Power to Heal – Baltimore Jewish Week
The following are excerpts from an article about Herschel in the Baltimore Jewish Week by Maayan Jaffe
“Lazaroff explained that there are four types of souls, and each heals in a different way: the conventional soul (this soul responds to Western medicine, drugs), the natural soul (needs treatment with wheat grass, coffee enemas, etc.), the integrated soul (the best of all worlds — a combination of natural and traditional healing methods) and the spiritual soul. Healing of the spiritual soul is the deepest level of healing, and it affects all the higher levels.
“Lazaroff explained that his healing works because he is removing energy blocks. When a person is being tested by God, challenged in some way, he or she can become stuck — and this can result in physical and emotional pain or the inability to move to a next phase in life.
“There is a block in the energy flow. … I facilitate the person removing the blocks,” he said, noting you need to understand who you are.”
Interview with Simon Jacobson
Toward a Meaningful Life with Simon Jacobson
Radio Show Transcript – February 4, 2001
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Jacobson: What about a person who just can’t bring himself to think well or can’t think good thoughts? I’m not looking for a quick gimmick, because I know there’s no quick answer to that, but how do you address that?
Lazaroff: It’s a very good question. The first thing I try to establish is knowing that the entire plan of creation is predicated on good, on love — that everything is good. Chessed olam yiboneh. G-d created everything with goodness and kindness. And that’s the basis for creation.
Now it may be trite to say in all circumstances “this is also good,” (as someone in the past is quoted as always saying: “Gamzu le’tova,” “This too is good”) because how do you see the good in very complicated or traumatic issues that have occurred in our own lives and instances? That’s problematic.
So once you establish that everything has a basis rooted in good, what I want people to establish in their own lives is something called “flow.” Things should go easily. Things should come to you and you shouldn’t have to scramble to make another dollar, to make this relationship always come out the way you’d like it to come out through arduous labor. When you know it could happen and it could come to you because you have this as your goal, then part of the success is knowing that this success is a gradual process and there are ups and downs, that’s part of life.
But by thinking good you accomplish two things: You can actualize your goal and help avoid and mitigate tremendously the number of negative influences in your life. Like a laser. Cutting through the vicissitudes and exigencies in life in order to reach that goal.
Sometimes the outcome may not be what you had in mind, but by thinking good you employ the powers of healing and the accessible forces in the cosmos that can make it happen for us in a very tangible, profound way of revealed good.
Spirituality and Business – with Jerome Conlon
The following is a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Herschel and Jerome Conlon who has directed brand and marketing planning inside Nike, Starbucks and NBC Entertainment at a VP level. He served as CMO for Internap Network Services, Inc. and has consulted with dozens of companies large and small as President of Brand Frameworks, LLC.
Excerpt:
JC: I saw a quote by Norton Simon, the philanthropist, and he has a museum in Pasadena. In the museum there is a quote, in the Asian section, in one of the exhibits and it says “inner growth, more than competition, is responsible for a man achieving his potential”.
HL: And inner growth is exactly what our purpose is in this world. There is no growth without leaving your comfort zone. And serving a higher purpose – serving God – means leaving your comfort zone. So, is there a corporate prayer? There is no corporate prayer. People pray. Corporations don’t pray. Firehouses don’t pray.
JC: (Why is that?) So, do corporations have a soul?
HL: Corporations have a soul. They need the participants of the corporation to feed its soul. The soul of a corporation is its ability to produce what’s called a corporate generic light that fills the world with a sense of honesty, integrity and probity of action that will garner the best good for all. Not the most – all. If you’re serving all consumers, you are doing good.
Now, the corporation has its own inner dynamic that can be even Kabbalistically described as a person. There is a super-rational component, a super-conscious component, and there is an all-encompassing component. There is an intellectual component, there is an emotional component, but the commandments were given to man. Thou shall not steal, thou shall not murder. Corporations are not tried in heaven, people are tried. The corporate spirit is a non-linear transformation of the human spirit within it. How is that so? Since humans make up a corporation, a legal entity, that provides a legal protective unit, and it also is a conglomeration – we incorporate ourselves into being a bona-fide necessary vehicle for the production of products, ideas and systems.
When the entities of the corporation – i.e., the individual people running the corporation have elected to take upon themselves the good of – getting down to basics – the Seven Noahide Laws, believing in God, not committing blasphemy, not to murder, not to steal, no committing adultery, establishing courts of justice and subscribing to the magistrates and the edicts of the courts, and not tearing a limb from a living creature, that integrity of the individual pervades the corporate structure and the corporate consciousness. Then the corporation as a unit has the ability to create a greater goal because the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.