If there is something you desire in life that you don’t have, how can you give it away to others? That is an interesting question — yet giving to others what you, yourself, desire is the fastest way to experience having it, says Conversations with God.
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Wednesday is Question and Answer Day on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God books and the New Spirituality. The column below appeared briefly here last week, but was pre-empted for most of the day by an entry having to do with the primary elections in North Carolina and Indiana. So, for those who may have missed it, we are re-running that entry here now, for the entire day. The Q&A today actually includes two questions, both of which have essentially the same answer: Giving away what you wish to receive is a wonderful formula that works!
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Question: Dear Neale… I’m finding myself “drifting” from my “spiritual” path. Any suggestions? Debi, Medford, MA.
Neale’s Response: Dear Debi, CWG speaks very directly to this question. Asked how we can remain on the spiritual path, or, for that matter, experience anything that we desire in this life, God says “What you chose for yourself, give to another.” The reason this works, Debi, is that there is no one out there but you. Therefore, what you provide for another, you provide for yourself. You may not think this makes sense, but try it. You will soon discover that it is a “magic formula.” It is why all masters have taught some variation of “do unto others as you would have it done unto you.”
So, Debi, my advice is simple and concise. You want to keep from “drifting” from the “spiritual path”? Keep someone else from drifting from the path! As you give this gift of spiritual “steadiness” to another, you will discover that you have found it in yourself.
For here is a great secret: you cannot give away that which you do not have. And you will always have plenty of that which you choose to give to another. The universe always supports generosity.
The details in CWG-1 only confirmed what I had already known to be the truth, long before I ever read it. I have tried and tried on my own to receive a specific miracle from God, and to date have yet to see it in my reality.
What advise can you give me? I really do need your help! I have felt in my heart for a very long time, that all I need to do is come to God for it. All my efforts have failed, but not my will to succeed. How do I call into my reality the thing I desire the most? Thanks, Johnny.
Neale’s Response:Dear Johnny…The fastest way to receive anything from the universe is to give it away to someone else. The magic words in Conversations with God that speak directly to this issue and therefore to your letter are, be the source. With those three words, God has outlined to all of us a miracle formula that allows us to produce in our lives the miracles that we feel we cannot have any other way.
The reason that you have been unable to manifest the miracle that you have desired for so many years in your life is because at some deep level I suspect you feel unworthy of receiving that miracle, or you believe, perhaps, that it simply can’t happen. It is impossible, and therefore will not materialize.
These are common thoughts held by many people, I might even say most people, and it is for that reason that most people do not experience miracles in their lives. That is, in fact, precisely why those kinds of actions by God are called miracles, because they happen so infrequently in the lives of human beings. Not because God is infrequent in the graces that She bestows, but because people are very infrequently able to receive those graces openly.
However, because people have not found a way to easily receive the graces and miracles of God, God has devised a secondary plan, a “fallback,” if you will, and this secondary fallback plan allows us all, even those of us who cannot receive the miracles of God, to be miracles through which those same miracles can be bestowed upon others.
Therefore, here is all you have to do: I don’t know what it is you are asking for from God, but whatever it is, find someone else in this world who needs that right now, and be the source of that miracle for another. You will then discover that what flows through you is given to you. For that which you give to another, you would have given to yourself.
Do this consistently. Don’t stop with just one. Find 4 or 5 or 6 or 8 or 10 other people who need the thing, who desire the thing, who want desperately the thing that you say you want for yourself, and find a way to give it to them. This winds up utilizing The Multiplier Effect, discussed thoroughly in the latest book from the CwG cosmology, Happier Than God. In brief, when you use the Power of Personal Creation for more than one person (namely, yourself), you, in effect, multiply and magnify the energy that you are using, the energy that you are pulling through you and into the material world. This increases exponentially the power of the energy.
It is true that what you give to another you give to yourself for another reason, as well, and that is the most important reason of all, and the highest truth contained in the wisdom of Conversations with God. The truth is: there is only one of us. And so, as you give from your place of goodness that which you would receive, it will be given to you, because there is no one else to give to except yourself.
And finally, there is a very sound metaphysical principle and metaphysical reason why giving to another produces the result in your life. What you have not experienced is what I call the experience of “havingness”. Every cell in your body denies the truth that you already have what it is you wish to receive. Yet, in the moment that you give what you want to someone else who also desires it, in that self-same moment you experience that you have it. This is the only signal that the cells of your body need to begin to manifest in physical form in your life that which you would seek. Trust me, this works!
Another reason why you may not be able to experience what it is that you wish you could have has to do with the concept in CWG about it being impossible for us to have anything that we want. God will never give us anything that we want, because the very act of wanting a thing pushes it away from us. It pushes it away from us because the act of wanting something is a declaration to the universe that you do not now have it. And that, of course, is the opposite of what is true at the highest level.
(Ask Neale may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers’ Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com. Neale selects the questions that appear in this blog from those posted there.)
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