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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.
You Can’t Run Out of Love
Love is not a mathematical equation. You may need to temper love with boundaries and discipline, but it’s not as if you can run out of it — because it is unlimited.
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Mastering the Challenge of Inspiration Every Day
How do you maintain a “for today” attitude when every day seems the same? Fight boredom with these ideas for daily and weekly activities to master the challenge of inspiration.
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A Simple Guide to Thinking for Yourself
Thinking for yourself (“thinking different”) is a skill that must be developed and nurtured. The following three steps are the foundations of learning that skill and enriching it.
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The Key to a Healthy Parent Child Relationship
You must love, educate and guide your children based on who THEY are, not who YOU are.
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How to Turn Around a Negative Experience
Don’t ignore it. Don’t get get depressed by it. Instead, grow through it.
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If I Am Only for Myself, What Am I?
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the famous quote, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?” In this short video, you can discover the fundamental ideas behind true empathy while looking after your own needs.
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The Government Without God
The government must have the concept of a higher power that we all answer to — “In God We Trust.”
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Your Inner Pilot Flame
Theme: Who You Are When No One Is Looking
What is the driving force inside you? Is it Freud’s Id, or is there something more? According to the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah, the human being is fundamentally a good and Divine creature — and it’s not the Id that drives you, but the soul.
How to Find the Leader in Yourself
Topic: Role of Government
Each one of us has the potential to be a leader. These are the five key features that we can all work on so that we can each direct our own destinies.
Free Will
Theme: Letting Go of Control
The most fundamental concept in all Jewish thought: You have the ability to transcend your circumstances.
How to Stop Hitting the Snooze Button
We need healthy excitement and purpose in life. Without it, we can’t defeat the snooze bar.
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Male and Female: Complementing Energies
There are two forms of divine energy – masculine and feminine; expressive and inwardness. Each energy is important on its own, but even more important together. Each energy must complement the other and work together to create a healthy balance.
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The Magic of One Human Connection
How could one small interaction with one person change your life? Human connections are magical, able to channel blessings and to open doors that you would never expect. Even one word could “tip the scales” of destiny.
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You Are a LEADER
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on leadership.
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Rabbi Simon Jacobson Addressing IDF Soldiers about to Enter Gaza
Rabbi Simon Jacobson addresses the IDF soldiers about to enter Gaza and hands out a special edition of Toward a Meaningful Life in Hebrew to each of them
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How to Raise Healthy Children
We plant the roots with proper values and informed opinions, but we must leave them room to grow and spread their own wings.
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How to Define Your Moral Standards
Theme: Moral Choices
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson as he examines life and offers a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche. Discover how to live a truly happy and meaningful life by using your divine gifts and wisdom to reach your highest potential.
Meet Your Seven Emotions
According to Kabbalah, your seven emotions are: Love, Restraint, Compassion, Endurance, Humility, Bonding, and Dignity.
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The Spiritual Difference Between Bread and Matzah Told in Three Minutes
Bread and matzah (the unleavened bread eaten by Jews on the holiday of Passover) are both made from flour and water — so why are they so different?
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When You Feel Discouraged, Get to Know Yourself
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for an inspiring two-minute video on why getting to know your true self will give you the energy to persist.
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What Does It Mean to Be Holy?
“Holy” signifies being committed to the greater good — acting on behalf of others rather than self. Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short discussion of what it means to be holy. Learn how you can create holiness in your own life.
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How Can I Change My Bad Habits?
Theme: You Cannot Turn Back the Clock
Rabbi Simon Jacobson dissects the anatomy of habits. Citing “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg learn how habits are acquired over time, and what you must do to override these habits in order to overcome your past and move forward.
How to Remember What You Read
Have you ever read through a passage in a book only to forget what you’ve read? Are you frustrated with your ability to retain information? Watch this.
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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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Are You Defined By Your Externals?
Theme: Personality Types
How much can we tell about a person from their external behavior? Can your outer personality be misleading to yourself and to others?
Always Look For The Things You Didn’t Plan For
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the value of fortuitous events — big and small. Discover how to manifest opportunities by paying attention to the things you didn’t plan for.
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Happiness Is Your Essence
Theme: Happiness in Life
Happiness is a state of being, not an acquisition. Your essence is happy, and therefore your natural state is happiness.
Wild Animals Teach Humans About Mutual Respect
Can natural predators teach humans anything about respect? Discover a key to being more respectful and tolerant — with a lesson from an unexpected source.
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Harmony Within Diversity
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson and learn how to look at others as more than just their exterior: as unique souls on a divine mission.
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Facing Your Fear on a Daily Basis
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on the ability to transform a negative fear with a positive one.
