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Living An Effortless Life - Weekly Energy Boost

by Elisheva Balas

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We think life has to be hard, but the kabbalistic truth is that everyting we've ever wanted can come to us effortlessly. What if you could put in less effort and yield greater results? Discover the recipe for gliding through life and how to make the right effort at the right time every time. Original airdate:

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Transcript

Good morning,

Everyone.

Good evening,

Good afternoon,

Wherever you are,

And welcome to this week's Weekly Energy Boost.

My name is Ellie Sheva,

And I'm here this morning with David,

And we are super excited,

Putting in all the effort to talk today about how to live an effortless life.

And the funny thing is,

I think everybody is aligned with the idea of making less effort,

Making less effort and yielding greater results.

We all want things to be faster,

Easier,

Lighter,

You know,

The whole trend of having things be smaller,

More ergonomic,

More light,

More aerodynamic,

Right?

It's all for the sake of making less effort,

If we think about it.

And this week,

It becomes an even more appropriate conversation as we're gliding into the fourth week of the Omer and the second week of the month of Taurus,

Which tends to be,

As we talked about last week,

Making,

Tauruses are not keen on making an effort,

And they,

Some Tauruses may be listening and saying,

Well,

I work so hard.

Whatever work you do,

It's actually within your comfort zone.

And kabbalistically,

Effort is actually relative to the individual.

So for one person,

It might be easy to run a marathon,

And for another person,

It might be the hardest thing ever for them,

Right?

So even when we talk about effort,

We can't look at whatever anybody else is doing or thinking or feeling because it might,

The effort that,

What is effort is relative to me and what we call my Tikkun,

My soul's personal plan for perfection.

So we're looking at it this week as we do every week,

Because there is an opportunity to grow,

To transform and to elevate that is unique to this week.

That's what we do every week on the Weekly Energy Boost.

David and I prepare talking points,

Ideas,

Concepts,

Tools,

And wisdom to share with our listeners from the wisdom of kabbalah.

And our goal is to provide our listeners with the most powerful and practical ways to go about achieving that effortless life,

Being that if we make that effort,

If we start making less effort this week,

And we'll talk about that,

It's going to have an impact on our entire lives.

So.

Well talking,

Just talking out loud.

So we see where this is going.

Not in our heads.

Not in our heads as we spoke about last week.

I thought to myself,

You know,

Who makes more effort?

Jeff Bezos or the warehouse manager at one of his facilities?

Who makes more effort?

This is the question.

It's a deep question.

I don't know.

You have to ask them.

You have to get to know them because.

Well,

Why does Jeff Bezos get paid $100 trillion and the warehouse manager gets paid $65,

000?

If maybe,

Let's say,

They make the same amount of effort.

Inquiring minds want to know.

All right.

That is a deep question.

And I'm sure this could be a philosophical question,

This could be a scientific question,

It could be a spiritual question.

But we apologize if you can hear every sound in the room.

Apparently,

Elisheva wanted to dial up the sound for you guys because I think some people can't often hear us on the podcast.

So if you're overhearing us,

I think you can hear my heartbeat.

If you're overhearing us,

You know,

Just text Elisheva on her personal cell number and let her know that so we can accommodate accordingly.

So one thing that came to my mind that would be a spiritual explanation is the person in life,

We think effort means like physically like making a lot of effort,

But the real effort we should be making that is the most rewarding physically,

Energetically and financially is certainty beyond logic.

That which is also translated into the risk you take.

So we say the person who gets paid more is the person who's willing to take the greater risk,

Right?

The person who is maybe putting up more of his or her money,

The person who is taking a chance by making it big or making it all fall apart.

There's an element of risk involved that generates greater wealth or less.

And so there is a spiritual component to how do I reduce my effort,

But maximize my output and maximize my gain.

That is to the extent that I have certainty beyond logic in everything that I do.

This is the secret.

And I'll go deeper with that.

What does that mean practically?

The thing that drains us most is when we start to look at things logically.

We start to analyze things.

We talked about it last week.

We start to have conversations in our head.

We try to figure things out.

Well in reality,

That's a lot of effort that brings no result or very little result.

Maybe we get a little result because the opponent has to keep us on the drug called self-talk and logic.

He doesn't want you to completely abandon the drug.

So it does work a little.

But what really works is when we let go of the small things,

Let go of our logic and start to listen to a more powerful,

Deeper version of ourselves.

