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Visiting the Matzo Factory
Part 2
by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

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They were triggering some very old memories and feelings in me that had faded but not died, of being taken in by people and feeling safe. The positive energy level was so palatable that you could taste it. I would like to tell you about one of the memories.

I was with a college friend, Joannie. Joannie lived with her parents in a very small house that looked run down by my ranch house suburban standards. They had a living room with old stuffed furniture, a dining table and chairs squeezed into one end of the living room and a very outdated kitchen. I couldn't even see any appliances.

That night when I went to visit, her mother came to the door in a large print housedress with messy hair, no make up and a voluminous body. Clearly a friendly woman, she gave me a big hug. After we chatted and had snacks, music was put on.

Joannie was a violinist and I knew there was a love of music in this family. As the music filled the small rooms, Mrs. R. jumped up and started folk dancing all by herself -- turning, bowing and spinning. The house was filled with warmth and energy.

I loved watching her and being there. Soon we were all moving and swaying. The rooms seemed to expand to hold our movements. Mrs. R. was a true ballerina of the soul!

When I left and went outside everything seemed cold and empty, almost sterile. I was confused by my reaction, by my joy at being there and my desire to remain. I was confused because in terms of values, at least in external values that I had been taught, her family didn't represent most of them.

It was important to have a nice house with a clean new kitchen and big rooms. It was important for one's mother to wear make up, be thin and have stylish clothes. Joannie didn't meet my standards either. She was ordinary looking and didn't wear make up. She was brainy but that was the only attribute where she met the mold.

How was I to make sense of my internalized suburban (what I now see as shallow) values jarred by penetrating feelings of a positive connection to a person that didn't fit?

Now years later, (after watching my friend's mom dance from her soul, so light on her feet, natural and at ease in her own living room) I was in a matzo factory in a small building watching Russian immigrants working. They too, were unassuming, at ease and they danced with their arms as they rolled the dough.

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Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is the originator of The Enchanted Self. She has been a positive psychologist in private practice and licensed in the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts since 1981. Her book, The Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy, was published in 1997 by Harwood Academic Publishers and is now in its second printing. She has just published her second book on the concept of enchantment: Recipes for Enchantment, The Secret Ingredient is YOU!

Dr. Holstein speaks regularly on radio programs around the country, and appears on television in New York and New Jersey. Her inspiring audio files can be found on the web at Ladybug Live. She also gives lectures, seminars, and retreats on the concepts of enchantment and is currently in private practice in Long Branch, New Jersey with her husband, Dr. Russell M. Holstein. You may find more about Dr. Holstein and her work at: The Enchanted Self

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