Are you ready to shine? Shine bright. Woo-hoo!

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back.

I'm Michael Sandler, your host on Inspire Nation.

If you've been doing the work, healing, clearing, grounding, yet still feel unsure where life is actually going, then do we have the Jeffrey Allen show for you? Today we'll talk about why 2026 is not about more healing, but about choosing your energy, your direction, and your life. So welcome back to the show, Jeffrey. Are you ready to shine? Yes, thank you so much, Michael. And yes, I'm ready. I'm excited and we're going to have fun. Woo-hoo! And as I say this, we're recording this right before the end of the year, but welcome to 2026. I can't believe I'm saying that. Oh, my God. All right, before we dive right into things, Jeffrey, at what point does the healing stop helping and start holding us back? Ah, good question. Yeah, so I think that basically it has to do with where we're coming from.

If we're healing because we're coming from our heart and our true desire and our natural motivation,

and that motivation sometimes can be pain and suffering and challenges,

but if we're healing from that natural space, healing is great. If we get into our mind and we decide that, oh, there's like an agenda and I need to heal, I need to grow, I need to expand, I've got to get to this level, we've got to take those classes, I've got to get these certificates. Ooh. I've got to do this. Then healing, that's something else. So there's really kind of two versions of spirituality. There's the part that comes from your spirit and your soul. And then there's a part that comes from your mind that admires your spirit and soul and wants to try to pretend that it is your spirit. And so that's what I would divide it right there. Yeah. And on top of that, you get me thinking about my brief discussion, your brief discussion on concussions beforehand. Oh gosh, golly. And there is one thing to say, this is what I'm experiencing or this

is what I did experience, understanding it's all story. There's another thing that says, I get to do this,

I need to do this, which to me is holding onto story, either from an egoic or me perspective

or keeping yourself locked in a loop. Yeah, it's so true. And sometimes

the trick is to remember the moment something's happening, remember where the motivation came from.

Since you mentioned it, it reminds me of my own story. I was riding my bike down Boulder Creek,

going to work, and it was winter, and it was a little icy, but that was normal.

And I come around a corner that's a beautiful day. It's like sunny out, even though it's cold and there's a little ice. And I'm feeling great. I'm feeling like strong and athletic and young. And that was years ago, obviously. Come on now. And I'm coming around and going around. and all of a sudden I see this beautiful, big,

like, angelic hand reaching down from the sky and then it swipes my bicycle out from under me

and my bike flies off to the side and I'm like barreling to the ground thinking, why am I crashing

and why am I crashing on my face? Right?

Big change for me because basically my brain fell out for a long time.

I had pretty good concussion.

But I always remembered that like what was happening right before?

Big angelic hand sweeping down, beautiful gold, fantastic day, sweeping through, changing my life. I didn't want it to happen. I was not

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