Focus on the Feeling Underneath What You Think You Want

Oct 28

Episode 39 of Wellness Me Up — Wellness Me Up Diary Entry
with Spiritual Life Coach & Energy Intuitive Jeffrey Eisen
Written and hosted by Amanda Reece, founder of Wellness Me Up.

Jeffrey Eisen is 74, healed his Crohn's disease, and channels a collective called Shaltazar. His insights — I call them Eisenisms — will shift how you think about goals, intentions, releasing, and why the feeling underneath what you want is always the real destination. This man taps into your energy. Fair warning.

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Who Is Jeffrey Eisen?

Jeffrey Eisen is a spiritual life coach, energy intuitive, and channeler of Shaltazar — a collective of beings from the unseen world who have been guiding his work and his life for over 20 years.

He talks about his life in two chapters — before 50 and after 50. He spent the first chapter in business. The second chapter he has dedicated to healing, to Shaltazar, and to helping as many people as possible in what he calls his final chapters. He healed his Crohn's disease after decades of suffering. He has worked with a chiropractor in St. Louis for nine years — the same client, nine years — and they are still going. He does not give people answers. He gives them treasures and sends them out to find where they fit.

He also tapped into things about me before we even hit record that I had not said out loud to anyone. In twenty minutes of pre-conversation he had already pulled threads I did not know were loose.

Fair warning. He does that.

Wellness Is Not the Same as Health

This was the first Eisenism that landed and it set the tone for everything that followed.

Jeffrey said he never says I hope you are good in an email. He never says I hope you are healthy. He says I hope you are well.

Because health is objective. You go to the doctor. They run tests. They tell you whether you are healthy or not. There is a checklist. There is a number. There is a verdict.

Wellness is subjective. You can get a perfect report card from every doctor and still not be able to get your head off the pillow. You can have great blood work and terrible relationships. You can be clinically healthy and deeply unwell.

That distinction matters enormously. Because if you are trying to fix your wellness the same way you fix your health — with measurements and markers and definitive answers — you will always feel like you are failing. Because wellness does not work that way.

I shared my own version of this. The years I spent not questioning why my body felt the way it did. The fatigue. The body aches. The pain that felt like a thousand razors and knives radiating through me that I just accepted as normal. Doctors told me it was just me not being able to lose weight. And I believed them. The endometriosis was a health issue — a real one — but the way I had been conditioned to dismiss and accept the symptoms without question? That was a wellness issue. And nobody ever asked about the connection.

Jeffrey said it simply. Wellness is holistic. Wellness is the overall feeling. And it is a journey not a destination.

Stop Trying to Plug the Hole in the Dike

This image came up multiple times in this conversation and I want to make sure it lands properly.

Jeffrey described the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike — desperately trying to plug one hole while the rest of the structure holds and then another hole opens and then another. We do the same thing with our wellness. My physical is sorted. Oh but now my finances are off. Okay finances are good. Oh but my relationship is struggling. And so on and so on forever.

That is not a wellness journey. That is crisis management. And the thing that keeps you stuck in it is that you are always looking at the individual hole instead of the whole dike.

The invitation Jeffrey kept coming back to — climb to the mountaintop. Get the aerial view. Stop walking down Yonge Street noticing only what is directly in front of you and fly over it for once. See the whole picture. Because the shoulder pain and the work stress and the relationship tension are almost always connected. And treating them in isolation will never get you to well.

Awareness Leads to Choice. Choice Leads to Change.

This is the framework Jeffrey's first coach gave him and it is such a useful perspective in this whole conversation.

You cannot make a different choice if you do not have awareness that a choice exists. And you cannot create change without making a different choice. It sounds simple. It is not simple at all.

Jeffrey talked about awareness as more than mental noticing. It is a full body experience. It is intuitive. It is connected to the unseen world and to something bigger than the limited mind. It is not about figuring it out. It is about feeling it.

He is a big believer in think less, feel more. And he said something that I want to tattoo somewhere — release, let go, and surrender were the three words that kept coming through when he first connected to Shaltazar. Not analyze. Not plan. Not figure it out. Release. Let go. Surrender.

That nudge you are waiting for — the one that tells you what to do next — will not come while you are gripping tightly. Take the pressure off. And it will come.

Goals Are the How. Intentions Are the What.

Okay. This is the Eisenism I cannot stop thinking about.

Jeffrey does not love the word goal. And once he explained why I understood completely.

Goals are definitive. Goals have steps. Goals have measurements. Goals have timelines. And when life swerves — as it always does — and you miss step three of ten you beat yourself up and the chance of getting to where you wanted to go becomes very slim.

Intentions are different. An intention gives the universe wiggle room. My intention is to get to point B. But I do not know what the weather will be. I do not know what I will discover on the way. I might stay somewhere for a day or two. And that is okay because the intention is directional not prescriptive.

