Show Notes:

• relating our episode to Yitzchak digging wells of his father Avraham


• what are the servants of Yitzchak? Thoughts, speech, action


• observing and thinking


• The servants must know their master


• Who is your master?


• Know where you’re going to be healthy


• what it means to be “in alignment with Hashem?” Less about me


• Beyond my “self”


• Affirmations and Positive thinking


• Miracle of affirmation is: I say I am okay even though I think I am not


• Power of positive words and act of smiling


• 14:30 - Dig to the living waters (neshama) through the servants, which can move the soul to a better place


• 16:30 - Don’t stop doing


• The amazing effect of song


• 18:15 Never wait until something is right before you let your servants do their work


• 20:00 intermittent fasting


• Cause and Effect with eating


• Is food giving you life or are you putting the food to its use? Who’s the recipient or the actor?


• 28:40 Eat by conviction, not by taste buds


• 31:00 Story of Reb Shmuel Munkus


• Every now and then break the habit of what you’re eating


• 36:00 Practicing a little self respect


• Awareness helps... even if not immediately


• Having what to eat is a blessing and a reward


• 38:40 What did I do to deserve this meal?


• 46:20- 47:05 Joke about an atheist


• Foundation of mindfulness when it comes to food


• G-d said to eat


• Never be a servant to a servant