Why You're Still Unloved, Unhappy, and Attracting the Wrong People
Why do you keep choosing the wrong people, feeling unloved, or failing to find the connection you crave? In this emotional and raw episode of Your Ultimate Life , guest Anil Gupta —known globally as The Love Doctor —reveals the hidden reasons most people are stuck in pain, loneliness, or toxic relationship cycles … and how to fix it, fast.
Anil shares his own story of suicidal despair , how a moment of truth from his wife changed everything, and why forgiveness, integrity, and self-love are the starting points for every healing journey.
Whether you’re single, in a struggling relationship, or just tired of feeling unworthy of love, this episode is the wake-up call—and the roadmap—you’ve been waiting for.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
✔️ Why most people attract toxic or unhealthy relationships.
✔️ The 3 traits to demand in a partner: Integrity, Loving, and Healthy.
✔️ How to stop being a “rescuer” and break codependency patterns.
✔️ A practical process to start forgiving yourself and releasing shame.
Who is Anil Gupta?
Mindset & Relationship Coach: Anil specializes in helping individuals and couples overcome personal and relationship challenges. His focus is on gratitude, forgiveness, and living with intention.
Author of Immediate Happiness : His bestselling book offers simple yet powerful tools to help people experience deep happiness and fulfillment without external changes.
TEDx Speaker & International Thought Leader: Anil has delivered TEDx talks and shared stages with figures like Richard Branson, Robin Sharma, and Tony Robbins. His message often centers on the idea that “Happiness is a choice, not a result.”
Founder of The Happiness Formula: A framework he developed to help people gain clarity, connection, and confidence by letting go of blame, shame, and resentment.
✅ Next Steps for You:
🔥 Visit Anil Gupta’s website for free tools: https://www.meetanil.com
📘 Check out his books, videos, and events on self-love & relationship mastery
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00:00 - Untitled
00:05 - Introduction to Living Your Dream
00:24 - The Journey to Love: Understanding Childhood and Connection
09:37 - The Importance of Allowing Adversity in Parenting
17:33 - The Importance of Self-Forgiveness
24:59 - Finding Healthy Relationships
28:36 - Navigating Relationships: The Importance of Due Diligence
33:09 - Understanding Relationship Patterns
39:59 - The Power of Kindness and Self-Improvement
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Speaker AHello, and welcome to your ultimate life, the podcast that I invented just to help you create a life of purpose, prosperity and joy with what you have, your skills, your gifts, and your life experience.
Speaker AI'm excited today to have a special guest, Anil Gupta, who's coming to us from the Far east or Near East.
Speaker ANo, Far East.
Speaker AAnd with us today.
Speaker AAnil, welcome to the show.
Speaker BHey, Kevin, thank you for inviting me.
Speaker BExcited to be here.
Speaker AI am so stoked.
Speaker AI enjoyed our pre convo about what you do, and I remembered then our conversation from before, which was a few months ago.
Speaker ASo I'm going to start with just an interesting question because I know the answer, or at least I know some of the answer.
Speaker ABut I don't want you to be bashful or modest at all.
Speaker AI just want you to tell me, tell me how Anil adds good to the world.
Speaker BYou know, Ken and I have a unique ability to remove obstacles that are preventing people from receiving and giving love to the people that they really want to in a very, very short time period.
Speaker BAnd it's a beautiful process.
Speaker BAnd people need it.
Speaker BThey really need it because people are suffering unnecessarily.
Speaker BThey don't have the tools, the communication skills or the methodology or system to allow them to be able to do that.
Speaker BThey were never given a manual, and I'm the guy that gives them the.
Speaker AManual, the love manual.
Speaker AYou give me a system and communication tools, and those are processes, I'm sure, without even asking, but I'm asking that there's more than communication and so forth.
Speaker AIt's the want to.
Speaker AYou said you help people give and receive love from people they want to.
Speaker ASo there's a.
Speaker AThere's a spiritual and heart piece to this.
Speaker AIs that true?
Speaker ATell me a little about that.
Speaker BIt is.
Speaker BYou know, because people are disconnected from their relatives, from their spouses, from their children, from themselves even.
Speaker BAnd they've never being able to, or no one's being able to guide them onto a journey that will allow them to have even more love.
Speaker BTheir capacity to love and be loved increases.
Speaker BAnd guess what?
Speaker BBecause they can do that, their vibrational energy changes.
Speaker BThey'll make more money, they'll make a bigger impact.
Speaker BThey'll be happier, they'll be more fulfilled.
Speaker BAnd I think it's a fundamental key in living a richer, fuller, happy life.
Speaker ASo you're telling me, and I happen to believe you, but I'm going to restate it.
Speaker AIf I learn the emotional, spiritual and communication skills and secrets, as it were, to give and receive love, I live better, I have more fun, I make more money, I make a bigger impact, and I unlock a joyous mode or path through life that I didn't have before.
Speaker BYou know, you've said it so beautifully, and, you know, life becomes a lot easier to handle.
Speaker BWe, we don't get reactive.
Speaker BWe, we don't get, you know, we don't let obstacles destroy our lives because we, we're ready for it.
Speaker BWe have the tools.
Speaker BIt's like when you're driving, you're not thinking, oh, someone's going to jump in front of me.
Speaker BOh, that's going to happen.
Speaker BThat's going to happen.
Speaker BYou've done it before, so you know that whatever happens, you'll handle it.
Speaker BSo it's the same with life.
Speaker BWe, we weren't given those driving skills, those life skills to allow us to handle whatever life throws at us.
Speaker AYou're right.
