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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: Healing Anxiety & Depression Without a Doctor
Date: 04/14/23 Length: 53:57
Daniel Lapin 0:00
Greetings, happy warriors, and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where I, your rabbi reveal how the world really works. Great to have you along for the show. And thank you, as always, for everything that you have all done in order to help promote the show, make it grow and increase the number of people who are listening. So thank you very much indeed, to those of you who've sent out URLs to friends or LinkedIn to friends or in some way or another helped to spread the good word much appreciated. Now, one of the things that I've often spoken about, and I need to elaborate upon a little bit for you today, is that a great deal of what passes for mental and ease, anxiety, stress, even certain aspects of depression, a whole lot of what many modern people, and this is particularly true for the United States of America, but it's increasingly true elsewhere as well. And that is that the number of people who are turning to mental health professionals, is very high, it's been growing and continues to grow, the number of people who are under treatment or have been under treatment, very high indeed, higher than any other time.
Daniel Lapin 1:40
Now, part of what we have to know is, of course, that the, the money trail explains much as it often does, and that is that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM, the current edition of the medical profession, is it's bigger than it's ever been before. And the number of classifications of mental disorder continues to rise, and continues to grow. Now, the reality is that there really is very little reason for psychiatry, therapy, mental health, very little reason for this to be part of what we think of as medicine. We're very accustomed to it today. Already, we used to it when you know, doctor, so and so is a psychiatrist, Dr. So and so as a psychologist with a PhD. And so we're accustomed to thinking that way. And what's more, the government has absorbed it into the vast industrial complex of medicine, which has been moving more and more and more to become a government function in the United States of America. And so, it's very shocking, I'm sure for you to hear me say what I'm saying, in fact, your first instinct will be to toss it out as the ridiculous ramblings of a deranged mind, but to whatever extent you give me credit, you will at least be open to this idea, which is Yeah. Mental Health has nothing to do with medicine. And medicine has to do with biological processes, things that can be measured, things that are if you like scientific treatments that can be provided. None of that is true. In the mental health professions, there is no objective way to measure all of the diseases, so-called mental diseases that fall into the DSM. And there is no way to solve them biologically or organically. It's another field, what sort of field is it? It's a field of spirituality. That's where it belongs. And so the reason that I speak not of just four F's of family and finance, friendships and fitness, but also the fifth one of faith is precisely because so much of our mental harmony, our tranquility, of stability, all of that is based on spiritual factors.
Daniel Lapin 1:53
There is no way to measure a mental condition because it's not biological. It's not physical. It is a spiritual issue. Ideally, we should have spiritual people to take care of it. But today, rabbis, for to a large extent, congregational rabbis have become social workers and entertainers and schedulers and, and loneliness counselors, just the the original training the part of life, that clergyman of all faiths absorbed and had enabled them to better cater to this. And what's more, the preponderance of medical disorder of mental disorder was much less than it was today, because many of the conditions of modernity contribute to mental unease. And I'm going to talk about one specifically today, which even if, you know, hopefully, each and every one of you is in good shape. But to whatever extent, you are feeling mental stress, whatever you extend to feel anxiety to whatever extent you sometimes find yourself feeling depressed, I want you to contemplate the possibility that the topic of today will help to clarify, and very probably, ease whatever it is that you're feeling.
Daniel Lapin 6:20
And, okay, so what is the topic, the topic is connection through time. Now, we've done a lot of talking in the past, in every area having to do with finances and having to do with fitness, the value of connection with family and friends. And, and unless you are a very new listener, and if you are, I recommend you go back and listen to earlier shows. But unless you are a new member, you got a pretty good idea already of how important it is. To build connections, I've told you about how important it is to actually measure the number of connections you have, because you can't grow or improve or change anything, if you don't have a metric, you don't have a numerical baseline. So building the number of friends you have, we've discussed this really important, connecting with siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces really, obviously important and I've spoken in the past about the Harvard Longitudinal Study, which is, by the way, it's nearly 100 years old now. I think it's you know, think of it three generations and more and counting still going on. The the one thing that when they speak to middle-aged and older people, the thing that makes them happiest, the most important thing in their lives, is, funnily enough, not their physical health, but the state of their family connections.
