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Your Calling Responds To Questions
We can also develop our relationship with the call and receive more help, by learning to ask it questions. I practice asking direct questions relevant to my daily life. Questions like "Do people live on Mars?" are not likely to receive a meaningful response! It is also helpful to phrase the question well. "How can I apologise?" is not as good as, "How can I apologise to my boss for messing up the photocopier?" Be specific.
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TAKING FLIGHT
An Exercise On Living With Questions |
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You will solve your problems more easily by not seeing them as big immovable objects. Learn instead how to stimulate inner guidance by holding problems in your life as questions. Living with questions frees you up and invites your inner call to speak. Always be ready to receive an answer. It can come at any time!
Do not hold the question in your mind. Hold it deep in your heart. To learn this, frame the question in your mind and then imagine it being taken down to your heart. Taking your question down to your heart will help prompt your guidance. Then listen for and nurture any feelings that emerge. Nurtured feelings turn into inspired thoughts!
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At the present time I am considering moving 100 metres from my home where I have lived for the past 16 years, to a new apartment. I am gathering in information and developing my feelings intuitively by living with the question,
"How can I sell my own house, and is moving to the apartment right for me?"
As I wait for this question to be answered I am also moving in the direction of selling my house and buying the apartment, without committing to either path until I know for sure that this is the right course of action.
Asking your inner guide questions can also be used along with relaxation, contemplation, talking and meditation. To do this, simply ask your question when your mind and heart are quiet while meditating, relaxing, contemplating or talking. Then leave it open to inner guidance to speak in its own time. Be ready to receive and then remember any new feelings, promptings or ideas. Remember, the call is always with us. Our guide is always there. This feeling gives profound security.
Envoi
I have a personal problem.
I ask a friend, but he knows not.
I ask my partner but she knows not.
I ask my parents but they know not.
I ask the call and it knows.
The answer comes, not with the
Booming voice of false authority,
But in a quiet inner knowing,
Formed in response to the question I hold deep in my heart.

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