Post by majestyjo on Jan 28, 2016 2:06:32 GMT -5
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”
-- Susanne K. Langer
Hi JoAnne,
Questions and statements evoke completely different responses in us, and knowing this can empower our thinking.
Statements are processed by the left brain. They are perceived as facts. They facilitate logic and planning.
Questions, on the other hand, activate the right brain and the subconscious mind. If you want more intuitive answers, creativity, healing and soul connection, then you must more actively use the right brain. Questions offer an easy way to stimulate right brain activity.
What’s really intriguing is that the questions themselves may arise from our higher wisdom.
Andrew Schneider of The Soul Journey says, “If one can formulate a question, one [already] has the answer—albeit at another level. The higher mind, which has the answers, is the causal body. It therefore is the cause—direct or indirect—of any question that may arise in the lower mind. We can say that the hidden answer causes the conscious question which elicits a conscious answer.”
Questions arise when there is a need to know something for greater learning and development of consciousness. How empowering it is to know that when we ask a question, somewhere inside we already have the answer.
Explore for yourself the power of questions. For one week, write down all the questions that come to mind, then spend the next week answering them.
~ John
“... if you let the mind ask its questions, then the heart will rise with the answer. The heart will reveal the answer, and the mind can finally rest at home in the heart and come to see that it and the heart are one.”
-- Bryon Katie
“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation … Questions are the key that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
-- Susanne K. Langer
Hi JoAnne,
Questions and statements evoke completely different responses in us, and knowing this can empower our thinking.
Statements are processed by the left brain. They are perceived as facts. They facilitate logic and planning.
Questions, on the other hand, activate the right brain and the subconscious mind. If you want more intuitive answers, creativity, healing and soul connection, then you must more actively use the right brain. Questions offer an easy way to stimulate right brain activity.
What’s really intriguing is that the questions themselves may arise from our higher wisdom.
Andrew Schneider of The Soul Journey says, “If one can formulate a question, one [already] has the answer—albeit at another level. The higher mind, which has the answers, is the causal body. It therefore is the cause—direct or indirect—of any question that may arise in the lower mind. We can say that the hidden answer causes the conscious question which elicits a conscious answer.”
Questions arise when there is a need to know something for greater learning and development of consciousness. How empowering it is to know that when we ask a question, somewhere inside we already have the answer.
Explore for yourself the power of questions. For one week, write down all the questions that come to mind, then spend the next week answering them.
~ John
“... if you let the mind ask its questions, then the heart will rise with the answer. The heart will reveal the answer, and the mind can finally rest at home in the heart and come to see that it and the heart are one.”
-- Bryon Katie
“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation … Questions are the key that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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