Daniel Lapin 7:59
And so the reality that so many people in their 20s today are ignoring, utterly ignoring the importance of building family connections, is very scary for what lies ahead. Now, I do lay out in considerable detail, the foundation of family connection in an audio program, which I think you're gonna love. It's easy to download, you can download it right away, and you get a nearly two hours of explanation and teaching, plus a 16-page full-color study guide. And it, it is called Madam, I'm Adam: Decoding the Marriage Secrets of Eden. And you can just download this and listen to it tonight. And the great thing about this is that it cannot help but improve the communication between you and your spouse if you listen to it together. And if you're not yet married, and you are seeing somebody or there's somebody you're thinking about seriously and maybe you're having some challenges making up your mind. Why don't you just listen to this together with them? Madam, I'm Adam: Decoding the Marriage Secrets of Eden. And what you do is you go to our website Rabbi Daniel lapin.com, go to the store section and look for instant downloads. And then you look for Madam, I'm Adam: Decoding the Marriage Secrets of Eden. And yes, it's biblically-based, but that's part of what we're talking about. In other words, who take given taking it as a given that your family connections will become increasingly important to you. They're important now, but in 10 years' time, they're going to be more important. And then 20 years's time, they're going to be even more important, given that's a reality. And if you think about that for a few minutes, you'll see that that's a reality, it'll become clear to you. You've got to ask yourself, you know, where are you going to get more accurate information on the creation, nurturing maintenance of family? Are you going to find that in the psychology department of your local university campus? Or are you going to find it in ancient Jewish wisdom, seen through the Bible? Okay, well, there's an easy way to find out, compare it, right. I don't like telling you, you know, there's nothing I'm telling you you got to do, or you got to believe or you got to think I'm saying, Be open to ideas, explore, and make sure that you're open to ideas that you intuitively might have rejected a year ago, or five years ago. Because unless you can open your ears and your heart to ideas that strike you as wrong, dogmatic, distorted alien, you condemn yourself to perpetual stagnation. And what that basically means is that you become a tennis ball floating down the gutter of life. And that is not what a happy warrior is. And so, head over to Rabbi Daniel Lapin.com, go to the store. And look for more information on Madam, I'm Adam: Decoding the Marriage Secrets of Eden.
Daniel Lapin 7:59
And you'll see there, we discuss really important things such as the importance of being in the mood for marital relations, is that an important thing? Or is that a mistake in modern married life? One needs to know whether you know I'm just not in the mood is that legitimate or not legitimate is a good thing, not a good thing? One has to understand that. What is the difference between a physically mature male human being and a man who is more responsible? When a couple argues and fights the husband or the wife? What is the most common mistake that women frequently make? After children arrive after a child arrives? Even these are all basic and important questions having to do with structure of family. So in the five F rejuvenation program, and I'm sure many of you have already downloaded The Holistic You, which is a free ebook, on the website, The Holistic You, speaking about how to integrate and tie together the five fundamental foundations of life, your family, your finances, your friendships, your faith, and your physical fitness. And we cover that in The Holistic You which you can download.
Daniel Lapin 13:19
So yes, we've spoken about finance. We've spoken about friendships, we've spoken about family, these are things we've discussed. But what I haven't spoken with you before about is the importance for our mental tranquility, to have connections through time. What am I speaking about? Look, these are not things that I suck out of the air. You know, I don't just sit around one day and say, Well, why don't we talk about this? These are very foundational ideas that came to me, through my teachers and the teachers of my teachers and the teachers of the teachers of my teachers in Biblical understanding through the lens of ancient Jewish wisdom, but there are plenty other people who understood this as well. And one of those is Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke, was an Irish English thinker, very influential politician. And in 1790, he wrote a killer book called Reflections on the revolution in France. And He lets us know in no uncertain terms, in many cases, prophetically what devastation will be inflicted on France by the ideas of the French Revolution. But the reason I mentioned Edmund Burke, is because he is best known, I think, for his observation. That's society, our society is a partnership. And now I'm quoting him, not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be worn. Now, in the United States of America today, and in Canada, and in many European countries, we are living in times, that reject the notion of connection to the future. We tolerate a situation where vast numbers of children being born right now as I speak, will have no connection with their fathers. Their fathers were nothing but sperm providers who will never again have anything to do with a child they conceived. That means that more and more people are going to have less and less awareness of the past, less connection to the past.