So something that I'm trying to do more and more often is what's preventing me from going to my next level is I will sit and I will sit by myself,

Talk to the Creator and try to meditate in that way and ask the question,

What am I doing that is thinking small and is limiting the way I do things?

And maybe I have a belief system that I need to work really hard for something when in reality I don't need to think about it logically.

I need to instead kind of first say to myself,

I have certainty that this could happen right away without even me having to do too much work because it all starts in the belief system.

The belief system is what limits things.

If I think something has to be hard,

Well,

That's it.

That's your ceiling.

If you want to manifest that thing,

Then it has to be done.

It will be hard for you to do because that's what you believe.

So the belief system is the starting point.

And I correlate the highest belief system to be one of certainty,

Certainty beyond logic.

I hope that makes sense.

I know it's a little,

I'm sorry,

Going around in circles about it,

But I'm trying to bring forward a point that is somehow correlated to certainty.

Maybe you can add to it and try to make it practical.

Nope.

Nope.

You're not going to do that.

No.

No,

No.

You're not.

There's something else in it.

I'm going to counter with something.

You go somewhere else and then I'll come back to that.

Okay.

So David started off saying something really powerful and I want to use it to go to a different direction.

He was saying that when we're logical and rational about the effort that we put in,

That's what starts us on the road to burnout.

And burnout is real.

We're not going to sit here and say,

You're not exhausted.

Your soul has infinite power,

Although it does.

The burnout,

When we feel depleted or empty or that our battery is dead,

We're tapped out.

There isn't anything to draw from.

That's often because we are keeping score.

We are saying,

I'm going to put in the eight hours because I need the paycheck or I'm going to invest this much of my energy,

My time,

My skills,

My resources,

So that I can achieve X result.

The fact of the matter is that anytime we are attached to the reward of our efforts,

That we are counting it or limiting it,

Holding onto it,

Depending upon it,

Our resources to draw or earn that reward are going to be limited.

Now what do I mean?

It's easy to go to a work example because there is an exchange,

Right?

You have an hourly rate or you have a salary or you have a cost per product or service that you provide.

So you can say there is an exchange of service for currency.

But in other areas of life,

It's not so clear.

I'll give an example.

In your relationship,

Right?

There's always,

David and I encounter on a regular basis,

People in their relationships that feel taken for granted,

Like they do everything for the other person and what have you done for me lately,

That they're done,

They're tired,

They're burned out.

Maybe it doesn't have to be,

But often it is a woman who put aside her career or put her career on the back burner so that she can have a family or a relationship or she maybe even moves for her partner and forgoes whatever.

And therefore everything that she does do seems unacknowledged,

Unappreciated,

Not valued or worth it for anybody.

And the Kabbalists teach a really powerful,

It's not a secret,

It's really a technique for undoing the burnout of having endless resource to draw from.

And that is to not be attached to the reward,

To do what you do,

Not because you're going to get something back,

But rather because it's going to be,

The opportunity to do is yours for the growing,

Yours for the doing.

And the benefit is yours,

That you get to do it.

Now what does that have anything to do with what David said?

Actually you said it,

That's exactly what I was trying to say,

So thank you.

As you said it,

I'm like yes.

Letting go of the reward is certainty beyond logic but you said it in a more practical way.

Well but for me what it means is that when I'm sitting there and I'm accounting,

I'm sitting there with my pen and my ledger and I'm saying well I made breakfast and I made lunch and I made dinner and I did the laundry and I delineate all the actions and all of the effort that I made and I line it up with my partners or with my colleagues or with my kids or with anybody,

My friends even.

What am I basically saying?

Here's my output,

Where's my input?

This is between you and me,

Husband.

This is between you and me,

Child.

This is between you and me,

Girlfriend.

When the reality is that at that moment I basically banished the light from the situation and I'm going to get to the certainty in a second.

The whole opportunity that I have to give is given to me by the universe.

The universe is saying,

Elisheva,

Here's an opportunity for you to do something to expand yourself,

To heal,

To grow,

To transform,

To elevate,

To influence,

To impact,

To shine bright like a diamond.

And the moment I make it between me and my husband,

I throw all of that opportunity away and I turn it into a game of chess or ping pong or whatever game of golf.

It's between me and him and there's a winner and there's a loser.

Certainty means knowing that everything that comes onto my radar is for me,

Not for anybody else,

That it's God and me.

God is giving me the opportunity to make breakfast.

God is giving me the opportunity to drive carpool.

God is giving me the opportunity to grocery shop or any of those mundane things that we can do that we have the opportunity to pay bills.

