Chasing Greatness - Weekly Energy Boost

Greatness is not in what we achieve, but in what we overcome. This week we delve into and examine the intense discipline and passion that fuels the pursuit of greatness. From our relationships with mentors, teachers, writers, and the loved ones around us, this episode offers a thought-provoking look at what it takes to achieve greatness - which is the greatest expression of our unique Light. Original airdate: 2/6/23

Transcript

Good morning,

Everyone.

Good evening,

Good afternoon,

Wherever you are,

And welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost.

My name is Elie Sheva,

And I am here this lovely Monday morning with a special guest that we've had the privilege of having on Weekly Energy Boost a few times over the years.

Today we're going to be talking with Eitan Yardeni,

Who is live with us from New York,

About Chasing Greatness,

The Kabbalistic Guide for Achieving Your Dreams.

And this week is very powerful,

Very potent,

According to the Kabbalistic calendar.

We also have different influences that are supporting us to take a leap in our growth and in our process.

So we want to focus on some of the wisdom and the tools,

As we do every week,

In the Weekly Energy Boost,

But this week to really focus in on what are those practices and what is the mindset that can help us shift from the logical,

Normal progress of life into one that's magical and miraculous and that our dreams are made of.

Weekly Energy Boost is a seven-day spiritual weather forecast where we provide our listeners with the most powerful and practical tools to navigate the coming seven days.

We do that by gleaning through the wisdom of Kabbalah.

And in providing that GPS,

That roadmap for the coming week,

We provide our listeners with invaluable life lessons and reminders on how to do,

To really fulfill what we're here to fulfill as individuals and as a collective force.

So it's not a coincidence that we have Eitan on the podcast this week as we are about to launch a new course that's starting in a couple weeks,

And we wanted to give everybody the opportunity to also hear about that as well.

It really ties in well to this week's energy.

And just before we went live,

We were discussing that idea that there is a certain recipe or a certain formula that we can tap into.

In a way,

We all know it intuitively,

But we don't,

It's sometimes the more,

Most of the time it's the more difficult to the more challenging route or it appears that way.

And we want to break it down for everyone today and let's get started.

First of all,

Eitan,

Thank you so much for being with me this morning.

Don't take it for granted at all.

It's great to have you.

Thank you,

Elisheva.

I feel blessed and honored to be with you and with everyone here today in this special day,

Very special,

Actually unique.

It's known to be today,

The ultimate day that we can all have the strength to go against our logical mind,

Against what we typically gravitate towards.

And we'll talk a little bit about why,

What's the cosmic opening,

But I'm happy to do,

To be here in this special day.

So can I,

Can I just,

A thought comes to me regarding a very often when we're speaking about achieving greatness,

You know,

Very often a word,

It change our perspective.

Anytime you say the word I want to achieve,

Trust me,

Subconsciously it's heavy because there's something about it that it's not resonating with the truth of our soul.

Achieving greatness,

I'll achieve,

I'll overcome,

I'll do,

I'll push,

I'll manifest.

The truth is,

We're talking about connecting to greatness,

Is the creator reality,

The unlimited force of the universe reality,

It's unlimited.

And the only reason I'm connected to a limited reality and not to the unlimited reality,

Because I see life through limited perspective,

That's it.

So actually achieving greatness is not really true.

The greatness is already here.

We're here really to shift the perspective in order to connect to greatness that is already here.

And you know,

I'm thinking about what makes our perspective limited.

You know,

We see life through lenses of fears,

Through lenses of worries,

Through lenses of judgment,

Through lenses of ego,

Through lenses of what belief system,

And that becomes our perspective.

So I just had that thought I wanted to share.

So it's not really achieving greatness,

It's connecting to greatness that is already here.

We're here in my soul,

In my true being,

In my true essence.

Why is it so hard for us to be in touch with that if it's already there?

Maybe society makes it seem like it's something we have to chase or run after.

The Kabbalists teach that it's something that's within,

Under layers,

But why is it so difficult for us to,

Maybe we know it intellectually,

But to really feel it and operate from that place consistently?

Listen,

I think that the struggle for all of us,

Because perspective slash perception becomes reality.

And I think what makes,

What causes to have certain perspective or certain perception,

The Kabbalists speak about three things.

The way I see things,

The way I believe about things,

Slash thinking about things,

And the way I feel about things.

So our mind is so attached to our own logic that it's a result of experiences.

It's a result of rejection.

It's a result of past,

Past education,

Past people that surrounded,

Some things that I went through.

