98: Toward A Meaningful Life with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to author and counselor Rabbi Simon Jacobson about making meaning out of suffering, and understanding your own purpose.
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Rabbi Jacobson talks about how surrendering to a higher power, and relinquishing control over your circumstances gives you an edge on dealing with pain. Unfortunately, we don’t have an answer to injustices writ large, but we can have some hope in giving up control. This change in power can give you the strength to make positive action as a result of suffering.
Duane shares a bit from his past to illustrate how you oftentimes need to let go of the desire to understand why loss happens, because you ultimately will not find the reason. Letting go of that need for a reason can help you to heal and move forward.
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There is a healthy way to channel pain from loss and trauma. You can reinvest your time into healing and supporting other people going through the same thing. At the end of this, it will not be in vain if you are able to help others walk through their darkest moments.
Toward the end, Rabbi Jacobson talks about his academic life and his background as a writer. Interested by the seeming homogeneity across people’s concerns for their lives, Rabbi Jacobson conducted some research into how to actually make your life meaningful. Perhaps, with the right effort, we could achieve a higher state of human consciousness that values meaning over meaninglessness and places high values on human life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My name's Dwayne Austerlund and I'm your host. |
| 0:10.6 | Our guest today is Rabbi Simon Jacobson and he is going to talk about bringing meaning to your life, especially by giving back and helping others, |
| 0:24.6 | and especially during this time of COVID-19 and how we can make meaning out of our suffering by helping others |
| 0:36.6 | and also by seeing how little control we actually do have in this |
| 0:41.7 | world and in this life and by being able to let go. It was a wonderful conversation. I was |
| 0:46.7 | really thankful to be able to have him on the podcast and talk to him. What an incredibly generous spirit. So I hope you enjoy the interview |
| 0:59.6 | as much as I did. And don't forget, if you are enjoying the Addicted Mind podcast, please rate |
| 1:07.1 | and review us in iTunes or share the podcast with a friend. And also think about joining our Facebook group. |
| 1:12.8 | Just go to Facebook and type in the Addicted Mind podcast and click join and continue the |
| 1:19.7 | conversation online. |
| 1:22.4 | Also, don't forget that I'm looking for messages of hope. |
| 1:27.1 | So if you'd like to record a quick two-minute |
| 1:31.5 | audio of your message of hope that can be shared on the podcast, I'd really appreciate it. |
| 1:37.6 | Go to theaddictivemind.com forward slash hope and record your message to others out there who might be struggling. |
| 1:49.9 | Share your message of recovery and it can be your own story. |
| 1:55.0 | It can be a poem. |
| 1:57.0 | It can be a quote. |
| 1:58.0 | It can be anything that's meaningful to you that you think might help somebody else out there who's struggling. |
| 2:05.2 | So if that's a fit for you, please go to the addictedmind.com forward slash hope and record your message. |
| 2:13.9 | All right, everybody. |
| 2:15.5 | Let's start this episode. |
| 2:39.7 | All right, everybody, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
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