God's giving me the bills,

Not the IRS or the electric company or the school or anything else.

It is 100% between me and the light and people are rolling their eyes.

They can hear their eyeballs rolling because the mic is so sensitive.

And I want to tell you something.

The more that you look at it as between you and the creator,

Having that certainty that everything is bespoke.

Everything is bespoke by the creator.

Everything is tailor made.

Your tikkun,

My favorite definition of tikkun is your tikkun is the creator's perfect plan for your soul's perfection.

It's precise,

It's personal and there's only one version of it for you alone.

What that means is that it's awesome and awe-inspiring.

There's a concept that Ravashleg talks about and there's something else I wanted to bring up by Ravashleg too,

I hope I'll get to it,

About how the more awe you have for the creator's hand in your life,

The more you'll see the creator's hand in your life.

Like you would think that no I need to see a miracle first to be impressed.

The opposite.

The more impressed you are,

The more miracles you will see.

And the impressed comes from,

Wow,

They asked me to do this.

I really don't want to do it.

It's perfect for me.

And the effort that I have to make is not really physical effort,

It's the effort to transcend my mood about it,

My energy about it.

And that to me is where all the effort is in this world.

How do I feel about it?

I feel overwhelmed.

Can I transcend the feeling of overwhelmed?

That's my effort.

I feel resentful.

Can I transcend my feeling of resentfulness?

That's the effort.

I should trademark it.

It's obviously a conglomeration of all Kabbalistic wisdom right there.

But that is really all the effort that we need to make is to transcend,

David called it consciousness or the thoughts in your head.

To me,

It's an emotional thing.

I feel like it.

I don't feel like it.

When I don't feel like doing something,

It's a greater effort for me.

If I can trick myself,

Con myself into feeling like it,

No more effort.

I love it.

It's mine.

It's done.

And I promise you,

And we don't like to make promises here.

I promise you,

If you can make that shift,

This week is the time to do it because this is where the resistance is the greatest.

But if you can make it this week,

It becomes so much easier all the other weeks of the year because you've created that imprint.

You've exercised that muscle in a way that's so profound,

My emotions no longer control me.

That doesn't mean you don't acknowledge your emotions.

I'm upset about this.

I'm frustrated.

But I get to choose what energy I bring to the table.

And if I can make the effort to transcend,

To still show up with a smile,

Even though I'm heavy,

I'm sad,

I'm annoyed,

I'm frustrated,

You will see how swimmingly and smoothly your life will flow because you're no longer allowing how you feel about it to create the resistance,

Which is what increases the effort,

Which is why you feel drained.

So practically what you're saying,

Because I really resonated with what you said about letting go of.

.

.

The reward.

The reward because as soon as you start thinking,

And then Kevin will say this,

As soon as you start thinking about what I should receive,

Immediately you disconnect from the light of the creator because you're activating that part of yourself that is limiting.

While in reality,

It's not about the.

.

.

It's not about the.

.

.

Again,

I lost my train of thought because the sound system next door is so profound.

We have a golf tournament going on next door.

I think there's like a parade happening.

Do you hear that?

I hear it.

I don't think I hear the sounds.

I don't think they hear it.

Well,

This is a good vessel to hold the light away from.

.

.

Now you have to make the effort to focus.

Now I have to make the effort to focus.

That's absolutely right.

That's absolutely right.

So I wanted to go back to what you said because every time I have an expectation to receive from someone,

It actually starts to create a trauma inside the body.

And the way you.

.

.

What you want to shift to is how do I become someone who is just constantly channeling that things come to me,

I can feel them,

But I can let them go.

Not be numb and shut down or be in denial.

How can I feel something,

Accept that it's good and tell my body and my mind that it's good,

And then allow it to kind of wash off of me?

I was reading this book.

I forgot what the title of the book was,

But it gave this example of like when you're driving and you see like all these different trees and you see buildings,

You don't remember.

I mean,

You see them,

You observe them,

You see them,

But it just comes in a ghost,

Right?

It doesn't stay with you.

You're not holding it anywhere.

You're connecting to it.

You're enjoying it.

And then it's gone.

If you go look at an ocean and you see all these waves coming,

You don't remember what the waves look like.

You're not holding them.

You just remember the feeling that you had of that.

So we have this ability of letting things come in and go.

But as soon as we let things in and we hold on to them,

Or we overanalyze them,

Or we start to have conversations with them,

That's when we start to develop a trauma inside of ourselves.

