Soul Gym
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.
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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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What Is Trust?
Trust is the absolute conviction that goodness will prevail, and that we have the power to make it happen. This conviction comes from the innermost recesses of our souls.
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Do Something Crazy
Through prayer, meditation, and going outside your comfort zone to grow and learn new things, you can “go crazy” in a way that transforms you for the good — without driving you mad.
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How to Free Yourself from Your Problems
Are you so “stuck” that you’ve stopped trying to get rid of your problems and have given up? Have your problems caused you to lose respect for yourself? There is a four-part path to freedom from your problem or problems.
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Finding Oneness In Diversity
We are all one: Together we comprise a single organism whose various cells, limbs, and organs complement and complete one another.
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The Only Way Out Is Through
Strong means that at the moments of your deepest shame and discomfort, whether it is at work or in your personal life, you stick with it and solve the problem. Do not give up. The only way out is through.
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Leave Your Past Behind
How can you leave your past behind? You must have a vision for the future. Without a vision for the future, you will gravitate toward the things that controlled you in the past.
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How to Make Your Actions Matter
If you can expand your world to include what you cannot explain or understand, you’re on the way to making your actions matter. How? Read on.
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Why Is the World Fighting Over the Temple Mount?
What is it about the Temple Mount that causes the whole world to fight over it? Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short talk about the Temple Mount, and learn about its mystical and historical significance.
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Strength in Vulnerability
Do you have to close yourself off to be strong? The Kabbalistic tradition teaches us that the opposite is true: Strength and vulnerability are not opposites — they work together in synergy.
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Although I am not Jewish, I always enjoy Simon Jacobson’s material. I am terribly dismayed to see that so many people can not look past the “religion” to see the deep, complex universal teachings that are practically relevant to every human life. I have learnt so much from this amazing modern scholar!
-Ismiallh