237. Why Challenges Repeat: Understanding Your Soul’s Tikkune

Today, we're gonna talk about a very profound, deep Kabbalistic concept.

It is one of the most life-changing consciousness, altering of consciousness that I think one will have in this lifetime.

I remember when I first learned it-

Oh, really?

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it kind of put everything into a new perspective, a new scope, and it helped me understand the purpose of challenges and pain, and even just connection and love in a way that I don't think you could fully appreciate the, the reasons for all of those things in our lives.

So if you haven't figured it out, today we're going to talk about the concept of tikkun, which means correction.

And of course, that word, correction, doesn't probably sound great, but it's really a return.

It's a return to going back to self, really to discover who you are by recognizing the opportunity in the places that you find to be most challenging and triggering.

I don't like the word triggering, but this is perfect.

And people, right? And people.

Right.

And usually, it's in our spouse, our in-laws, our boss, uh-

Our enemies

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the barista, the babysitter, e- this, your workout buddy-

The guy yelling at us-

... or your workout e-

... for running the red light

... like, nemesis.

Yeah.

It's in all of those things where you think, big and small, right? I think part of the issue is sometimes people think it's these overarching things, and if I could just get rid of that one thing, then I would be happy, then I will live the life I want.

But it's also in those little things.

We really don't know why we're here.

Maybe it's to offer one kindness to some random s- stranger, and that's why we had an opportunity to give or not give.