Prosperity Practices

Habits are an intrinsic part of who we are and how we function. And when it comes to accomplishing goals, our daily habits can contribute more to our success than any other single transformative action. In this episode we’ll reveal how to align our inner and outer worlds to achieve greater success.

Transcript:

ELISHEVA: Good morning, good evening and good afternoon wherever you are and welcome to this week’s Weekly Energy Boost. My name is Eilsheva and I am here on this beautiful Monday morning with David. And we are here to share with you the most practical and powerful prosperity practices (say that 5x fast and you will make money!) 

The goal of today’s show is to set the backdrop for the most elusive aspects of living an abundant lifestyle. In the previous two episodes we shared with you more the consciousness and mindset and today we are going to be talking about the habits and the routines and the actions that we can bring into our life to plant those seeds and the funny thing is and I am sure David will have something to say about this as well. 

The perception is, I think for most people is work is what makes money. But the perception of Kabbalah is that everything makes money. Everything is about connecting to that endless flow that we have talked about in these past few episodes that is the light force of The Creator as it expresses itself in the form of prosperity. 

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One of the first things we have to start with, I remember learning years ago this idea, that the measure of a great leader is how his team behaves when he is not around. That’s a brilliant concept that if you are responsible for a group of people and you instruct them in a certain way – if they continue to behave that way when you are not around – it shows you are a good leader. Very inspiring and powerful statement there. 

To me, when I heard that I thought, ‘Isn’t that really about us and The Creator?’ Like how spiritual we are, how connected we are, how powerful we are is really measured when no one is looking. When no one is around to say “Great Work. Good job. You’re doing the right work. You’re doing the right thing.” When no one can catch us. And I have worked with people over the years and we use the same example the last 2 years – when they are at work they are on. And when they are not at work, they’re off. And when I say not at work, I don’t mean off the path, or off the mindset, but I mean that they shut off, they turn off that hunger, that desire – they say, “leave me alone” or “give me a break” and disconnect completely from the zone and they wait to enter (and maybe not a lot of us are entering a physical office these days) but they wait to enter the 9-5 zone in order to be that person. And that I think is the first place to start. 

You know the reminder that the cameras are always on, the recorder is always working that there isn’t really a moment of our lives that isn’t being recorded. And when I say recorded, I don’t mean on film or on camera or digital-whatever. I mean that it is not being noted. 

The universe takes note of everything. 

A few weeks ago, we worded that differently, and we said that are actions are a form of prayer, right? It’s one thing to express things in your wishes or your desires, it’s another thing to live it.  And that’s the starting point of our conversation today. 

DAVID: There are a lot of books out there and a lot of people that are much smarter than we are in this field that talk about prosperity principles and we want to bring that twist that most likely our audience is not going to hear somewhere else, that has to do with a spiritual foundation. 

Because I think a lot of time when people think of prosperity – they think of building wealth and that’s great and a person should build wealth. But something that’s higher than building wealth is financial freedom. And something that my teacher Rav Berg told me, “You think having financial freedom means having more money that you’ll ever know what to do with, but true financial freedom means that you are connected to a stream of energy that everything no matter what is always going to be taken care of for you”.

Now that doesn’t have the same stability as when you know the money is in the bank. But what if The Creator came to you and said, “From now on anything and everything you need, I am going to make sure it’s given to you for free.” 

Would you rather have that? Or would you rather have a dollar amount that you have to manage and invest, and The Creator will not be involved in that process?

So, what we are saying here, and even though people are saying “That’s a nice concept, now I’m going to put the money in the bank.”  I want everyone here to understand that what we want and what we should strive for – doesn’t mean that we don’t have physical wealth, dollars, holding dollars – but we should also know that in our heart what we want (and we talk about this every show) is that our relationship with The Creator is the reason why you came to this world. Kabbalah explains how to have this relationship. It’s not just a concept of “Oh I am close to Go. Everyone is close to God”. But rather it is an energy intelligence. The light is on, the darkness goes away. If the light is off, you have darkness. 

