How to Combat Pain - Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

and suffering is uh sadly that's where my father's at now he's 85 he should be well should bless him to have no pain in his life but he's uh but it's he's he goes to bed every night with the fear of what's going to hurt tomorrow what's going to happen tomorrow what's going to be the next thing that comes up because your body your body's filled with different systems and those systems have been running for years and years and years and years and they're they're getting tired these systems and the upkeep's getting harder and harder and it becomes a fear of pain and suffering towards the end of one's life this is another reason why we have to work on consciousness because the more conscious you are the less of a body you are meaning that's why the the you have to become the consciousness of your body not your body taking over your consciousness give you an example have you ever stubbed your toe i just saw a guy stub his toe in the mic when i really felt bad for this guy it was like a cartoon his big toe was just like it's like throbbing and and he was just like ah he was his toe when you stub your toe you are your toe it's like your whole being just like folded up into a toe because when you stub your toe you are a toe you've had your back go out you're your back when your back goes up you don't exist anymore you're just the pain in the back you're your back headache you're ahead but someone who has become disciplined in the art of conscious living where you're identified not with the body but rather with the soul which is your consciousness you become soul-conscious and then someone hits the stage of the pain and the suffering well you may have some pain but you can get rid of the suffering [Music] do you think nice people that you can have pain without suffering because you started working on this when you were when you turned let's say you all decide i'll start working on this when i'm 75. you think you think it's gonna work oh yeah if you want to not suffer at the end of your life with when the when these systems are shutting down which can come lead to a lot of pain don't wait till then to become someone who lives with soul consciousness being a conscious person now is your chance this is your chance most people that age if i imagine me you know a consciousness trainer i train people in congress what i do you know besides reaching out to jews i train people in consciousness in my seminars so imagine me going up to an 85 year old and saying my father just me going up to my father and say okay dad we're gonna breathe we're gonna do deep breathing and we're just gonna become the awareness around the pain okay we're gonna be the awareness around the pain my father looked at me like i fell off some kind of star or something like you out of your mind the word is around the men you'd probably mimic me and like make fun of it but you all know that you better be the awareness around the pain or you are the pain you are the back you are the stomach you are the headache you are the stiff arthritic limbs and joints you gotta practice now and every ounce every ounce of every lesson you will ever learn in judaism if you look deeper into it you boil it down it's to get you conscious it's to get you to be focused on the soul you