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What to Do When You Think Someone Hates You
Topic: Accepting People As They Are
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the healthy, proactive approach to handling situations when someone seems to have negative feelings toward you. Learn how to respond in a way that is not demoralizing or humiliating — while maintaining your self-control and dignity. Free yourself from the toxins of resentment!
If You Want a Positive Life, Start With a Mission Statement
Theme: Personal Rebirth
The foundation of a life based on your positive values starts with a personal mission statement.
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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A Listening Technique to Resolve Emotional Conflict
The next time you get into a heated disagreement with someone you love, try this technique.
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Revealing Your Inner Light
Remember that you are here to refine this physical world, to elevate your specific corner of the world using the unique strengths given to you.
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The Universal Message of Chanukah in Four Minutes
Chanukah is a universal story of moral and spiritual victory, reflected by light prevailing over darkness. Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this quick video on the global meaning of Chanukah.
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Why Do They Hate the Jews So Much?
Throughout history, people have always shown animosity, hatred and cruelty toward the Jewish people. But why?
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The History of Israel in 60 Seconds
Israel in the holy land that was promised to G-d’s children and represents the heart and soul of Judaism.
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Moral Clarity
There is right and there is wrong. When we fight on the side of right – we will prevail.
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Ki Hinay Kachomer Prayer For a Good Life Narrated by Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Get inspired for Yom Kippur. the holiest day of the year with a rendition of the Ki Hinay Kachomer prayer that is deeply inspiring from Yom Kippur prayer services.
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Spiritual Nourishment
Theme: Spiritual Wellness
Do you know the difference between taking care of your body and taking care of your soul? Have you ever stopped to compare the things you do in your daily routine that maintain the wellness of your body, versus the things you do for soul wellness?
How to Stay Young
A short talk on your natural, ingrained source of youthful energy. Everyone has it — you just have to access it!
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Breaking Down the Highest Level of Empathy
Rabbi Simon Jacobson breaks down the highest level of empathy by telling a story of the Mittler Rebbe.
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Why You Should Love Competition
Embrace competition, rather than resenting it — the transformation from envy to healthy motivation is life-changing.
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Your Free, Wild Spirit
Everyone has a free, wild spirit inside herself. Each of us has the right and the ability to be fully alive all the time.
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How to Talk to Someone that Won’t Listen
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short how-to video on how to speak to someone who won’t acknowledge wrong.
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Your Potential is Your Biggest Blessing
Most people do not know how much (and what) potential they have. You’ll see the blessing every time you release a new dimension of your potential.
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Are You Sure You Don’t Have Faith?
Faith is not what most people think it is. True faith is not the absence of reason. It’s neither simple nor childish. So, what is it?
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Create a Butterfly Effect
Theme: Moral Choices
Even one positive act creates a “butterfly” effect that ripples across the world. Do whatever you can to impact your sphere of influence.
The Difference Between the Means and the End
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a quick, clear lesson on the difference between the means and the end.
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The Role of Women in Society: To Transform the World
According to Jewish mysticism, the role of women in society is to transform the world.
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Depression and Anxiety
If you’re not doing what you are supposed to be doing with your life, your soul is going to cry out to you.
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Einstein’s Lesson on How to Think Outside the Box
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, powerful discussion of how Albert Einstein thought about thinking outside the box. Are you ready to “think different”?
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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 Our Obligation to Homeless People?
You pass a homeless person on the street and you put a coin in his or her cup. Is that a demonstration of empathy, or should you do more?
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The Natural You
Do you know who you are? Are you in tune with the real you — the person you were naturally before life wearied you?
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Psychological Damage from Trauma and How to Rebuild
Theme: The Dark Side
No matter what type of trauma you have endured your soul has extraordinary resilience and powerful resources to help you rebuild yourself.
The Transcendent Nature of Songs and Stories
Learn how to communicate from the heart and soul from this short video.
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Is Technology Ruining Your Life?
Join best-selling author Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, frank talk about technology — a wake-up call to get up, get out, and live your life!
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Giving Unconditional Love
Rabbi Simon Jacobson gives a three-minute talk on the spiritual nature of unconditional love, and what it takes to give it.
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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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Know That You Don’t Know
Find out if you are limiting yourself intellectually and spiritually, and how you can harness the power of that which you do not know.
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Choosing Honesty
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on choosing honesty.
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Technology: What Is Our Human Responsibility?
Do you know the difference between taking care of your body and taking care of your soul? Have you ever stopped to compare the things you do in your daily routine that maintain the wellness of your body, versus the things you do for soul wellness?
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How to Be an Emotionally Warm Person
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on how to be an emotionally warm person. Learn the key to brightening and warming your corner of the world.
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Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Stick
Theme: Build the Life You Want
Rabbi Jacobson discusses New Year’s resolutions, and why they probably won’t stick.
