Burn Out Part Two

By: Yehuda Berg


Tuesday, September 16

There are people in our lives who don't want to receive what we have to give them. This was the point I was making - unsuccessfully - in my message dated September 3, Burn Out.

I was explaining that we invest efforts into keeping some relationhships burning in our lives that we'd be better off letting burn out.

This drew some criticism from readers and after rereading the email many times, I see where I misled you. My point was - and is - life is all about circuitry. When we share our Light with people who don't want to receive it, it's like trying to fill a bottle when the cap is still on. Try as you might, with all of the love, intention, and desire to share, your energy simply cannot penetrate. And as with our favorite spiritual illustration, the lightbulb, if the negative pole is blocked, the circuit cannot be completed, and the energy cannot flow.

It's not about judging people as worthy or unworthy. It's about discerning who is 'open' to receive, and willing to use what we have to offer - wisdom, love, time, concern - no matter what flavor!

Today, make that assessment in your own life.

Amplify the Light

By: Yehuda Berg

Monday, September 15

"Is what I'm about to do/say, or what I'm not about to do/say, going to reveal - or conceal - Light in the world?"

This may sound like rudimentary Kabbalah thinking, but I sometimes wonder how many of us remember those beginning lessons about tapping into the 99% realm. I see how over time, as restriction and sharing become second nature to us - and I do hope you hear the irony in my voice - we no longer question the long-term or global effects of our choices.

Today, challenge yourself to ask those basic questions again, such as:

"Why am I doing what I'm doing?"

"What's my real purpose here?"

"Can I shift my thinking or work so as to reveal more Light in this situation?"

And work to amplify that increased consciousness in your actions.

Find the Time

By: Yehuda Berg

Sunday, September 14

Most of us are not free to devote all day, every day to spiritual matters. We have jobs and careers, families and friends. And this, after all, is what the Light intends for us. We were not created to live on a mountaintop, alone with our contemplations and meditations. We were brought into the world in order to meet the challenge of being spiritual while living a tough, physical life that at times seems the exact opposite of spiritual.

The fact that you have so many mundane responsibilities does not mean that the quality of your spiritual work needs to be degraded, even if the time you devote to explicitly spiritual matters is less than it might be.

Most of us are left with only bits and pieces of time for study and reflection. But you have to grab onto those moments and use them to do the spiritual work.

Today, the spiritual work is reviewing the pain you have caused others this past year, and to transform the original outcome by committing to yourself not to allow that reactive behavior to dominate you.

If we really care about connection to the Light, then let us make the desire to transform a commitment at every moment.

Bring in the New

September 14 — 20

By: Yehuda Berg

Why are we afraid of taking risks? We're afraid to sacrifice our ego.

Getting hurt, rejected, bloodied and bruised - this is all pain felt by the ego. When we're afraid to go onstage to address a crowd of 1,000 people, or trembling in our boots before asking someone out, is it our soul that's afraid? No.

And by ego, I'm not referring to pride or self-centeredness. I'm referring to anything that's not of the spirit.

In the end, (or in the beginning, depending on how you look at it) all the gifts we have come from the Light. When we're taking a risk, all that we are putting on the line is our ego.

That's what Kabbalah is all about. The connections, meditations, transformational sharing, charity, late-night studies, going against our gravity to help others ... we do all this to receive the strength to take risks!

And what's on the other side of a risk? Certainty. When you go out on a limb and see results, are you going to be afraid to go out on that limb again? No. You'll run out there next time, ready to breakthrough and reveal greater results.

The Zohar says we have to connect all the blessings in our life back to its source if we want them to continue. What does this mean? Whether it's attaining a level of wisdom or success or peak performance, you need to know it's not us, but the way the Light speaks through us that allow for these things to manifest.

When you do take a risk and start a business or become a motivational speaker or whatever, you are worried about you but it's actually the Light that's doing these things. It's a paradox. Do you see what I am getting at?

You have nothing to risk but your ego and if you don't have the ego, than it's just the Light. If you are afraid of success, its not even you, it's the Light that creates the success, so what are you afraid of?

This week, keep taking risks. The more you are able to identify the illusion of the ego, the greater your future will be. Do you really want more energy, success, wealth, happiness, health and fulfillment next year?

You've got to get rid of the old before you can bring in the new.



All the best,

Yehuda



72 Name of the Week


This Name brings the greatest of all free-doms: the escape from my own ego-based desires, selfish inclinations, and the "me first" mentality that ultimately cause pain in my life. In their place, I gain life's true and lasting gifts-family, friendship, and fulfillment.