Harnessing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind - Rabbi Efraim Stauber

[Music] today I want to tell you about the next mistake people make about you but this is really really crucial this is getting down to the actual doing jouvert of why we fail even after we try to do too but we attempt this is what stops us we make a simple mistake believing that the way I'm gonna do chuva is simply with the power of my conviction my willpower that's it I'm never gonna sin again I'm gonna be good at this thing I won't get angry I want I no more cheeseburgers you know I'm gonna stop the power of the conscious mind conviction is not enough to beat the a to heart for the simple reason that our votes our desires our laziness all the stuff that knocks us down lie in our subconscious minds and the conscious mind is not powerful enough to be the subconscious the Barley Mow sir taught us this long before psychology discovered it the bottom of your briefs also answer the safer country nefesh where they talk about is you have to understand the motivation for our behavior and it's not in our conscious mind it lies in our subconscious mind maybe so Santa gives an example he said take the mid-70s a dime versus the Mitzvah of cheating a business he says everyone doesn't tell us a dime if you're a religious Jew you're so used to doing til it's a time before you eat bread that even if you don't really have the opportunity to design you can't really do it chances are you will ace that one you're not gonna go ahead and eat bread without until it's a dime but in the business world do people cheat each other business are kind of awkward but yeah perhaps you do why is that he says because one is so ingrained in the subconscious mind it's easy I'll tell you a story there was a guy in yeshiva who had milk and people are using his milk he kept in the fridge everyone was taking their milk noise from the coffee and he wrote on a Geneva you know mock beer Gummer can't touch my milk then nothing help kids mind he's just writing that stuff for somebody else you know one day he wrote on the milk call of stomp which means it's not kosher according to the most strict you know no one touches milk after that what that means is that there's a certain subconscious associations that affect our behavior even though stealing is obviously much worse than drinking call of stop milk but it's how we feel about things affect our behavior so until we learn to train our feelings our subconscious minds about our behavior we're going to keep failing in our Trueba kabura we're doing just that let me give you an example of the most powerful subconscious force that can help us and that is simply pleasure and pain pleasure is a subconscious something that we're always looking for and pain is something we're always running away from every time you open the fridge you know you're looking for something you like to eat and you're avoiding the things you don't like to eat broccoli sprouts oh I get that out of here Oh challenge me at it right see you're looking for what you like yo you know you go to ice cream store so amazing display of delicious mouth-watering ice creams which one do I want well I want all of them right but you got to choose you know do you you end up choosing the one you like and you stay away from the one that you don't like if we can utilize that force into Vancouver how it goes like this what scares us is that Aveiro seem very tempting sometimes they're very attractive they seem like they're going to give us a lot of pleasure the thing is what we're not necessarily paying attention to is that spirituality gives us much much more pleasure but we don't necessarily subconsciously feel that we associate pleasures often with sin and we don't associate pleasures our subconscious mind is not trained to feel the pleasure that comes from mitzvahs that comes from activating actualize our deeper self but that's a training that we can train ourselves to feel and I'll just tell you one more amazing thing that the sifri Kabbalah teaches is that the truth is all pleasure even from sin really comes from spirituality because pleasure is something that the soul is feeling from spirituality so why does sin feel so yummy because actually mystically there's a spark a spark of kedusha that is stuck inside what they call the clip of the husk of the sin and when a person performs the sin behaves a certain way what they're enjoying is actually not the sin but it's a spark of kedusha because only kedusha is enjoyable the only reason why we enjoy the sin is because our subconscious mind learns to mistakenly associate the pleasure that we're really getting from the spiritual spark with the husk with the kaliba with the sin itself so it's actually a mistake what we could do is something much better much more enjoyable we could train ourselves to enjoy the spirituality itself that spark but get it in a mitzvah get it some of where it's complete with its unencumbered by any Clippers by any husks and really really much more thoroughly fully and purely enjoy ourselves that's the kind of training that can really make doing truly easy so join us in the spiritual youtube Jabara what we're going to be doing there is focusing on subconscious part of who we are learning how to trade that in a way that'll be effective in doing Chuba so send your email to the Torah Center at gmail.com and join us [Music] you [Applause]