The Art of Serenity: Peace of Mind - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all the ideas of each class are based on one principle and that is you create your present reality with the thoughts that you think right now we mentioned a number of times there's the word mind what does mind stand for i look at it as an acronym it's russia tavis it's abbreviation for memory because we all have memories of all our grateful moments plus we all have memories of our highlights in our life when people who remember their highlights live with the highlights as their personal reality right now especially in the series we focuses a lot on joy self-confidence courage those qua positive qualities when your memory of your positive qualities now helps you to be with those traits right now even if statistically you've been in negative states more often than positive states but as you your memory is in the positive moments of your life that is what you create as your present reality i stands for imagination the eye of a mind stands for imagination everything about the future is your imagination because it's only a picture in your mind and the past is your imagination even if it really happened because whatever happened in the past is only the way you subjectively view that now a lot of times people will say i'll look at rough situations they'll say i'll be able to look back later on and laugh now you don't find it that funny but later on you realize there's something funny there's something humorous about it so imagination people with a positive imagination

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1. 0:26all the ideas of each class are based on one principle and that is you create…
2. 3:38but they also have a lot of inner peace a lot of serenity a lot of…
3. 7:23nucleus and nephesh day of peace of mind now is it possible to observe shabbos and…
4. 11:06that inner trust in the almighty because if you live in a world of meaning it's…
5. 14:53now the good news is that since we're not siamese twins we can always go away…
6. 18:37a little upset about that i have to pick up the little pieces but wow i…
7. 21:51it the more you practice the better you get at it and that's the first sentence…
8. 25:31usually be more serene but it's possible to have one without the other so patience and…
9. 29:15and in gateway to happiness introduction i write no two people read the same book and…
10. 33:00there's a statement it was a verse but yeah me colonel king solomon was the wisest…

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