, from the moment that Adam sinned, everyone began to devour each other, and before then everything existed in harmony. Since the sin of Adam, the cancerous tumor began to spread, and ultimately we have reached a state in which humanity is devouring itself.

Question: Based upon this explanation, is it possible to find a cure for cancer?

Answer: Certainly, but not on the level in which we exist. Every problem is solved on a level higher than the level in which the problem itself is found. From there a signal comes down that instructs the lower level. Therefore, it is up to us to solve the problem of our relationships with one another.

Once the relationships between people become mutual, beneficial, and humane and we are connected into one beneficial system, then all of the systems found on a lower level, and our heart and intellect, will return to normal, and everything that exists on Earth will calm down. As it is written, “And a wolf shall live with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie with a kid; and a calf and a lion cub and a fatling [shall lie] together, and a small child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6), and everything will exist in harmony.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/9/16

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Question: Does a person cause illness and suffering for himself?

Answer: It is impossible to say that suffering comes to us as a punishment. We must look at it as a revelation under the influence of the Light of more egoism within us. The Light, being a certain distance from the ego, shines on one, but doesn’t enter it so the ego feels suffering.

The closer the Light gets, the greater the pain. The person begins to think about how to avoid this pain, how to protect the ego from it, maybe even get away from it, to let the mind go and not think about anything. Masses of people take drugs, consume alcohol, or immerse themselves in various fields like: science, art, sports, and so forth; the main thing being to escape and not think about the meaning of life!

The Light is what brings us the meaning of life. We begin to understand that without the pain we wouldn’t begin this journey. All that remains for us is to take one step toward the Light so that it can enter into us.

If I search for a method to become free of suffering and to tell me how to find the meaning of life, I come the wisdom of Kabbalah. After all, those who come to it only come because they feel emptiness in this world. They have already experienced all kinds of problems, pain, and failures in previous incarnations, and even in this lifetime they mainly experience suffering from emptiness.

Question: A few years ago I became ill with a serious illness. This suffering led me to study the Bible and then the wisdom of Kabbalah. But this suffering no longer hurts me like it used to so I just about don’t pay attention to it. Can I become healthy?

Answer: There is no problem, just continue to do this so that the Upper Light will come closer to you. All problems are derived from the fact that it is standing in front of you but cannot enter.

Question: Does this mean that if I approach it willingly, the suffering will be reduced?

Answer: No. It will only gradually change in quality because there is a need for it. This is so that the movement toward the Light will not weaken. After all, we are egoists. How else is it possible to work with the ego? One can only poke it with a sharp stick , which is called a “stimulus.”

So it is said that a person advances being equally thankful for the bad and the good, and this means that he is advancing correctly. No matter where they come from, after all, in any case they are coming only from the Creator because “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). If a person is equally thankful for these influences, he will not deviate from the prescribed path and will advance directly toward the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/3/16

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