So, it’s not just that the light is on for everyone. There are things that you must do to have similarity of form with that energy. But when you have it, that’s what’s called ‘Having a relationship with The Creator’ and then the financial aspect of your life has circuitry. 

Now, whether that means you have great wealth, or little wealth, the bottom line is that everything is taken care of.  

The taking care of component, because you get fired – you don’t get fired. You have a job. You don’t have a job. You go broke. You don’t go broke. To you, you know you are taken care of.  

It’s not just an intellectual concept, it’s real. I’ve seen it first-hand. I’ve seen it for myself and my students that there will be times that you have and there will be times that you don’t have, but if you remember that you are plugged into an energy that you will be taken care of – miracle after miracle will occur so you’ll never be in a situation where you don’t have what you need (and even what you want).  

ELISHEVA: I think for some of us that are reading what David said about having a relationship with The Creator and being close to The Creator, being connected the The Creator – for a lot of us we hear those words and think “Well that’s for people who are religious, or that’s for people who study and pray all day or even renounce the physical world and spend all day in meditation and introspection”.

Hundreds of years ago there were Kabbalists who came on the scene and said you can experience God in a good meal, in music, in dance, art, in nature. God is not something ‘up there’ that you have to reach the heights for. God is in everything. There are sparks in everything. And its really our work to elevate those sparks. And sometimes I think in the pursuit of happiness, as we call it, you find yourself – I found myself doing jobs that I wasn’t particularly enamored with. It reminds of a person I work with years ago who was a retail executive, high up in the management chain, managing hundreds of people. And they came to study Kabbalah and said, “I don’t want to do this anymore, this is too mundane, this is too materialistic, I don’t really care about this company’s bottom line or how happy the customer is.” And they put themselves on this path and went through a long period of what they would say “having not a lot” because they decided that they were going to pursue and strive for a spiritual progression. And as a spectator in this scenario, I saw him making such a difference in people’s lives while he was working in corporate retail America and it’s not for me to judge, but it was pretty impressive how powerful he was and how much influence he had and not from an ego-centric place, but he shared with people, he inspired people and was an example of what it means to live in the light in a place that could be really dark. And that was a trade-off in a way, he decided he was going to seek out and maybe be a Kabbalah teacher, and there was maybe an expense to it. 

The reason I bring up that story is because you don’t have to be a preacher or a teacher or a monk. You don’t have to be in a spiritual religious field to have that relationship with The Creator. It comes and all of us can have it – it really is more of figuring out how to dial the number to get to that place of affinity, to that place of similarity of form.  

DAVID: I have a list of concepts, in no particular order or structure that have to do with prosperity, and I thought that I would share them, and people could comment and talk about them as I go through them one by one. Each one requires a lot of unpacking and requires their own course. But I think people are reading this because they want their own headline nuggets that will hopefully be inspiring and make them think. 

So, each concept might bring up a hundred more questions, so feel free to reach out to us if so.  

I am going to veer away from what the thought leaders and gurus are focusing on even though all these books (and I have stumbled upon many of them myself) that are based on spiritual concepts. And I do recommend anyone who is trying to build a career or build wealth to read these books. Somebody asked me the other day to give them my best spiritual book and my best business book. And I gave the best spiritual book, and I gave the best business book I’ve read, Traction by Gino Wickman (and I think every entrepreneur should read it). And again, all of these books have amazing concepts, but we are going to look at it from a spiritual point of view. 

If you have learned deeper Kabbalah you know there are Four Levels of Desire. And of course, you know each one of these levels have levels within levels, so it’s not just four. And we have Four Kingdoms (Mineral, Animal, Plant, Human). And what separates all these Kingdoms? We know it’s desire. The desire of the rock is less than the desire of the plant. Doesn’t make it bad. The rock has a desire. What is the desire of the rock? The rock is not looking for its soulmate. The rock is not looking for respect form another rock, saying “Why don’t you like me today”. The rock doesn’t get insecure, but at the same time it also can’t achieve too much. So, it doesn’t have positive desires and it doesn’t have negative desires. It has Level One Desires. And the vegetable has Level Two Desires. It wants to grow. It’s capable of sharing (more than the rock). 

