To root the One Brain approach in authentic Kabbalistic sources, we need to find parallels in function and concept.

The idea of emotional blockages, split consciousness, and the need to integrate thought, emotion, and action is alluded in the teachings of the Arizal, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, and Rav Shalom Sharabi, among other Kabbalists, each in their own wait.

In today’s world of fragmented attention, stress, and emotional overwhelm, many people are searching for healing that goes beyond just talking. They want real change.

The One Brain Method that I’ve been studying, was developed in the 1980s by Gordon Stokes, Daniel Whiteside, and Candace Callaway, and offers a practical system to identify and release emotional blocks that are stored in the body and subconscious mind. Unlike typical therapeutic models that rely only on logic or conversation, One Brain addresses the root causes of inner conflict (i.e. the energy imprint) by working directly with the body’s innate wisdom.

What is it all about, you might ask?

The Core Principle: Emotional Stress Blocks Brain Integration

The name “One Brain” refers to the idea that when we are emotionally balanced, the two hemispheres of the brain work together in harmony. But under stress, this unity breaks down.

The right brain, associated with creativity and emotions, and the left brain, associated with logic and language, may stop communicating effectively. This creates mental confusion, emotional instability, and patterns of self-sabotage.

Another way of seeing the brain is dividing it into 2 parts: the frontal lobe responsible for thoughtful decisions and the cerebellum at the back for impulsive, survival-based, action.

One Brain seeks to restore communication between the hemispheres (and 2 sides, front and back) so a person can think, feel, and act in alignment and balance.

Muscle Testing: The Body Doesn’t Lie

During the course, I learned that One Brain uses a fascinating core technique known as muscle testing, borrowed from applied kinesiology. The practitioner lightly presses on the client’s arm while they think about a specific issue or emotion.

If the muscle “locks,” it means the body is congruent with the thought. If it “unlocks” or weakens, it indicates a stress response, meaning the body is revealing an unresolved emotional conflict. This allows practitioners to bypass the analytical mind and access information stored in the subconscious. Since the practitioner and patient have an energy bond, the latter’s higher consciousness will communicate with the former in an energy way, and this will be translated in the muscles becoming stronger or weaker.

Muscle testing works on a very simple principle that even deep seated emotions and blockages communicate with the physical body via what is called the “energy body”, a network of electricity and meridians that we use to move. Even subtle energetic imprints can be brought to surface, examined, and rectified.

This muscle testing technique is especially powerful when clients don’t know why they feel stuck or reactive.

Their body does, and the body (or, more precisely, the energy body) never lies.

Age Recession: Tracing the Root Cause

Another of the most important tools in One Brain is Age Recession, which helps identify the age when the root emotional issue was first imprinted. By pinpointing the original memory or emotional trauma often from early childhood or even inherited from past generations, the method helps the individual reframe the experience and release the energy stuck there.

This process is not about re-living pain but about gaining clarity and clearing emotional energy that still controls present behavior. This age recession technique can be traced back to the time of conception of the patient and even in previous lifetimes (gilgulim, or reincarnations), though some Kabbalists nowadays may be opposed to that.

The Three Aspects of Self

It’s important to understand that One Brain recognizes three inner “voices” that are often in conflict:

• The Conscious Self — what we think we want.
• The Subconscious Self — what we emotionally believe is safe or unsafe.
• The Body — which carries the reactions and memories physically.

The goal of a One Brain session is to align these three, so your actions reflect your true choices, not your unconscious fears or inherited programming.

So you might be asking: what does this have to do with Kabbalah anyway?

Let’s find out.

1. Mochin d’Katnut and Mochin d’Gadlut – Arizal

Source: Etz Chaim, Sha’ar HaMochin

• The Arizal explains that the soul operates on levels of “smallness of mind” (katnut) and “greatness of mind” (gadlut). Katnut is a constricted state of emotional immaturity, fear, confusion, and lack of integration. Gadlut is a state of expanded consciousness, when we act with calm, clarity, and alignment.
• One Brain aims to shift the person from katnut to gadlut by resolving emotional blockages and restoring internal order, this directly reflects the mochin structure.