Daniel Lapin 16:16
Now, one of the things I've told you, and I repeat to you again, if you don't know this, and that is if you are raising children, now. I beg you to make sure that you link them to their past. And you do that through grandparents, you do it through stories, you do it through family history, to make sure that your children have an inbuilt intuitive feeling for where they came from. And the reason to do this is for their mental health. Now, because they are your children, they're your future. And so while you are giving them your past their past, excuse me, while you are giving them their past, they are giving you your future. And if you want to know why there is so much mental distress in society today, a large part of it is because people are de-linked from their past, and from the future. A people that is properly connected to the past, doesn't destroy statues. They don't rename institutions, and buildings and organizations. They don't do that. Because they understand the past is the past. The past has its good aspects. The past obviously has its bad aspects. And think about it - everything wrong, anything wrong in your life right now is the result, most likely, of mistakes you made in the past. So yes, the past can be bitter and painful. Absolutely. But it's still is what links you to the past. A society that recognizes the importance of the future, would not carry out the killing of unborn children. Or as Edmund Burke put it better than I could. Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, and those who are dead, and those who are to be born. And so you have to figure out if your past and your future is in any way neglected. And you're feeling general anxiety, I am here to let you know that there is a very high probability that the reason behind the stress you feel the reason behind the anxiety you feel the reason behind the general depression you might feel is very likely to be disconnection from the past and disconnection from the future. In other words, something that ancient Jewish wisdom knows and understands, and that is tending to be forgotten. And if you gain your education on a modern American university campus, and your worldview is derived from modern academia, you will never hear one word of importance attached to your past and to your future. Because one of the sad aspects of secular fundamentalism, the faith, which now dominates American culture, and that of many other countries, is that only the present matters. Oh, yes. I mean, we're trying to build a utopia for the future. Absolutely. And we're trying to make sure the environment survives for the future. Yeah, sure. But none of this has to do with your being. None of this has to do with anything that you have to do about yourself and your own life. And what ancient Jewish wisdom communicates to you, and you'll, you'll derive a great deal of that from Madam, I'm Adam, the audio program download I told you about, and you'll derive a great deal of that also from the holistic you. What's what's so valuable about this is that they always regard regardless of what your situation in life is, there are ways in which you can increase your connection with the past, and with the future. For one thing, you can explore your own family history. There are even people out there who are specialists, let's say you don't know much about your family history, reconnect with it, are you estranged from a living parent, you out, you may want to think about doing something about that. It'll definitely improve your life. I'm not saying it won't be painless. But the you know, it's like, it's like a very good diet regimen, it's going to be painful, but it will improve your life, right. And so similarly, the same is true in a situation where, you know, unfortunately, you may be estranged from a loving parent, you may not have much time to take care of this. And so, and I'm not saying you weren't in strange for a very good reason. And you know, and I'm sure nobody's perfect. And I'm sure that the parent from whom you're estranged, bears considerable responsibility for that sad condition. But that's not the issue. The issue is your mental tranquillity The issue now is your mental health, your ability to move forward and improve the rest of your life from today going forward. So that's one thing you could do the strength strengthening the connection with parents, how about their parents getting to know more about them, finding a little more about the lives they lead. And it's not always easy to uncover this, but it can be done, it really makes a difference spiritually, in