ELISHEVA: Plants will grow towards sun if they need to. They will grow towards water. If that’s what they need. They can express a higher degree of willpower than the walk. 

DAVID: So, you can see as we are moving up the chain, the level of desire is increasing. Third would be the animal. The animal has animalistic desires as we call them. You don’t say vegetative desires.

ELISHEVA: But animals seek relationships, warmth. There is an expression of will that is higher than say a carrot. But they are running on instinct, rather than proactive thought. 

DAVID: There are a lot of secrets about animals that our teachers taught us. They come pre-programmed. They don’t really have free will. Free will comes in the Fourth Kingdom of Humans. Our teacher would say, animals don’t kill more than they need. They will kill to eat. But they don’t kill a hundred deer and put them in the freezer and say “maybe I’ll need them later. Look at how many I have … I have more than you.” It doesn’t work like that. The animal kills what it needs and that’s it.  

The human which has the biggest desire, which means the biggest potential for the revelation of light, but also potential for chaos. It has endless desires. It wants anything and everything. And, according to your level of desire, sometimes we fall to more animalistic desires. Sometimes are desires shrink to the point where they become vegetative desires almost. Sometimes it’s like a rock … what’s the saying … “like a lump on a log?” So, we all have levels of desire and spirituality means you have to be operating at your highest level of desire. 

Now, that’s just Phase One. Phase Two is what you DO with your level of desire, which we have talked about in many shows, so if you have to transform that high level of desire, but a lot of times – just the desire itself is – there is something wrong with it. 

And examples we’ve given in other shows is when your desire is tainted … is the kind of person that for example will say “David, I want to be successful. I have some dreams and I want to do X,Y, and Z.” And I say, “Alright go do it.” Or they say, “I want a relationship. I’m single, in my mid-30’s here and I have to get a move-on here … and I want to find my soulmate, and I pray for it everyday”  

Alright, so what is happening here? You find that the other part of their desire – which is the concealed, subconscious desire – doesn’t want that. Maybe it wants comfort or doesn’t want commitment. We have had so many shows about this … the conflicting desire. So, when you have a conflicting desire, you are actually shrinking you desire. So, when there a person who says they want this great life, but then there’s a part of them that’s says, “I don’t really want this great life” BECAUSE it comes with great responsibility and I’m not sure I am ready for that …” and these two desires cancel each other out and you shrink to a third, second or first level desire. The light of The Creator wants to give and actually has already given it to you. Everything you want actually has already been given and is being held in a trust fund that is going to break open the minute you do your part. That’s the rules of the trust. It’s not that dad doesn’t want to give you the money. Dad already gave you the money in a trust, in your name. You have to open the trust up through certain work you do. 

ELISHEVA: The point you made about the conflicting desires works and is especially important when we talk about prosperity because a lot of us have excuses or alibis when it comes to The Creator – what is your excuse for not cracking open the trust fund? Not only what are you blaming, but who are you blaming? It could be the economy, the pandemic, education, or lack thereof – many times we put the onus on ‘that thing’ so we don’t have to take responsibility for the diminishment of our desire. And this is a very powerful week to explore that because according to Kabbalah … and David and I are always saying we aren’t sharing our personal beliefs, we are sharing this wisdom that has not only worked for us but has worked for countless people that we have worked with and taught classes to, etc. at The Kabbalah Centre … that if you manage to find that excuse and alibi and take responsibility for it – not just because you were born into this village, and economic status – there’s an explanation even for that. But your soul chose these circumstances not so that you could be owned by it, but so you could overcome and transcend them.  

So, knowing that, there may be barriers and obstacles, but according to what David has said is that according to what Kabbalah teaches the key to opening up the safety deposit box with everything you’ve ever wanted inside of it … through overcoming those barriers, those limitations, those excuses, those blockages that appear insurmountable. Or sometimes it’s not even worth making the effort.  Sometimes, for a lot of people, something that keeps people behind that barrier is, “Why bother?” 

