[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #1 NEW YEAR --- NEW QUESTIONS

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall   

2021 Neurons #1

January 4, 2021

High Quality Living #1

 

NEW QUESTIONS FOR

THE NEW YEAR

 


High Quality Living- that's the bottom line of Neuro-Semantics.  Call it
running your own brain, unleashing your best self, actualizing your highest
potentials, inside-out wealth, etc., it is all in service of one thing- high
quality living.  It is away from low quality living- angry, depressed,
fearful, stressed, living merely to survive, living only for material goods,
living to consume, living to accumulate money, etc.  Therefore I thought I'd
kick off the new year with a series of articles on High Quality Living.

 

To do that, let's start with questions.  What are the questions that you are
currently living?  That's right, you and I live questions.  Questions are
not just inquiries, they comprise the heart of thinking and from thinking,
living.

 

Now because questions elicit answers, or at least puts us on a search for
answers, questions are a wonderful stimulus for activating thinking.  And
some questions are especially powerful in triggering us to think deeply and
profoundly.  In NLP we have a question that we call a core question.  It is
a question that invites you to your core- your center.  It goes like this:

"If your life is the answer to a question, what is the question?"

 

In other words, what is the question in the background of your mind that is
eliciting you to live the way you are living?  What question are you trying
to answer with your actions?  "Do they like me?"  "Am I okay?"  "Will I ever
amount to anything?"  If these are the questions you're trying to answer,
you are probably living a low-quality life.  There are several problems with
those questions, first of all, they are yes/no questions.  That makes the
answers black-and-white, either-or answers and as such causes you to get
over-generalized answers.  Those questions also accept the hidden
assumptions rather than question them.

 

We use the core question in Trainers Training (NSTT).  "If your training is
the answer to a question, what is the question?"  Questions that focus on
oneself like, "Am I impressing people?"  "What do they think of me?" makes
the training, as an answer, focused on the speaker not the content of the
training and not on the participants.  Not good.  Far better would be other
questions: 

"How much are people learning?"  

"How much fun are people having as they learn?"  

"What transformative insights are people experiencing?"  

"How much more can I enable people to translate into their everyday lives?" 

 

Imagine now that as you face the new year, you face it with a life question
for 2021.  If there were a question, a single question, that could set you
on your best path and evoke from your whole being your very best resources,
what would that question be?  What question would you like to ask yourself
such that you would love to live the answer and the consequences of that
question?  

              What insights will I learn and integrate into my life in 2021?

              How much more appreciative will I become in this new year?

              What new skills that will enhance everything I do will I
develop in the coming year? 

              How much more will I be in the "here and now" moment in 2021?

              What things will I learn to cherish about my loved ones in the
new year?

 

The possibility of creating one or more great life questions is unlimited.
It is as wide open as your imagination and your willingness to experiment
until you find some truly fantastic questions.  In The Structure of Delight,
Nelson Zink wrote, "A well-formed life question becomes a self-correcting
life map, a valuable something to possess."  Why?  Because the very
structure of the life question creates its own power to transform life.

 

2020 has been a really tough year for most people.  Some of that has arisen
from the questions people have asked themselves during the lock-down.  "Will
I die from covid?"  "Will I be able to survive the economic downturn and
this lockdown?"  "When will this ever be over?"

 

In place of those dis-empowering questions, isn't it time for some
empowering questions?  I think so. How about - 

              "What liabilities in myself, or this covid situation, can I
turn into an asset?"

              "How can I survive and be resilient with an optimistic
attitude?"

              "What can I contribute to others to make their lives a bit
easier?"

 

The questions you ask create the reality that you live.  And the quality of
your questions, whether to yourself or to others, determines the quality of
your life.   And, when you change your questions - you change your life.
Here's to new questions for the new year! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com 

 

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