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Want Answers?
Are you trying to solve a health or life puzzle?
Would you like to see the solution; do you want an answer? Then ask
yourself a question!
Your mind is a problem-solver. Even when a part of
you does not see a solution, or doesn’t even believe there is one, your
problem solver waits for you to give it “green light” so it can go ahead
and solve the puzzle. A few months ago, in one of my classes, I asked
the students a simple question: “What would you do with your time if you
woke up, say, a Saturday morning, and you had nothing to do – no chores
or work?” The next day, I received an e-mail from one of the students.
She was letting me know that my question triggered an answer in her. For
the first time in many years, it became clear to her what she wanted to
do with her life: she loved cooking, and wanted to do something with it,
perhaps catering. Soon after our class together, she signed up for some
cooking classes. One simple question set her mind in motion; in a matter
of seconds, she had a mental picture of herself cooking, happy and
content. She had her answer.
When you ask yourself a question, precise, focused
and with wisdom, the part of your mind that is the problem-solver
instantaneously gets to work. The answer may come internally, through
your own thoughts and insights, or externally, through a book, a class,
a song, or another person. Your solution may be revealed
instantaneously, or in time. When you open yourself to the idea that
there is an optimal solution for every existing problem, then the first
question is how to find it!
Think now of a particular problem you would like
to solve – we’ll call this problem “X”. Start by reflecting on the
problem and on how it affects you. Ask yourself: “How do I feel about
X?” Then notice your thoughts and feelings, and how all this X is sensed
in your body. Then another good question to ask is “What do I want
changed?” Here, be sure your “want” concerns only you, and not others.
For instance, a woman I worked with said “I want my husband to respect
me”. This is a tricky desire to have, because it takes a lot of energy
to try and get control over others people’s choices. Explaining this to
my client, she re-phrased her statement to “I want to be respected.”
Stating what you want becomes your goal. “I want to enjoy efficient
digestion”; “I want to sleep well at night”; “I want to have so much
energy that I exercise every day because I like to”; “I want to feel
peaceful and calm” etc.
Now that you have your goal – let’s call it “Y”,
here’s a number of questions you can ask yourself: “How can I achieve Y
effectively?”; or, “What actions take me towards Y?”; or “What is the
shortest way from X to Y?”; or “What kept me from achieving Y so far;
and how can I overcome that?”; and a good one is: “What will it be like
for me when I have already achieved Y?”. The later question is a
powerful catalyst that attracts your solution effectively. This question
is an important piece in my PSYCH-K™ sessions. Soon after my training, I
offered some PSYCH-K sessions complimentary to clients with their
regular appointments. Recently divorced, and now single, a woman wanted
to have a relationship with a significant other. She answered several
questions covering visual, auditory and kinesthetic acuities – such as:
“What will you see when you are together with this man?”; “What will you
hear?” etc. Then she installed her goal with a PSYCH-K balance, and took
home the written records of her answers. Recently I spoke with her on
the phone: not only she is happily in a relationship with a man, but
when she re-read that sheet of paper, she found that her relationship
matches exactly her recorded vision of it.
Asking the right questions can be your daily tool
for both problem-solving and setting the blueprint for your future, near
or far. To start your day, try this, as soon as you open your eyes in
the morning: “What kind of happy events will I encounter today?” or,
“What will be the first thing that will make me smile today?” To cure a
cold try asking yourself: “How soon before the cold is cured and I am
well again?” To make the right choice, ask yourself: “What are the
consequences of plan A?” “What are the consequences of plan B?” “Which
choice brings me closer to my goal?” “Which of these choices adds more
to my energy / personal power / joy / happiness?” Another woman I’ve
worked with for several sessions came to me confused about her career
choices. She was so confused and distressed, that the first session only
worked with releasing the emotional pain. Once she was more peaceful, we
proceeded using questions coupled with sensory awareness, to find which
of her possible choices was congruent with her innermost desire. The
answers she received were so enlightening to her, that she soon booked a
flight to pursue her true desire, while being, this time, at peace with
her choice.
The “Language for Healing” training programs
reveal to you secrets encoded in language patterns; uncovering these
secrets helps you formulate your questions with great wisdom, and get
useful answers. The right questions can be so powerful in bringing
answers, solutions, and change, that professional therapists use them in
their work with patients with great success. Initially, the Language for
Healing was designed solely for therapists and practitioners of healing
arts; by demand it was open to all interested in health.
Here are a few tips for your quest to answers and
solutions:
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Drop the “why” questions: they’re dead end. Use only open-ended
questions, like “how”, “what”, “when”, “where”.
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Trust your mind, both conscious and unconscious. Self-doubts
sabotage your access to answers. Doubts can be easily uninstalled with
energy psychology approaches, such as PSYCH-K™.
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Assume that the answer will come; be curious about how and when,
and let go of the need to control (I want an answer “now”; or, have I
got the answer yet?)
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Curiosity is key; being curious is equivalent with asking
questions. As a matter of fact, you can formulate a question as a
statement that begins with “I wonder” or “I am curious”.
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To get answers, assume you don’t know! If you think you already
have the answer (“I know this won’t work”; “Everybody knows that such
illness is incurable”), then your mind will take a snooze from its
problem-solving job.
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Acknowledge a job well-done. Success builds on success in a
snow-ball effect; whenever you get any answer to your questions, give
yourself a pat on the shoulder.
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Seek a happy marriage between your creative, intuitive mind, and
your intellect. The most effective lives lived are when functioning in
whole-brain mode.
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Have fun with it. Start with small, easy questions, and upgrade
to more difficult ones as you gain experience.
When thinking of the problem-solver, I have this
image of a cute, able and eager retriever puppy, ears perked up,
panting, tongue out hanging, waiting for you to throw it a toy so it can
do what it does best: retrieve it. The fact is, your mind loves solving
problems, and eagerly waits for you to ask it the right kind of
questions so it can go ahead, run and retrieve the solution for you.
Make sure you keep it in good shape!
Contact The Master Within:
info@tanasaler.com
(613)523-6592
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