Dr. Dahan's Daily Wisdom - Motivational Podcast

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 497 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond One of the most relaxing and great opportunities of life is to travel. When you travel, you have the benefit of being alone with your thoughts. You can gain confidence, you can meet people, you can even discover new things and experiences that you enjoy. You’re actually the master of your own schedule when you travel, especially to destinations where you can have relaxations. I had dinner with some friends recently and they spoke about places that they went to see, places they visited, and what they enjoyed the most. One of those places, one of the person was saying, was up in the mountains in a secluded area amongst nature, and he woke up early, he said, and prayed, and he felt that he was just there among the millions and billions and billions of other creations, but he felt that the whole world was centered around where he was. This happened to me also and I’m sure it happened to you at times. When we are in a situation, espe

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 496 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I met someone the other day who was worried all week, and this person told me that it felt as though it had rained every single day even though the weather was quite nice. This person worried for days about something that she could not control, and actually, it ended up just fine anyway. What a waste of time and energy that we find sometimes worrying about things that we shouldn’t be worried about. Worry, interestingly enough, typically is about the future even if it is a moment from now, a minute from now. And what we are really worried about is our ability and capacity to deal with what’s going to happen, that’s what worry is all about. There’s something about worrying in us which is either positive or negative. There are things that we can do something about and the things that we cannot do anything about. Worrying gets us absolutely nowhere for most of us. Interestingly enough, the worry, after whatever the obstacle, challe

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 495 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Today, I would like to discuss about personality development. Each and every man possesses many character traits as we know and each trait is very different and distant from the others. One type of man for instance is angry constantly. In contrast, there’s the calm individual who is never moved to anger or if at all, he will be slightly angry, perhaps once during many years. Then there’s also the prideful man and the one who is exceptionally humble. There’s the man ruled by his appetites. He will never be satisfied for pursuing his desires, and conversely, the very pure of heart who does not desire even the little that the body needs. There's also the greedy man who cannot be satisfied with all the money in the world. As it says in the proverb, a “lover of money never has his fill of money.” In contrast however, there is the man who puts a check on himself. He is satisfied with even a little which is not enough for his needs and

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 494 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I read recently that a Harvard University study, found that exposure to blue light which is the light produced by the cell phone, can suppress melatonin and also, it can even shift your circadian rhythm. Now, the circadian rhythm is roughly a 24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including the plants, animals, and even the cyanobacteria. In order to sleep peacefully at night, a person should make sure that they turn off their cell phone or put it in a night shift mode, basically. What do you do when you want to go to sleep at night? How do you wind down from your day? Well, studies have shown that the best time to go to sleep is between 8 P.M. and midnight. Those are the good hours. By the end of the day, you should have a routine. A routine that helps you calm down and wind down. The brain cells and the iPhones also have low energy and they are slower and they feel overused. If this is how your day ends

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 493 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Have you noticed that everything is moving faster and faster around you? In everything that we do, everything around us, the world is moving faster. The development of technology in the last few years, has brought an explosion, a cataclysmic change in everything that we do and we’re all trying to keep up. Never before has there been a greater need and necessity for us to understand the obligation to slow down and appreciate what we have. Now, we can learn to harness the power of patience and understanding, the need for what we do in all of our lives. That’s a combination of wanting to, motivation of doing it, an awareness of paying attention to our inner landscape of who we are and what we want, and practicing, a cultivation of getting what we need to do. We can do it because as human beings, we have the power to control what we need in this world, and how we live our lives. It is such a critical component of what we do. We’ve d

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 492 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There is a concept in life which brings peace to your heart and your mind. There is a word also that is associated with that, it is called serenity. Now, it is interesting that in the word serenity, there is another concept an attribute that characterizes what serenity is, and that concept is called patience. To have the patience to do what you need to do. Patience gives you calmness of the spirit, your own spirit. With patience, at any given time your inner experience is more like a still pond rather than raging rivers. Things can be quite complicated at times. But with patience, true serenity, you are able to stay calm on the inside no matter what is happening on the outside. There's a certain composure, peace of mind, a stillness, a tranquility. There is calmness. You trust, if you reach that level, in your capacity to deal with whatever comes your way. And whatever the issue is, you can overcome it. There's yet another synony

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 491 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Are you facing a challenge that you think you cannot overcome? Are you looking at things in a way that you believe you’ve hit a wall and you can’t do more than that? Now, you know you have a background that can help you overcome these challenges. If you look back in your life, have you not been able to overcome past challenges? What makes you think that this one is different? Think about that for a moment. If anyone wishes to attain any worthwhile objective, the road is not an easy one and one must be prepared to make certain sacrifices. As a matter of fact, the more ambitious and worthy the objective, the greater must be the effort and sacrifice which in themselves is a criteria as to how important the objective is. You have to understand this concept because every challenge can be overcome. Know that a person does not value highly things which he or she obtains easily and without sacrifice. That’s only through facing up to a

