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The problems you find in personal reflection

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[Music] so there's there so every month has its energy and not only that but there's there's groups of months so for example we're it right now in the last group of an energy this energy we're now culminating this month's energy with an energy called reflection it started with a national reflection in Thomas move to through climax is at tisha Bob and then slides in to personal reflection now it's in a minute energy these are energy so that means that you could have been very reflective of our nation and gotten positive results as real as you could have gotten positive results reflecting on our nation's situation during the month of Thomas throughout now that wouldn't be appropriate now the Energy's personal reflections and no one sec normally personal reflection is a disaster it's a disaster like go go try to reflect upon your life while you're in a low mood how you gonna do if you're in a low mood and you decide wow I think I should really investigate how I'm doing in a low mood how are you gonna do horrible horrible you'll probably be on pills within a month there are times to not reflect on your own self there are times like that it's most of it most of this is why Jews make up this weird strange you know percentage of depressed people compared to the nations of the world we have this like I once on number that was like 42% per capita obviously because we make up none of the world population but per capita it's something like 42 percent of clinically depressed people I'm not saying 42 percent of Jews are clinically depressed saying we have 42 percent more clinical depression and the reason that is is because Jews are extremely analytical people that's we're number I know people think we're smart we're not smart we're analytical I know a lot of analytical people to do really stupid things because they're not very very smart it's just very analytical and they make all the wrong choices you know in their analysis but we're very analytical and if you're not analyzing Tara because you're not raised observant or you've dropped out of the tour world so guess who you're analyzing the analyzing yourself which is fine in a high mood but you're not always in a high mood so when you're in that low mood you're gonna get locked in you're gonna you're gonna stay down you know why you stay down because if you try to analyze your life in a low move you wind up in something called the analysis paralysis a low mood is not depression but low mode over time is then the majority of people who suffer the presence of vast majority have no chemical issues and it's and it's it's a crime that doctors prescribed so much medicine to people who are simply over analyzing at the wrong times and all they have to do is learn to coast take their foot off the gas pedal look of analysis and coast and go easy and stop analyzing every thought you don't have to click on every thought have you ever seen news scrolling by on a newt on a news channel on the internet you don't have to click on every story you know you can let it cruise by so if you're in a low mood yeah it's gonna be a horrible day you're gonna have one bad thought after the other but don't click on those thoughts you're gonna have an on analysis day and nad everyone say nad together nad nad say non analysis day when you're low mode you haven't done an elder sister and I rarely have to have that but I just came off of two days longest I've had and write two decades I said to Dana noses Wow not he's I'd to distract myself with it everything I possibly could to keep my thoughts from thinking now I was still thinking but I did not click they're not clear just quickly the bounds like I just I could look at something and give you like a and dissertation on everything that was wrong with it and and why and why the whole world's going to hell and meaning individually each one of us is like you know we're all gonna disintegrate into nothing you know and you know we're all gonna die of starvation and poverty you know like I would have explained it with great deeds though today I have no idea what I would have been talking about because I'm not in that mood now but I did not click on one of those thoughts every time I had the thought I moved on to the next horrible thought but I didn't click on that thought either and just get moving so there's a barrage of terrible thinking but at least it was not drilling into one thought at a time yeah it can't non analysis they Ned and next time that happens just going in now yes no way to change your mood I mean when you're the thick of it not really but once you're on the other side of the real heavy dense part yeah you can do all kinds of cool stuff little extra caffeine of alcohol some loud fun music dancing helps sports should definitely sweat what petition might be a very good actually but to if you really know what you're doing because you got to blow your thoughts out totally like get rid of thoughts meditation with me really the best if you're good at it you can really get your brain to shut down that'd be fabulous help other people that's always good help other people and meaning you're already a lost cause might as well help somebody like take on someone else for a change and you're good at that much yes this guy's like he'll that he learned this I watched you learn it by the way I watched you learn it I watched you at a major shift in your life Nixon is just you were just on what what can I do for others and then I could tell you I can watch I could chart it how your life