So that becomes such a strong,

Powerful logic and becomes box that I believe in.

And then feelings,

It's a powerful reality.

For a while,

You used to feel safe only when people agree with you.

You used to feel safe when things making sense.

And whenever you don't feel safe about certain new venture or new potentials or courageous behavior,

It feels,

I don't want to go there.

It's unsafe territory.

So really,

First we need to acknowledge and to realize that the power of old perception as far as the mind and the logic,

What I believe about things and constant stories we have about in our mind,

What I cannot do,

What I can do,

What's possible,

What's not,

What makes sense,

The fear that attached to it.

Let's not just discard it just like that.

It's a powerful reality.

And then there is the feelings.

So the Zohar tell us we came to this world,

The ancient Kabbalist,

Is not just,

Okay,

I'm changing my perception.

Everything's amazing.

To truly cleanse the eyes,

Cleanse the mind,

And cleanse the heart.

The eyes is the instant perception of reality that I have.

The mind is the way I think about life.

And the heart is the way I feel about myself and others,

Which we need tools.

We need tools.

But the fact that we talk about it,

We say,

Wow,

I have within me pure heart,

Pure mind,

Pure sight that align to the perception of my soul,

Which is unlimited.

And in that perception,

Greatness available now.

And now we see life through curtains.

And the fact that we start with that awareness,

That these two realities existing and what's left is purifying the limited perception.

That's a good beginning.

We'll speak maybe about tools soon,

But that's a good beginning.

But you ask,

Elisheva,

Why is it so hard?

Because that's what life is about.

Part what life is about is actually overcoming the norm.

Overcoming we're all addicted.

Addiction doesn't have to be to drugs,

To alcohol.

We're addicted to thinking certain way,

To feeling certain way,

To seeing situations certain way.

And when we just let it be this way,

The Rothberg used to say,

You might have so many different scenarios and it leaves 70 years and everything seem to be different and different scenarios and different people,

But it's a repeated,

Repetitive day.

Same thing again and again,

Because there's no real shift.

And that's sad.

That's not accessing our potential.

As I'm listening to you,

I'm thinking about,

I had a meeting with somebody this morning,

Perfect example of somebody who's embracing the spiritual path,

The spiritual life,

Trying to working to elevate her consciousness around herself with spiritual and supportive people.

And recently her relationship became very challenging.

And we had a meeting a few weeks ago,

We met again today.

And she was saying,

I know you always tell me that my purpose is my own growth and my own transformation,

But the world out there really needs to change.

And she happens to be involved in changing laws and really making a difference in a larger scale of people's lives in her everyday work.

So she said,

Well,

What's so interesting is in these last few weeks as we've been in touch and I'm focusing on my relationship and the growth that I need to do,

Not because of the relationship,

But what the relationship is showing me about me,

Suddenly all these things are moving forward in work,

Things that were stuck for months.

And I can't help but think,

Obviously it's not a coincidence.

And as you were talking,

I was thinking about how so many people,

Ourselves included,

From time to time,

We feel like we're stuck in a loop,

Like we're pushing something and it's not happening.

Or sometimes there's so much that needs to be done,

It becomes overwhelming and we can shut down and want to run away even from the responsibility or the burden.

And I see you don't have to affect thousands of people in order to feel that responsibility or that sense of burden.

It can be your family,

It can be your building,

Your community,

Your neighborhood.

It doesn't matter how big the circle is.

How can we be more,

I don't know,

I guess for me even personally,

I would love to know how to be better about not falling to that overwhelm and falling to that,

It's got to happen or I've got to make it this way,

Or there's a deadline or people are counting on me,

That there is this,

Under the banner of greatness,

There is an urgency that sometimes actually prevents us from manifesting or quote unquote achieving or reaching those goals.

What can we do to,

I don't know that it's possible to eliminate it,

But at least to recognize it and diminish it when we come up against that?

It's a great question.

I think all of us here,

Myself,

That's what I'm doing for more than 30 years in the Kavala Center and trying to,

While I'm working on myself,

Trying to achieve goals,

Reaching millions of people,

And sometimes we do feel stuck and I recognize in my life because of what I got from my teachers and what I see students,

We need to accept one thing.

In a practical life,

Work,

Family,

We always going to go through two types of periods.

Periods of flow,

When things seem to flow and things are moving and wow,

It's so amazing and the energy comes and creativity comes and people are listening and I see changes and the miracles come.

