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Asking Questions

When something unwanted or unexpected occurs in your life its purpose is not to force you to make a judgment about it, but to raise a question. The questions that you formulate need to be the right ones – leading you to learning something from the situation. Not questions like: why do bad things always happen? Or why do things like this happen to me? These are not valid questions because they are actually judgments made in the form of questions – judgments based on a lack of personal competence or authority, judgments shrouded in an attitude of victimhood.

Every valid question must in some way open you to greater understanding, greater love or compassion, or greater power that empowers.

Soul is the remote cause of all that happens in our life. And since soul is the consciousness that gives meaning to our experiences, we need to address our questions to soul. If we can ask a question regarding the meaning or purpose of what we encounter, then we also have the answer within us. We learn to trust that source of direction the more we relate to it with confidence.

We can only ask questions to which there are answers or even some mystery that begs to be questioned. A question is always a step toward an experience. It is the world of Reality or of possibility and potential that touches our psyche with a need to open to it. That is what gives rise to our most meaningful questions about life.

Asking questions that open us to new opportunities is a marvellous way of expanding our experiences and consciousness.

When we don’t ask questions that expand us we tend to live in our past patterns that become increasingly less interesting. There is a limit to living an exclusively patterned life. When we don’t venture beyond the known we eventually experience restriction and a diminishing of our life energy.

We need to break the bonds of familiarity periodically to experience being alive. Life needs friction, not comfort, to regenerate itself. And we need challenges to master in order to feel alive and purposeful.

The peace of a patterned life can easily become boredom. We are born to be creative. And asking good questions of life and of ourselves is a way to move into new adventures, interesting experiences, and growth in consciousness.

Exercises: Take some time each day and ask soul, the universe or whatever you relate to in terms of higher guidance, some relevant question such as: What is my next step? What is the quality I need to express in this situation? What am I to learn from this experience? How can I best serve in this relationship? Then practice receptivity so that you can imagine, feel or understand some response. Be open to insights and inspiration that can come at any time, even when you are busy doing other things.

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