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 490 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Every human being has within them, two voices. One to help them grow and become better, and the other one to suppress them and to hold them back. Those two voices are there continuously trying to take over and decide which one is going to win. Now, the negative one, the evil inclination, you might want to call evil impulse or the one drawing the person down will try to deceive you. It’s going to tell you that you’ve committed a major problem or a major transgression, when really all you’ve done is a small neglect of an extra detail or perhaps not even a transgression. What is its intent? To get you to be sad or miserable and make other mistakes, and it’s amazing how it draws the person down. What you need to do, is you need to be wise and you need to overcome that, talk back to that impulse and say: “I’m not going to pay attention to this extra detail that you’re talking about. I know your intent; you want to stop me from being

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 489 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond What are the character traits that a person should train himself to follow? It’s quite interesting. You see, people have different natural traits. Some men are irritable and they’re prone to anger. Others, they’re stable and they never become angry or they are rarely provoked to anger, only once every few years. Some people are very proud, while others are humble. Some are controlled by desire, and they will never be satisfied in their search for pleasure; yet, others have pure hearts and they will not desire even their basic necessities. It says also that some are greedy, and they will not be satisfied with all the money in the world. As it says, one who loves money, will never be satisfied with money. Others, seek a little, a small amount, less than required for their needs is enough for them, and they will not go out to seek to earn their sustenance. There are miserly people who starve themselves in order to save whatever they

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 488 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond There are times when you experience fear and it could be scary but then as it passes, you realize that it was nothing. So you ask the question, “Why did this happen? Why did I have to go through this experience?” Now, you can use your mind and shape your fears if you want to. You have the opportunity to train your emotion so that when you can and you wish to, the fear itself becomes controllable, and when it’s necessary, you have the opportunity to go through the exercise of fear, but knowing how to handle it. Now, there is a difference between a disposition and a mood. You see, a disposition is either the encouragement of the mind, or the discouragement of the mind. So what does that mean? Let me explain. There’s difference between sadness and joy. Sadness in a mood has no movement. When you’re sad, you can’t feel emotion. You’re sad and it is the disposition that prevents emotion. When a person is really sad, you can’t think;

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 487 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Sometimes, you find yourself in a situation where you can’t move forward and you don’t want to use the expression, “I promise to do.” You would rather use the expression, “I’ll try to do”, because you’re afraid to commit yourself or you would find it difficult to live up to your promise. Now, it’s interesting that experience has shown that when a person makes a promise to do something, this very promise gives them the strength to carry it, without hesitation and with greater ease. Whereas, one does not commit herself or herself, promising only to try, or to do one’s best, and when the matter comes up and there’s a temptation not to do it, that person is most likely to fail, saying to themselves that after all, they didn’t “promise to do it.” They only said they would try and therefore, they’re not breaking their word and their conscience doesn’t bother them. This is what I think, however, you should be determined to observe all

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 486 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond You know, it is said that there are six doctors in the world that are better than all the other healthcare practitioners you can find. And their names are Sun, Rest, Exercise, Diet, Self-confidence, and Friends. If you maintain all of them in stages of life with a good relationship, you will enjoy a healthy life. It’s interesting, isn’t it? You see, it says that we are “tourists” and the Creator of the world is the “travel agent”. He has already fixed all the routes and made all the reservations to take us to our destination. There’s a lot of difference between a human being and being human but a few understand the difference; it’s a shame. If you think about this, what you have to do, is the ones who love you, will never leave you; because if there are 100 reasons to give up, he or she will find one reason only, to hold on to. Life is about health, knowing where you stand. If you walk fast, you walk alone, but if you walk with

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 485 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Relatively speaking, there are two attributes in a person’s mind and heart, and body and soul, and they can be divided into two groups. One is the intellectual power, and the other is the emotional attribute. You see, the primary difference between intellect and emotion is that feelings are outward, towards others. In order to love, for instance, there needs to be someone to love. Intellect on the other hand exists even without another person. It’s entirely possible to learn something on your own. You could do this and no matter what. In general, however, our ego or self-awareness and arrogance are mostly found in the heart and in the emotions, and far less in the intellect. The intellect typically is more objective and it tends to be further removed from self-interest. This is, of course, relatively speaking. Now, in order for us to understand and reach a level where we aren’t aware of our own existence, the point where we ours