terms of your mental health, because as I said, the truth is that there is no reason whatsoever for mental health to be regarded as a medical condition, because it isn't. Medicine is about the physical body and about science, and your mental equilibrium is entirely spiritual. I understand the political and economic reasons for why the forces, the socio-economic forces have moved mental health into the medical arena. And I understand the huge sums of money involved and what I get all that. But I'm just saying that for your use, for your benefit, and for the improvement of your life, there really is no reason for you to be misled, into thinking that the solution to any mental needs that you feel, can all be solved by medicine, by therapists by prescriptions. No, that's not how it works. And one of the key things, so absent from everything you've been taught ever since you were in school, I mean, if if you were in school, anytime post 1962, the rot had already set in. And all that matters, is you must know that the past is all about slavery. And the future is all about the destruction of the planet. No, that's not the reality. The reality is that you happy warrior, you, you do have a post, and you need to be connected to it. And what's more, you do have a future and you need to be connected to that as well. So for the sake of your mental tranquility, make sure that you are connected to your past to some extent, improve your connection to your past. How about connection to your future? Well, here obviously, the most important mechanism is reproduction. Raising a child having a child and raising a child. It's not the only way. One way is becoming very as influential as you can in the life of a grandchild. You know, maybe connection skips a generation that happens. Susan Lapin and I actually know a number of grandparents who are actually raising their grandchildren. Heroic, by the way, absolutely heroic. But as much joy and beauty and value that the children are getting, don't think it's one way, because the grandparents are getting enormous spiritual and mental powers as well by being able to build such a strong connection to the future. And so even if it's not a grandchild, providing mentoring, to a young person, helping to guide them on the path of life, any way that you can reach forward into the future,
Daniel Lapin 25:53
in such a win, and again, not to be morbid about this at all, but one way of measuring it is to say to yourself, Am I doing something now, that even after I have moved on, to the world of the spirit, there is going to be some human being here on Earth still, who is going to realize that their life was impacted by something, I did something I taught something I gave something I shared. And that's really the concept. This is something that I think, on some deep level, at some point or another, pretty much everybody realizes women much earlier than men, much earlier. Women, they even have a term for it right baby hunger, women start feeling a need for a child, usually much more than men do, but men have it as well. And one of the interesting things that's happening right now as a result of this dawning awareness, because, see, the trouble is that very, very many young people today, even women, have been indoctrinated to believe that they must spend their 20s and sometimes even their 30s building up their careers. And the sad thing is that, you know, not every woman who wants a career ends up as the head of a multinational corporation. Some women who dream of a career end up as cashiers, or waitresses. Yeah, that's the reality. And then the time goes by and they say to themselves, that's weird. No husband, no children. And to be honest, not a whole lot of career either job, yes. Career, not so much tragic and sad. And what, what is happening, what are people doing, particularly, when they discover that, when they want to have a baby, it's not that easy. You know, again, I'm not gonna go into the medical aspects of it. I know a little bit about it, but there's much more reliable information elsewhere. But it has to do with the fact that after a woman has spent 20 years doing her hardest to avoid becoming pregnant, usually, by means of hormone-based medication, the so-called pill, it's not always easy to turn it back on again, particularly, as the years have advanced, because fertility of a woman at 38 is really, really not the same as the fertility of woman at 28. And certainly not the same as the fertility of women at 18. I don't have to talk about men, there are different problems there. But the problems are there as well.