Speaker ABut, but I think about an infant.
Speaker AYou know, you're born kind of without baggage and without garbage.
Speaker AYou're born kind of pure and innocent.
Speaker AAnd in various, certainly Christian, but in other religious traditions, they talk about becoming as a little child.
Speaker AAnd it doesn't mean naive, but it doesn't mean open, curious, loving and all the rest.
Speaker AWhat is it about our world that contaminates us so badly that we then have to relearn our ability to just do the most basic food of the spirit, which is love?
Speaker BYou know, that's a great question.
Speaker BAnd I have my theory.
Speaker BWell, I want it.
Speaker BI have a, I have a grandson, and he probably gets 500 kisses a day.
Speaker BYou know, he's one year old, one year, two months now.
Speaker BHe's going to continue to get those kisses, but one day he's going to go to school, and then he'll go to school, and then all of a sudden those kisses are reduced to maybe 100 a day.
Speaker BAnd then one day he will do something that annoys the parents and they will scold him.
Speaker BAnd he thinks, oh, my parents don't love me.
Speaker BI have to do something to please them.
Speaker BAnd that's where things start to change.
Speaker BBecause the parents expect the child to behave.
Speaker BThey expect the child to do certain things.
Speaker BAnd when they, when the expectations start, that's when the problems start.
Speaker BBecause the child doesn't feel they're good enough.
Speaker BThey don't belong.
Speaker BThere's something wrong with them.
Speaker BThey have to do something to make them feel loved, and it shouldn't be that way.
Speaker ADoes it make us.
Speaker AAre you saying that it makes us sort of feel like we have to earn love?
Speaker AWe have to be or say or do or behave a certain way before we can have love?
Speaker BYou know, it becomes that way.
Speaker BAnd it could be acting out, or if you suddenly act out and you get attention, you think, oh, this is great.
Speaker BIt could be by, you know, performing tasks.
Speaker BIt could be by excelling at school, at sports, or doing something.
Speaker BAnd all of a sudden, oh, that I.
Speaker BI better keep on doing that.
Speaker BSo there's.
Speaker BThere's a lot of fear around that.
Speaker BBut if you were constantly giving your child love and they felt love, that he wouldn't have to do anything in order to receive love.
Speaker BAnd then they don't have to worry about being loved, being good enough, not.
Speaker BNot belonging.
Speaker BAnd everyone enjoys life.
Speaker BYou know, I remember when my son was young, I would.
Speaker BAnd in being in the Indian community, we're very highly strung around education.
Speaker BAnd he.
Speaker BHe wasn't doing so well.
Speaker BSo I got him a tutor, and it still wasn't doing well.
Speaker BAnd I thought, why am I doing this?
Speaker BBecause I was so concerned what other people were thinking around my community.
Speaker BAnd I thought, I'm not doing it for him.
Speaker BI'm doing it for me because I'm so concerned what other people are thinking.
Speaker BSo I said to him, son, we're going to stop the tutoring.
Speaker BAnd he said, dad, why is it.
Speaker BAnd he.
Speaker BDo you enjoy?
Speaker BSaid, no, Dad, I really don't like it.
Speaker BI said, okay, well, stop it.
Speaker BAnd then guess what, Helen?
Speaker BHe.
Speaker BHe.
Speaker BHe flourished.
Speaker BWe just have to be patient with our kids.
Speaker BYou know, when they're born, we say to ourselves, I'll do anything for you.
Speaker BI'll protect you.
Speaker BI'll keep you safe.
Speaker BAnd the child doesn't do anything.
Speaker BIt just lies there.
Speaker BBut it's surrounded by so much love, and it gives so much love, but it gets transactional later on.
Speaker BAnd, Kelly, you know, the most painful thing is when you pick up your child from school, they don't even want to see you.
Speaker BThey don't want to hold your hand.
Speaker BThey don't want to be in your vicinity.
Speaker BThat is so painful.
Speaker BIt happens all the time.
Speaker AYou know, I know there's a part of growing up where every kid needs to figure out their own identity and test boundaries and all that sort of stuff, and that's natural.
Speaker ABut what you're saying is in our effort to educate or prepare a child for meeting the world, as it were, instead of having a safe place where they're unconditionally accepted and there have to be boundaries on behavior.
Speaker AI get that.
Speaker ABut somehow we.
Speaker AEither because that happened to us or because we can't think of a better way or something, something we.
Speaker AWe use a tool that feels a lot like, or actually is withholding love, so that it becomes transactional, conditional.
Speaker AAnd then you enter into this whole thing of feeling like you have to earn your place in the world.
Speaker AIs that what you're telling me?
Speaker BAnd yeah.
Speaker BAnd, you know, we've been hypnotized into that.
Speaker BWe've never been educated.
Speaker BAnd I.
Speaker BAnd I tell parents the greatest gift you can give your kids is this.
Speaker BGive them the ability to handle life by throwing adversity at them that they can reasonably handle.
Speaker BBut parents don't do that.
Speaker BThey're very protective, especially when in our age group, we're very successful.
Speaker BSo when our kids were born, we didn't want them to go through the adversity we went through.
Speaker BSo we tend to make life easy for them.
Speaker BBut that's the worst thing you can do.
Speaker BIt's the worst thing you can do.
Speaker ASo how do you get somebody to a parent and a parent with a kid that's, I don't know, between 1 and 10 or 15 or something, and I realize the strategies are different with different ages, but how do you get them to both understand the principle of allowing adversity and, you know, letting the kids struggle with.
Speaker AWith things to learn in preparation for life, not, not creating negative things, but allowing life to just sort of do what it does and you be there to love and support, but allow them to do what it is.