Let’s Illuminate the World!
Meaning is the single most important ingredient in a person’s life. Help us continue to give The Gift of Meaning.
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The Real You Is Healthy
Your birthright is a purposeful, healthy inner self. You have probably suffered traumas and been negatively effected by surroundings and events in your life — especially during childhood. But, underneath it all, your true self is healthy.
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What Happens When You Are Overwhelmed
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, clear talk about how to maintain focus on the big picture before you get overwhelmed, and even in the midst of crisis.
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Your Soul Needs Your Body
A three-minute talk about the body’s potential. Using the example of eating a meal, Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains the spiritual value of the body.
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The Value of a Stable Home
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this short inspiring talk about the precious value of a stable home for the soul of a person.
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The Ups and Downs of Life
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on how to live a well-balanced life.
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The Danger of Boredom
Boredom’s power is because it is innocuous, but boredom is a void. It creates a breeding ground of emptiness.
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The Hard Truth About Adulthood
Theme: Smallness Is the Essence of Greatness
As adults we learn how to cover up our emotional immaturity, but it becomes obvious in relationships and during conflict. In this video, join best-selling author Rabbi Simon Jacobson for straight-talk about maturity.
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How to Determine What Is Important to Do
Theme: Essential Life Skills
Do you find yourself distracted from core tasks by less important activities? Are you looking for a simple time-management rule? Diminish time-clutter in your life with this one effective guideline.
Can a True Relationship be Commitment Free?
Join best-selling author and counselor Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, frank discussion about the nature of love and intimacy. Empower yourself to find and maintain the loving relationship that you’ve always wanted.
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How to Find Continuity In Your Life
Topic: Your Daily Life; How to Figure Out Who You Are
You need give yourself the opportunity to transcend the minutiae that clutter your days. You have to go below the surface and think, “Why was I put there?
The Antidote to Rage: Inner Security
The tragic massacre in Las Vegas last night leaves us all stunned, wondering what this world is coming to. It also brings up the question: how to address violent rage and preempt future such acts.
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Who You Are Should Define What You Do
Rabbi Simon Jacobson talks about discovering your true identity. Learn the difference between form and function, means and ends, and how to strengthen your character and assert who you are — your true inner self.
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Real Success Isn’t About You
Topics: Fear of Success; Servant Leadership
When you shift your focus from self to others, you can bypass your mental blocks and surpass your goals.
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Humility is Not Self-hatred
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short discussion on the distinction between humility and self-hatred — discover what self-love really is.
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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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The Spiritual Difference Between Bread and Matzah Told in Three Minutes
Bread and matzah (the unleavened bread eaten by Jews on the holiday of Passover) are both made from flour and water — so why are they so different?
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How to Have a Breakthrough
There are two initial steps to changing the big personal problems that follow you through life.
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Are You Aware of Your Passions?
There is a fire burning inside all of us. It is up to identify these passions and then determine how to best utilize the passion and energy.
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Be Louder Than Your Addiction
What is addiction? What is it that drives us to addictions that wrest away control of our lives, in the first place?
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The Difference Between a Blessing and a Prayer
Join the Meaningful Life Center’s Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this concise, motivating video discussing the distinction between a blessing and a prayer.
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Why Giving Away Money Is Difficult
Money is called “soul-energy” and you can learn to harness that energy in your life.
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Do Your Emotions Fool You?
Topic: Intuition
Join renowned author and counselor Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short talk on the nature of the mind and emotions, and discover how your mind can be employed to guide your emotions.
What the Soul Would Tell You If Would Ask It
If you would ask your soul about itself, it would tell you that it is fully equipped to handle any challenge it encounters.
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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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Be Grateful For the Small, Quiet Things People Do for You
The small, quiet moments and the small quiet gestures that people make are worthy of profound gratitude.
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How to Learn From Your Dreams
Dreams are a doorway to transcending your conventional and habitual thought patterns.
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You Have No Right Not to Like Yourself
Theme: Know Your Worth
You might not feel like you like yourself, but it’s not up to you (or any other person) to decide whether or not you’re worth liking.
A Special New Year Greeting from Rabbi Simon Jacobson
As we prepare to greet and enter the Jewish New Year, let us take a moment to reflect on the strange and unprecedented year now coming to an end.
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Do You See the Good or the Bad?
What is your attitude when you look at yourself and others? Do you look at the beauty, or at the problems?
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How to Communicate Effectively
How do you maintain a “for today” attitude when every day seems the same? Fight boredom with these ideas for daily and weekly activities to master the challenge of inspiration.
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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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Should You Retire?
With a touch of humor, this short talk by best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson, cuts to the core of why retirement might look attractive, but isn’t always the healthiest choice. You never retire from life. Your whole life is valuable — from birth to old age.
