‘Thank you God for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.’

Neale Donald Walsch interviewed by Lilou Macé, 2011

Neale Donald Walsch: You know, my favourite prayer is this one: ‘Thank you God for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.’ Has already been solved for me. So, instead of trying to call a solution to us, instead of asking God for help, or trying to bring a solution to us, we are announcing that the solution is already here. And our opportunity is to step into it and to step into it fully and, I want to say, immediately, as quickly as our mind will allow.
 

Lilou: Even if all the outside doesn’t show any…

Neale Donald Walsch: Especially for the outside. You see, judge not by appearances. The mind will create one story after the other to convince us that what is really true on a spiritual, metaphysical level is not true. We’ve fallen down the rabbit hole and we’re listening to the Mad Hatter. He’s pouring tea into a cup that has no bottom. And he is swearing that what is so is not so and what is not so is so. And we’ve bought into the illusion. We’ve taken the blue pill instead of the red pill. We’re in the Matrix. And we are believing what the Matrix is showing us rather than what we know to be really true. So, especially, especially if the appearances are dire and horrible and look like there’s no way out. But the question’s larger than the question you’re asking me because it isn’t just about how to solve the problem of how to get out of this mess. The real question is how to deal with this mess while we’re in this mess. And that is a process by which we recontextualise the whole experience. It is about taking what is happening to us right now and changing our mind about it, changing our thought about it. 

Lilou: And about ourselves too.

Neale Donald Walsch: Exactly. It’s about holding it in a new way. It’s about embracing the present circumstances just the way it is without it really needing to be any different and beholding the opportunity in that and beholding the gift in that. Because, as Conversations With God says, what you resist, persists. But, what you look at – and I man look at with the eyes of the Soul – what you look at disappears; that is, it ceases to have its illusory form. And, when we see what’s going on in our lives for what it really is and when we really get in touch with what’s important in life, suddenly our situation doesn’t feel so dire. It doesn’t feel so terribly, terribly desperate. And when that feeling of desperation, that feeling of panic, that feeling of ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’ - when that feeling leaves us, the energy shift inside of us is quite remarkable. And even just that energy shift alone begins to set up an energy field – what I call a contextual field – that creates the possibility of something other than what we’re now experiencing showing up in our life and being created in our life though the process of non-resistance.

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