And then periods of stuck,

Periods of I'm trying to change,

But I don't see major changes.

Am I really making a difference?

I feel a little bit stagnant inside,

The same issues,

The same pattern.

I see the outside is stuck and whatever I'm trying to do is not really changing.

Family level,

Business level,

Think about in your life,

In my life,

In people that you're touching and meeting,

Each one of us relative to our own life,

Because we're the only one that actually witnessing our own life.

We have flow period,

Stuck period.

And when you accept it without judgment,

That's a good beginning.

It's number one,

A good beginning.

And each one of these periods has a purpose.

When you go into a flow period,

In both cases,

It's a test for our spirituality.

When you go to a flow period,

This is the time to be humble and to know that actually the fact that things are flowing and I'm creative and things are moving in the right direction,

It's a gift from the creator and I have to spend extra time to appreciate it because that flow will end soon,

Which is okay.

It doesn't mean bad things are going to happen,

But that natural flow will end soon as part of the test of life.

So the ability to inhale more proactively,

Inhale means appreciate that gift of flow and actually learning new lessons about yourself while you're flowing because human nature is when I'm stuck to question why,

Why do I need to change,

Go to a spiritual coach,

Talk with the Kabbalah,

Actually be proactive,

Appreciate and learn new lessons.

That's number one.

When I'm stuck,

I can tell you for myself,

A couple of days ago,

I felt stuck.

And as part of this feeling of stuck,

I felt that,

Wow,

I can do so much more for certain people in my life.

I can care so much more.

And my natural tendency when I stuck and I feel this way,

At least it's for me,

Is to right away fix it.

Right away when I realize something,

Right away make it better.

Right away make the other person feel good.

Right away trying to overcome.

And actually,

And I've learned for myself,

Is to stay there a little bit when you feel this feeling,

Because there's a window of opportunity to learn lesson in a deep level.

If you actually try to get rid of that stuck feeling instantly by fixing or by doing better,

You're not going to learn the lesson.

So in both cases,

In times of flows and in time of stuck,

There's a cosmic opening to change.

The test when there's a flow is to pause and appreciate,

Don't take it for granted and think it will be there forever.

And learn lessons about yourself while you're happy and excited and inspired in the flow and have humility.

When you feel stuck,

Don't judge the situation,

Judge yourself.

Try to get a quick fix for these bad feelings.

It's part of your process,

These deep lessons to learn there.

And we asked,

We said before,

We came to this world to cleanse the lenses we see life through,

The eyes,

The mind,

The heart.

And during this time,

This cleansing opportunity,

Don't rush to get out of this time.

And the fact that we become the observer,

I'm in the flow.

Wow.

Thank you.

I'm stuck.

Wow.

So the fact that you become the observer,

It means you are in touch and you're stepping into your soul because who is the observer?

The one who's stuck.

The fact that I'm looking at myself,

That I'm stuck,

It means I'm stepping outside of my ego and I'm connecting to my soul.

And while you were talking,

I was thinking about the different people I've worked with over the years who have said,

In their lives,

It's either been feast or famine.

They went through a great period,

Very successful.

Like you said,

Being in the flow,

Income,

Things going their way,

Moving,

Periods of time where they look back and they say,

Those were the great days,

Those were the good days.

And since whatever date,

They've been stuck.

There's a particular person I'm thinking of that I wish I could help push out of that stuck period herself.

But when I think about this whole idea of chasing the light or greatness,

Finding that spotlight to stand in,

That we feel we're really expressing our mission and the purpose for which we were here,

It's very easy.

I can look back even on my own life and say,

That was a great period.

What can I do to get back to that?

And I use the word back on purpose,

Obviously,

I'm trying to get to a certain point.

But the idea that so many people out there feel their greatest days have passed them,

The peak of their relationship has passed them,

The peak of their career has passed them,

Their youth,

Whatever it is that they wish they could go back to.

How do we keep ourselves from falling into the trap of the good old days or that nostalgia when really the best days,

At least Kabbalistically speaking,

Are always ahead of us?

Ahead of us and starting in the present.

Absolutely.

I think when we're talking about cleansing perspective,

One of the biggest trap of the ego perspective,

Good time and bad time.

I have good time now,

I'm excited,

I have bad time when it will be over.

So imagine we're shifting the perspective.

We spoke about flow and stack.

Even when I'm stuck,

The fact that I'm actually saying,

What a great opportunity.