Speaker AHow do you get them to understand that when, you know, the tendency is to be, you know, helicopter parents kind of thing.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd you can curate and create it.
Speaker BSo, for example, if, say, your child is three years old, you take him 200 yards from home and you ask him to guide you home.
Speaker BThen 400 yards from home, guide you home.
Speaker B500 yards from home, guide you home.
Speaker BYou know, a thousand yards from home, guide you home.
Speaker BAnd if they get.
Speaker BIf they make a mistake, you coach them and guide them.
Speaker BSay, hey, do you remember we live near that church?
Speaker BIf any time you get lost, just remember where that church is.
Speaker BOr if you need to ask someone, say, hi, I live by a big church.
Speaker BSo you have to throw adversity at them and they can reasonably handle if they fall down, don't Rush to pick them up.
Speaker BAnd Kellen, if you look at the languaging that parents use, they say, oh, don't do that.
Speaker BIt's too dangerous.
Speaker BYou'll fall down, you'll hurt yourself.
Speaker BAnd you can repeating it all the time.
Speaker BI've heard people say that six or seven times in two minutes.
Speaker BAnd what do you think the child is thinking?
Speaker BOh, it's too dangerous, I better be careful, I'm going to hurt myself.
Speaker BIt's the wrong signals to send them.
Speaker BLet them hurt themselves.
Speaker AYou know, I, I actually agree with you 100%.
Speaker AWhen I was growing up, I mean, we took off from home and we were down by a large creek which ran by the house, which was flood control creek, but we didn't know there was always a little bit of water in the bottom of it running, unless it rained a lot, in which case it was a lot of water in it running.
Speaker AAnd we went down there and hunted frogs and got in the mud and, you know, did whatever and climbed fences and trees and, you know, got dented and scratched and stuff like that.
Speaker AAnd that is almost not only taboo, but looked down on in terms of a little bit of what you're talking about.
Speaker BYeah, absolutely.
Speaker BAnd, you know, we used to experiment.
Speaker BYou know, we'd go down to the, to the river.
Speaker BWe catch fish in a glass bottle.
Speaker BWe'd make our own fishing rods out of bamboo sticks.
Speaker BBut kids, you know, they don't do that sort of stuff.
Speaker BThey don't get out there, they don't get dirty, they don't get hurt.
Speaker BWe kept in safe confines and kids need to do that.
Speaker BThey need to stick, think outside of the box, you know, let their minds expand.
Speaker ASo I love that.
Speaker AAnd you're right, I want to get back to the love piece, which is the central theme of your contribution to the world.
Speaker AAnd I, I, I love it because I'm sitting here imagining if one person, like, if you help me give and receive love more freely, eliminate barriers to that, eliminate stories and those kinds of things, the world, the world will be a better place because then I'll affect some people around me, and so will they.
Speaker AAnd if you help ten or a thousand or a million people connect with the truth of love, their ability to receive it, to language it, to demonstrate it, you know, you're going to have a huge or are having a huge impact in the world in terms of reducing suffering, making people happier, and a whole list of things that I could go on and on about.
Speaker ASo tell me what you do now to help that happen or if the.
Speaker AThat.
Speaker AThat I didn't.
Speaker AThat I described isn't right, fix it.
Speaker ABut tell me how you do that.
Speaker BIt's really.
Speaker BAnd you know, as a coach, the number one thing is to listen.
Speaker BBut one of the top things that you can do is to forgive.
Speaker BYou forgive yourself and to forgive others.
Speaker BPeople tend to hold on and it starts to eat them up, and, you know, they fall ill.
Speaker BSo I, I call forgiveness the express pathway to freedom.
Speaker BThe quality of your life is dependent on the depth and authenticity of the forgiveness you extend to yourself and to others.
Speaker BThen, you know, we, we talk about languaging, letting go of the past.
Speaker BIt's not what you say, it's how you say it.
Speaker BAnd, and, you know, can a lot of people have problems with their parents?
Speaker BThey, they're not grateful.
Speaker BThey.
Speaker BThey're complaining about their parents.
Speaker BAnd I explain them, and I'll explain this very simply.
Speaker BI said, look, there's two parts to your parents.
Speaker BThere's a part that gave you life, the beautiful gift of life that they gave you.
Speaker BThe other part to them is their behavior.
Speaker BYou don't have to love their behavior, but you can love them as, as, you know, your seed.
Speaker BAnd they, they.
Speaker BThey don't understand that at first, but when you explain it and we, we go a little bit deeper.
Speaker BOh, yeah, you know, my dad was an alcoholic.
Speaker BGreat.
Speaker BYou know, don't like the alcoholic side of it, but he gave you life.
Speaker BYou wouldn't be here.
Speaker BYou've got a beautiful wife and you've got three kids.
Speaker BNone of those people would be in your life without your dad.
Speaker BAnd you're going to have grandchildren, great grandchildren.
Speaker BThey wouldn't be here without your dad.
Speaker BAnd they, Ellen, they tear up and they realize, oh, my God.
Speaker BAnd you know what?
Speaker BIf your kids turned around and said that to you, how would you feel?
Speaker BAnd then say, well, I'm trying to do my best.
Speaker BYou know, it's.
Speaker BIt stems from awareness.
Speaker BPeople don't have the awareness.
Speaker ASo, you know, the depth and power of what you do and work on.
Speaker AWe could have a whole day seminar.
Speaker AAnd so our, our challenge and fun is going to be pulling out some really important things.
Speaker AYou just talked a little bit about forgiveness, and I couldn't agree with you any more than I do.