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How to Stop Procrastinating
If you pursue your passion, something you can really get excited about, it will give you positive energy to stop procrastinating.
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Divide and Conquer Your Problems
Join best-selling author and counselor to thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this short, useful insight into finding solutions in the midst of confusion.
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The Transcendent Power of Music
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses what happens in your soul when you listen to music.
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Your Role as a Parent: Tend to Your Garden
Children are our garden, and we are the gardeners. We must tend to them and help them grow.
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A Lesson from Trees: Determination
Trees have the innate ability to work around challenges. Likewise, challenge brings out the deepest strengths in a person.
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Stability Equals Inner Security
To be secure, you need to push yourself from a solid foundation.
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The Spiritual Antidote to the Coronavirus: A Call to Action
Let us counter the harmful virus by creating a “positive” virus: commit to doing acts of goodness and kindness, in a “contagious” way — with the power to spread and affect so many people positively, with even more potency than the spread and infection of COVID-19!
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Are You Naturally Happy?
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on happiness.
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A Happy State of Being
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on happiness.
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Choosing to Nurture Your Soul
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on nurturing your soul.
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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 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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Process Is Crucial to Getting What You Want in Life
The most important things in life, especially love, truth, G-d, and soul, require persevering through a process.
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The Body Is Sacred
We must treat our bodies with the utmost respect — a healthy soul needs a healthy body.
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Vanity = Arrogance = Fire
Theme: The Kabbalah of Fire
Watch three minutes of Kabbalah to help you cool the fire of vanity, arrogance, and anger.
Massacre in Pittsburgh: How to Respond In a Healthy Way
Theme: Responding to Tragedy
Join counselor to thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short discussion about how best to to respond to violent acts of hatred.
Children Are Not Born Arrogant
Arrogance is an acquired trait — one that impressionable children often pick up from their parents and adults around them, as well as from friends and other societal influences.
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A Blessing from Simon Jacobson for Renewal
Drawing from extensive knowledge of the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah, Rabbi Jacobson identifies where change starts and offers hope and strength for your journey both inside yourself and out in the world.
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Why You Should Never Say, “Why Me?”
“Why me?” lands people in a downward spiral of negativity. Learn productive alternatives that allow you to turn your bad experiences and pain into powerful, life-transforming changes.
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Basic Soul Awareness
In this short video, Rabbi Simon Jacobson hits upon the fundamental axiom of personal growth — that confidence and the ability to transcend the past depends on truly knowing your inner self.
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The Hard Truth About Grudges
Learn about the mind-trick that might be holding you back from getting rid of your resentments — it’s the first step away from toxic feelings.
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Two Minutes of Kabbalah: Where Do Ideas Come From?
Theme: Your Inner Mystic
Kabbalah teaches much on this subject, and in this video Rabbi Jacobson explains the basic Kabbalistic concept in plain language that anyone of any background can understand.
You Can Suffer Without Becoming a Sufferer
Your past trauma or negative experiences do not define your future experiences — unless you let them. Suffering is a verb — not a noun. It takes work, but you can go through negative experiences without internalizing them.
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Your Birthday: A Spiritual Landmark
Your birthday is so much more than cake and presents — it is a spiritual landmark in time. Join renowned author and teacher Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short glimpse into the mystical meaning of your birthday.
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How to Get Past Writer’s Block
Write with the intention of solving a dilemma. Then you will be able to shift your focus away from yourself (writer’s block is you getting in your own way) to serving the needs of others.
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Why You Should Make Yourself Uncomfortable
Theme: Use Your Weaknesses for Growth
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this short discussion about the connection between adventure, spontaneity, and being uncomfortable. Learn why the discomfort of life’s journey can help lead you toward happiness.
Keep On Going
Even if something bad happened to you yesterday, today is a new day with new possibilities — so keep on going.
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How Not to Dwell on the Past
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short lesson on how to transcend a painful past.
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Your Flaws Are Possibly Not Real
How many of your inadequacies are real? Or, are they really a lack of confidence?
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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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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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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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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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The Spiritual Difference Between Humans and Cows
Learn more about the human soul through this loving, humorous look at how cows and humans are spiritually different.
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A Whole New Take on Joy
A secure person experiences each one of life’s moments to its fullest. It gives you a whole new take on joy: It’s not about doing things to be happy; it is about having an inner joy that is always there with you.
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Before You Get Outraged, Do This
Topic: Role of Government
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Effective communication is the opposite of outrage.
What It Means to Be Honest With Yourself
Being honest with yourself means separating yourself from your personal narrative.
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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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Are You a Giver or a Taker?
A secure person feels secure enough to give, while an insecure person thinks that giving will make him be less.
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Women & Men – Different But Equal?