Daniel Lapin 28:54
But here's a very interesting thing. You know, I like to spot behaviors and trends, and then to try and understand how the world really works from those things. Well, listen to this. This is really very, very, very interesting. I'm recording this in April 2023. Right. So in 1999, that's 24 years ago. There were very few surrogate mother births in the United States of America less than 1000. You know, it just wasn't that common 24 years ago, but the figure for four years ago, in 2019, was nearly 10,000 surrogate mothers. So that means that this is a case where sometimes the woman is is having difficulty getting pregnant. But they're able to extract an ovum, and they're able to fertilize it with a sperm. And then this gets implanted in a woman, who is essentially a womb for rent, not room for rent room, W O M B for rent. And, and that's, that's exactly she then carries this baby for nine months and and then gives birth and at some point hence the baby back there is a great deal of inflammation already and I'm sure more became apparent that the process of resting a child away from the woman who gave birth to it, even though the biological DNA is from another woman is not without pain or no, not without consequence. And so...and again, I'm not saying that people should not use surrogacy if it's the only way to have a child. But I'm just saying that everybody must remember that everything comes with a cost, we all have to remember that. And we all have to be able to weigh up the cost because even things that we conclude are very desirable, very good and very wonderful. They do come with a cost. And, and I have been astounded, I've been doing a lot of reading lately on the growth in surrogacy, the number of people, by the way, it also includes would you believe it, this includes very affluent young women who do not want their bodies to go through pregnancy, but they do want to have children. And so they rent a womb, they pay another woman to carry their child to term and to give birth to the child. It's, it's quite fascinating. There are women who have frozen their eggs, again in order to postpone reproduction. And in some of these cases of surrogacy, they are pulling previously frozen eggs out of frozen storage, fertilizing them, and having them implanted in women who have been hired to carry the baby. That's an amazing growth from 1999 to 2019. Right, that's in 20 years. It's gone from 1000, less than 1000 known surrogate births, all the way up to 10,000. Something is going on in society. And it's important that we are aware of it and that we understand what is going on. There's a lot of things more than I'll go into now. But one of the things is clear that people, women particularly but men are also to blame were not listening to me 20 years ago, when I said you are going to want a child, you're going to want a child desperately. That's one of the things that's happening. There's no question about it. 20 years have gone by, and now they're saying oh, he was a real Ayatollah YouSo he was right. Not I mean, not me, of course, but this, this conflict in society, between if you like the wisdom of the past, the idea that people have always known the value of having a link to the future through children, and how damaging it is to your mental tranquility, and how damaging it is to your psyche, to be blocked from the future to have no connection to the future. The people knew that. But over the last couple of decades, there's been an idea that we can remake human beings. And surely it's more rational and more scientific, to devote our 20s and 30s to building our careers. And then we can worry about family after that. Well, that is not so simple at all.
Daniel Lapin 34:21
And you know, on our website at Rabbi Daniel lapin.com, we haven't asked the rabbi column. And although we don't publish, the kind of letter I'm about to describe, it is one of the more common letters we receive, which is where were you when I was 25 years old? Why didn't anybody tell me these things when I was 25 years old? We get that kind of letter again and again and again, and it gives us no pleasure at all. I can assure you. It is very sad. But we're living in a time where the conceit that has swept through society, capturing the minds of men and women, is the idea that values, principles, institutions of the past are irrelevant to today. And so, whereas it used to well be known how valuable family was, and how important it was to raise a child, yes, it's hard. There's no question about it much easier to drop your kids into daycare, much easier to let your kids be raised by a blaring television or a an iPad screen.
Daniel Lapin 35:43
All of those Yeah, absolutely. But for a mother and a father to be dedicated to their children, and to raise them, that's a 24/7 occupation for many years. But this used to be understood to be a source of genuine joy. And now it's been stripped away. And the value that you still accrue from the fact that children de facto connected you to the future, it changed your entire mental perspective, all of a sudden, you in a sense, we're not ever going to be afflicted by death in the same way as other people. Because in a way, you would live forever. That's what I call, that's what being connected to the future actually means.
Daniel Lapin 36:39
Look, I tell you, I tell you these things in the hope that I'm telling them to you in time for your life. And if you have already joined our Happy Warriors community, then it's easy for you to write to me and let me know where things are with you. And whether you are making progress in your five s and above or whether you are connecting to the future. And something else that understanding how the world really works means that you do understand how the world really works, is, again, a simple fact, if you're a longtime listener, you've heard me speak about this before. If not, then I'll tell it to you for the first time. And that is that intercourse is equal to marriage. It's as simple as that. When a man and a woman experienced physical intimacy, the bond that is created is actually eternal. Now, I understand that there is a whole world of hookup culture, where the man and woman don't ever see each other again, or they might continue a relationship for a few months. But both of them understand that there's nothing long-term about it. They might even live together. And they might even smilingly tell one another, oh, we don't need a piece of paper that tells us we're married, we're together. And all that they are really saying to one another is yes, we are together until a better alternative comes along. Because marriage is a lifetime commitment. So this is not so simple. But knowing that intercourse equals marriage, helps to explain the anti-male feelings that have permeated the culture over the last 20 or 30 years. Haven't you wondered? Like, why is it Why all of a sudden is a toxic masculinity? Why is why not toxic femininity? You know, why is it that males are wrong? And we've got to do everything we can for women. So today, in medical schools, the majority of the incoming class each year is women. And you say, Well, that's wonderful. We're making up for the past. Well, it's not really wonderful, because we know for an absolute fact, and these, these are not arguable statistics. We know that on average, women work about 60 to 70% of the number of hours a week that men do in medicine. That's right. Women make quality-of-life decisions. And more often than not, a woman doctor will work usually, you know, four days a week, whereas a man is working five, sometimes six days a week. So yes, I could tell you that it does make a difference to the public health statistics for a country if the majority of doctors that are in medical School and now are only going to be working part-time. But be that as it may, the question is why? Why is there so much anti-masculine feeling anti-men feeling? And I'm going to give you the answer. Now, the answer is very simple. It's sad, and it's horrible. But it's very simple.
