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times of Moses and Pharaoh, when the Creator plation cause brain changes with greater pro-
told him what to do and what to transmit to the minence of neural networks of concentration,
people ... and after the liberation, Israel went its attention, abstraction and verbal fluency?
own way and they did not remember the One Let it be clear: mindfulness is a type of meditati-
who led them out. And even so, like the faithful on; what I propose is to do what is written is the
father that He is, He did not take away either books of Psalms – meditate on its law and be
His love or His correction... handled by its holy spirit in its presence.
Growing hurts, correction leads us to feel diffe- Anyway, now I am referring to the Spiritual
rent emotions, some accept the correction and Dialectic about which David Nehring writes:
others rebel against Him. As David Nehring this reminded me of Bion when he writes about
writes about DBT „radical acceptance“, the idea psychological containment as an aspect of re-
is clear as water, or perhaps it is not just an idea. silience and refers to the capacity to internally
As many of you know, one of the elements of manage the troubling thoughts and feelings and
DBT is mindfulness. There we have to observe, behavior that arise as a consequence of stress.
describe, participate – non-judgmentally and
effectively… And what better management of our interior is
there than when we surrender and follow His
And now I want to present a simple exercise to commandments? – Not as a series of automa-
those who read this: in the book of Psalms there tic phrases, but by understanding the heart of
is concrete and spiritual evidence, showing the God as a father, who is with His children at all
results for those who meditate on its law. Not times, under all circumstances, no matter what
surprisingly, Orthodox Jews, men and above all they do, the father who knows what is best for
women, secular Jews and atheists, from all sec- them, even when they do not acknowledge it or
tors of Israeli society, even from other religions, deny it or forget it... even when they get angry
when they are in crisis, hospitals, alone, aban- with Him, because I am sure that, just like in the
doned, losing faith or also burdened with an- Holocaust, and then in the different difficulties
xiety or suicidal thoughts and more: they read that we have faced in this piece of land, God was
Psalms. always there. Seeing, caring, being there even
The bad thing is that after that they forget and with all the difficulties of their children, feeling
stop meditating on His law... and again I see an their suffering but also healing, blessing them,
association with Moses when he came down restoring them, Israel and all those who have
with the tables of the law... believed in His Name.
Did you know that meditation and contem-

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