And here we come, in this month (more than ever) you have the ability, the support to explore it at least. Ask yourself, “What is my alibi?” I don’t have one!  At the end of the day when I get upstairs, and The Creator says to me “How come you weren’t [your best self] What is your Alibi going to be? That’s where the work is, taking responsibility for whatever that is. 

DAVID: So, a lot of people are writing. “How do I remove those contradicting desires? How do I even know that I have those contradicting desires?” And someone wrote, “I don’t have them, I just can’t manifest a relationship and I know I don’t have a contradicting desire.” And I love when people say that (if this was a live class, I can’t wait to get back to our live classes because someone will raise their hand and say, “I don’t have contradicting desires.”, and I will ask them to “Come right up here.” and everyone gives a round of applause for the bravery of this person. And, within 5 minutes we realize that okay, there’s a problem here.  

So here are some examples of things act are contradicting your ‘Outward Desire’, so in this case an Outward Desire would be, ‘I want a relationship’ and then there’s hidden desires that are contradicting [the desire of wanting a relationship] that are not apparent to me, you or anyone around me. 

ELISHEVA: Can we talk about prosperity instead of relationships? Because we are going to talk about relationships next month. 

DAVID: Fine. So, number one – you have to look at the things that you are addicted to because anything that you are addicted to that you can’t let go (doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing, but you can’t let go of it and you have to ask yourself, “Can I let go of this. If I had to let go of it right now, could I let go of it?”  Could I join the 5AM club (person that wakes up at 5am) if I had to? And people say, “well if I had a great career of course I would wake up at 5:00am” and maybe it’s the other way around … as you have to break the body consciousness. If you look at your addictions there are things that you feel that without them you wouldn’t know how to function, how to live … 

ELISHEVA: And David isn’t referring to substance abuse a lot of people talk about.

DAVID: Could be … 

ELISHEVA: Yes, but I’m saying a lot of people hear the word addiction and they tune out because they don’t have that. We aren’t talking about the hard addictions alone. It could be your nighttime routine. It could be the way your clothing fills your closet and you’re not willing to share your closet space. It could be so many things, specifically I think that when it comes to money the desire to control the money is often what blocks people … that attachment to the money aspect versus what you said being taken care of is what blocks people. 

DAVID: I’ll give the number one addiction entrepreneurs have. I don’t know if we have a lot of entrepreneurs here or you own your own business, you are building something, you are in charge of your own wealth, you aren’t receiving a paycheck (and by the way even employees will have this). The number one Tikkun and this is actually in the book I referenced earlier [Traction by Gino Wickman], they are way too controlling over their process, team or business. They don’t know how to let go of the “vine” and they micromanage, and they do the job of seven people. That’s an addiction. The fact that you do the job of seven people because you believe, you don’t trust that people are going to do it as well … as good as you are going to do. That’s really what it comes down to. I built this and no one is going to care about this the way that I care about it. 

ELISHEVA: Raise your hand if you relate to that … 

DAVID: This is everybody. This is every single person. I go through it. We all go through it. And as a result, we are stuck. And I have seen so many business owners. They have a limit, they have their ceiling, they can’t break that $50,000 or $100,000. I know a person who can’t break 10 Million. In fact, he has built several businesses and everyone he hits the 10M mark, chaos happens.  

ELISHEVA: I would be … by the way that can be applied to everything. If you are stuck in your relationship, it’s because you are trying to micromanage. If you feel stuck as a parent, it’s because you are trying to micromanage. If you are stuck as a friend, you are micromanaging your friend group. And David will talk about becoming unattached… 

DAVID: I see some people in an e-commerce circle and they all share that same problem. You are smart enough to get your business to a certain level and you thrive … and in fact you scale there really quickly. And then all the fears and the limited beliefs come in and that big hire that you have to make. And then you have to spend money on that big hire – but oh this is scary. 

ELISHEVA: … And how do I know this is going to work out?

DAVID: Sure. And you saw your dad had a business partner that screwed him over and that’s with you. There is always someone … everyone has a business partner that their dad had that screwed them over, right? 

