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away the layers of your past judgments,
assumptions, and conclusions, and journey
to the heart of who you are and what you
came here to do. More, you need to be
prepared to throw away all of the empty
shells in your consciousness so you can
focus on the shimmering pearls.
You can do all of this by re-learning how to
ask a few simple but profound questions.
The most powerful questions you will ever
ask begin with why and what if. Here are
just a few simple examples of where these
three little words can take you.
“ Why do I think this is the right path for
me?”
“ Why do I believe that I am unworthy?”
“ Why do I accept less than I know I
deserve?”
“ What if I said what I feel, instead of
what so-and-so wants to hear?”
“ What if I simply believed my partner
when s/he says ‘I love you’?”
“ What if I spent more time doing what
makes me happy?”
“ What if I took full responsibility for what
I’m feeling and experiencing right
now?”
The Power of WHY
and WHAT IF
Each of us holds a kernel of divine truth
within us.
That kernel can be hard to access when
it is buried under years or decades of
assumptions, conclusions, and experiences,
but it never disappears, and its light never
gutters. When we go back to our original set
of questions―the open-ended, exploratory
questions we asked as children―we can
circumnavigate even our most powerful or
traumatic life experiences and strongly-held
beliefs and dive into that brilliant, illuminated
core of our own higher knowing.
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Questions that start with why invite deeper
understanding and clarity. Questions that
start with what if open the door to new
possibilities. The more you ask these
questions―and the less you judge the
answers―the more you will invite new
possibilities, experiences, relationships,
and feelings into your reality.
One of the paradoxes of the human
experience is that just because something
feels true in a particular moment doesn’t
mean it’s actually true. When we apply open-
ended questions to our feelings as well as
our beliefs, actions, and conclusions, we
can bypass our conditioned responses and
invite a new, more expansive way of being.
Asking powerful questions takes practice,
and the answers may not always feel good.
If your prior judgments, assumptions, and