Speaker AI wrote a book called Forgiveness A Journey of Courage to a Place of Freedom and Power.
Speaker AAnd I wrote it exactly for the reason that you described.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker ABecause it is that and because I needed.
Speaker AI mean, I've written a bunch of books, but every one of them's been Because I needed to do this thing.
Speaker AAnd when I got done, I thought that might help somebody, so I wrote about it.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AAnd, and I love that you described it.
Speaker AWhy is it so hard for us to forgive ourselves?
Speaker AWhich at least for me, was way harder than forgiving other people.
Speaker AWhy is that so hard?
Speaker BYou know, as human beings, we feel we're not good enough, we're not smart enough, there's something wrong with us.
Speaker BI'm not lovable, I'm not worthy.
Speaker BAnd as human beings, we love to be right.
Speaker BAnd, and especially if you're successful, you love to be right about being right.
Speaker BSo what you'll do, you'll find evidence.
Speaker BOh, I'm not good enough.
Speaker BOh, I did that.
Speaker BOh, that was so stupid.
Speaker BOh, that was so stupid.
Speaker BAnd then you create stories to fulfill that thought process.
Speaker BAnd forgiveness is nothing to do with anybody else.
Speaker BIt's you just letting go.
Speaker BPeople don't realize the most expensive real estate in the world is in between their ears.
Speaker BYet they, they.
Speaker BThey rent out space to people that they think have hurt them.
Speaker BAnd those people don't even care.
Speaker BSo it's ludicrous, but they just don't know how to.
Speaker BAnd they don't know the benefit of them.
Speaker BAnd there's a benefit of the benefit of the benefit of the benefit, and it's freedom.
Speaker ASo I'm going to dive in and I'm going to ask, I'm going to say something.
Speaker AI'm going to ask you the question.
Speaker ASo how does you know?
Speaker AIf you could teach me and the listeners how to forgive ourselves, or at least a beginning set of steps to take to think about.
Speaker ABecause you're right.
Speaker AWe rent space in our heads for others, and we carry space in our head for our own recrimination.
Speaker AI define forgiveness as.
Speaker AAnd I love that you said it's just you.
Speaker AIt doesn't have anything to do with anybody else.
Speaker AI say it this way.
Speaker AForgiveness is choosing to no longer allow events from the past to have power in the present.
Speaker AAnd that's how I describe that.
Speaker ABut I want you to teach us how.
Speaker ADo you start with someone who is carrying shame and guilt toward themselves?
Speaker ANow I realize it could be someone else or parents or uncle or somebody that did whatever they did.
Speaker ABut let's just start with self.
Speaker ASo if someone has made a lot of mistakes and done things that in retrospect they look back and say, I had.
Speaker AWish I hadn't done that.
Speaker AAnd if I hadn't done that, then, if only, then this and this.
Speaker AAnd they make up stories about what would have happened, which they don't know.
Speaker ABut how do you.
Speaker AHow do you help me start on that?
Speaker BSo I ask you a simple question.
Speaker BWhat are your positive traits?
Speaker BAnd they'll say, well, I'm kind.
Speaker BOkay, great.
Speaker BWhat else do you know?
Speaker BI'm kind.
Speaker BI'm generous.
Speaker BI'm playful and fun.
Speaker BI really care.
Speaker BI'm loyal, I'm reliable.
Speaker BI'm trustworthy.
Speaker BI'm honest.
Speaker BI'm strong.
Speaker BI'm powerful.
Speaker BI thoughtful.
Speaker BI'm smart.
Speaker BI care about people.
Speaker BI want to help people.
Speaker BI hardworking, I'm religious.
Speaker BI'm unstoppable, successful, playful, exciting.
Speaker BA great human being.
Speaker BSo that's a great.
Speaker BSo then I say, look, imagine you go into a dark room late at night.
Speaker BWhat's the first thing you do?
Speaker BSo, well, I put on the light, right?
Speaker BBut I said, look, most people in life, they try and remove the darkness from their lives.
Speaker BThey focus on the negatives and they try and remove those.
Speaker BAnd it's ludicrous to go into a dark room and remove the darkness.
Speaker BYou have to be the light.
Speaker BSo then I tell people to repeat those cantations.
Speaker BI'm strong.
Speaker BI'm kind.
Speaker BI'm generous.
Speaker BI'm.
Speaker BI'm playful.
Speaker BI'm fun.
Speaker BI'm Strong.
Speaker BI'm a TEDx speaker.
Speaker BFox News, Sky TV, ABC, NBC.
Speaker BWhen I speak, people listen.
Speaker BI care.
Speaker BI'm generous.
Speaker BI'm fun.
Speaker BI'm funny.
Speaker BPeople love me.
Speaker BI love people.
Speaker BI'm an amazing human being.
Speaker BI have loyal.
Speaker BI'm loyal.
Speaker BI'm reliable.
Speaker BI'm trustworthy.
Speaker BYou know what?
Speaker BI'm a really good person.
Speaker BHoly people don't do that.
Speaker BThey just focus on the negative, but keep on doing those incantations.
Speaker BAnd then they realize, the truth is, I am kind.
Speaker BThe truth is I'm strong.
Speaker BThe truth is I make a difference.
Speaker BThe truth is, when I speak, people listen.
Speaker BThe truth is, I am a genuine person.
Speaker BThe truth is, I care.
Speaker BThe truth is, then they realize the truth, and then they create a neural pathway which will destroy the old neural pathway.
Speaker AI love that.
Speaker AAnd I love your description as turning on the light instead of.