Daniel Lapin 40:21
And the answer is that for a few decades already, women have been having physical relationships with men to whom they are not married. Now, please, please understand, I am now not, this is not this isn't I'm not speaking from a moral perspective. Now I'm speaking strictly from a health perspective, a perspective of mental and physical health. That's all I'm talking about here. And so as just as a simple fact, in a way, that was not true in the 1950s, what is true since the started in the 60s, but by 1990, it was well underway. So here we are 33 years down the road. Obviously, a very large proportion of women have had physical relationships with men to whom they were not married, and perhaps never did marry. And what happens in the majority of those cases, those men take off. Sometimes it's the woman who takes off, but more often than not, it's the man who moves on. Again, there are biological reasons for this. They are spiritual reasons. But whatever it is, you've got women who felt a deep affinity to the man with whom they slept. And he moves on sometimes he doesn't even call them sometimes he ghosts them. Sometimes he calls up and says how you doing Miss get together again sometime. But it becomes patently obvious that these are women. And again, if you understand the nomenclature of how the world really works, these are women whose husbands abandoned them after the marriage. How do you think any woman feels whose husband abandons her after the wedding? resentful, anti-man hostile to men? I think yes, absolutely. Totally understandable. Of course, she feels that way. And again, I ask you, men, put yourself as much as possible into the mind of a woman here, who gives herself in physical surrender. And who forms bonds with this man, it's not just a physical thing. It's whether she likes it or not. It may even often be subconscious, it becomes a real and powerful bond. And to her, the fact that it means nothing to him is profoundly painful. It produces so much hurt. And a girl with spirit very often converts that hurt into anger and resentment, that she then decides she wants nothing more to do with men, quite possibly very understandable. How many times does this has to have had to happen to a woman or it turns into anger and resentment. And what happens in a society where now large numbers of women, large numbers of women have been abandoned by their husbands quote, they never they never got married, never intended to get married. In their conscious, willful minds. It was just an affair. It just was a physical relationship. Maybe they thought it was going to become more. And for women, this has always been a tremendously problematic area. I mean, should I have a relationship with Him? If I don't, other women will. And if I don't, he'll walk away. I understand the pressure. But now is not the time for a sociological discussion about society. Now's not the time for an anthropological analysis of the nature of communities and societies and male-female relationships. This is strictly information for you to use in your own life and in the life of those through whom you are reaching into the future. Please, don't leave it to GICs. Do not leave it to government indoctrination camps, otherwise known as public schools. to teach your children about male-female relationships don't do that.
