Thinking has a profound effect. So does not thinking.

When your mind is preoccupied with yesterday's travesties, today's aches and pains, and tomorrow's dark clouds, its brush continues to fill in the blanks.

It transforms daydreams into realities, molehills into monstrosities, innocent creatures into venomous snakes.

Your mind rules your heart, and your heart your body. None of these thoughts are doing your body any good.

It's your mind, and you are in charge. Simply turn your back to them. That's a potent medicine for every sort of illness.

Distract your mind to good thoughts, productive thoughts, thoughts of confidence in the One Who Made You, and especially thoughts of Torah. Speak them out loud. Let them seep through your blood. They will perform wonders.

Heal your mind and heal your soul. You will heal your body as well.

- Rebbe, as adapted by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman for Chabad.org

Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat,

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

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