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“It’s not how much or how little you have that makes
you great or small, but how much or how little you are
with what you have”
SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH (1808-1888)
Soul Dynamics
Two people were in a boat, and one of them took a drill and began to drill a hole beneath himself. His companion said to him: "Why are you doing this?" He replied: "What concern is it of yours? Am I not drilling under myself?" The other countered: "But you will flood the boat for us both, and then we will both sink." Shimon Bar Yochai, Midrash Raba, Leviticus 4:6
The underlying philosophy behind Kabbalah is simply that the world is comprised of a single entity, but which has the appearance of having been broken into separate beings. All of our problems therefore, whether they be of a personal or collective nature, stem from the same root cause, namely our continual pursuance of an ego-centric agenda, which creates distance and discord because it is against reality's natural flow of unity.
What is Soul Dynamics?
Soul Dynamics is an integrated approach to psychological and emotional health & well-being, which explores the 10 Principles behind all human experience - 3 of mind (wisdom, understanding and knowledge) and 7 of emotion (loving-kindness, self-discipline, compassion, perseverance, humility, commitment and expression).
Soul Dynamics works on the basis that the only moment that matters is the present, what has been, has been, what might be, might be, but what happens now is the only reality. The problem is that we spend our time looking backwards for answers or forwards worrying about the future.
We are often not responsible for what happens to us, but we are responsible as to how we respond. In essence at each and every moment of our lives we have a choice, i.e. we can choose how to frame a situation. The problem is that too often we do not actively exercise this choice, but are slavishly at the mercy of our emotions.
Of course this is not to say that everything that goes on in the world is acceptable or appropriate and that we should thus merely turn a blind eye concerning issues such as social injustice; crime; and poverty as if they don't exist as anything more than figments of our imagination.
However, Soul Dynamics is about helping individuals become more adept at understanding the dynamic interplay between thought and emotion so as to maximize individual potential and thereby ensure that life's challenges can be faced with confidence and fortitude.