Exercising Your Soul

A fitness program for the soul that offers simple techniques to recharge your spirit and enhance your relationships with yourself, with others, and most importantly, with God. Jansen's engaging, personal style brings to life each of the practices he suggests as he shares his own growth through the disciplines.

Bestselling author and personal trainer helps readers learn a healthy approach to faith, food, and fitness through walking.

"Exercise Your Soul." It sounds lovely, doesn't it? But what does it actually mean? And how the heck do you even begin to do it? And why does it matter? If you are at all intrigued by the notion of exercising your soul, this book will support you to understand, internalize and personalize the practice, by: learning valuable tools to get started, or keep you moving forward, on your personal growth journey; cultivating personal possibility, passion and peace; increasing awareness of areas of your life that are undone and are asking for special attention; being empowered in your own journey; realizing your power to effect change in yourself and the world around you.This is a powerful opportunity where you are invited to participate in your own evolutionary process and neural upgrading by cultivating space to experience a new reality. This happens as you use your tools and implement the great ideas you read and hear about into your actual real, daily life. As you do this, you wake up anew, knowing the GOOD that is before you, within you, moving through you in this very moment. Come Exercise Your Soul with me!

In these pages, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel offers 101 simple exercises for the soul, a divine plan for healing yourself and transforming your life. With his trademark humor and insight, he becomes your “workout coach,” giving you this wonderful series of short and easy-to-apply exercises to help you achieve your potential and live a more peaceful, loving, and fulfilling life. As Bernie writes in the introduction, “Before you know it, you will begin to notice how your life has taken on more meaning and how much better you feel....The Force is with you. Believe me.”

The author offers one hundred exercises for improving the health of the soul, showing readers how to overcome obstacles, create a positive mental attitude, and foster empowerment.

Both physical fitness and spiritual development are popular topics today. This book puts the two together with 48 stories about real people who discovered, often by chance, a connection between their physical activity and their spiritual awareness. The stories are about ordinary people of all ages, from all walks of life, and with all levels of physical fitness and ability. The stories will inspire and motivate readers to be attentive to the spiritual dimension of their own physical activities.

Do you sometimes feel that no matter how much wealth you accumulate, toys you own, friendships you make or physical and mental mountains you conquer, you're still at the end of the day unfulfilled - with a gnawing deep down inside that something is "still missing" or that you're meant for something greater than what you're doing right now? You're not alone. That loss of direction, purpose and deep, fulfilling meaning is absent in the lives of some of the most successful or fit people you'll ever meet.Over the past several years, as Ben has repeatedly witnessed in both himself and others the ultimate unfulfillment of a sole focus upon carnal, fleshly pursuits, and as he's observed great thinkers and philosophers while continually seeking wisdom, he's become increasingly convinced that caring for one's spirit is as important-no, actually far more important-than caring for one's body and brain. But after your muscles have atrophied, your skin has sagged, your brain has degraded and accumulated with plaque, your blood vessels have become clogged, and your nerves have become weakened-long after your relentless pursuit of fitness or health or longevity has become a vain effort-your spirit can be just as strong and as bright as ever. How about you? Have you gained the world yet left your soul behind? Do you feel like that most important part of you - your soul - is shrunken, neglected and unfit? Do you crave for more meaning, purpose and fulfillment in your life? Then this book - Fit Soul - was written exactly for you. Within the pages - written in a practical, easy-to-understand way with tips, tricks, strategies and solutions that will be simple to implement within your own life - you'll discover everything you need to know to care for your soul, attain true spiritual fitness, discover union with God and find the happiness you have always craved for and deserve.