Tips to Help You Leave Ego-Mind and Enter Davvenen-Mind

Tips to Help You Leave Ego-Mind and Enter Davvenen-Mind When we davven we try to enter an uplifting, deeper consciousness, and bring it with us into therest of our day. How can we do this? Let me suggest a process. Try to validate it in the laboratory of your Davvenen experience. If parts of it works, you can do it again. If not, discard it. Prepare The Space For Davvenen I. Strategize to include an hour of nature-devotional, meditational, and/or body focus practices in your overwhelmingly full life. These can all be done in the davvenen mode. It's just a matter of attitude. Consider including a little davvenen to the Rebonno either in voice or internally sometimes when you are alone. Prepare The Space For Davvenen II. Clean and prepare your body and the house well so that you can retreat for an hour. If you can, take a dip in a lake or a pool. Study A Little Torah. Open the book and see what you get. Which book has holiness for you? Prepare And Light a Candle Or Two. Allow yourself to be with the candle for a moment. Come Early For The Service. Before it begins, pray for the ability to be with God with an open heart. Accept Upon Yourself The Rule Of "No Low Priority Talk." No trivialities, no casual "lines". If possible, shift to Hebrew. Increase Your Expectations. The energy will be vast, soundless, echoing, and completely Serve Participate different. "SHMA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-ARespond. A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AStart PreA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A- Read Out, Not In. Davvenen Mantra A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AAddress the totality of the Going. A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-Auniverse. Soon I will be A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-ADuring moments of quiet, Davvenen! A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-Adon't force your mind. Allow the liturgy to speak Fast. for you. Do some kind of partial fast. Eat lighter, speak Give it assent by investing energies into chanting, less gossip, less trivia for an hour before into reading, into silence. Davven with your Davvenen. body as well as your mind and heart. Change The Pace. When The Whole Day Is Over, Say Your Hum a melody slowly. Try to discover your Going-To-Bed Prayers with Tomorrow's melody of the day. Change your clothes. Davvenen in Mind. Choose some items that you never wear except Read the Sh 'ma. Sing the last paragraph of Adon when davvenen. Olam to yourself. Say the verse, "B 'yadkha Give away something or place some money in a afkid rulhi, padita oti Yah, Ayl Emet." by heart designated Tzedakah (chaiity) holding-box. (In your hand I deposit and leave go of my soul. Redeem me, my God, God of truth.) Sit Somewhere Alone, Not Talking. Try to avoid more talking until you wake up in the Do Teshuva (repentance) for the recent events. morning. Let the recent events pass before your mind's eye. In your thoughts, give thanks to God for the day Sift the good from the bad, identify what was bad. up to now. Hold the bad up to God and ask to be forgiven. Remind yourself about the thoughts from the Torah Note if anyone angered you (or vice versa) during which you studied earlier. the past period. Seek them out; ask their Settle into a relaxed sleep, all the while aware that forgiveness. Comfort yourself. You're no you are being held up by "Everlasting Arms". longer sitting in the dentist's chair, sweetie. Breathe deeply, recollect some more. Wake Up To A Davvenen Mantra. Keep Shift your sense to the davvenen mood. The Mantra Going. Practice what Abraham Joshua Heschel calls "The Davvenen spirit will soon be intensifying." "radical amazement" See everyday things for the "The Davvenen spirit will soon be intensifying." miracles they are. "The Davvenen spirit will soon be intensifying." 'Davia 'Wolfe-'B{an{cfrom 'tfie :FirstStep" 6y'R.f,6 Za{manScfiacfiterSfiaiomiwitfi 'Donaftf(jropman,pp.112-113.