And this is why in Kabbalah 1 we always talk about when the challenge occurs,

We pause.

We pause and there's many things that we do,

But we pause and we accept the situation.

The reason why we accept it is so that it doesn't get stuck inside of us.

Because as soon as you don't accept something and you try to figure it out and react to it and try to solve it,

Essentially what you're doing is you're traumatizing yourself inside of who you are.

You're actually adding on to your tikkun.

You're actually adding layers of negativity inside yourself.

And as soon as you accept something,

That is your version of letting it go.

And you become a channel and you actually become like a river that flows.

And I think what we're trying to say is that burnout is always a result of when you add a limitation to what's going on.

Whether that limitation is expecting a reward,

Whether that limitation is overthinking or overanalyzing something,

Whether that limitation is not like the beautiful view where it just comes and it goes.

But somehow you hold on to it.

And a lot of us are holding on to stuff that's been going on for a long time.

Now we may not be conscious of the fact we're holding on to it,

But it was a negative experience.

We did not embrace it.

We did not transform it to light,

But we stored it somewhere.

Like the book says,

The body keeps the score.

And we start to hold on to all these things.

We look at our kids,

They're not necessarily holding on to as much stuff as we are because we become very logical,

Educated people.

And so we start to overanalyze every little thing that happens.

Who's talking to me?

Who's approaching me?

Who's in my movie?

Who's going to cheat me?

Who's not going to cheat me?

I'm driving around in LA and I'm sometimes like,

I'm at a stoplight.

I don't stop lights anymore.

I roll up to the stoplight because I'm like looking over my shoulder.

Because that kind of stuff's been happening lately.

So I'm thinking,

Do my kids think that way?

No,

They just let things come and go.

They flow.

I'm not saying don't be careful,

But our goal needs to be how do I become a simple channel,

Allowing things to come in and leave me?

And I experience them,

But I don't let them stay.

It's a guest.

It's a guest that doesn't inhabit my home.

Let the guests come,

Give them a positive experience,

And then let the guests leave.

I think one subtle,

Or I'll take what David was just saying and give it a little spin.

I think a lot of people who make Herculean effort in their life and are getting it done and are crushing it and are overworked or burned out or empty at the end of the day,

Despite all the amazing things that they may be doing,

A lot of it,

Dare I say,

Has to do with the fact that we are controlling,

That we're making too much effort because we want to control,

Not because we need to be making that much effort.

And sometimes the control is mental,

Right?

Going through all the worst case scenarios in my mind,

Going making sure that I checked and I double checked and I triple checked and I'm going to send an email,

Getting out of bed in the middle of the night to write an email so that you don't forget.

That kind of overextension of the self actually is a form of control.

It feels responsible.

It feels like I care.

And so what's wrong with controlling?

So let's say people are thinking to myself,

So I want to control the situation because I want to,

I want it to work out.

I want it to work out.

I want to ensure the most optimal outcome.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that unless what?

Unless it's coming,

Unless,

Unless what?

Finish the sentence.

We want people to be engaged and be meticulous and be detail oriented and to follow up because when you don't put the pressure on your team or whoever,

Or even your kids,

If you just let them do whatever they want,

Like there's anarchy.

So,

So when is it not good to control?

If we're honest with ourselves,

A great deal of our drive or desire to control comes from lack of certainty.

Very good.

Thank you again.

No,

That's very good.

Oral exam.

Proctored by David Guillen.

The,

The root of why most of us desire to control is because we don't have the certainty and the creator to be our partner that I need.

But yeah,

I may need to make my lists and check that everybody is on task and,

But again,

Without the attachment that they have to do with the way I said,

Because they're not,

The light doesn't watch over them.

The light isn't in my business.

The light isn't in the fulfillment warehouse or the isn't in the marketing department or isn't.

I know that I've gone to those places before when I've worked on a project and I have invested my energy,

My time,

My resources,

And I want it to be successful.

And at a certain point,

No matter what,

There's always a situation that comes up that says it is not yours to control.

And,

And,

And I think that when we strong arm it back into our control,

Everyone has those moments.

Everyone has this moments where they get the email,

Hey,

You know,

And when we know I know we were working perfect one.

My,

My favorite one is deadlines.

It was supposed to happen by this day.

It's not going to happen by this day.

Right?

Think about how many times that you have have even in your mind said,

If it's got to happen by this day,

Maybe you didn't tell anybody else,

But in your mind,

That was your goal.

That was your deadline.

That was your target and you missed it.

