Good morning, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's weekly energy boost.

My name is Elisheva, and I am here this lovely Monday morning with my good friend and neighbor,

Bati Salomon.

Bati and I are talking to you this morning about transforming difficult situations.

Now, the weekly energy boost is your seven-day spiritual

energy forecast. What we strive to do is to provide our listeners with the most powerful

and practical tools and wisdom to navigate the coming week, but those tools and that wisdom

inevitably support us all year long, all

lifelong.

And the reason we're talking about transforming difficult situations, and if I had my druthers,

I might give the episode a different title, something more along the lines of facing unwanted responses from people. And the reason for that

is, according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, this week is a week that has the potential to provide

us with opportunities that, I guess, in street language, street terms, we might say confrontational.

And if you look back in our episode archive, we have talked about confrontation almost every

December for the last three years. So we decided this week, instead of talking about

confrontation or confrontation in anger or confrontation

in relationships, we are going to talk about the other side of confrontation, which is receiving

the confrontation.

And what's interesting about that, and Batya and I chatted about this briefly, is that

why are we so afraid of confrontation?

What are we so, why do we, we call it confrontation.

And if you've taken classes with us, you know that the class where we talk about proactive

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