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 484 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond What is the purpose of accumulating money, purpose of wealth? It’s an interesting concept but let me perhaps share an idea with you. The purpose of wealth is so that we can help some conditions be treated appropriately, if the person for instance is not well. We can also help people who don’t have. We can also help build certain things: schools, hospitals, highways. We can build new things to help people. Purpose of wealth is so widely varied. But there is another concept about the purpose of wealth; and that is so that the fruits of the labor that you have done is so that you can benefit the rest of the world. So that you have an idea of what was given to you and what you should do with it. To take this wealth, and not necessarily money, because wealth could be in your knowledge, in your talents, in your skills, in your kindness, whatever it is that you’ve been given, that’s wealth, that’s the definition of true wealth. Give it

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 483 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond So you have made a mistake, something which you wish you hadn't done. It's there, it's clear. Now, you're trying to figure out how to make up how to change how to return to where you were before that mistake. Personal interest should not be the main motivating factor in feeling regret over the past and making a firm commitment to change, commitment to change even though most people are generally interested in enjoying the goodness of knowing they've been forgiven. Returning means, letting go of the past. And instead of the part of properly and truly changing ourselves, and understanding that it's not all about me, making a mistake and doing something which is inappropriate is not just a personal problem and it doesn’t just concern our own individual situation, it's much deeper than that. It's about fixing the rest of the world and when you make a mistake and things have been disconnected, expressing your regret has a much larger

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 482 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Sometimes you are in the relationship, or it could be a parent, a friend, or someone that you are perhaps related to, and they tell you that they “need space”. Now, you could look at this as a negative, something which is contradicting to what you would like. But all the person saying, is give me space, so I can grow, so I can see, so I can feel. We don't quite know the reason for that need. Obviously, the person who needs that space, they understand it. We also don’t quite always realize that the need for that space, is so that they can blossom, become better, and be a better friend, or person towards you. If someone needs their space, give it to them, don’t hold it back. Don’t think that this is about you or this has anything to do with who you are or what you've done. Now it’s possible that you may have contributed to the other person needing their space, but at that moment, when they need their space, just give it to them; wa

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 481 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Every day we encounter people with whom we exchange ideas, concepts and sometimes we help them, sometimes we help ourselves with different things that we speak about. When speaking with others, you must be very careful and take into account how they will interpret our words, ensuring that our intentions are not to be misinterpreted. You have to say words that matter so that the words as it says that “words that come from the heart, penetrate the other person's heart”. You have to speak carefully using words which are appropriate and uplifting, inspiring, often motivating. By speaking to someone else you not only create an energy about what you're saying, but you're also taking that person from one level in their life to another. You're affecting them with what you're saying, and you also affecting the environment where they are standing at this time. You have to pay close attention to that. Words are very powerful. Words can eithe

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 480 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Each passing day brings within itself a certain amount of energy. At the same time there are fears and choice. We're not too sure where the darkness comes from sometimes, or the storms of life feel as though they are closing in. There's a light that we cannot see and instead of illuminating our world, we feel lost. You know that part of your being that says: “I can't do it”, “I can't overcome it”, “I'm scared”, or “I am way too deep into this, what should I do?” We're tempted to give up. We feel as though the ocean has overwhelmed us and we are sinking deep into its abyss. We can't get out. We don't see, beauty, order, abundance. We see problems, we see challenges, we see nothing more than crying over things that we cannot do. And we are missing, we're not happy. Why not take each passing day as its own day? Why not look at every day as an opportunity to make a change? Let the gladness was away all these disappointments that you'

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 479 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond I would like to speak with you today about two fascinating organs in our body: the heart and the brain. They both have an influence on the body. Interestingly enough they're both required for a healthy body and the body cannot live without either one of them. The heart is always pumping. It doesn't stop ever. It is excited and it is in a perpetual state of excitement, and when person gets excited, the heart races even more. It is associated, interestingly enough, with emotions. Yet, it is the softest part of the body; It doesn't even have a bone. It is a powerful muscle, but it pumps continuously. The blood itself makes it so that as it pumps continuously, the heart becomes the weakest part of the body because of that work that it has to exert. These two organs are very different and they are the fundamental difference in the relationship within the body the brain itself is calm, it has very cold concept to itself. The heart does

Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 478 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond Today, I would like to share with you a concept which is monumental. You see when you do not fulfill your mission in this world, it's not just a personal loss, it's a global one. The whole world misses out. It's not just you! The whole world, everyone in this world, and everything; meaning the inanimate, the vegetation, the animal kingdom and even the human species; all creations in the world don't benefit, because you didn't fulfill your mission. Now you might ask, what is my mission? Why am I here? What am I supposed to do ? First, you have to refine the environment to where you are by bringing light to the world, being kind, sharing, helping… Second, everything that you do, should have a purpose and a reason. It should be done with integrity and honesty. Third, what you should do on a daily basis, should benefit others more than benefiting you. It's not just you, it's about the world. You will be taking care of. Help others