Could Your Questions Be Blocking your Clarity?
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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see” ~Henry David Thoreau
This is the artwork an amazing artist: Matthew Goetzka @thepatientartist. I have his work in my home and I love that his unique method of connecting the dots until the masterpiece is revealed.
Hey friends,
Have you ever found yourself stuck on a problem, searching for answers that seem just out of reach? Yet, we live in a world of information overload. It begs the question: How do we ensure the information we need can actually get to us?
The mind is tricky resource for navigation. It likes to organize things into polarity. Right and wrong, good and bad. This is simple and possibly helpful when we are in the midst of a crisis but not so helpful when we are seeking growth and new opportunities.
Recently, I have noticed my limiting beliefs creeping in through the questions I am asking myself. See if you recognize these questions:
Why is this happening?
What did I do wrong?
Why can’t I have more confidence, faith, trust or fill in the blank?
What should I do next to solve this problem?
Now you may not be asking these exact questions but feel into the emotional tone of them. They don’t make you feel so good. These questions, rooted in limiting beliefs, create a reactive state that shuts down our creative intelligence and intuition. So we are poised to react from old patterns of survival.
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
This current Gemini solar cycle and this new moon in Gemini on Thursday invites us to expand our perspectives, tell new stories about our life and expand our mindsets.
Why?
So we can upgrade our mental GPS to allow us greater access to get to where we truly want to go. If we stay in our limited mindset we will inevitably create more of the same. It is like driving down the same street over and over again! Boring!
So, how we do this?
A genius move that I have learned to apply is the skill of asking expansive questions. Questions that generate positive emotional states, expand our focus and open us to receive new information.
Let’s rephrase those previous questions:
How else can I see this? What can I learn from this experience?
I wonder how this will help me grow?
What desires does this lead me towards now?
How can I deepen my trust, faith, confidence and …now?
What limiting belief is this revealing so I can choose a more empowering one?
Notice how these questions shift your focus, assuming that every experience is an opportunity for growth and that you already possess the inner resources you need. You can even use this skill when you are not trapped in limited thinking but when you want just want to change up the quality of information you receive. Try changing up the habitual question of “What do you do for a living” into “What are you passionate about?” Imagine what interesting conversation can follow this question!
Interestingly, these limiting beliefs are simply choices we make as creators to focus on one side of the spectrum. When we choose to believe in lack, we are still in our power of choice-just not in a way that serves us. So a belief that I have no confidence is exercising confidence on the lack of it.
You too may be seeing these limiting beliefs and fears surface so we can clear them and learn new ways of responding them. When we are faced with these fears and limiting beliefs and we respond differently we de-energize them and we allow ourselves to regain the power and control we have always had within us to chart our course. If we want exponentially more in our life in whatever area we must allow ourselves to open more to receive it and this includes our mind.
My new mantra for this month is
I am open to receiving more!
…and I can fill that in with new perspectives, new opportunities, money, new connections, new ideas, whatever I desire.
To support you on your path to receiving more I have some timely offerings that I hope you join me for:
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Let’s allow our questions to connect the dots to our clarity!
Love,
Jill
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
~Decouvertes
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