Free Yourself From Suffering With “Soul Setting,” A Must-Read Guide to Healing

Soul Setting: Listen to Your Soul Instead of Your Mind by Levy

There are a plethora of self-help books about changing your mindset, but what would happen if the paradigm shift occurred on a deeper level? What if instead of setting your mind on something, you set your soul?

This is the premise of Soul Setting: Listen to Your Soul Instead of Your Mind by Levy. The author taps into his own traumatic past to share with readers how he freed himself from a lifetime of suffering, including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and addiction. He believes the road to healing and inner peace lies not in your mind, but in your soul.

Levy draws on personal experience to guide readers toward a better way to deal with conflict. He breaks down complex and confusing concepts and shows step-by-step with real life examples how to apply a new way of being to our lives. He goes over how to begin your journey, how to build your capacity for patience and make the most of your time and energy, and why we continue to struggle when we often know better.

Healing is possible. Levy is now free of the struggles he had with mental illness. There are no platitudes, coping mechanisms or false promises in Soul Setting. Instead, there’s guidance on emerging from depression, anxiety, trauma and self-harm to find solace and an end to pain. True personal tranquility is an attainable goal.

In a conversation with Levy, we learned about the motivations behind writing Soul Setting, his personal experience with addiction, the central themes of the book, and the ways in which we can all learn to heal ourselves from hardship.

Why did you write Soul Setting?

We live in a time where mental illness is running rampant. The number of suicides and addictions are going through the roof.  To get in to see a professional can take up to 6 plus months. How does this help? I realize we are doing the best we can but I believe for a lot of people we can heal ourselves. We are just not aware of how. This is where I come into play. I have dealt with a lot of mental issues myself, suicide planning and addiction and I have finally come up with a way how to heal yourself. 

What inspired you to make your book a combination of self-help manual, spiritual guidance and memoir?

As mentioned above so many people are looking for answers to their mental health on the outside of themselves, when the answers are already within themselves, people just aren’t aware of it.  We live in a physical reality and only depend on our five senses — seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting — and this creates your perspective on life (reality) as well as the experiences you have, the environments you are in, and how you were raised to create your morals and beliefs. We all have a soul, so why not develop it so you too can heal from various hardships of life?

Could you explain what soul setting is and how it differs from mind setting or goal setting?  

Einstein once said, “In order to create a solution to a problem, one can’t look for a solution to which it was created in the first place..”   Where does depression come from? YOUR MIND. So now we want to try and change our mind that created depression with our mind? Doesn’t make sense. Goal setting tends to look at the end result, the future, too, which has no time. There is only now, the present, so why spend so much time looking into the future that hasn’t come yet? Doesn’t mean you can work towards an outcome in the future today, but be mindful that you aren’t burying yourself in those outcomes.  

When you do not reach your goals, you are creating fear and self-doubt, the very things soul setting gets rid of.  Soul setting is not worrying about the past or the future, it depends on your inside energy that is already there.  You don’t need to add more things to your life you need to subtract things from your life to obtain complete peace of mind.  Soul setting frees up your mind to create and have opportunities come to you so you are available.

Why do you believe people struggle and what can we do about it?    

People struggle because of familiarity. Our souls come to this earth with 3 basic primal flaws. Insecurity, Inadequacy, and Scarcity.  These 3 traits are built into us naturally.  Our soul would like to be free of these traits and while we are in this earthly body it is up to us to heal them, however; when we are born;  these flaws tend to develop as we grow older and become our identity.  Through our ego, our mind is fed with lies, lies that you believe are your story, hence your programming. Your ego finds evidence of these inadequacies, insecurities and scarcities through thoughts like, “You are useless”, “You are dumb”, “You will never get it,” and the list goes on.  These thoughts are just that, language that others are saying to you.  You buy into it through the mind.  What can we do about it? … Nothing lol. Just kidding.  

Understand that your programming about these 3 traits is a lie.  When you give power to your thoughts you build momentum for beliefs that do not serve you.  Stop thinking through your mind and think through your soul.  Your soul is full of energy and this energy reflects outward to inward, meaning whatever energy you give out you will receive back.  For example:  if you are a negative person negative will come back to you, it is a universal law.  If you can fundamentally break it down to an absolute truth, are you useless?  Your answer should be, No I am not useless. However; people use language and you buy into it, stop buying into it because it is a lie.  Those people are toxic and should not be in your life.  

How did you overcome addiction and mental illness by using soul setting?

