84: Health Series 2: Healthy Thinking for Healthy Eating | Rabbi Manis Friedman

Ebb and Flow with Solomon Ezra

• 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

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