ELISHEVA: That’s not even funny! But the important thing to remember about what David is saying is that the whole scenario is set up externally, again, not so that it will be your excuse, but so you overcome it. And David you give such good examples, I want to make sure that you realize the fact that your dad had that crummy business partner is there for you to say, “You know what … not my monkey, not my circus” and it’s not the same thing and despite what I learned, what I saw, what I experiences. I am going to take the risk and trust that the light has my back. 

DAVID: There is so much to unpack there and by the way - What do you mean ‘bad’ business partner? It’s a partnership. Every partnership brings up your Tikkun, brings up your garbage. I don’t think there are bad partnerships. So many people I know eventually the partnership it always starts off good but then eventually challenges occur. It’s not because you have a bad partner, it’s because the Creator saw that you are soulmates on some level (and there are business soulmates) and you are soulmates. A soulmate is basically someone who needs to be in your life to awaken your stuff. And to help create an environment for you that you elevate. That’s a soulmate. That’s the definition of a business soulmate or a love soulmate or whatever. So not to digress, going back to a practical way that people can let that go. For me, which I have suffered from this disease and probably due to some extent, I went to people who have done this, and I said, “Tell me.” I remember talking to a guy and said, “You scaled, and you have 20 employees … (it was a big deal for me) and aren’t you afraid and worried?” And he said “Honestly, they do it better than I do it.” So, talking to people who have done it … 

ELISHEVA: By this way, this is another fear that people have – that they are going to be outdone; that they are going to be redundant; they are going to be phased out because someone else can do it better or faster. 

DAVID: Well that just tumbled right out of bed because there’s a whole other group of people that want to feel like they’re the best. And there are other entrepreneurs that I talk to that say my goal is to make sure that I am not the smartest guy in the room. And then there are people that secretly need to be the smartest guy because they are using their business as a way to fill a void that was created in high school or something. And you can see where all this goes. And if you are not self-aware you are going to make poor decisions in every part of your life. Practically what do you do? Number one, you need to talk to people that have already done it. 

ELISHEVA: And again, that’s one of those things not specific to this book that David read, or Kabbalah. And all spiritual teachings emphasize the fact that in order to accomplish what you want to accomplish that you need a supportive environment. So that means … the standard is to find people that make me feel good … not always the best environment. The best environment is often people that will challenge me, in a supportive way. Challenge me to think different; to think outside the box; to break those habits or those stagnant parts of myself. But also, who are better than me – like David was saying – that are better than I am at what I do so that I have that positive pressure to reach my next level.

DAVID: And a lot of people will say “Well I don’t trust hiring certain people.” and there are lessons of how you can even increase the chances of hiring the right people. When you are doing your spiritual work, the universe no longer has to send you people that are poking at your negativity all the time. So instead of having a competitive employee, or a cheating employee or whatever, you are getting rid of that garbage ahead of time, so you don’t need to attract those kinds of people. And that’s the benefit of living a spiritual lifestyle. That’s number one.  

Number two, I see a lot of entrepreneurs don’t create an environment for their employees that’s healthy, that’s accountable. Because when you create accountability for someone, you create structure for them they are less likely to make mistakes or be resentful or have a path to thrive. So, all of these denote care. So, if you care about the people that you hire, and you create a structure around them, and create a reward system, and you understand them, and you know them, and you are in tune with what they need – you are also creating a situation where you are lowering the chances of being hurt and being screwed and it’s because you are a giver. You are really a giver. 

ELISHEVA: We started today’s show talking about how everything is taken into account, especially when you are “not in the office”. One of the things that the Kabbalists teach about making sure you are living life in the light, is always thinking about how I can add value. How can I be in service right now? And David gave some great examples for business owners and employers of how to make sure that they’re adding value to the experience of their employees, but that’s something that you and me and everyone we know can shift to focus on. 

