Living With Emunah (Part 225) - Selective Memory is the Key to Happiness

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and is your home different is the energy different is your children different is your husband different is everyone around you and everything different more wrinkles oh boy cannot take responsibility for that you can blame me for a lot of things but your wrinkles i don't think are among them so we spoke last time all about simha being a choice happiness is a decision it's not an emotion and the science that you're not happy and then you smile when you smile then you're happy and the energy that we put to the universe is what comes back to us and we walk in a room negative abyss and a miserable complaining then people pull back from us they don't want to be around us there's a tension and negativity between us nobody wants that negative energy and when we make the concerted effort to smile then good things happen because people want to be around positive people people want to be around smiles so someone sent me an email i'm not going to tell you who it is because i don't have her permission but she writes the following since the end of the amount of class today was about

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