For a human being to lead a total life, he or she must have both the masculine and feminine forms of energy: the power of strength and the power of subtlety; the power of giving and the power of receiving. Ideally, these energies are merged seamlessly.
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How to Connect With Others: A Seven Step Method
Are you socially awkward, or feeling disconnected from your loved ones? The following seven steps are a proven, time-tested method, based on the Kabbalah’s seven-dimensional emotional spectrum, to improve how you bond with others.
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The Key to Seeing Miracles
When we are aware that there is something unfolding that we do not see, we start seeing concealed miracles emerge.
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How to See Your Child in a More Meaningful Way
Look at the child intently and realize: God has given you this gift to nurture and care for, to teach good habits and the difference between right and wrong. Your attitude toward this child and the sensibilities you impart will be crucial to how his life develops and how he influences others. Parenting tips.
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Education: Shaping Life
This article is an excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”. It emphasizes the importance of moral education for children, and places responsibility on parents and educators for providing that education.
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Four Steps to Freedom
Four steps are necessary to be free from any given “trap” in our lives, all with the help from above.
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Transcending Limiting Beliefs
Have you forgotten how to live a meaningful life? You might be held back by limiting beliefs. Here are concrete, tried-and-true spiritual instructions for transcending a slump.
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How to Handle Loneliness
When loneliness has already got you down, here is how to muster up the strength to transcend it.
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Moral Choices You Can Make Now
Theme: Moral Choices
Morality lays at the heart of every healthy society. An ethical set of values is what creates wholesome relationships and families. Here are a few basic principles that will help you assess your value system.
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How to Improve Your Listening Skills
Whether you are at work, with your family, or among friends, here are four ways to improve your listening skills and relate to others better.
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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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You Have Permission to Be Yourself
When you are not yourself, you are robbing the world of what you were meant to contribute to it.
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How to Express Your Opinion Without Being Arrogant
The following three approaches can help you infuse the way you speak with sensitivity and humility — with practice, you can let go of speaking arrogantly.
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Manifest Miracles With Your Attitude
Why are some people capable of manifesting what they want, and others are not? Is there a secret key to inviting miracles into your life? The key is seeing the extraordinary within the ordinary.
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Can You Make Yourself Happy?
Theme: Happiness In Life
Happiness is the domain of those who don’t take themselves too seriously, who realize that there is a cause greater than themselves and dedicate themselves to that. The end result of a life of giving is lasting happiness.
An Open Letter to the Muslim World
With atrocities being perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Allah — mass beheadings, rapes and murders of women and children, the killings of thousands of innocent people — why do we not hear any voice of protest from any of you?
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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 Anatomy of Fear
The root of fear is the fear of being alone. The answer to the invisible power of fear – the fear of being alone – is to recognize that you are not alone.
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Never Define Yourself By What You Hate
The opposite of happiness is not sadness; it’s rage. Rage is a symptom of emptiness. It is a sign that you don’t know who you are; you know only who you are not.
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Renew Yourself Using Your Inner Mystic
The mystic within us knows there is more to life than what we see as it seeks to find a spiritual connection and to be more fully expressed and engaged with the world around us on a different level.
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The Key to Taking Charge of Your Life
As big as the task of taking charge of your life can seem, three basic practices lay the foundation for doing so.
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How to Work Things Out
These tips are relevant to everyday annoyances, misunderstanding, arguments, and resentments in relationships.
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8 Steps to Building Your Inner Menorah
Some menorahs are made of gold, some of silver, some of plastic. The most profound menorahs are fashioned of flesh and blood, of tears and sweat, of you and I. We are menorahs. It is time to rise and shine.
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Listen To The Flames
Listen to the flames. Listen to your soul. Listen to your children. Listen to others.
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How to Rise to the Occasion
The way to triumph in this battle is to muster the deepest resources of the soul – the enormous, unwavering power of your soul’s natural confident nature – which emerges only in the face of adversity.
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The Protector of Israel Does Not Slumber nor Sleep
We may have been sleeping. But we are no longer. We have been rudely, abruptly and brutally awakened. And now our eyes are wide open.
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How to Personally Respond to Anti-Semitism
Go beyond “thoughts and prayers”. Concrete suggestions for bringing light into a dark world.
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Choose to Keep Your Life Positive
All positive change is precipitated by action. The negative forces of the world and within you thrive on complacency and inaction — if you want to live a positive life, you have to do positive things and think positive thoughts.
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Fighting Evil with Good
Let us fight evil with good. Let us create a true revolution.Let us move heaven and earth with our actions. We have been promised that when we do, we will save the universe – literally.
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Our Response to Tragedy
The response to a gruesome attack, is to channel all our outrage and fury into a spiritual eruption of building an even stronger holy land, both physically and spiritually.
