Questions That Can Change Your Life

Did you ever consider that your life can be influenced by the quality of the questions you ask? Depending on what you ask and how you language the question can make a difference between a positive answer and a negative one.

For example, if you ask “why is everything going wrong?” rather than “what if everything is changing for the better?” you place yourself in a negative energetic place rather than a positive one. Where your attention goes, your energy flows, so if you are focused on the negative, that is what you will create in your reality!

Why not make your questions open-ended? This is a tool I was taught in my early days of sales training. We were told that the most important thing we can do is to listen to the customer, and ask open-ended questions. If you ask a yes or no question, you get a one word answer—very little information flows back to you. But if you ask a leading question, you open the conversation to allow the other person to tell you everything you need, and sometimes things you didn’t eve know you needed!

Here is how you can apply this tip to enrich and change your life for the better—begin every question with ‘What if…?” This opens the door for the Universe to bring you answers that potentially will exceed your expectations.

An example is “what if I could do ___?” Ask this question and listen for the answer. You just created space for being able to do whatever you were asking about without limiting yourself in any way!

Another way to use this tool might be to ask “what might be the result of____?” or “how could I benefit from doing____?” All of these questions allow you to ponder possibilities.

I suggest that you set aside time every day to work with questions. Use your journal.Get into a quiet space where you have about ten minutes and won’t be disturbed. Write one of these questions (or something that is appropriate to where you are in your life at that moment). Then sit quietly with that until you get an answer. The response might come in the form of a ‘bright idea’, or a fleeting thought, but you might look up and see a sign on the side of a passing truck that gives you the inspiration you were looking for. Don’t limit yourself or the Universe—be open to all possibilities. Give yourself permission to expand!

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LOVE NOTES!

It’s LOVE month, and the bug question is: how we can each have more love in our lives—not just in February, but all the time. First, we must fully understand that love has to happen within before it can manifest in the outer world. Second, love is simply energy, so the Law of Attraction is in operation around love just like any other form of energy.

Here are a few tips for creating more love:

1.Go back through your personal timeline, and think about every love you have ever had. Start with your mother/father, then your kindergarten crush, high school romance, every love you can think of regardless of how significant. Expand this search out to encompass all significant relationships. With each one say, “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I forgive you. I love you. Thank you.” Even if you don’t think there is anything that you can remember that requires forgiveness on either part, do it anyway. We never know how we affect another person.

2.Take fifteen minutes every day to tell yourself how much you love YOU-every part of you.

3.Write a note to three people who have meaning in your life and mail it (yes—stamp and post office kind of mail—we just don’t do enough of this anymore, and it always makes us feel good to get a hand-written note in our mailbox, doesn’t it!)

Now, let’s expand on each of these exercises. In our timeline, every relationship that we can remember has significance because it shaped a part of us in some way. Odds are the ones you will remember are the ones that had a negative impact, although some of them may just be pleasant memories. As I was doing this exercise, I actually remembered a boyfriend when I was 18 years old, who dumped me for another girl. Until I did this exercise I had forgotten him, and when I did the forgiveness piece, all those old memories came flooding back—my wounded heart, the negative effect on my self-esteem and much more, plus I was able to see the larger picture of how I had allowed this to stand between me an love for the rest of life!

Since love must begin inside ourselves, the second exercise will assist you in believing that you really do love yourself. In the beginning, it will bring up for you all the pieces of you that you don’t love so that you can heal. It’s a process.

Finally, by giving love to others, you open a place in your heart where the Universe can supply you with what you are giving away. The love notes will open your heart in a way that may surprise you!

Jean Adrienne is the developer of the InnerSpeak Breakthrough Coaching Method. She’s an author, teacher and talk radio host.

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