Neale Donald Walsch tells Vishen Lakhiani that your life is not about you. True fulfillment, love, health, and happiness come naturally when you focus on giving to others instead of seeking those things for yourself.
All right, so here's a question that just came in from Nina Craig. I read the book. What's the biggest advice you could give us to change our lives? Now, I know that's a broad question, Neil, but if you could give maybe one tool, one technique that you think might really help address Nina's question, what would you say?
That your life is not about you? If I were to give people one single tool that would help them improve their lives, I would invite them to embrace the awareness and to use as a tool their consciousness that your life is not about you, that your life has nothing to do with you, that your life is about everyone else whose life you touch and the way in which you touch it. Now, you know, Vishen, that might sound like a very self effacing, you know, giving, giving, giving, outward, giving kind of a posture, but I want to make it very clear that when we come from a place where we understand that your life is not about you, everything that you had hoped to receive when you thought your life was about you, everything that you hope to manifest in your life when you were struggling, straining, stressing and searching for all the good things in life come to you automatically, almost without trying, almost without doing anything. So that's the one great formula that I have found in life. And that formula, that learning did not come to me easily. VISHEN I spent 50 years, a half century, 30 of those years as an adult trying to achieve the good stuff of life. Love and health and happiness and prosperity and abundance and success and all the things I thought that life was about because. But it was all about me and what I could bring to me. Not in a selfish way, in a natural way. I wasn't overly selfish, but I simply wanted all the things that I thought life had to offer. I just didn't know how to get it. And then when I had my conversation with God experience, I asked God, what don't I understand? What is it? What's the formula? Just the same question you just asked me and the same question that our listener just asked you. What is the formula? What am I missing here? And God just kind of smiled at me and laughed a little bit. She said, neil, it's very simple. You think your life is about you and your life has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with you. I put you there perfectly with everything you needed, everything you could possibly ask for, you simply don't know. And the fastest way to know that you have everything you could ask for is to give it away, to cause another to have it. And to allow yourself to be the source of what others imagine in their illusion that they do not have. And when you source everything that other people imagine they do not have, when you source it to them, you suddenly become a sorcerer. It's like magic. And then all the things in life that you have always searched for fall in on you automatically. Nobody knows this better than you. Who am I talking to here, Vishnu? This is the story of your life. You created mindvalley out of that exact thought. You know what? Mind Valley is going to supply to others everything that they imagine in their illusion that they need. And our job is going to be to allow them to notice who they really are and that they really, in a sense, already have it. But if they don't already have it or if they want more of it, they can get it here at mindvalley. I'm not trying to give a commercial here for mindvalley, but I just noticed that that's what you do. That's what you do in your whole life, which is, by the way, why you're so successful and most successful people. Even if those in the entertainment business, Barbara Stren and people like that have also discovered the greatest secret. Barbara has said many, many times, it's not what's coming to her that brings her her greatest sense of fulfillment. It's what's coming from her to others. That's so that you ask if I could give you one tool that's the tool that.