I jumped in with my own example — the 90 pounds I have released over the last five years. And recently I got hung up on hitting 100 pounds. That specific number. That goal. And do you know what happened? The scale has not moved in months. Because I got focused on the goal and forgot the process. The sustainability. The joy. The fun of discovering what my body can do. All the things that actually worked.

And then Jeffrey said something that stopped me completely.

He noticed I said released. Not lost. Released.

Side note — I have to give credit where it is due here. The language of releasing weight rather than losing it came from a friend. That is the power of liaising — of surrounding yourself with people whose words expand your vocabulary and shift your perspective. I picked up that word and it changed how I relate to my whole journey.

Because losing weight implies it might come back. Releasing is letting go of something you were holding for a reason. And as I worked on everything else — the family dynamics, the emotional layers, the trauma — the weight released with it. Because it was never just about the weight.

When you focus on the feeling underneath what you think you want everything else follows. You do not want the number on the scale. You want the feeling of freedom in your body. You do not want the job title. You want the feeling of purpose. You do not want the relationship. You want the feeling of connection.

Focus on the feeling. The rest will come.

It Is All Layers. Always.

This was the Eisenism that gave me the most permission.

Jeffrey talks about his life in two chapters — before 50 and after 50. He is 74. I am 41. That man has more healing years under his belt than I have been alive. And he is still going. Still layering. Still releasing. That gave me so much permission.

He described his first session with a shaman. Crying and coughing and curled up on the table. And when it was over thinking — great, glad that's done. Only to find himself on another table a month later doing it again.

Because it took a long time to create the unwellness. You are not going to undo it in one session. Be gentle with yourself. Be patient. Every time you think you have dealt with something and it comes up again — that is not failure. That is the next layer saying hello.

I have been doing my own version of this for years. The sobbing that would not stop for weeks after a particular treatment. The vault that unlocked and would not close again. The year that was just heavy and layered and full of accountability I did not want to take but had to.

It is still happening. I am still undoing the fuckity. And apparently so is Jeffrey. And he has been healing longer than I have been alive.

That is wellness. Not a destination. A direction.

The Treasure Hunt

This is how Jeffrey teaches people to connect to the unseen world. And it is how he describes what he does in his coaching.

Shaltazar does not give him the complete answer. Never has. It gives him divine wisdom and lets him figure out the human application. Because Shaltazar has never incarnated in human form. They do not know what it is like to navigate a human dilemma. They can point the direction. The walking has to be done by us.

And that is what Jeffrey does with clients. He does not fix anything. He gives treasures. Little nuggets. Little insights. And then the person takes those treasures out into their life and figures out how to use them.

He has a client who has been working with him for nine years. A chiropractor in St. Louis. And they co-create. They learn from each other. Because that is what this work actually looks like when it is done right. Not a guru with all the answers and a student who receives them. Two people figuring it out together.

He said something that I loved. Often he plants seeds and never gets to see the flowers. People have breakthroughs and move on and live better lives and he never hears about it. And he has to be okay with that. Because that is not why he does this.

He does it because that is what he is here to do.

The WTF Wheel Question: What's the Hardest Thing About Being the One Who Helps Others Heal?

The frustration of not being able to control the healing.

Jeffrey said it with so much warmth and so much genuine emotion that I just sat with it for a moment.

He sees beautiful people who are suffering. He can help them a little. He wants to help them a lot more. But he cannot be responsible for someone else's healing journey. He cannot make the shift happen for them. And when he can see — with that claircognizant knowing of his — exactly what needs to shift and cannot find a way to get it through... that is what brings him to tears.

You can lead a horse to water. You cannot make it drink.

So he keeps doing what he is doing. He keeps showing up. He keeps offering the treasures and the map and the flashlight. And he trusts that the people who are ready will find their way to what they need.

And the people who are not ready yet will get there when they are.

What Wellness Me Up Means to Jeffrey

He looked at the name on his screen and read it backwards.

Stay up. Keep working on my wellness. Stay positive on the journey. Do not let it get you down. Aim for the sky.

Wellness Me Up means I am going to stay up. I am going to stay focused upward. I am going to take responsibility for my own wellness and not wait for anyone else to do it for me.

I am going to keep working on me.

That is an Eisenism. And I am keeping it.

Want to connect with Jeffrey?
Jeffrey Eisen is a spiritual life coach, energy intuitive, and channeler of Shaltazar offering complimentary 45-minute clarity calls for anyone who wants to experience what it feels like to have someone genuinely tap into their energy. Oracle cards, a new series called Living the Wisdom, and all the Eisenisms you can handle — all on his website.

👉 jeffreyeisen.com
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