Why Do I Feel So Scattered?
BS’D
Some days feel focused. And some days… everything is pulling at you.
Your mind here, your energy there.
That scattered feeling isn’t random— it’s often emotional overload. The brain can only hold so much before it fragments attention.
So this is what I try:
I choose one thing—and stay with it.
Not because it’s everything… but because it brings me back.
By Tzvi Freeman
Your soul is full of words, some inscribed, some engraved.
The words inscribed on your soul are like ink upon a page. They came to you from the outside, from life and its experiences. Eventually, they may fade and fall away, to be replaced by other words.
The words engraved are of the soul itself—just as engravings are no more than the form of the stone. When the soul finds quietude, those words are there. If the soul is in turmoil, or soiled by experience, those engravings need only be cleaned and uncovered. But they can never be torn away.
Those same words that are engraved in your soul are also engraved in a holy fire within the depths of the Soul of All Things. They are the words that Moses heard and inscribed on stone and on parchment. They are the words of the holy sages of Torah who found them within their own souls.
Immerse yourself in the words of Torah, allow them entry to touch your soul. Listen quietly, and you will hear those same engravings resonating within your soul.
This Time It's Different
The 7 Steps That Resolve Life’s Biggest Challenges
One of the biggest turning points in life happens when we stop obsessing over changing other people…
…and start asking:
“What might Hashem be trying to teach me through this situation?”
That shift changes everything.
Here’s a process that has helped many people experience breakthroughs that felt almost miraculous:
1.⏳ Find a quiet place alone, free of distractions, with a pen and paper.
2. ✍️ Write out the challenge clearly, along with your thoughts about what the people involved could do to improve the situation.
3. 🙌 Now make a different assumption:
Perhaps this challenge entered your life by Divine design in order to teach you important lessons you need to learn and internalize.
With that possibility in mind, begin writing down every lesson or insight that comes to mind.
4. 🤝 Go through the same exercise with a trusted friend, mentor, or therapist — someone who genuinely cares about your growth and will be honest with you.
5. 🗓️ From your list, choose the lessons you are ready to genuinely work on implementing over the next 30 days.
6. 🧏♂️ Choose an accountability partner you can check in with regularly to help keep you focused and consistent.
7. 🙏 Finally, ask Hashem to help you let go of the exhausting urge to control or change others before things can improve.
Focus instead on what you can grow from, heal, strengthen, and change within yourself.
🔥 The results people experience when they stop trying to control others and start focusing on their own growth can be truly life changing.
🤩 Very often, when you begin changing in healthy and meaningful ways…
everything around you starts changing too.
💡 Today’s Tanya | One Powerful Takeaway
25 Iyar
You are not standing in empty space.
You are standing inside a miracle
that has not stopped happening.