Born to Serve

By Sarah Teleshevsky

Who does not want to live a healthy, happy, and purposeful life? Is this simply an unachievable dream? Are we all doomed to live our lives with a grin and bear it attitude? Or is it really possible to find true fulfilment and purpose within our daily struggles?

Author Sarah Teleshevskys Born to Serve is a comprehensive guide for anyone seeking a healthy, happy, and purposeful life. She provides a tried and tested system that enables those who seriously want to affect a change to progress from level to level in the attainment of personal growth, emotional healing, and satisfying relationships. You will discover some surprising keys to achieving a deeper, richer, more vibrant connection with loved ones, friends and acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues, and business associates.

Born to Serve will bring you to a state of real harmony with your inner being and the personal and wider world you share with others. In addition, parents and educators will find a simple formula for healing and transformation which will positively influence children, and properly prepare each one for a life of purpose and success, discernment and wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Sep 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504303644

Sarah Teleshevsky

Sarah Teleshevsky is a teacher, school administration consultant, parent advocate, an author, a mother, and grandmother. She runs regular courses and workshops on building resilience and moral strength in children for parents and educators in Australia and the United States. She and her husband live in Melbourne, Australia.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-0363-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-0364-4 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 09/06/2016

CONTENTS

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Illusions

Born to Serve

Part 2 Building Blocks

Mastery

Part 3 Wrap-Up

Legacy

Recommended Reading

Your birthday is the day God decided that the world cannot exist without you.

—The Lubavitcher Rebbe

FOREWORD

This book was originally intended as a practical guide for parents and teachers, offering a wealth of tools, insights, and vital information to ease their critical journeys and bless them with newfound success. In the process of writing, I had an epiphany: all relationships—familial, professional, social, even spiritual—closely resemble adult-child relationships in many ways, as you will presently discover. Whoever you are and however you occupy yourself, you will find help and healing within these pages, whether or not you live or work with children.

The G word has become something to avoid among modern authors. This is unfortunate. By substituting God for nature, chance, or the Universe, we unwittingly deny our own life force. Please keep an open mind while reading this book. You don’t have to believe to benefit, but you may come to see God in a new, intriguing light. This is not a philosophical or religious work; it is a road map to a life of joy, purpose, and fulfilment.

To make reading easier and less cumbersome, I have taken the liberty to use the word man when discussing humankind, and either he or she when sharing ideas or examples. Of course, man refers equally to both males and females, as do the many examples and scenarios when I have used either he or she.

The first time you read this book many of the concepts may be unclear or seem rather esoteric. I recommend that you read the entire book once to familiarize yourself with these concepts and ideas, then read it all the way through a second time. You will find that it will become much clearer and more useful the second time around.

We are all beloved children of the Creator of the universe. Discovering meaning in our lives and growing our own innate gifts will enable us to become true partners in creation. By empowering ourselves, we can inspire our co-inhabitants—and particularly our youth—to become the stewards of the universe we—and they—were born to be.

To life and healing!

Sarah Teleshevsky

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I am a teacher, mother, grandmother, and author. I have authored or coauthored several children’s books, some of which have yet to be published. I have raised nine children together with my dear husband. Currently, I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I am a member of the Chabad community there. My guide and mentor is the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

I was born in 1960 in Sydney, Australia, the second of four children and the first of three daughters. My parents provided a happy, warm home for us and sent us to small parochial schools for our education. I was not an easy child.

I dropped out of school at fifteen and trained as a teacher in Gateshead, England. At the age of eighteen, I embarked on a thirty-plus-year career in teaching, a career choice I had coveted since my early teens. In 2005 I opened my own school, a home-education support centre for children and teenagers who were unable to thrive in mainstream schools.

In 2009 I was forced to close down this much-needed institution due to the financial crisis of 2008. Almost all of the thirty-three students who came for support and assistance went on to finish their education in mainstream settings and embark on satisfying careers or higher education. Some of these former students now have families of their own!

Shortly after my school closed its doors, I was given a book to read that changed my life and ultimately transformed the lives of many families in crisis or struggling to stay intact. The book was called Transforming the Difficult Child, and the author was Howard Glasser. Much of what is written in the book you are holding is from the wisdom and writings of Glasser, and from his now world-renowned healing programme, the Nurtured Heart Approach.

I became a certified Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) trainer in 2010, and since that time I have had the privilege to be a catalyst for healing and happiness to scores of people in Australia and abroad. I have worked with parents and families, couples, teenagers, singles searching for their soulmates, educators, and therapists, plus a handful of entire schools and childcare centres.

From the moment I was introduced to Glasser’s healing programme, I recognized the correlation between his findings and the ancient teachings of the Kabbalah. In 2011 I created a healing programme based on the ten building blocks of Creation and the Nurtured Heart Approach, which became obsolete when the standardized Visual Training Module became available to NHA trainers.

It wasn’t until a few years later—in 2015—that I became convinced that a more comprehensive guide to success and happiness was needed for a species in crisis: the human race. That was when I became obsessed with what I believe to be my Divine calling—to bring true and lasting healing to humanity and to the world with the ten spiritual healing agents and the Seven Noahide Laws.

A side note

The beginning of this book appears to address itself to adults who live or work with children exclusively. It is important to note here that a child’s emotional development can sometimes be stunted and later cause chronic adult misbehaviour. By using the logic and practices outlined in this book when interacting with adults, emotional growth and healing begin to take place quite naturally. This book will address child and adult healing and self-healing, and will guide and assist both professionals and laypeople on their healing journeys.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To my dear father, Aron Azriel, son of Moshe Yehuda, may your pure soul rest in peace. You taught me to love and appreciate and embrace every human being and to bring out the best in each person. Daddy, you lived up to your namesake—Aron, the High Priest—brother of Moses—who loved peace, pursued peace, loved all creatures, and brought them close to the Torah (Avoth 1:12); Azriel—which means God is my help. You never forgot that God was constantly by your side, guiding you, assisting you, and prompting you to live your life to the fullest.

To my mother, may you live and be well, for many joyful and fulfilling childhood years! Mummy, you intuitively and wisely introduced me to Haim Ginot when I was barely in my teens, igniting within me a lifelong love of children and education. To Howard Glasser, who taught me the tools of his emotional healing programme—The Nurtured Heart Approach—and who so skilfully and thoroughly illuminated the energy factor that made everything else make sense. To the Children’s Success Foundation and the entire global Nurtured Heart Approach family for welcoming and accompanying me and countless others on our journeys of self-discovery and healing.

To all my colleagues who challenge, learn with, and teach