Speaker AYou shouldn't feel bad about that anymore.
Speaker AYou were doing the best you could.
Speaker AIt was just a mistake.
Speaker AThat's like trying to remove the darkness and by saying things which are true.
Speaker AI am that.
Speaker AAnd sometimes people, at least in my experience, object to that saying, well, I'm not good enough at that.
Speaker AI can't really say I'm kind, because I am.
Speaker AI try, but I'm not, you know, and they sort of parse that because they feel like they're not done improving, proving their kindness or punctuality or whatever it is.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker ABut doing what you just said is so.
Speaker AAnd it's.
Speaker AI think it's important to help people understand it's not bs.
Speaker AYou're not trying to make up stuff to create the imposter syndrome.
Speaker AYou're talking about things that are true for yourself.
Speaker AAnd so you can say them with power.
Speaker AAnd the more you do that, the more power they have and the truer they become, because then you more thoroughly identify with and, you know, your neural pathways get created, and then when you have choice, next hour or tomorrow, those things affect what you then choose to do next time.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd that, you know, that's.
Speaker BWe start there, then we go deeper.
Speaker BAnd, you know, if there could be some childhood trauma.
Speaker BAnd I said, people don't use that word, trauma.
Speaker BEvery time you use it, you bring it up.
Speaker BJust say, I had a childhood occurrence.
Speaker BThere's less emotion around an occurrence or an observation, even.
Speaker BObservation is even better than that.
Speaker BSo the languaging, you know, we have to teach them the languaging.
Speaker BAnd then, you know, they beat themselves up.
Speaker BOh, why am I so stupid?
Speaker BAnd we teach them to ask better quality questions.
Speaker BWhat in this moment could I do to enhance this person's life?
Speaker BAnd then once you remove the focus from themselves and focus on other people, all the pain and suffering disappears.
Speaker AThere's two things you said that I think are so important.
Speaker AYou said, focus on language.
Speaker AAnd sometimes I'll ask people, well, do you love yourself?
Speaker AAnd they'll say, yeah.
Speaker AAnd then I ask a different question.
Speaker AI say, so if I was a fly on the wall and I was able to watch you all day long and hear all of your internal dialogue, everything you say would I exclaim in Glee, that is a person that loves themself.
Speaker AAnd then it's like, yeah, no, okay, then what would I see?
Speaker AWhat do I need to see?
Speaker AThat says, you love yourself, and I love your reframing of trauma.
Speaker ABecause every time we.
Speaker AI mean, Shakespeare, I think if somebody said, nothing is good or bad till we make it so.
Speaker ASo if we keep labeling an incident evil, bad, wrong, trauma, painful, then we rekindle the power of that thing, I think is what you're telling me.
Speaker AIs that right?
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker BYou know, when people say, I.
Speaker BI have ptsd, I have adhd, I have this.
Speaker BI said, don't use those words.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BIt just intensifies that feeling.
Speaker BTrauma, ptsd, you know, abuse, don't use those words.
Speaker ASo when that's.
Speaker AI love those, and those are very helpful.
Speaker AAnd I would encourage everybody to think about.
Speaker AListen to this a couple times, this part, and, and check your language and your, your energy and your intention.
Speaker AAnd how are you talking to yourself?
Speaker AHow are you treating yourself?
Speaker ABecause the repetition of, of negative things creates that shame and guilt that doesn't do anybody any good.
Speaker AIt doesn't fix whatever it is you thought you did or didn't do.
Speaker AAnd it doesn't let you be a light now.
Speaker AAll it does is, you know, build more darkness.
Speaker ASo that's about forgiveness, which I love.
Speaker AAnd in the beginning, before we start talking, you said you help people find love, find mates as well.
Speaker AYou talked about families and individuals.
Speaker ABut you also said finding healthy and good relationships.
Speaker ATalk about that.
Speaker ABecause there's certainly a lot of loneliness and a lot of feeling in the world that people can't find.
Speaker AAll the, you know, all the good women or all the good men are gone.
Speaker AThat sort of phrase.
Speaker ATell me a little bit about how that goes.
Speaker AHow do you help people change their, change that for themselves?
Speaker BWell, the first thing I tell them is stop dating.
Speaker BBecause dating is stupid.
Speaker BPeople meet someone, they, they go on a date, and then, you know, they spend two or three years and they find out they're not the right person.
Speaker BThey go on the next date, spend 6 months not the right person, and continues.
Speaker BSo, Helen, if you were to buy a car, would you research buying a car, which car to get?
Speaker BOf course you would.
Speaker BYeah, but people tend to research.
Speaker BYeah, people spend more time researching a car than they.
Speaker BThey do on finding a partner, finding about, about the partner.
Speaker BAnd they, they think, oh, this love.
Speaker BOh, I get on well with this person.
Speaker BThey must be the right person.
Speaker BBut they don't have a formula.
Speaker BSo people say yes to a relationship, but until it's a no.
Speaker BIt has to be.
Speaker BIt's a no until it's a yes.
Speaker BYou find out something about them.
Speaker BAnd there are three criteria.
Speaker BAny partner that you choose.
Speaker BOne, must have integrity.
Speaker BTwo, they must be loving.
Speaker BNot transactionally, but loving to you and to other people.
Speaker BAnd three, they have to be healthy.
Speaker BEmotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally, and financially.
Speaker BMost people pick.
Speaker BPeople pick partners who are emotionally not healthy.
Speaker BThat's 80% of the issue.
Speaker BBut they don't do their due diligence before getting into that relationship.
Speaker BYou know, they rely on emotion to make that decision.