It didn't happen on your birthday.

It didn't happen on your anniversary.

It didn't happen by December 31st.

How much energy do you burn?

Because it didn't go according to your schedule.

It didn't go according to your plan.

The right people weren't doing the right thing at the right time.

According to your perspective,

That's another way that we literally,

It's like the creator looks at that and says,

You can't,

You're handling this.

I'm going to go do something else.

Right?

Like it's,

It's really by,

By,

By not acknowledging the partnership you have with the creator,

You tell the creator,

You do not need that energy.

You do not need that beneficence,

That blessing,

Those miracles because you're in control and intellectually I get it.

We get it.

You're hearing this and you're going,

Amen,

I get it.

That's me.

That's where I want to be.

But tomorrow morning when you sit at your desk or tomorrow morning when the kids wake up or whatever happens,

You go into,

We all do this.

We revert back into,

Got to take care of business,

Got to get it done.

This is how it has to be.

This is what success means to me.

This is how I'm going to know if I'm doing a good job.

Step back this week and ask yourself whose job is this?

Even when it comes to parenting,

By the way,

You do need to make your effort.

You can't let your kids run wild.

We had,

We,

Now I want to remember what it was.

We,

The opposite of helicopter parenting.

What was it?

You remember we had,

We were talking,

You taught me that.

I forgot what it was.

There's a,

It's a very funny term,

The opposite of helicopter parenting.

It's like a farming or something like that.

Do you like let the cows go to pasture?

I don't know.

It's something like that.

Anyway,

You do have to take care of your children.

You should make sure that they are well fed and dressed and clothed that they,

You know,

You give them all the best opportunities.

But at a certain point you also,

I remember the metaphor,

I don't remember what the parenting style is,

But I read a great,

Great line about parenting that said,

You know,

Having a kid is like getting an unlabeled packet of seeds.

Every kid is a different unlabeled packet of seeds and you've got to figure out,

Do they need sunlight?

Do they not need sunlight?

Do they need to,

When,

How often should I water them?

What do they need?

And you only,

Only as they grow,

Do you figure out who they are?

And it's so true,

Right?

But you can force them to be sunflowers if you want and spend a lot of energy trying to make those apple seeds into sunflowers,

Right?

That metaphor works so well with everything in our lives.

If you strong arm it into something that it isn't,

You will be burned out,

Feel like you're spinning your wheels,

Wasting time and energy on things that will not bear fruit.

And this week is a time for everybody to focus on what is my effort?

And I'm going to say something very provocative.

If it is hard for you not to control,

If it is hard for you not to micromanage,

If it is hard for you not to have your nose in every single nook and cranny of the business or your family or anything else,

The effort is in minding your own business.

The effort is in not making that effort to control.

The effort,

That's why I mentioned before the idea of the emotional transcendence,

Right?

The effort is in restriction.

I think we go back to this in almost every single episode.

The effort is in doing what you,

The opposite of what you want to do.

The effort is in,

What do you call it?

Reeling in that part of you that wants to go and conquer and get it done and doesn't trust anybody else to do it.

So I'm going to do it all.

So I'm going to be burned out at the end of the day and it's all going to be your fault.

It's harder to not be that person than it is to make the effort of controlling everything.

And that's the shift to make this week.

In summary,

We can wrap up at this one point as you were talking.

I'm trying to think practically like how I'm applying what you mentioned.

And I think the northern star of applying this lesson for me is always asking myself,

Checking in and being,

Am I willing to let go and walk away from this situation as a way to audit my attachment to it?

Because that which you're attached to drains you and you drain it when there's an attachment.

And certainty is the opposite of attachment.

So we're saying the same thing here.

This is the week of certainty.

We didn't bring that up.

It's a week of Netzach.

It's called Netzach in the period of time of the Omer.

And certainty really just means where's your attachment?

Is your attachment to the spiritual laws of the universe,

Which is the light of the Creator and all the spontaneous energy it brings on a daily basis?

Or are you attached to wanting to control things in the way you want them because they fit inside your comfort zone?

So whether you're with friends,

You're about to say something,

Do something,

Even if you're going to work,

You have a plan,

Always checking in with yourself and saying,

All right,

If this was canceled right now,

How would I feel?

Am I just happy being myself?

Not doing this,

Not saying that,

Not being known as this?

It's something to constantly check in with and that's how you build self-confidence.

And that's how you build the light inside of you.

And that is a definition of certainty.

When you can give to something,

But not need it.

This is the most powerful form of being a channel.

