Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra
Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra
Solomon Ezra Berezin
84: Health Series 2: Healthy Thinking for Healthy Eating | Rabbi Manis Friedman
54 minutes Posted May 4, 2022 at 2:00 pm.
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  • How do we get healthy?
  • Mindset aspect of health
  • Attitude towards [seeming] problems
  • Nisah means to elevate
  • There is a cause and effect to everything
  • Relationship with food
  • It’s not by bread alone that man lives- don’t become subservient to the food.
  • Mindset #1:  You’re the master. eating for a purpose
  • Tools to help notice if hungry or feeling stressed
  • When you’re feeling down, you eat which means you’re begging the food to give you life -
  • It’s unhealthy to eat when you’re needy
  • Food cannot give you life, it can maintain the life you have
  • You cannot sit by the table with a sour face - Rabbi Friedman’s mother
  • why do we eat in the first place?
  • Mindset #2: I am Healthy
  • Healthy Mindsets are most important than health [25 min]
  • The question is not about how healthy is the food, rather it’s how healthy are you?
  • Food can be Healthful, but food itself is not healthy
  • Be a healthy person - one attracted to food most healthful
  • Eat for a Heavenly purpose - you are Heaven compared to the food.
  • You are what you eat. What you eat becomes what you are. The objective is for the food to become you, not the other way
  • Spiritual side of Anorexia
  • Eat until you’re not hungry, not until you have no appetite. The hunger has to be satisfied, not the capacity
  • Mindset 3: Approach it with enthusiasm
  • Eat less and don’t be picky
  • Healthy attachments
  • Mindset 4: Flexibility
  • What’s my purpose?
  • Power of words and describing situations