Speaker BBut you can't do that.
Speaker BInstead of having a 90% fail rate, how would, would it be if you had a 90% success rate.
Speaker BIf you could go to the casino, have a 90% success rate, you're going to go to the casino.
Speaker AThey're all.
Speaker ACasinos would be out of business, right?
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker AWhich would be a bad thing.
Speaker ASo what are those three things again?
Speaker AThe three things are what questions?
Speaker BIntegrity, which means, you know, being your word, being on time, not gossiping, not complaining, not bitching.
Speaker BYou know, just being a good person.
Speaker BLoving, not just to you, but to everyone.
Speaker BLoving towards your parents, your exes, the people that you meet.
Speaker BAnd the third one is healthy.
Speaker BEmotional, physical, spiritual, mental and financial.
Speaker AEmotional.
Speaker AYou know, why do you suppose people are attracted?
Speaker AI mean, you can tell if somebody's physically healthy, maybe not so much mentally.
Speaker AWhy do you suppose people are attracted so much to emotionally broken people?
Speaker ABecause I think that's true, that they are, and they ignore it and they pretend it'll be okay and a bunch of other reasons that they ignore that.
Speaker ASo why do you suppose that attraction is so strong?
Speaker BIt's one word.
Speaker BThey are rescuers.
Speaker BThey want to rescue someone.
Speaker BAnd it's the worst thing you can do because they'll.
Speaker BThose people will suck the energy out of you.
Speaker BThey'll destroy everything that you stand for, and they'll take the.
Speaker BThe joy out of life.
Speaker BYou don't need to rescue anyone.
Speaker BThere's.
Speaker BThere's a particular person that person will be with.
Speaker BIt's not you.
Speaker BYou know, it's such a debilitating situation.
Speaker BAnd people fall in love so easily, and they want to fall in love.
Speaker BThey have this romantic thought that I'm in love.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BAnd Kellen, love is blind.
Speaker BYou know, there's.
Speaker BThere are people I know that are falling in love with absolutely the wrong person.
Speaker BThey don't see it.
Speaker BThe brothers, sisters, children see it, but they don't see it.
Speaker BAnd they just blind.
Speaker BAnd this is where the awareness comes in.
Speaker BDo your due diligence and then make an informed decision whether they're the right person to be with or not.
Speaker AHow do you stay detached enough or objective enough to do some due diligence on that?
Speaker ABecause that's easy for you to say.
Speaker ABut I suspect one of the things that people either think or experience is it's hard to do some due diligence when you kind of like somebody and it's sort of developing.
Speaker ASo what do you think about.
Speaker AHow do you tell people do a little due diligence faster and a little bit more objectively?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo I call it abcd.
Speaker BAlways be collecting data and write it down.
Speaker BAnd don't Believe what other people are telling you.
Speaker BSo will you role play for me in a minute?
Speaker AYou bet.
Speaker ALet's do it.
Speaker BSo imagine I.
Speaker BI'm on a dating site.
Speaker BOn the dating site, I say, I love dogs.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BYou, you know, want to get to know me, but you don't love dogs.
Speaker BAnd I want you to lie to me in the questions I ask.
Speaker BOkay?
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BHey, Kellen.
Speaker BAnd do you.
Speaker BDo you like dogs?
Speaker AOh, yeah.
Speaker AI had a friend that had a great dog.
Speaker ALove dogs.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BWhat's your favorite dog?
Speaker AWell, that one my friend had was a.
Speaker AA lab.
Speaker AA Golden.
Speaker AA Golden Lab.
Speaker AThat was a lot of fun.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAny photos of any dogs you've owned?
Speaker ANo, I don't.
Speaker AWell, I've never owned a dog, but I really enjoyed that dog that my friend had.
Speaker BOkay, so we've spoken for about a minute.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BIf.
Speaker BIf you just said, oh, I love dogs, I.
Speaker BAnd you know, I want to hear that, oh, my God.
Speaker BKenneth loves dogs.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BBut don't believe what people tell you.
Speaker BLook for alignment.
Speaker BLook for confirmation.
Speaker BIt doesn't have to be now.
Speaker BIt could be in a week.
Speaker BBut then write this stuff down.
Speaker BKellen loves dogs.
Speaker BAnd then a week later, he sees you with him walking, and all of a sudden he's like this.
Speaker BWith the dog that.
Speaker BThere's a disparity there.
Speaker BSo that's data.
Speaker BIf you write it down, it takes away the emotion.
Speaker BBecause what we do, we tend to focus on the good stuff, and we forget about the bad stuff.
Speaker BWe just don't want to hear it.
Speaker AAnd as soon as you get into a little bit more closer relationship, the bad stuff becomes that permanently annoying thing that you can't stand anymore.
Speaker AAnd so you're on the road to failure.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd there's a cycle.
Speaker BSo what happens is that the thing that attracted you to that person, say, they're playful and you're in that relationship.
Speaker BThey're not integrous, they're not loving, they're not healthy, but they're playful.
Speaker BAnd then when they're playful, it draws you in and you think, wow, you know, he's so playful.
Speaker BI love that.
Speaker BAnd all the other stuff disappears.
Speaker BAnd that's what draws people in and keeps them in a relationship.
Speaker ASo they focus.
Speaker AWhat you're saying is we.
Speaker AWe, to our own detriment, focus on a single one or two things that are very attractive and ignore the long list of, or even medium list of things that are essentially like, if I was going to buy a house, I'd have a list of Non negotiables.
Speaker ABased on how many people I've got, you know, it's got to have this many rooms, bedroom got to be no further than this.
