I was talking to a friend today who is accomplishing something wildly unprecedented and incredible. And while we were talking, we were just talking about how exciting it is and how big it is and what she's doing that is so tremendous. And we were also saying, she was also saying, I really hope that this is a doorway to even more opportunities and even more incredibleness.

Since I know her and I know her soul and she's just such a beautiful soul, I asked her, would it be okay if I give you a reflection? And she's like, yes. And what I shared with her is, can you allow yourself to really luxuriate in this accomplishment? Can you allow yourself to fully receive this version of this incredible accomplishment?

And I was thinking about it, and I was thinking about how when we don't allow ourselves to have what we have now, we will not have what we have later, even when we have it. Whatever that external thing is that we desire, if we don't allow ourselves to luxuriate in it and be present with it and truly have it, we won't have it, even if it stares us in the face.

Because we did not learn to be present with that level of expansion. And our nervous systems need to expand our capacity to receive a new level of receiving, a new level of pleasure, a new level of being received. And if we don't allow ourselves to experience that stretch and be present with what is, we're not going to have it later.

And a prayer that I always say to Hashem, God, to myself, toward my clients is: Allow me to fully choose to feel what I feel while I feel it, so that I can have what I have while I have it. Because often what's in the way of me and presence, of you and presence, is a feeling that is unprocessed.

And when we can ask God and our own souls for assistance and truly feel, truly choose to feel what we feel, no matter all the flavors of life, no matter what we feel, we can free ourselves into the present moment to truly have what we have while we have it.

So I bless us all on this incredible holy day of Hanukkah to allow ourselves to feel what we feel while we feel it, no matter what the feeling is, so that we can truly have what we have, which is only this moment, which is only only now, which is only the present while we have it.