2. Disunity Between Mochin and Middot – Rav Chaim Vital

Source: Sha’arei Kedusha, Part 1

• Rav Chaim Vital explains that the yetzer hara disturbs the connection between mind and emotion. The intellect may know something is wrong, but the heart doesn’t follow. This is a foundational problem in trauma where the mind “knows” we are safe, but the emotional or physical body doesn’t feel safe.
• One Brain corrects this disconnect, allowing true da’at (knowledge that unifies intellect and emotion) to flow.

The essence of a person’s avodah is to elevate the emotional traits to the intellect, so that the intellect will always rule over them.

3. Tikun HaMiddot

It’s a well-know principle that a person must heal and rectify their emotional traits (middot, the 7 lower Sephirot), which are the vessels through which Divine light is expressed. Emotional imbalance causes spiritual blockage.

One Brain’s focus on uncovering early emotional wounds is a form of tikun hamiddot, that is, repairing the inner vessels of the 7 lower Sephirot of the soul, so that its light can shine properly.

Take it or leave it, but I’ve heard from some sources that some practitioners were even able to restore a man’s natural inclination toward women and stop certain obsessive compulsive disorders like overeating and washing one’s hands 100s of times in a day.

4. Releasing Subconscious Pain – Rashash (R’ Shalom Sharabi)

Source: Siddur HaRashash, Kavanot of the Amidah

The Rashash describes internal “dinim” (judgments) that rise from the unconscious layers of the soul and must be sweetened during prayer. These inner judgments come from unhealed spiritual/emotional residues.

One Brain identifies these dinim in real time using the body’s feedback and helps the person release or “sweeten” them consciously, in line with the Rashash’s teachings.

5. Generational Repair – Arizal on Gilgulim and Tikun HaAvot

Source: Sha’ar HaGilgulim, Intro 22

The Arizal teaches that unresolved patterns, especially emotional or behavioral, can be passed down from previous gilgulim (reincarnations) and must be healed in this lifetime.

One Brain’s use of Age Recession and generational tracing directly reflects this Kabbalistic framework.

Each person needs to repair what was damaged in a previous incarnation, or what was damaged by one of his ancestors. This is one of the reasons why we all do the full vidui (confession) even though most of us never committed adultery or theft. It could be some of the previous reincarnations or someone from the same soul-root did that, and for that, we confess.

Summary: Kabbalistic Support for the One Brain Method

One Brain Concept	Kabbalistic Source	Teaching
Brain integration (left–right)	Etz Chaim, Sha’ar HaMochin	Katnut vs. Gadlut – integration of mochin
Subconscious blocks	Sha’arei Kedusha	Middot must be elevated to intellect
Emotional vessel repair	Ben Ish Chai, Derushim	Broken middot block Divine light
Releasing internal dinim	Rashash, Siddur	Sweetening judgments through conscious correction
Generational trauma	Sha’ar HaGilgulim,	We repair what we inherit

How One Brain Differs From Traditional Talk Therapy

While talk therapy can be helpful, it often gets stuck in loops of analyzing without true release. Often, release is thought to have been solved but if it isn’t truly permanent, it can be very problematic in the future.

One Brain focuses on:

• Energetic correction rather than over-intellectualizing.
• Physical feedback through muscle testing to guide the process.
• Integration tools, including eye pattern balancing, affirmations, visualizations, and movement, to anchor change in the nervous system.

Do not underestimate the power of muscle testing. As we learned while working in pairs, there is A LOT that can be uncovered through that.

A Tool for Soul Work

From a spiritual standpoint, One Brain could aptly be considered a method of clearing our vessels, removing inner interference that clouds our ability to act in true consonance with our soul.

For those who integrate it with traditional systems like Kabbalah or Chinese Medicine, it becomes a bridge: a way to bring the soul’s wisdom into the body, and to heal the split between mind, heart, and action.

In summary, One Brain can be helpful for:

• Trauma recovery
• Relationship issues
• Learning blocks and brain fog
• Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
• Unexplained fatigue or chronic emotional pain
• Those looking to align their behavior with their inner values

It is not a religious system, but when used with intention, it can support tremendous spiritual growth.

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