Let’s look at it this way … you wake up in the morning, and yes you may be working at home and whether you have a family or not with you is irreverent because there are always ways to add value. One of the great things about modern times, I think, is that there are different software that makes us so much more connected than before. Even if you are isolated physically you still have the ability to interact with people. Not only on room, but things like podcasts, YouTube, Yelp and things like that … there’s always a way to engage with other people and add value. So, using something like writing reviews. If you sit down and think I am not doing anything right now, I’m just reading about, listening or watching this fabulous podcast … I can get on to Amazon and I can review all the great products I tried and make a difference for those people … a lot of small businesses, etc. And you are never in a position where you cannot add value. Smiling at someone. Okay maybe they can’t see you because you are wearing a mask, but you can say “Hi”, “Good Morning”, etc. There’s always a way to be in service at any given moment. Text a friend. Call a relative. Write a note of appreciation. You are never in a spot where you can’t do that. Praying and meditating is a way to add value. Being focused on that … David talks a lot in our Podcast about being a taker. This is being the opposite of a taker. This is focusing on how I can be a giver. And when you are focused on how to be a giver what you are saying is, I trust that I am going to be taken care of and there is enough of me to go around and I don’t have to micromanage my bottom line maybe the way I have been before hearing or reading this. 

DAVID: A lot of people say, “How do I smoke out that conflicting desire” and people don’t just understand and it’s exactly what Elisheva just said and they are kind of similar. When you do these two things, you smoke out those desires. And if you don’t do these two things over and over again those desires will hide inside and control you. So, for example, how do you know what kind of physical toxins exist in your body? They are embedded deep within your cells and you have this cellular makeup that maybe you inherited toxicity – but its inside you. How do you get it out? As soon as you start eating healthy – you push it out.  Does that make sense? That’s why when people go through detox. 

ELISHEVA: Juicing and things like that … 

DAVID: That’s right. When you juice you don’t feel good, you feel bad. Because the juice is literally saying, “Hey” all your negative toxins “time for you to get out, we are coming in!” 

ELISHEVA: It’s a purge, it feels terrible. 

DAVID: Exactly, it’s a purge. So spiritually when you are committed to adding value and you do restriction. Restriction means going against. Restriction is not suppression. Restriction is I have a desire to receive for myself ,some kind of comfort zone, some kind of negativity, some kind of fear and I’m going to go against it… 

ELISHEVA: Selfish impulse… I am going to go against my selfish impulse.

DAVID: Right, I am going to go against it. Now every time you add value, and you go against your selfish impulse, the light of the Creator enters and starts to push out old negative desires. So, a person who is going to evolve fastest is the person who is adding value and going against their negative impulses. It could be procrastination; it could be some kind of jealousy. Whatever. Here is what is interesting … students say, “You know, what If I add the wrong kind of value and what if I am giving too much, I tend to give too much …” so therefore I am not going to do what you said. So, here’s the secret. You should give. In fact, you should give too much. And everyone’s going to tell you give too much and everyone’s going to reject you and push you away and then within a good 48 hours you are going to realize all that is wrong with you as opposed to being overly spiritual and try to think 47,000 steps ahead and how you want to have this perfect spirituality and you don’t want to hurt anybody or hurt yourself, so you are just controlling the whole process. In fact, go out there – you don’t know how to add value, I agree – so just go out and do it the best you can and let everyone tell you how you could be better, how you did it the wrong way, how you are being insensitive about your giving, how you are being too intrusive, how you are taking away my free will, and then say, “Wow, okay I am learning about myself.” And you start to learn because it’s painful. 

ELISHEVA: It’s almost like you are creating your own product. You are your own product. And you have to put it out there … 

DAVID: You’ve got to put it out there! Let everyone say how bad it was.  

ELISHEVA: Test the product. Let them test you and let them see. And you want the product successful (I love this example; we’ve never talked about this …) so you have to put it out there in trial with as many different focus groups as you can. Take in that feedback and make a better product.  

DAVID: Fail fast and that’s how you succeed fast. It’s only our ego that makes us not want to fail and hear feedback or whatever it is. And of course, make mistakes, don’t make egregious mistakes … mistakes that can ruin your life. 

ELISHEVA: Don’t make mistakes on purpose. There are people out there that say I need to have something to repent for, so I am going to make mistakes. And that’s not what the Kabbalists teach. The Kabbalists teach that you are going to stumble anyway. Don’t try. But when you do embrace it. And that’s the secret. That’s the secret sauce .

