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Mindfulness
Nurture a Healthy State of Mind
How can we reach the lofty goal – to subjugate the mind and heart to Hashem and to control impulses and desires? Is the heart truly under our control, acting in accordance with directed orders?!
After all, we must not only be refraining from doing wrong but not even wanting wrong. It requires mastery over the stirrings of the heart, not even desiring forbidden actions. The question is profound: Is it possible not to want? To suppress the impulses of the heart?!
A profound secret lies within the folds of the tefillin. Its importance extends across all areas of life, both spiritual and in combating distorted thinking, doubts, and intrusive anxieties.
Today, we will address the great gateway of consciousness: mastery of one’s thoughts.