This is this week's energy as well.

I don't want to put you on the spot,

But I do.

How do you relate that to parenting?

You can't walk away from your family.

So I think,

And I've thought about that as you said that,

I said to myself,

If I'm constantly having to engage with my kids or maybe teach lessons,

I have to check in with myself and say,

Okay,

Do I feel like I'm talking because I'm feeling lack about something?

And I want to be that parent that is able to speak from a place of feeling whole inside myself.

And like you said,

I want to give them the space to become who they're going to become and not try to manipulate it.

Because I think that's very dangerous.

As soon as you pigeon hole kids into a path,

If you get that wrong,

They're going to resent you and they're going to turn out the opposite.

And I see a lot of times I like to see kids who turn out a certain way and I ask them what their childhood was like.

And there's always this opposite.

They raised me like this and I decided to be like that.

So it's like the kids are going to become who they're going to become anyway,

No matter how you try to pigeon hole them.

The only difference is they're going to resent you or they're going to feel that you're supported.

By the way,

We pigeon hole everybody in our lives.

It's not just our kids.

That's right.

And I think we pigeon hole because we're not willing to let go.

So I'm trying to always kind of be Aquarius about it.

You know how you deal with an Aquarius.

Aquarius and Leo for me are very easy signs to talk to.

Five of my six kids are either Aquarius or Leo.

I would be a great role model for your kid.

Because the way I talk to my Aquarius and Leo students is just I don't even though we're learning Kabbalah,

Which is all rules,

I give them no rules.

I basically say there's this concept and I kind of throw it out here in the corner.

Should you desire to engage with it,

It's over there.

Feel free to.

And if you don't,

It's all okay anyways because you're amazing.

And that's all they need to do.

Wow.

I want to write that down.

That's like how much more expansive can you get than that?

If anything,

My Aquarius students,

I could just walk with them for two hours and not even talk.

And they'll say that was the best session we ever had.

Because I don't limit anything by talking even.

Because as soon as you talk to the Aquarius,

You're already limiting things.

And the Leo,

They just want to feel that they're a great person.

So I just end everything with,

You know,

You're an amazing human being.

One of the best there is.

And they're like,

That was an amazing session.

Okay.

To sum it up,

To sum it up,

Actually,

David,

You do the best.

You do a better job of summing up.

But I do want to make a point,

Obviously.

I summed it like three times already.

Okay.

Go for it.

No,

My point is the effort,

I think I said it in the beginning,

But it didn't make sense until we talked about all these things.

The effort is relative to the person.

So if it's effort for you to get into the details,

That effort for you will yield more results than the person who's obsessed with the details and needs the details and can't sleep without the details.

If you're the type of person that it's an effort for them to speak up,

That effort is going to yield more results for you.

People are going to listen to you.

You're going to be a magical unicorn in the room because you spoke up as opposed to the person who cannot keep their opinions to themselves and is busy telling everybody what to do.

Their effort is going to be to be quiet because the effort is relative to the nature of the person.

So everybody this week needs to know,

And hopefully you've gotten this from what we've shared today,

It's really simple to live an effortless life.

Living an effortless life means not trying to force and manipulate and control and dictate what's going on.

That was the last point I wanted to make and David kind of stole it was in parenting especially,

But you can apply it to everything in life,

When we feel failures as parents,

It's because it didn't go our way,

Not because it's not okay.

And so this week is a great week to look at all of those areas in our life where we feel we're making all this effort for not,

Or we're failing or we're doing so much and nothing is moving.

The effort might very well be to measure what am I attached to?

Why am I insisting on things going my way?

How can I open up to another version of the outcome?

I think this is a very powerful week for all of us to look inward and see where we're spinning our wheels and holding on to things,

Burning unnecessary fuel,

Polluting the environment and also burning ourselves out.

We can do it.

We have done it.

We can do it again and we can keep doing it using our energy wisely and efficiently.

Have a fabulous week everyone and we'll see you next time on the Weekly Energy Boost.

Meet your Teacher

Elisheva BalasLos Angeles, CA, USA

4.8 (12)

Recent Reviews

Sheila

June 11, 2022

All your sessions are wonderful and helpful in my life, this one included. At this time I’d like to comment on the sound. Most of the time when David is talking I need to turn up the volume to hear him. It’s as if he’s sitting at the far end of a long table. So after he speaks I need to turn down the volume. Any ideas on what’s happening here.

Karen

May 11, 2022

Excellent, as always! 🙏

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