DAVID: I went through this phase in my life and I probably should do it again. And once I realized that the reason I don’t have everything I want is because of my negativity, I started to get excited about that and I started to go to like Psychics. And I would say “All I want to know is what’s wrong with me, tell me everything you see, what do I need to change, and look if you have a psychic power, tell me what I am afraid of.” 

ELISHEVA: I don’t need a psychic power to tell you what you’re afraid of.

DAVID: Or you just ride in the car with Elisheva for 30 minutes – that can do it. I remember signing up for therapy and tell me everything you see. Going through my life and my childhood and you know – you should talk to my parents too, let’s just get it all out and then you realize that that’s all the stuff that is holding you back. People ask, “How do I find my soulmate” and I say “Do you really know yourself? Do you really know all that trauma that you went through? And you’ve come to terms with and are you cognizant for the things in your life?” Because if you are hiding that stuff – those are the toxins that when people are toxic inside their body and you know they have a little ‘odor’. You know when you have toxicity in your body – you have like bad breath, Halitosis-type thing … is that's what it's called? 

ELISHEVA: I love when David gets into bodily functions as spiritual examples … you haven’t done this in a long time I’m really excited now. 

DAVID: The person that has Halitosis doesn’t know that they have it but everyone else can smell it and that’s because there’s something coming out of your pores. It's coming out of your pores that’s because there is something going on in your gut. You’re not taking care of yourself on the inside. So if you have stuff from your past that you haven’t dealt with, and you go out on a date and the package looks good, but the spiritual smell is coming through the pores and the breath which is interesting because the word for breath in Hebrew is also the same word for Soul. It’s so deep! That was very nice, I did not plan that. Breath and Soul same word, same root and that’s why you wonder why it’s going well and then they ghost you or leave you or its unresolved or the money just leaves you – like it just comes and goes …

ELISHEVA: How many of us, after breaking up with someone ask them to fill out an exit survey?

DAVID: An exit survey would be phenomenal! What’s my net promoter score?

ELISHEVA: When you leave a job and ask your employer or co-workers to complete an exit survey. 

DAVID: Would you refer me to two of your friends? 

ELISHEVA: … But that’s really what we are talking about here … that the ability to draw greater blessings. Whether the blessing is in the form of a soulmate, or a 100K a month career, or anything else, is that ability to recognize and identify what is standing between me and that next blessing. That’s really it. We are joking about an exist survey, but that feedback is just as valuable as all the lessons you think you learned in that relationship, career, etc. We are getting
a lot of questions about procrastination, so I hope you have that on your list. Can we go there? 

DAVID: Yeah.

ELISHEVA: So, a lot of people have everything it takes to be successful at whatever – again the degree, the internships, the experience – and yet they are not getting hired, and yet they are not breaking through that glass ceiling, or they have gone on so many interviews, or maybe every investment that they try goes south. Why does that happen? Kabbalists talk a lot about the opposite of procrastination which is taking advantage of every moment. And the reason that becomes important (and we will come back full circle in a moment) is because when we understand that the reason, we came to the physical reality is to fulfill our souls’ purpose and we understand that every moment in our day is orchestrated by the production company in the sky to make sure that we fulfill that purpose. Everyone we put something off we are saying, “Hmmm, I don’t feel like fulfilling my purpose right now.”  Procrastination is basically saying I don’t want to fulfill my purpose. And I am going to leave it right there.  

DAVID: And what I like about that is procrastination that doesn’t allow you to obtain wisdom. Because wisdom is to know whether something works or doesn’t work. That’s what wisdom is. We go to a wise person because you know they know something you don’t know. So, you obtain wisdom every time you go against your laziness. And what’s hard about it is when the body takes over and removes all the feeling, it’s like a day you didn’t have caffeine. 

ELISHEVA: No such thing! 

DAVID: Elisheva not going to miss her caffeine, but let’s say it happened, right? Then all of the sudden you have to muster some kind of strength. 

ELISHEVA: The only other time it happened was when I was juicing, and I had enough energy that I didn’t jump for my caffeine. 