Speaker AThat non negotiables.
Speaker AAnd I don't care how cool the house was, if it was didn't meet one of those, that was really non negotiable, I just wouldn't buy it because.
Speaker AAnd so you're saying at least have some set of things that are really important to you and then always be collecting data to see if there's compatibility in those areas.
Speaker BYeah, absolutely.
Speaker BAnd say, you know, you find a house you want to buy and you need to sell your house, you clean it up.
Speaker BYou wouldn't just sell it.
Speaker BAnd that's what I tell people.
Speaker BLook before you, before I help you find a partner, we have to work on you first because we want to make you more attractive, change your vibrational energy, let go of the past so that when you do show up, it's just going to be a lot easier because if we don't get rid of that baggage, that's a problem with dating sites and matchmaking.
Speaker BYou can bring two people together, but if they've got the baggage already there, you have to remove the baggage first.
Speaker ASo I love that.
Speaker ALet me ask you, is that your first area of focus is to find out what, where a person like me, if I came to you to find a date, a maid or something or someone have a relationship with, and you discover that I'm not a person of integrity because of my behavior or whatever, or I'm not a loving person because of how I talk to people, or there is clearly one or more areas where my health is questionable, you know, mental or emotional health.
Speaker AThat's where you start working get me so that I become an attractive person because I have integrity, lovingness and health in those areas.
Speaker BI start with doing a deep audit of all their past relationships.
Speaker BAnd I showed them, look, there's a pattern here.
Speaker BThere's a pattern.
Speaker BThis is why you're choosing them and this is why it doesn't work.
Speaker BAnd you know, because, you know, often I ask people to do a back test on integrity, loving and healthy, and they all say, yeah, they had integrity, they're loving the healthy.
Speaker BThen I said, hey, were they always on time?
Speaker BDid they always do what they said they were going to do?
Speaker BDid they complain about other people?
Speaker BWere they miserable?
Speaker BOh, yeah, they were then said, well, you know, that's out of integrity.
Speaker BIt's not loving.
Speaker BAnd then, you know, did, did they, did they lie about their health.
Speaker BWere they on medications and didn't tell you?
Speaker BAnd did they.
Speaker BWere they in constant contact with past relationships?
Speaker BWere they not able to let go of the past relationships?
Speaker BYeah, but then they think they could fix it.
Speaker BBut I say, look, that's not healthy, it's not integral, it's not loving.
Speaker BAnd then all of a sudden they say, yeah, you know what?
Speaker BI, I just jumped to those conclusions.
Speaker BBut they've never been trained.
Speaker AI love the fact that you said there were rescuers.
Speaker AAnd we all have this feeling, either a little or a lot, that we like helping people.
Speaker AYou know, we're drawn to help.
Speaker AWe're built literally, physically, spiritually to love and serve.
Speaker ASo that's how we're created.
Speaker AAnd sometimes we do it from a really crappy place, and when we learn a little more, we do it from a more healthy and better place.
Speaker ABut that rescuer thing gets in there and thinking, somehow someone's going to change, or I can change them.
Speaker AThese things that don't tick those boxes, that's a.
Speaker ANot only a red flag, but nearly impossible.
Speaker AYou can't rescue somebody that doesn't want to be rescued.
Speaker BAnd there's a kicker here.
Speaker BWhen people try and rescue other people, they feel because they've rescued them, they will never leave them.
Speaker AOh, wow.
Speaker BIt's, it's a, it's, you know, it's self indulgent because if, if I rescue my partner, I think, oh, if I rescue her, she's never going to leave me.
Speaker BI've got a.
Speaker BI've got a partner for life.
Speaker BAnd it's so not true.
Speaker AYeah, that can be really unhealthy too, because you develop a sense of dependency and that can turn into codependency really easy and some other, some other messy stuff that stifles freedom and creativity.
Speaker AAnd now that I'm rescued, I finally figured out who the heck I am.
Speaker AAnd thank you very much.
Speaker AAnd this is what I want to do over here.
Speaker AYou know, I don't even know goodbye.
Speaker AIf I just say I want to do this over here, and then you're going, wait a minute.
Speaker AThat doesn't tick any of my boxes.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker BYeah, it's so frustrating.
Speaker AWell, so you are very, very experienced.
Speaker AYou didn't fall up this mountain.
Speaker AHow did you get here?
Speaker AHow did.
Speaker ATell me something about how you got to be the place where intuitively you know these questions, you know this process, and you are the love doctor.
Speaker ATell me a little bit about how that happened.
Speaker BI used to be an optometrist.
Speaker BI'd had patients coming into my office, and at the end of the exam, they.
Speaker BFor some reason, they would tell me their problems.
Speaker BAnd I'd say, why don't you try this?
Speaker BAnd they tried it, and they said, that's amazing.
Speaker BIt worked.
Speaker BAnd I looked at them, I said, of course it's amazing.
Speaker BOf course it worked.
Speaker BIt's common sense.
Speaker BBut Kel.
Speaker BAnd I didn't realize common sense wasn't that common.
Speaker BAnd then.
Speaker BThen the big epiphany came.
Speaker BIn 2008, I was suicidal.
Speaker BI wouldn't eat with a knife.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BI wouldn't walk up a flight of stairs.
Speaker BI keep away from main roads, high rise buildings.
Speaker BAnd I had to come to tell my wife.
Speaker BI said, honey, something really bad has happened.
Speaker BShe said, what is it that.
Speaker BHoney, we.
Speaker BYou know, I've been gambling on the stock market, real estate.
Speaker BI've lost, you know, all our funds, the school funds, the car, the house was.
