The game of your Life.

The game began when you decided to enter the stadium to experience playing.

Like all games, in a stadium. Represented by the physical world in the Sefirá of Maljut.

Your mind.

Your life, unfolding in the present moment—the only moment in which you can live it.

The present moment—the only moment where your life unfolds.

In the “Game of Life,” the goal is to win, but not by defeating another team. Winning here means completing our correction or Tikún, which involves transforming our desire to receive for personal benefit into a desire to receive in order to share and contribute positively. The real challenge is to confront our Yetzer Hará (the inclination to selfishness) and overcome the obstacles that show us what we need to correct.

Through experiences in the physical world, we have the opportunity to transform our selfish desires into an altruistic desire to share and influence. This correction process allows us to open the curtains that prevent us from accessing the infinite light in its fullest expression.

The Yetzer Hará, which represents the inclination to evil or the negative impulse within each person. This opposing team is not composed of external enemies but of our own selfish tendencies and poorly channeled desires. Your Yetzer Hará has the exact measure of your desire to receive for yourself.

Look around you. Take a moment to reflect on what makes you feel uncomfortable or frustrated, observe the situations that repeat in your life, as well as the actions of some people that cause you pain or discomfort.

• Accept what is happening.
• Confront the situations (face them to see them clearly).
• Observe what thoughts and emotions they trigger in you.
• Identify your Yetzer Hará; do not feed it anymore.
• Focus your attention on opening the curtain for the light to enter. Remember that thoughts are just options; choose the right ones.
• Remember that there is a complex system accompanying you, and things do not happen to you but for you.
• Take 100% responsibility. Assuming it allows us to make decisions to free ourselves. While we don’t, we will be slaves to our situations, thoughts, and emotions.
• Living an emotion is feeling it, to understand what it comes to show us.
• Keep in mind that we are learning; not every play will score a goal. That is okay and part of the design of the game of life.
• Remember that only in darkness can light be revealed.
• From there, make decisions. No one will do the work for you.
• Expand your focus: You cannot use the same approach that led you to your current situation to get out of it.
• Understand the internal connection: What happens in your environment reflects what is happening inside you.