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Asking Questions

We all ask questions and recently I wrote an article about keep asking questions. How important is it to ask simple questions of ourselves? My belief is that it clarifies confusion and leads to answers, which then become the impetus for more questions. As I have said before, it is more important to be in the question, than always knowing the answers, or what is perceived to be the answer to a problem.

Here are some starters: What is is going to take to create my dream? Or, to achieve abundance? Or, to make life fun? Or, to have a phenomenal, rewarding life, etc. One would then have to be able to define what the dream entailed, or what ‘abundance’ looks like to that person. And a fun, rewarding, or phenomenal life is probably not the same to every person.

Often we pick up beliefs or sayings, sometimes they are left-over emotions from past situations which have continued to linger on with us. We can ask: “Who does this belong to?” when we realize that it no longer serves us to hold onto limiting beliefs or past wounds, regrets, or grudges. By identifying the origin and owner, it is easier to let it go, and move on with life, knowing that by dropping that burden life itself gets easier.
Along with the previous question, asking self (which is the subconscious mind): How did I create this? Where was this (thing or thought) picked up? Again, identifying the beginning assists in recognizing it for what it is, then releasing it to go back or just to disappear.

HOW can I change this? What if I did everything possible to change? What if it was easy? The last one is particularly important, because we have a tendency to put off what is perceived to be difficult or unpleasant. Why not just tackle it head on and be done with it? Or is it easier to deal with the discomfort because that is what has become comfortable?

Change can come in the from of just doing something simple by changing your angle of perception. “What is RIGHT about this that I’m not getting?” “What is the message, lesson or gift in this situation, circumstance, etc?” (And there always is on of the three, no matter what conflict is being dealt with at that moment in time!)

I particularly like the question of: What else is possible? What is to gain? How does it get better than this? (My all time favorite question!) Because by asking that last one, it opens the possibilities to a realm not realized previously and allows for more to come in as an abundant blessing!