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Decisions That Will Change Your Life

On home birth

I assume you've heard that they're sending obstetrician Dr. Ilan Halevi to prison.

Ilan was on my podcast two years ago, and he's being sent to prison because…

Well, depends who you ask.

But broadly — because he helped women have natural births. Without approval or blessing from the Ministry of Health.

Let me lay this out and state that, according to the Israeli court (not that you need a court for what I'm about to write):

Birth is not a medical procedure — it's a natural process.

In other words… you might be surprised to learn that children were born into the world before there were hospitals.

A hospital, by the way, sounds like a magical place to bring a child into the world. Definitely more so than a birthing house — the kind Dr. Halevi set up.

Let's zoom out.

Birth is a natural process. Modern Western man and the medical industry decided to claim ownership of it — because they make a lot of money from it.

In the US it's tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Israel, the state pays hospitals around 20,000 NIS per birth.

What's the interest? You can only guess. But — birth certificates, control, vaccines, drugs. Pharma stars in every event.

I'm not against people giving birth with doctors in hospitals. Having a doctor present is a blessing for those who want one.

But if a woman wants to do something natural, why does she need someone's permission?

And why is the Ministry of Diseases trying to prevent a doctor from being there alongside her in case there are complications?

The answer: ego and control.

Yes — in our current reality, birth has become a lot more complicated. Because when people eat processed food, live under stress, and trash their bodies with creams, perfumes, and drugs their whole lives, the body tends to struggle in birth too.

(And by the way: both men's and women's health affect pregnancy, birth, and the baby's health.)

But it's incredible that they're sending a doctor to prison for choosing to give women the gift of giving birth in a peaceful place — not in a fluorescent-lit factory for the sick.

Especially in a country that can't manage to imprison criminals, organized-crime bosses, rapists, terrorists, and so on.

Let's not tell ourselves they're imprisoning a doctor to protect the public.

Because even if mistakes happened, no doctor gets sent to prison for a hospital mistake.

So why, you ask?

Pour encourager les autres. To set an example.

For whom?

First — doctors. The Ministry of Health is making it clear: don't you dare get involved in this nonsense called natural medicine. Don't you dare open your own clinics without government approval.

And second — women. Don't even think about giving birth somewhere that isn't a hospital. Be afraid of the idea of listening to your body and letting it do what it was designed to do without the help of the white coats and the epidural.

We live in a war of distancing — from ourselves and our essence. You have a baby in your belly? Don't let it bother you. Don't try to do it yourself. You have the system to help you do what nature has done throughout all of evolution.

What's sad is that we live in constant fear-mongering, even against the most natural processes.

How can you bring a healthy child into the world if you're terrified?

You can build healthy consciousness, raise awareness, and prepare in the best way for birth — without scaring anyone.

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On making decisions

Inside the wide discussion of creating reality, manifestation, guided imagery, attracting abundance and all those beautiful ideas — few people bring the topic of reality creation down to earth.

Do you know one of the most important things in creating reality is making decisions?

Do you know that the first — and maybe the only — decision I ever truly made in my life, and saw through to the end, was the day I decided I was going to heal myself from ulcerative colitis?

I didn't know how I was going to do it. But I decided it would happen, no matter what.

And that's the only thing I really decided that actually came true.

A decision activates the law of attraction.

Without a decision — there's no direction, no movement. And without movement, no law of attraction will work in our favor.

When we start to act, doors open and people walk into our lives. From the moment I decided to heal myself, videos, books, people, stories — they all came into my life. They all paved the way to healing.

The only thing different about that case was that I didn't ask anyone else what they thought.

Compared to every other time in life when I had an idea — say, "I decided" to start a startup with a strong idea — until a friend told me it wouldn't work, and I gave up.

The reason most people don't make decisions is that they can't see how they're going to achieve them.

The moment you start regretting your decision, the story is over.

Those who got what they wanted never give up. That's the secret of the magic.

But most people say:

• "Once I have the money, I'll buy a house"
• "Once the economy improves, I'll quit my job and chase my dream"
• "Once I have free time, I'll get back to training / invest in my health"
• "I'll wait and see how my partner behaves this week and then decide if I want to stay with him"

Those sentences say: I'm not making a decision. I'm waiting for something external to decide for me.

When you don't make a decision, the results match.

Here are a few decisions that'll change your life:

Decision 1 — Stop.

Stopping is a prerequisite for any real change. Without it we react automatically, controlled by our patterns, denied the freedom to choose otherwise.

What does stopping mean?

• Ten minutes a day of meditation
• A Sabbath without phones
• Going on a retreat or workshop
• Carving out sacred time daily — morning and evening routines

Decision 2 — Enter a covenant with my words.

Every word creates movement in the world. When I break promises to myself, I damage my inner trust. My words are a covenant with myself.

If I say I'm going to do something, I don't let anything change my mind or my words. That's a decision I have to make with myself.

Decision 3 — Allow myself to be wrong.

Fear of mistakes paralyzes most of us and mainly wastes energy. Real progress only happens when we're willing to fail along the way. The mistake is an inseparable part of growth. When you fail, you learn — and that's better than waiting on the fence, not learning, not growing.

Decision 4 — Bring gratitude into my life.

Gratitude raises your frequency — the way you see life. Two people going through identical lives can have completely different emotional experiences based purely on gratitude — on seeing the good.

A person at a low frequency can't think of or imagine reaching anything they don't already have.

What does that look like? Gratitude as a daily practice — saying thank you for what's there, and also for what hurt me and broke me.

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Speaking of stopping and doing something new — I'm hosting a retreat in Sri Lanka over Passover.

An opportunity to join a non-routine, empowering experience in a unique, striking country. A chance to meet people with similar mindsets who'll become friends for life.

If you want to, make the decision, and watch everything line up by itself.

Just picture it — and act in that direction.

Shabbat shalom, dear ones. Matan

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