The fact I'm becoming the observer,

The fact I'm willing to feel the feelings and actually inject the,

While I'm feeling the limited feelings and the hard feeling and the lack of flow feeling,

I'm the observer and I'm telling myself what a cleansing period,

An opportunity.

The fact that I'm calling certain period good and certain period bad,

That's by itself a reason why I always will be chasing the good.

This type of perspective will cause me while I'm experiencing flow not to appreciate enough and when I experience the opposite,

I will cry.

I wish I will go back to what I had.

So even that judgment,

Good times versus bad time,

Instead of the ability to observe and to feel and to appreciate both periods.

In my experience,

Let's speak about feelings for a second.

We all like good feelings and we can stand bad feelings.

It's human nature.

We love pain.

We hate,

We love pleasure.

We hate pain.

That's human nature,

Human nature.

But imagine you in the pursuit of cleansing the perspective and shifting,

Whenever you have bad feelings,

It can be sadness,

It can be the beginning of resentment,

It can be the hurt,

It can be a little sadness,

It can be low energy,

It can be feeling of not enough.

As it comes,

Which is important to sense and to be aware of what's happening now for me,

Because it's part of what the universe present to me,

What I'm going through now and before and to catch myself right after the feeling is there and to catch all my mind started to create movies and judgment because there's the reality of the feeling and then the mind start to judge it,

To judge me,

To judge life,

To worry,

To create movies about it's going to be this,

It's going to be that,

This person,

This.

So to bring back myself into the feelings,

To observe it and to give it different interpretation.

Actually I'm going through some cleansing.

That feeling allows me to get deeper,

To feel deeper the light force that is endless.

That's what really it is.

Actually the ability to feel and shift your mind about the feelings from reacting to the judging it,

Worry about life,

About situation,

About yourself,

About the other person,

To say,

Wow,

I have a chance to get deeper.

How do I get deeper?

I just feel bad feelings.

I need an exit.

That's the reactive mind.

If the big premises of Kabbalah,

That the light is available every moment,

It means the light,

The force of all good,

The force of all greatness exists within the feeling itself right now,

This second in the present moment and that's training and as a result that feeling will be shortened from hours or days to few hours to one hour to half an hour to five minutes.

And actually imagine you started to get excited about when different feelings are,

You're looking forward because you know that's part of the game of life.

This time of flows you need to appreciate and continue and then this time of stack when you have opportunity to get deeper and to have deeper experiences of the light and the greatness within you.

So it's shifting the mindset of good times and bad times.

It's good and good.

Well before we get to the end,

I want to make sure that we have time to share with our listeners at least one tool that they can use this week and of course anytime to bring them as a reminder,

To bring us back to the reality that the greatness is within or whatever it is that we're trying to chase or achieve or manifest outside of ourselves,

The key is really within.

Yes,

So it's connecting us,

You know,

We're now Monday,

It's the full last night and through today it's the full moon of the month of Aquarius,

Which known to be the holidays of the tree.

And what's beside the fact that we know our planet needs the physical energy of the tree,

Chlorophyll,

The cleaning of our planet,

The purity of our planet depends so much on vegetation,

But spiritually the Kabbalist saying that the trees,

The vegetation kingdom is the power like trees gradually grows against nature,

Against gravity.

What does it mean for us?

We live in the physical world,

There's a force of gravity,

Gravity can manifest itself as aging,

Gravity can manifest itself as selfishness,

Gravity can manifest itself,

I'm going down,

Gravity can manifest itself that mindset of fear,

What's going to be,

What's going to be,

I'm gravity towards going down,

Any challenge that I'm going to.

So what is that days about and for the week something to think,

That mindset,

This moment is opportunity to grow,

My true essence always wants to grow and I need to allow it to grow,

Regardless what my mind tells me,

Regardless what my fear tells me,

Regardless what my challenge tell me.

Actually think about it,

When you go into certain challenge which bring you back to all time again this challenge,

You don't feel you're growing,

But imagine pause,

I am growing.

And one of the tools is the fact that you pause,

Which that's by the way the name of the course,

Which is the foundation of Kabbalah,

The master class of Kabbalah,

Pause 10 weeks to transform your life.

And the idea is that when you go into that challenge that brings that mindset,

I'm going down financially,

Emotionally,

Future wise,

Energetically,

Not relevant anymore,

Not as healthy,

Not as youthful and so on.

The idea of pause,

Yeah,

I can hear all this mindset,

I can hear all this perspective,

I'm going down,

But actually the ability to pause and shift the perspective,

I have opportunity to go up now because that force of my soul,

The same energy that drives the earth,

Same energy that drives every aspect of the universe is looking at every second as opportunity to go up.