Speaker BIt's all going to go.
Speaker BAnd Kellen, she looked up at me and she smiled.
Speaker BAnd I thought, she's delusional.
Speaker BWhat's wrong with her?
Speaker BSaid, honey, I knew something was wrong.
Speaker BI thought it was something serious.
Speaker BWhat do you mean?
Speaker BThis is serious.
Speaker BThere's nothing more serious than this.
Speaker BI said.
Speaker BShe said, no.
Speaker BHoney, I thought you were dying.
Speaker BI thought you had cancer.
Speaker BWhat?
Speaker BHoney, I don't care about the money.
Speaker AWhat?
Speaker BI thought that's what you wanted.
Speaker BHoney, I've never.
Speaker BWhen have I ever asked you for money?
Speaker BKellen, that changed my entire life.
Speaker BAnd then she said, we don't care about that as long as we're with you.
Speaker AYeah, that.
Speaker AKeep going.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd I thought, oh, life would be better without me, but it was a stupid thing.
Speaker BBut, you know, if you have a partner, ask your partner, what is it you want?
Speaker BAnd you'll be surprised what they'll tell you.
Speaker AWell, that's powerful advice and thank you for sharing that.
Speaker AAnd I don't know your wife.
Speaker AI don't believe I've had the opportunity to meet her when we met, but I thank her, and when we're done, you need to tell your wife for me that I love her.
Speaker BI will.
Speaker AWill you do that?
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker ABecause I love her.
Speaker AWhat a woman.
Speaker AOkay, so what didn't I ask you?
Speaker AWhat didn't I ask you to talk about?
Speaker AAnd there's a whole lot more to that story.
Speaker AI mean, that was a pivotal event, but there's lots what led up to it and what happened afterwards.
Speaker ABut we're not going to take time for that right now.
Speaker AI want you to just tell me what?
Speaker ADidn't I ask you that you want to tell us?
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BIf you'd have asked me what's one thing that people could do that would change their destiny, I'd have said be so amazing that you cannot be ignored.
Speaker BAnd if you're ignored, it doesn't matter because you're showing up the best version of yourself.
Speaker BThe most people are leading mediocre lives, they die at 25 and get buried at 75.
Speaker BJust do.
Speaker BJust be the best version of you.
Speaker BAnd I promise you your life will change and the people's lives around you will change.
Speaker AI call that we live in a sea of learned helplessness, addiction to mediocrity and victim mindset.
Speaker AAnd that's the unholy trinity of attitudes.
Speaker AThat is that.
Speaker AAnd we die at 25 and get buried at 75.
Speaker AExcuse me.
Speaker AThank you.
Speaker ADo you have another thing that you want to say that I love that one.
Speaker AYou have another one?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BJust.
Speaker BJust perform acts of kindness.
Speaker BWhen you perform an act of kindness, you receive endorphins.
Speaker BYou feel good.
Speaker BThe person receiving the act of kindness feels into all things.
Speaker BThey feel good.
Speaker BThe person observing the the act of kindness feels good.
Speaker BThe person sharing the act of kindness feels good.
Speaker BThe person sharing, receiving the sharing of the act of kindness feels good.
Speaker BIt goes on and on and on.
Speaker BJust get out of your own life is not about you.
Speaker BYou're not that important.
Speaker BBut your impact is.
Speaker BDon't make a difference.
Speaker AI love that and thank you.
Speaker ASo if people want to know more, if they want to find you, they want to follow you, if they want to hear some videos of you teaching or performing miracles, because I can tell you, I can tell my audience, I know that if you do the things that he's described or follow and learn more, he creates miracles, things that people can't understand in their own lives.
Speaker AI know that.
Speaker AAnd I know it because of what I know about him and who he is.
Speaker AAnd I know it because of the truth that he's taught us today.
Speaker ASo where can people find you?
Speaker BAnd my website is meetanil.com I'm known as the Love Doctor.
Speaker BAnd there's a lot of free content that you can use and, you know, just use it in your personal life and your life will change.
Speaker BShare it with other people.
Speaker BBecause we all have a duty to be the best versions of ourselves.
Speaker BMeet anil.com Meet anil.
Speaker ASpelled a nil.
Speaker AAnd if you're watching the video, it's on the board behind him.
Speaker AIf you're listening to the audio meet anil a nil.com meet anil.com I would absolutely recommend that you go there.
Speaker AAnil, thank you for sharing your heart, for loving us enough to help us love ourselves and to be truthful and to live in integrity and to be healthy and to be.
Speaker AExcuse me, the third one in the middle was.
Speaker BLoving.
Speaker ALoving, of course, the main topic, integrity, loving and healthy.
Speaker AAnd take care of yourself because if you're not that, then there's big opportunity for happiness as you handle those things and grow.
Speaker AThanks for being here with us today.
Speaker AYou.
Speaker AAnil, I'm thanking you.
Speaker BOh, sorry.
Speaker BSorry.
Speaker BI thought you were closing up.
Speaker BNo, no, thank you.
Speaker BThank you for inviting me.
Speaker AYou are delightfully welcome.
Speaker AAnd I don't edit anything, so that'll be on there too.
Speaker AThat's fine.
Speaker BOkay, perfect.
Speaker ANow I'm talking to the listeners and I want you to listen to this a couple times.
Speaker AThis man comes from the heart.
Speaker AHe's teaching truth from his own experience, the profound thing he shared.
Speaker AAnd there are more stories than that, but the profundity of learning to love yourself and tell the truth to yourself about your greatness and your opportunity and get healthy, get the help you need to get healthy.
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