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How to Set Yourself Up for a Great Year
Your new attitude on Rosh Hashana has the power to affect and draw in new energy throughout the entire upcoming year. Here are three ways to start drawing that positive energy down for yourself.
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An Exercise to Find Out Who You Are
Topic: Who You Are When No One Is Looking; How to Figure Out Who You Are
Your answers to the nine questions in this exercise should help you find out who you are and what your purpose in life is.
Five Effective Ways to Show People You Love Them
While you might feel love for someone — like your spouse or your child — that internal feeling of love does not always translate into an external expression of love. If you have love in your heart, let it out! Here’s how.
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Having Intention
If you protect your intentions like you’d protect a small child from harm, you’ll be more likely to succeed at actualizing them.
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A Strategy to Deal With Toxic People
This is how to respond to negativity in a healthy way.
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Where is G-d When I Cry?
There is such darkness in this world, such unbearable pain, such untold suffering. Where is G-d in all of this?
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Enough Water for All
Perspective and insight by Rabbi Meir of Premishlan as to how G-d runs the world and our misguided perception as to how we think the world is run.
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The Value of Adrenaline
One of adrenaline’s positive effects is an enhanced ability to focus, while suppressing annoying bodily functions like sneezing and coughing. It enables you to be so in-the-moment that you are able to accomplish what you otherwise could not, without distraction by your own body.
Read MoreHow Not to Say the Wrong Thing
If we practice silence, humility, and compassion, our words will surely be potent for good.
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What Leadership Is (And Is Not)
By discovering what a leader is not, we can come to understand what a leader is. What leadership is…
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Recognizing and Seizing Opportunities
In order to seize seize an opportunity, you first have to recognize it. While some of the opportunities given to you in life are obvious, others are hidden. What does it mean that an opportunity is hidden, and how can you find it?
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Daily Affirmation: I know what I need. But do I know what I am needed for?
Wherever you go and whatever you do, find ways to use your strengths, particularly to help other people. The daily affirmation, “I know what I need, but do I know what I am needed for?” will remind you to do so.
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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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How to Give Yourself Motherly Love
Whether your mother is present in your life or not, each one of us needs to give ourselves motherly love. Motherly love fosters a sense of security and dignity — and you can give yourself the nurturing that you need regardless of whether your mother gave it to you or not, or is present now (or not).
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How to Settle the Mind
How to settle the mind when you are in the midst of an anxiety attack? These five tips point to how to settle the mind.
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Daily Affirmation: Birth Is G-d Saying You Matter
Topic: Know Your Worth
Whether your parents planned to have you or were surprised by pregnancy, in G-d’s eyes you were not an accident.
Can Drugs Help You To Lead A Meaningful Life?
Can drugs help you to lead a meaningful life? Do they offer true transcendence or momentary sensation?
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Why It Is Good That Life Is a Struggle
As much as we may prefer an “easy” life, and no matter how “perfect” other people’s lives look, the truth about life is that it is a struggle — and that’s healthy.
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Learning From Your Body’s Sensations
Feeling pain or other sensations in your body are opportunities to challenge the way you look at life. They can bring you to the edges of life, allowing you to view it from a new, revealing angle.
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Is Faith Logical?
If you feel distanced from the idea of faith, here is an opportunity to reacquaint yourself with the basics of what faith is and is not.
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How to Transcend Deception
Every day life is replete with dissonance and deception (intentional or not). Identify them and you are well on your way to freeing yourself and discovering truth.
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4 Steps to Accepting Change
We are currently all experiencing daily discomforts and being faced with difficult challenges that cause worry, angst and fear. Are we equipped to deal with these changes and challenges?
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17 New Year Resolution Ideas For A More Meaningful Life
Theme: Build the Life You Want
It’s not worth making resolutions that you won’t keep. Instead, this year try one (or two! or all!) of these new year resolution ideas for a meaningful life.
Four Ways to Transcend Selfishness
Topic: Servant Leadership
Pursue knowledge, give to charity, practice faith, and love unconditionally.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When confronted with a challenge, the best approach to overcome it is to keep moving forward.
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Your Daily Life Is Everything
Theme: Your Daily Life
Using the activities of day-to-day life, you can spark an inspiration revolution for yourself. Your daily life — especially the mundane parts — holds the keys to living a more meaningful life.
Three Steps to a Healthy Home
Your home is meant to be the central oasis of day to day life, a sacred safe space where you can tap in and experience your true inner self, away from the external world. This can only happen when your home is an emotionally healthy space. Here are 3 essential steps to having an emotionally healthy home.
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How to Cope with Grief
Grief is a necessary catharsis for the release and relief of the pain resulting from the death of a loved one. But how does one grieve in a healthy way?
