{"id":173,"date":"2008-01-02T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/01\/wednesday-is-question-and-answ-1.html"},"modified":"2008-01-02T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:07:06","slug":"wednesday-is-question-and-answ-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/01\/wednesday-is-question-and-answ-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Who do you want to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day <\/strong>on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God <\/em>books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry…<\/strong>
\nQuestion:<\/strong> Dear Mr. Walsch: I have a question that I would appreciate help with. I\u2019m sure that there are many of us who have reached a point in our lives at which we just don\u2019t know \u201cWho We Want to Be.\u201d Can you furnish me with any guidance in this matter? I have a long list of \u201cWho I Have Been,\u201d but these hats no longer fit very well. Waynella, Dallas, TX.
\nNeale’s Response:<\/strong>Dear Waynella, If you don\u2019t know Who You Want to Be, who does? Yet if you just can\u2019t make a choice out of the endless possibilities in the universe, then try this: simply reverse the question. Who do you not <\/em>want to be? Merely stop being who you do not want to be, and you will automatically be Who You Want to Be.
\nRemember, Waynella, the \u201cwho\u201d that you want to \u201cbe\u201d is not a person, not an occupation, not a thing that you \u201cdo.\u201d It is something that you choose to \u201cbe.\u201d We are talking about \u201cbeingness\u201d here, not \u201cdoingness.\u201d For instance, long ago I chose to no longer \u201cbe\u201d the thing called selfish, or hurtful; unkind or insensitive; self-centered or needy. It took a long time for my body to get the message. It was still going around \u201cdoing\u201d things which came from these supposedly unwanted states of being. But then, little by little, things began to change. I started eliminating behaviors I no longer wanted; be haviors that did not represent (that is to say, re-present) me in the way that I chose to \u201cbe.\u201d
\nToday I am very much a different person from the man I was even a few short years ago. And, as a result of the new state of beingness into which I have fallen (it is some thing like falling, too, by the way, not unlike \u201cfalling in love\u201d), I find my body \u201cdoing\u201d things that only a body which is not \u201cbeing\u201d all those un wanted things would do. Doing arises out of beingness, and it is always thus, although very few people really know or understand this.
\nI am not sure you and I are talking about the same thing; but I am sure that this is what Conversations with God<\/em> is talking about when it discusses Who You Really Are. You are not a human doing, you are a human being. Now if this is what you are talking about in your letter, the decision as to who you \u201cwant to be\u201d will be not nearly so difficult. And what you will discover is that as soon as you become who you \u201cwant to be\u201d in your state of beingness, you will begin to find ways to \u201cdo\u201d what you have always wanted to \u201cdo\u201d with your life. It is always astonishing to me to see how many people move into their right livelihood, creating the right and perfect \u201ccareer\u201d for themselves, as a result of their decision to \u201cbe\u201d Who They Really Are. Indeed, that is exactly how I came to be \u201cdoing\u201d what I am doing today!
\nSo here\u2019s what I want you to get, Waynella: It all starts with beingness. The answer to your question will be found there. Stop trying to find the right and perfect thing to \u201cdo,\u201d and start trying to create the right and perfect thing to \u201cbe.\u201d The \u201cdoingness\u201d that is perfect for you will follow. I promise.
\n(Ask Neale<\/em> may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers\u2019 Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com<\/a>. Each week Neale selects a question from those posted there and publishes it in this blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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