The Spiritual Foundations of Mental Health Podcast

The Spiritual Foundations of Mental Health

Rabbi Henry Harris
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Jewish wisdom on peace of mind, freedom from anxiety and habits, and personal success. In this podcast, we explore a simple and simplifying truth about feelings, moods, and states of mind. Including, how human it is to misunderstand this truth and thereby struggle and suffer, how human it is to awaken to new understanding and habits, how much wisdom and innocence we already possess (even as we struggle), and how to work and win at this spiritual truth no matter how rotten you feel.
An Overview of the Basics of Change
Change is possible!  It's helpful to review how it does and does not work.
Dec 15, 2022
15 min
What to Do If a Bad Habit Returns?
Does it suggest my prior growth was an illusion?  Must I understand what changed that I was ok with the habit and now struggle again?  No and no, and here's why.
Dec 8, 2022
14 min
The Liberating Gift of Boundaries
When feelings have an unbounded role in helping us determine reality, we can innocently and unknowingly forfeit so much freedom to be and do in our lives.
Dec 1, 2022
18 min
The Myth of Shame
We sometimes associate our feelings of shame with our deficits and imperfections.  In fact, we do possess deficits and imperfections, and they are the badge of our humanity and evidence that we have been tasked by the Creator with a unique and important mission.
Nov 24, 2022
18 min
The Power of the Next, Small, Good Choice
There is a special wisdom available to us in a moment of stuckness.  Are we open to asking, What is the next small good choice I can make?
Nov 17, 2022
18 min
The Bully Within
There is a bully within whose penchant to take credit for our results simultaneously creates despair and shame in the places where we lack results.  This bully arouses judgment of ourselves and those around us and crowds out humility, creativity, and connection.
Nov 10, 2022
24 min
The Main Part of a Test Is to Accept the Test
Both our inner and outer worlds are spaces designed to reveal something of our essence.  What if we are busy judging or resisting those worlds?
Nov 3, 2022
22 min
We Get to Add Light!
There is a corner of the universe called "me" in which I get a front row view of the darkness of this world.  I'm entrusted with the task of bringing there light.  How does that work?
Oct 27, 2022
19 min
Authority vs. Control
Both with our children and with the kid within us, when we can communicate values from a place of equilibrium, we provide a space for the kid to be responsive and influenced.  This is authority and it draws the child higher.  
Oct 20, 2022
22 min
Be Permeable - The Sukka Shows Us How
Our imperfect efforts are designed not to create results but to be permeable to Divine insight and power.
Oct 13, 2022
23 min
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