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The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Theme: Letting Go of Control
We don’t always know what is beyond our control what we can do ourselves. Fortunately, the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah has some answers…
3 Daily Declarations that will Change Your Attitude and Behavior
Say these three life-changing declarations every morning and be confident that slowly, but surely, you too can change.
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How to Inspire Yourself
Staying inspired is the greatest work of your life. Here’s how to inspire yourself.
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How to Stop Repeating Your Mistakes
It takes sustained and consistent effort, but it is possible to stop repeating mistakes. Try the following.
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How to Relieve Your Emotional Pain
The following three steps, which come from the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah, are a sure way to not only relieve emotional pain, but to become a better person through it.
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How to Stick to a Schedule
To turn motivation into action, try the following four tactics for sticking to a schedule. They counter the internal blocks that cause many people to fail at being organized.
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What Love Is and Is Not
If you’ve experienced heartbreak after heartbreak and you feel like you are a failure at love, now is the time to discover what love is and what love is not, since it bears little resemblance to the love we see in film and television, or hear about in songs.
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How to Make Amends When You Have Hurt Someone
You, as all people, have been blessed with free will. When you refrain from doing more harm to others, you actively negate the harm you’ve done before.
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3 Inspirational Thoughts to Start Your Day Right
Any job you do, even if it is an motivation-deadening cubicle hell, can and should be a vehicle for who you are.
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How to Listen to Your Inner Voice
Theme: Your Inner Mystic
Beyond all the complexity of life, beyond all our jaded experiences, beyond all the clutter and noise, we each have within our souls a very quiet place – a soft and gentle voice. This is who you are at your purest core.
Vacation or Holiday?
In America we go on “vacation,” however in England and the Commonwealth it is called a “holiday”…
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What to Do When Things Fall Apart
When things fall apart there are three initial steps you can take to start restoring security and order to your life.
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Your Choice: Light or Darkness
Theme: The Dark Side
Psychologically speaking, we need to achieve two things in dispelling the darkness in our own psyches and lives.
Small Moves Make All the Difference
You cannot gain experience without failure. When you take small steps, you are able to slowly and carefully adapt and assimilate healthy approaches by learning from your failures and successes. These small steps help build your confidence and resilience.
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Finding Your True Passion In Life
How can you find your passion in life? You need only look inside yourself: You already have it; you only have access to it. Your very soul is a passionate ball of fire — a burning flame waiting to be released.
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Untrained Addiction: Five Steps to Break Addiction
This article on five steps to break addiction is not meant to replace a program of recovery. If you are an addict, please seek help from an established recovery center, recovery group, or therapist.
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Seven Steps Toward A Life Without Apathy
Learn how to preempt the indifference and complacency that sometimes sets in to your life.
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How to Pray
You were robbed of your own spiritual connection to your higher power. It’s time for you to reclaim it.
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Money Talks. Do We Listen?
The Creator of the market did not create us to make money. The Creator of the market created us to make a difference. Money is a bankable way to do that.
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Quiz: Are You Emotionally Mature?
How much work do you need to do to become emotionally mature? Find out by taking this quiz.
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How to Find Balance in Life
How to find balance in life: Balance your experiences of tension and resolution.
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Fear Is Really About Loneliness
Isolation is the cause of fear. More than anything, fear is the fear of being alone in our painful situations.
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Two Things You Need to Succeed In Life
To be successful in life, you need to be two things: Passionate and humble.
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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 Live on Your Own Terms
One of the biggest obstacles to living on your own terms is the effect that parents, teachers, and the culture at large have had on you. You must look carefully and honestly at which parts of yourself are authentic, and which parts you acquired as a reaction to the outside forces around you.
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The Two Main Things You Can Learn from Your Dreams
What can you learn from your dreams? Is there any merit in dream interpretation? According to the 3000-year-old wisdom of the sages, which presents a blueprint of the psyche …
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Are You Responsible for Other People’s Reactions?
Are you responsible to repress your opinion if it may offend others? In a culture where trigger warnings, safe spaces, and social-media outrage have become part of the common parlance, it can be hard to discern what your responsibility for another person’s reaction is. Is there an absolute guideline?
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Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement
No business can function without a mission statement? Can you? A mission describes the reason an entity — an organization or a person — exists. It lets everyone know what the entity stands for and where it’s headed.
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The Power of a Single Spark
Theme: Smallness Is the Essence of Greatness
What are spiritual sparks, and how do they effect our lives? The 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah reveals it.
Six Ways to Gain Confidence
Every one of us can build and grow confidence. Even if you feel insecure and lack self-confidence, it is possible to work on yourself to acquire it.
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Raise Your Expectations to Achieve More
Your attitude shapes your possibilities. You create your own reality. The cause for our lower expectations is lower expectations.
