The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions offers a comprehensive approach to spiritual growth by exploring thirteen soul traits, such as humility, patience, and trust, through daily practices like mantras, mindful observation, and journaling. Drawing on Jewish teachings and modern examples, this book helps align daily life with aspirational values, promoting mindful living and personal transformation.
Greg Marcus is a practitioner, facilitator, and innovator of American Mussar which is a 21st-century spiritual practice for an authentic and meaningful life. He has a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and earned his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT. He worked for 10 years as a marketer in the Silicon Valley genomics industry, after which he became a stay at home dad, writer, life balance coach, and biotech consultant. His latest book is called The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar.
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In This Interview, Greg Marcus and I Discuss Spiritual Practice of Good Actions and …
- His book, The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar
- The Jewish Spiritual Practice of Mussar
- Taking mindful action in everyday life
- The Soul Trait of Enthusiasm
- Too much of a Soul Trait vs not enough of a Soul Trait
- The middle way as it relates to Soul Traits
- Focusing on a Soul Trait for 2 weeks
- How to move head knowledge into heart knowledge
- The Morning Mantra
- Picking 1 specific action to take
- Journaling
- The Great Wall of Mussar – and how to overcome it
- Handling significant emotional disruption
- How our free will isn’t always accessible to us
- How to slow the train of emotional disruption
- Shadow Soul Traits
- Inverting the Shadow Trait: What is the light that’s casting the shadow?
Greg Marcus Links:
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