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GROW INTO THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE
Practical insights and step-by-step exercises for personal growth and self-mastery drawn from 4000-year-old wisdom of Kabbalah.
Each week at the Soul Gym, we address a different aspect of life, including: relationships, anger, anxiety/depression, identity, self-esteem, balance, self-discipline, empathy, making mistakes, and prayer.Â
Redeeming Negativity
For most of us, negative feelings and experiences are something we are taught to repress or to react to. A revolutionary idea is to, instead, use negativity for positive ends.
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Meet Your Seven Emotions
According to Kabbalah, your seven emotions are: Love, Restraint, Compassion, Endurance, Humility, Bonding, and Dignity.
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Bad Mood Remedy: Commitment to a Cause
Join Rabbi Jacobson for this short, inspiring video discussing the importance of commitment, and how it can help you to transcend your perceived personal limitations.
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The Problem With Being a Good Person
Join Rabbi Jacobson for this short, inspiring video discussing the importance of both being and doing when it comes to being a good person.
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Anything Beyond Survival Is Spiritual
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the sphere beyond material existence — without bringing religion into it. Discover what spirituality is, and how you probably are having more spiritual experiences than you realize that you are.
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Humiliation: The Spirituality of Embarrassment
Discover why nothing is wrong with you, and in fact why it is quite positive, to feel humiliated. In Judaism, enlightenment does not come from being indifferent. Rather, experiencing embarrassment is a sign of being emotionally healthy.
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Do You Live a Life of Quiet Desperation?
Staying in our comfort zones leads to what Thoreau called “lives of quiet desperation.” “Quiet desperation” is when we begin to resign ourselves to the circumstances of our lives.
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Why You Should Let Go of Control
Most of the greatest explorers, entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders have embraced the unknown, the uncontrollable. They have been willing to dive into the uncharted, and see what it is all about. That’s what makes them truly great. They embrace it all — the mistakes and failures along with the successes. If you want to become a greater person, find the beauty in not having all the answers. Celebrate the mysteries.
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Is Fashion Avant-garde?
While the innovations of the soul are unlimited and eternal, fashion choices are limited by what is available.
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What Is Health?
Spiritual wellness goes hand in hand with properly-practiced medicine and preventative self-care. Your body’s health is optimal only when you also are nurturing your spirit — your purpose, your values, your vision.
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