How to Protect Your Energy as a Sensitive Soul

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

So, you know here at the this channel, this YouTube channel called Soul Words, we often speak to a type of person that I call a sensitive soul. And whatever that means to you, whatever those words mean to you, I'll tell you briefly what it means to me. We're talking about people who struggle with embodiment, which everyone really should struggle with embodiment cuz it's a weird thing to think of boundless light, which is your soul, being plunged into this meat suit, this very confining, constricting suit, this very confining, constricting container. And then being like assaulted with this onslaught of physical stimuli. Now, if I sound like a wacko right now, you're probably in the wrong place or at least this is the wrong video for you. But if this resonates with you and you're like, "Yeah, actually, I know what you mean. Existence in a body is weird and uncomfortable." Um yeah, so I'm talking to you. And we're going to speak about today, and I'm speaking to myself as well because I I I don't come about this because I I I don't come about this academically. I have personal experience with 51 years of trying to negotiate through this weirdness called being a soul in a body. Okay. And and God should give me good health and I should have many more years. And by the way, that was not It was not always that I could say that so easily cuz embodiment was something that I considered to be a real liability. But um part of my spiritual journey has been appreciating the uniqueness of being in

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1. 0:00So, you know here at the this channel, this YouTube channel called Soul Words, we often…
2. 2:33know, there's all types of stimuli, physical stimuli. Some people have really good eyesight. Some people…
3. 5:07uh declining invitations to go out and about, uh to attend uh social functions, just to…
4. 7:42is that you needed to go for was worth it. And and also you're cognizant of…
5. 10:17I don't have a name for this personality type, but um I well, I do have…
6. 12:49Pretty sharp pattern recognition. It almost seems like they're psychic sometimes, right? So they can often…
7. 15:24want it to to use it. They want it because it represents something of value that…
8. 18:00"I'm done." You said it in a polite way. I know it's hard for us to…
9. 20:34have trouble with um changing gears. And to get focused on a task, like writing an…
10. 23:07important things to get about getting to know somebody is to get to know their limitations.…

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