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Realize that it is a simple reality of how the world really works. Intercourse equals marriage. Not morally not legally. So, uh, biologically and mentally, subconsciously, perhaps. But it'll help you understand why it is that something that the man said, Hey, this is like a, a handshake. This is what friends do, you know, we sleep together, that's what we do to the man. For him, walking away is the easiest thing in the world. But to her, it feels like a betrayal of the most grievous kind. Now, don't think for a moment that the man gets away with it as well, I assure you he doesn't. It has a very damaging impact on the man, a sequence of marriages that turn out to be nothing. Another time because we're running out of time that I wanted to devote to today's show. We'll talk at another time about the impact on men. I bet you have some ideas, by the way. And if you do, you should definitely go to Rabbi Daniel lapin.com. And let me know what you think. Or on whatever platform you're listening to this, there may be a place for comments, you can do that as well. Alrighty, so that begins to put us into the landing pattern, we're about to turn onto the downwind leg, and we will be coming in for a landing. So as your rabbi, I asked you to take very seriously, this matter of making sure that in your life, your connection is not only to the present to the people around you, your friends and your family. But it's also a connection to the past and to the future. Let me give you an example here for a moment, if I may. Look, there's an element called potassium. Okay, it's one of the elements in the periodic table, it's a 19th element, that means it has 19 protons in the nucleus, and our bodies need potassium. Now, you can live a full happy, normal life without even being aware that your body needs potassium, as long as you eat a certain amount of beans, and oh, bananas, by the way, avocado, broccoli, it things like that. If you just eat normally, and your diet includes bananas, and avocado and dried fruits and raisins and beans, you're gonna get the potassium your body needs. If you don't get it, if you don't get enough potassium, it's really not good. Because you will have deficiency and it affects your digestive system, even your bone strength, by the way. And if your potassium levels drop, you can have muscle weakness, exhaustion, tiredness, abnormal heart rhythms. Now, most of us don't even think about it. You know why? Because we eat a normal diet. And our diet includes, you know, banana every now and then avocado every now and then beans, you know, the stuff in which your body gets enough potassium. But let's imagine for a moment that you move into a weird commune, that insists on you eating only a certain kind of diet, none of which includes the foods that provide potassium, you're totally unaware of this, right? The analogy is that we have moved into a society now, where nobody tells you that you need connection with the past in the future. And you're in a society when it that nothing provides that you're estranged from parents and grandparents, you're not having children. And so they you are an orphan of time, and you're disconnected. You follow what I'm saying? So, in a normal life, you're not even aware that your being desperately needs connection with a person with a future because it's provided just the way potassium is provided when you live a normal life eating a normal diet. But when you move into another that type of living, all of a sudden, you're feeling tired, and you feeling bone weakness and all kinds of things. And you don't have the faintest idea of why that is? Well, it's because you're not getting enough potassium, you hit it. Well, similarly here, all of a sudden, people start feeling, depression, anxiety, unhappiness, all the classical symptoms of so-called mental disease. And all that's happening is you're living a lifestyle, where normally, connection to past and future is provided, accepting that the lifestyle you're living now, it's not there. And so I am prescribing to you, you happy warriors, I'm prescribing to you, the vital necessity of connection to the past and connection to the future. And if you come up with creative ways of doing that, if you can come up with additional ways of into your connection to the past into the future, do right.
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And let me know, again, you can connect with me at the rabbi Daniel lapin.com. And, and I will make them public through the show. Let people know because there are many people who for one reason or another are not connected to John have children are connected to children. How else what do you do? They always there are things that are ideas that will give you that desperately needed connection to the future, the potassium of the mind, if you like the, the solids for the soul, you're not even aware how much problem how much pain is being caused by your lack of connection to past and future. And so that is what the purpose of this show is. Today, I wanted to share with you the wisdom from how the world really works, that you can incorporate into your life in order to make sure you benefit as fully as possible. And part of that you will remember is get yourself the audio download right away of Madam, I'm Adam. You do that at WWW dot Rabbi Daniel lapin.com. And you go to the store you look for Madam I'm Adam you downloaded and this is something I would listen to together with another person, somebody who is already part of your life or maybe somebody you are thinking of making part of your life. By the way, it's also something that can be listened to with older children, children who adolescence and older it can it again, don't let outsiders give your children their worldview when it comes to male-female relationships. You do that? And one of the ways of doing it without awkwardness and without saying Hey, son, I gotta have a talk with you about the birds in the beat. No, just listen with your child to Madam, I'm Adam: Decoding the Marriage Secrets of Eden. You'll enjoy it and it'll do wonders for your relationships. So until next week, I your rabbi thinking of your ways, as I wish you continued growth onwards and upwards in your five deaths, in your faith, in your family, in your friendships, in your finances, and your fitness going into the past and forward into the future. I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin. God bless you.
