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The HITCHCOCK Mindset: Why your life has NO "Superfluous Shots"

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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so we're going to talk about mindfulness being present feeling at ease in the moment um based on some spiritual tools and specifically uh from the understanding of the films of Alfred Hitchcock that's at least I hope to with with hashem's help we'll get to that point and if I don't get back to that point I'm not finished yet so remind me to get back to that point yeah we're going to speak a little bit about Alfred Hitchcock yeah because it's going to help us to show up for our lives okay and that that's what we want to do we want to show up for our lives so just a little review uh if if you weren't here or you didn't watch online the first two classes in this series it's not necessary you know you don't need to but uh last week we spoke a little bit about the idea of the spiritual canaries you know the canary in the coal mine the the canary senses the danger the poisonous gas before the miners because the Canary's more sensitive and we spoke about people who are just more sensitive we we described as people who are like uncomfortable in their own skin uh that that existential angst there's other ways of describing it as well you could call it lonely in a crowded room always wanting to be a part of instead feeling apart from

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