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Our Mental Delete Button | Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

837 views · Jan 22, 2024

Vayimaen

A lesson on managing intrusive thoughts and self-control.

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[Music] the styler the father of Kim kenki of blessed memory writes in the saer ASAS which was written by Rabbi Yakov Greenwald but he was asking questions to the stier and one of the questions was how does the Mind work in relationship to someone who's got all these Bill bulim confusing thoughts about things he's seen and can't get out of his mind and he offers the following and he offers the following if you don't stay stuck on what you're thinking about then guess what's going to happen your mind is fluid and your mind will come up with a new thought that's how your mind works you're always thinking you can't stop thinking and when I put a pause on what I'm thinking about I can get to something else he says as long as I don't stay fixed on what I'm looking at guess what's going to happen a new thought will pop up on

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  2. 0:30and he offers the following if you don't stay stuck on what you're thinking about then…
  3. 1:00to happen a new thought will pop up on its own so I'm going to share…
  4. 1:30if it's on a phone or a screen I press the delete button and that will…
  5. 2:02about one six of a second a thought is a split second and comes along and…

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