DAVID: Okay so what happens when you’re not juicing, and you don’t have caffeine, and you’re just having a bad day, and you’re not in the mood to do anything – and a lot of lessons here and it happens to all of us … happens to me several times a day. So, I don’t want people to think we are the exception here. What my teachers taught me is when you get to that place where you don’t want to do anything and you have no desire – you just want to give a middle finger to everybody and say get away from me and whatever – that means that moment in time your soul is presenting to you, negativity, this shell, this husk where it … saying that for lifetimes this has been part of you and the reason why you feel the way you feel is because now I am bringing it to the surface, and you can remove it. So, when we muster any kind of strength because we always have a pilot light on. Just take that pilot light and ignite the strength to overcome that feeling. Then you are going to remove something that has been part of your life for lifetimes. And for me that’s an exciting proposition. So anytime you feel like you are totally disconnected, and I mean you feel like you have no energy … wow… it means I am looking face to face with my opponent, and I have five, maybe ten minutes to overcome it and do something. To overcome it and not just wallow. Because in ten minutes you’ll start to feel better organically. You’ll maybe hear some good news. You’ll go eat some food and all the sudden you’re not upset anymore, and you just lost the opportunity. So, whether that is dancing round the room or shouting or praying or doing something. You’re basically making an effort to go against that desire to receive for the self alone. 

ELISHEVA: It can be something as simple and mundane as organizing your desk drawer. It doesn’t have to be something spiritual and elevated that breaks you out. It can be just … you know what… “No, I am not going to let that be my excuse/alibi” and you go and do something apropos like cleaning out a desk drawer. I know for a lot of people cleaning out a desk drawer, cleaning out a closet, going through old stuff, something they love to procrastinate about.  The Kabbalists teach that organizing your home / your space is a very spiritual practice. Decluttering is a very spiritual practice and can move energy in your life. So, if you have a room, or a closet, or home that you need to get organized – take my word for it – it will make miracles for you. Actually, don’t take my word for it. Try it and let us know. 

ELISHEVA: Time to knock it out of the park with the few minutes we have left. 

DAVID: We talked about getting excited about feedback. It’s not personal. I used to take feedback so personally. It was a Pisces thing where I would shut down completely. 

ELISHEVA: I don’t know what you’re talking about. 

DAVID: But we’ve been trained military style. 

ELISHEVA: Navy Seals. 

DAVID: I was talking to a Navy Seal guy a couple days ago and he was the elite unit and they put you in a one-week torture – where they kidnap you, and interrogate, and put you through torture so you get trained for it. No eating. No sleeping. They beat you up, laying in your feces type of thing. 

ELISHEVA: I said knock it out of the part and you took it seriously. 

DAVID: I asked him “What is the most powerful lesson you got from all that?” He said, “I realized I could do anything. I realized nothing is impossible.” And I found that to be so powerful. He said that the way that they train you is so that you realize that you have nothing to be afraid of and it’s all an illusion in your head. And knowing this person, he’s really not afraid of anything now that he’s in the private world. 

ELISHEVA: His fears are not spiritual. 

DAVID: Yah. We’ve received navy seals spiritual training to some extent, and we have to go through this stuff. I remember one time, maybe ten years ago a group of teachers said, “We are going to play a game for a week, where we are just going to keep bringing each other fake bad news and say, ‘Oh did you hear?’ And say something that was really scary. To see how we react.” 

ELISHEVA: De-sensitizing you? 

DAVID: Exactly. Like, “Did you hear your car just got towed?” or “Oh, and by the way some papers came, and you are getting sued!” And even though we knew this was coming, it was always painful and scary to hear it. And you had to remind yourself it was a joke, but you started to see how attached you are to everything. Attached to your ego and attached to the way things should be. So much to talk about there. 

ELISHEVA: And we will continue the conversation in our next episode, and we will continue the conversation about prosperity. If you have questions, you’d like us to address on the show (We can’t promise, but we can try) you can send them to energyboost@kabbalah.com 

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Have a fabulous light filled, unattached, detoxing week and we will see you next time on the Weekly Energy Boost.