The focus of the lower part of the Tree of Life is designed around examining aspects of the personality in order to understand how you operate as an individual. Throughout Qabalah the phrase ‘Know Thy Self’ is repeated. This includes knowing how you take action in your everyday life, how you emotionally react and respond to people and situations, how you think – your attitude – and how you feel about yourself and those around you. This is all part of the journey towards helping our Self

We can begin the process of helping our self by asking:

“Who Am I”?

“What Do I Want”?

Helping our SelfThe first step towards helping our self is considering those questions, and thinking about what it is that we want in life? Do you Know what you want?

Many people don’t.

The journey exploring the Tree of Life begins in Malkuth by asking us to identify our Wants and Needs. We cannot improve our life or work towards achieving our goals, if we do not know what we want.

Something else to think about.

Are your Thoughts your Own?

Of course they are!  I hear you cry.  Who else do they belong to?

There is such a thing as the Universal Consciousness and in the same way you can tune into other people’s thoughts – they can tune into yours.

So, are your thoughts your own?  Are the opinions you hold Yours?  Or do you prefer to let others do your thinking for you?  Look at the world around you.  You are the creator of your own Universe – think about that.

Helping our Self includes taking a break from other people’s opinions (books etc.) and spend some time contemplating on who has shaped our mind:

  • Teachers
  • Peers
  • Parents
  • Government

All of these influences have played a part in shaping our mind.  If we want to change our life perhaps we need to change our thinking.

Know Thy Self is a key message reiterated throughout the practical Qabalah

We can Help Our Self by getting to Know Thyself and Know what We Think

More on the ‘Power of Thought’ can be found in Hod

Useful links:

Getting started with Qabalah basics

Complete series Practical Qabalah Books

Malkuth – Kingdom of the Physical Plane