First of all; I didn’t have to overcome my addiction or mental health.  These just came on by themselves through me.  I created this addiction and mental illness.  But how did I create it?  So by doing reverse engineering, I found out why and I really believe it is the reason for most of us with these afflictions.  I didn’t concentrate on quitting drinking or working on my mind cause my mind was the issue. 

 Why do people usually have an addiction?  What are they trying to accomplish with this addiction?  They are trying to soothe any stress or pain from the past that keeps recurring in the NOW.  So, self-medicating through alcohol or drugs temporarily eases the pain.  It will never work because the medication needs to increase and increase because of a tolerance your body develops. Boom now I have an addiction.  

By looking into your soul and not the mind, your ability to accept life as it comes and how it has come without dwelling on the past or the future because they don’t exist eases your pain, when you ease your pain the outside stimulus such as alcohol or drugs don’t need to be there.  You have to live life each and every moment with intentionality.  Looking at why you are being triggered.  Anger, Fear, Self-Doubt, just to name a few.  It usually goes back to childhood.  The energy level through your soul of anger, fear and self-doubt is very low and you will constantly attract that kind of frequency again and again.  By changing your energy to a high frequency, attributes such as love, compassion for yourself, what you attract changes.

How did you get started with soul setting and what inspired you?

One day after many many many sessions with my psychiatrist, he said to me; “Levy we have come to a point with your therapy that you may have to consider you will be dealing with depression for the rest of your life.  Now we can teach you how to cope with it, teach you techniques and methods on how to deal with the ups and downs.  Medication will have to be continued more than likely for the rest of your life cause you will have highs and lows.”  Right there in my head, I can remember like it was yesterday saying; Like Hell I am going to be on meds for the rest of my life. I left and never went back. I knew there was a better way to live so I started researching and applying what I learned and it took me years of failures to finally come up with a way to live free

Who do you most want to reach with Soul Settting?

The millions of people who are suffering right now unnecessarily. The issue is that they are not aware that they can totally get rid of their depression, anxiety, and addiction. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t for everyone, but I believe for the vast majority of people it will work.  Their perception of how their reality is can be distorted through childhood development. Not judging parents, however; parents are doing the best they can with what they know at any specific time.

Could you give us an anecdote that illustrates soul setting in action?   

A big part of soul setting is accepting life as it comes. Not having a preference for an outcome and having the faith that things ALWAYS work out for you and not against you.  In theory, this is all well and good. However, I must admit that in practicality, this can be difficult but when you continue to practice this, life changes and your health changes dramatically. Let’s look at the emotion of anger. I used to have a huge problem with anger.  When life wasn’t going the way I wanted it or expected it. Plans very seldom go according to have you develop them. 

I am in the real estate market and we purchase properties.  When a great situation comes up, I used to want it so bad that when I didn’t get it I would actually hide in the basement drink and spend 3–5 days depressed cause it would never happen again.  Now I do not have a preference when a great deal comes up.  If I get the deal, great. And if I don’t get the deal, great. I truly mean this in my soul and not my mind and the way you can tell you have soul setting in place correctly is that it truly doesn’t bother you when you don’t get that great deal.  Faith is understanding that another property will come up and guess what it always does.  My health has greatly benefited from this philosophy and my anger has dropped when it comes to this situation.  

If you actually think about it, why do you get angry, usually cause your inside world is not matching your outside world.  Who made you God, lol.

What is a common illusion most people cling to that soul setting can help them overcome?

The most common illusion most people think is that soul setting will get rid of their mental health issues very quickly.  They think that soul setting won’t take that much time.  Soul setting is a life commitment.  As soon as they hear life they walk away. Listen; the work involved in maintaining the lifestyle of suffering you are in is much more work than soul setting will ever.  You are working to maintain familiarity with depression, anxiety, addiction, etc. As soon as you want to leave your comfort zone it gets scary.  That is a good thing, not a bad thing.  It means you want to finally grow and evolve more than what you are today.  You have to live life with intention and not walk around like a robot doing the same stuff you always have been doing. You have to work on your life one way or another. So why not work towards a life that you want versus a life you don’t want?    

What is next after Soul Setting?

Well, this book is only the beginning of soul setting.  I have another book that I am writing which goes into more detail; sort of an advanced version of soul setting.  The first book is a beginner’s book to get them familiar with what I am talking about.  I am working on online courses, hook ups, so I invite you to purchase tickets to come hear me talk and answer questions in an intimate setting of 50 people, a monthly subscription for a Facebook community, a newsletter and a whole bunch of other goodies.