39: Merging Positive Psychology with Jewish Spiritual Teachings | Rabbi Laibl Wolf

On today's episode Rabbi Wolf :

1. Rabbi Wolf's background and introduction to jewish spirituality, positive psychology, and more.

• His dream of sharing with people the merging of positive psychology with Jewish spiritual teachings

2. The expansion of our heart and keeping the body healthy

• Eastern practices may well be important to understand body. In Judaism, the approach to wellness and healing is not just the technology of the body, but also the aptitudes of the soul to be able to express through the soul and body, so it uses the Sefirot

3. The Rebbe's influence on his life

• Story of the Rebbe giving a discourse and before giving it transcending worlds
• Superhuman and ephemeral aspects
• The Rebbe knew your destiny and your soul

4. Jewish teachings on free will

• We can overcome all three Primary influences that psychology maintains - genes, environment and culture, and modeling from parents/home environment
• Jewish teachings that our genes do not dictate our life. We have 100% free will to be able to override our genetic predisposition.
• We can become whoever we choose to become

5. The 10 sefirot

• 3 are expressed in the mind
• 7 are expressed through emotions
• We have this model as a analogue of the cosmos as a whole - it flows through every aspect of creation
• The human is only the finite projection of the sefirot
• Nonlinear and central executive default mode networks

6. The 4 worlds we live in and can we know if were in the others and meditation

• The realm were in consciously is one of time and space. The higher realms have no time nor space
• Praying - enunciating energies as sounds and the sounds are containers for the flow of our mind and emotion. It's the way our neshama (soul), expresses how it gets carried through all the realms through the ein sof.
• Meditation (to become familiar with) common denominator is focus

7. Meditation Functions and the 71 different 'families' of souls

8. Each of our unique gift to contribute to the world

Links and resources:

• https://www.spiritgrowjosefkrysscenter.org
• contact Rabbi at spiritgrow@laiblwolf.com