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How To Vitalize Your Marriage
Building a foundation and feeding your relationship with a steady diet of positive experiences together nurtures and nourishes your connection, continuously intensifying your bond, like glue that attaches two distinct entities.
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Help! I Need A Spiritual Guru!
Finding a spiritual guru takes a lot of due diligence. This is what you should look for in a spiritual guru.
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Will G-d Strike Me With Lightning?
Seven myths and facts about the ancient mystical Jewish view on the relationship between our choices and their outcomes…
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How to Loosen Up
Spiritually, Kabbalistically, your inner child is your soul — your true self. To loosen up, peel away the shell of adult stress that covers it.
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The Original 12-Type Biblical Personality Test
Theme: Personality Types
Here is a template of twelve archetypes, based on the Biblical twelve tribes, to help you discover your distinctive character, and learn to express your unique voice.
What to Do When You Make a Mistake
Theme: Use Your Weaknesses for Growth
These two methods, developed by the Kabbalists, will revolutionize the way that you handle making mistakes.
Three Ideas for Revitalizing Your Relationship
If you are feeling distant from your spouse and like you need to reconnect, the following three suggestions have been proven to work.
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Mindful Multitasking
Theme: Essential Life Skills
Effective multitasking is not doing two things at once. It is focusing on several singular tasks in quick succession from each other.
The Liberating Power of Dance
Dance manifests our natural internal movement. When we freeze up, we muzzle and shackle our inner spirit. When we break out into an unbridled dance, with our hands waving free and our bodies unchained, our inherent inner rhythm is liberated and comes gushing forth.
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Spiritual Parenting
Parents must understand the magnitude of their many responsibilities. Building a true home is a job to be taken seriously — more seriously than the job we go to each day to earn a living. After all, there are many opportunities to make a living, but only one opportunity to build a healthy home.
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The Deeper the Roots, the Greater the Fruits
Trees teach us what the critical components of success in life are: Roots, integrity, and growth.
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The Difference Between Self-Compassion and Self-Pity
Appropriate self-compassion is a healthy dose of self-respect and love, combined with a healthy dose of productive self-critique, balanced out by seeing yourself honestly.
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How To Create An Oasis In Your Life
One of the healthiest things you can do to find balance and harmony is to build a spiritual oasis in your life. The following suggestions can help you to grow solid spiritual roots — on a daily basis, at home — that you can always return to.
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Four Things to Do When Therapy Isn’t Working
Introduce fresh air to transcend “analysis paralysis.”
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Overcoming Fear of Failure
After all, experiencing cause and effect is normal; sitting around paralyzed by fear of failure is not.
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Are You Burned Out On Dating?
Figure out who you are. Take dating slowly. Set your intentions. The feeling of being burned out on dating will pass.
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Your New Nightly Ritual
You must go to the root of the problem. If you’ve tried everything, then the root of your lousy mornings might be the way you went to sleep. It could be time to try a new nightly ritual.
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Quiz: Rate Your Personal Boundaries
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What to Do When You Are On the Verge of Giving Up
The secret is to just keep going. Forge ahead.
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How to Renew Yourself
Theme: Personal Rebirth
Regardless of how burned out you may feel, there are three basic steps you can take to spiritually and emotionally renew yourself. The fruit of your labor will be the return of a sparkle in your eye and the spirit of innovation in your heart and mind.
How to Get Yourself to Work Out
Theme: Spiritual Wellness
Deeper motivation and insight into the spiritual value of fitness can elevate your experience of working out, which will help you develop a positive relationship with it.
Fire of the Soul
Theme: The Kabbalah of Fire
All man’s greatest achievements, his noblest acts, his deepest loves – draw from the soul’s passionate fire.
Does Insecurity Stand In the Way of Your Success?
Theme: Fear of Success
If you are in a pattern of self-sabotage and/or underachieving, it is healthy to evaluate your sense of self-worth and your self-confidence. Our fears, inhibitions, and low self-confidence thrive when we don’t have clarity.
When You Can’t Turn Back the Clock
Theme: You Cannot Turn Back the Clock
What can you do when you have regrets but cannot turn back the clock?
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Pride, Strength, and Kindness When Confronted With Violence and Hatred
Theme: Responding to Tragedy
How should we react to violence and hatred like that of the recent massacre in Pittsburgh? Our outrage is very profound, but productive outrage is not expressed through retaliation or through fear, but through positive action, and ultimately recognizing that there is a calling that we have to live up to.
The Spiral Staircase
A great mystic uses the “spiral staircase” as an analogy for life’s cycles. What today is at the bottom, will tomorrow be at the top. And like a spiral staircase, we turn our backs to the destination just before we reach its peak.