But that desperate feeling,

That mindset,

I'm losing something,

What's going to be?

I'm going to be judged,

I'm not going to be enough,

That's the voice of I'm going down.

So this week we have the support of the energy of the trees,

The tree reminding us slowly,

Slowly,

We are going up,

As long as I'm not deciding I'm going down,

You are going up.

And that's something I will try to hold on to this week to that mindset,

I'm going up now.

I have no clue how,

The fact that you have that mindset,

The fact that you,

Because if you really have this mindset,

You'll embrace whatever you do.

When you feel something is helping you to go up,

You embrace it.

When you feel a challenge help you to go up,

You embrace it.

You run away from anything you feel going down,

You run away from yourself,

You run away from your feelings,

You run away from looking at yourself and at life and other people.

Sometimes you have people,

You have fear of confrontation,

You need to have a hard conversation,

I'm going to go down,

I don't want even to deal with it.

Even if they're in your life,

Pause,

Actually I'm curious how this is situation,

It's opportunity to go up,

That simple mindset.

Am I going down or I'm going up?

I just lost money in a business,

I'm going down,

What's going to be?

Pause,

Yeah,

I accept the fact I lost money,

But it's opportunity to go up,

Yeah?

I'm allowing myself to feel the feelings,

I'm allowing myself to learn the lessons,

But every experience that I'm going through in the present moment as the energy and the DNA of the universe which is to help me to go up.

Imagine you get it with everything that goes up in your life.

When things are flowing,

It's opportunity to go even further up.

When things seem to bring you down,

I don't know,

But you need to really go up.

It's part of shifting perspective.

I think also when we think about the classic figures in history who achieved greatness,

They didn't let those down moments or the rejection or the obstacles in their way,

They didn't let it stop them.

They saw it as one more no is another step closer to a yes.

I was actually reading this morning about all these different people who are successful in their fields,

But they didn't really reach success till their 50s or 60s or 70s even.

Just having that mindset that like you said,

I'm the one who decides what it means.

I decide if it's bad,

I decide if it lifts me up.

It's such a huge game changer when it comes to looking at how to achieve and to manifest whatever we desire.

The word pause,

What am I pausing?

I'm pausing the reactive mind.

I'm pausing the old perspective.

I'm pausing the judgmental mind.

I'm pausing the part of me that just need quick fix for issues that I have.

I'm pausing that immediate judgment of reality.

It's bad.

It's horrible.

I'm pausing just that complain whenever challenge come.

I'm pausing the mindset of I don't have time for anybody.

I have to fix my own problem.

So the way I see it is we have a powerful soul that experienced the greatness of the universe and the greatness in my life,

But it's covered up with a reactive consciousness,

With the ego consciousness that it's automatic and robotic.

If I'm not paused,

Sooner or later will bring me down and bring me down means I'll have to learn lesson two chaos that might open me up to that.

How do you pause and observe?

Because part of pausing is to observe,

To be the observer.

When you deal with challenges,

To pause and to actually listen to what your soul is telling you how to act in the situations,

Because sometimes you face real challenge.

So pause,

It's nice.

Don't react is nice,

But what's the right thing to say and to do?

Our soul of the answer,

We don't pause to listen.

Pause.

What's your lesson?

If you have this repetitive challenge in your life,

What is the lesson?

Each one of us came with specific lessons to this world to learn part of our soul evolution and not learning our lessons.

I'll never be able to change the true meaning and purpose and fulfillment of my life.

So that's another thing.

Why are we here?

What's the big picture?

What makes us safe and how some of the safety is illusionary.

It doesn't work for us,

But because we don't pause,

We still go to the same place.

Sometimes safety is addiction.

It's a default things that we're going back to.

Something in my body tells me it's safe,

But it's only cause chaos in my life.

Why?

Because we don't even pause to question it.

The ability to pause the limited self,

To observe it,

And to ignite my unlimited consciousness that can access the greatness within us.

So the course begins on Wednesday,

February 15th at 8 p.

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In a way,

Addictions,

Even though they feel safe and they feel light,

They're not necessarily based on anything real or that's going to lead us to that long-lasting fulfillment.

Thank you so much for joining us.

It's always an inspiration to hear you speak and share and look forward to doing it again one day soon.

Thank you so much,

Elisheva.

Thank you so much,

Everyone.

Love to connect soon again.

Amazing.

Thank you.

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