Your Future Lies in Every Question. Ask the Right Ones. Then Listen.

This newsletter equips you to be a more conscious leader and live a more connected and conscious life. Our destiny doesn't happen by chance. It is the result of the decisions we make along the way.?Each moment gives us the opportunity to begin right where we are to shape our destiny.?Thank you for inviting me on your journey and for joining me on mine.

This newsletter edition invites you to embrace two conscious actions:

• Questioning
• Listening

Let's start with questioning.

There are two types of questions: Empowering and Disempowering. The choice you make determines your perceptions of your situation, yourself, your future, and even the world.

It is human nature to ask questions. It is also human nature to empower fear and a victim mindset. To neutralize the fear and to shift from victim to creator requires conscious questioning.

Disempowering Questions

The disempowering questions are easy to spot. Here are a few of the most common:

1. Why me?
2. Who is to blame?
3. Who is wrong here?

Empowering Questions

Empowering questions arise when we trust ourselves, and when we can perceive our situations from the perspective of learning. Here are a few we can ask:

1. What good is present?
2. What is seeking to emerge right now?
3. What gift is being born in me?
4. What talent is being honed?
5. What power is being cultivated?
6. What is trying to unfold? What can I create in this moment?

The disempowering questions shine a light on the problem, and encourage us to stay trapped in the difficulty of the momentary situation.

The empowering questions shine a light on the potential for change, for growth, for transformation and evolution in a way that otherwise might not have happened. They return us back to the position of control over our destiny.

Potential is always bigger than the problem.

Now to listening.

Universal law is always listening and will answer whatever you ask. Whatever question you ask will be answered. If you ask a question about what's wrong, your answer will emphasize what limits you. If you ask what's possible, your answer will emphasize your potentiality.

You must always be listening - in every moment. Every moment of our conscious life is a source of information. When anything transpires, there are important clues. Whenever you do anything, those decisions you have made are informing you. Does this feel good to me? Is this contradicting or supporting my instincts and intuition? Does this bring me joy?

Through my lifelong journey of consciousness and spirituality that has evolved through intensive meditation, practices, and education from my personal academy of spiritual educators, I have (mostly) mastered the art of being a witness to my own experiences. I am able to be both in my experiences, and an observer to them. I am acutely aware of how experiences, challenges, and opportunities distinctively impact my mind, heart, and body. (I will write more about this in a separate newsletter). This awareness removes the emotional reactivity, and helps me to realize that I am not what is happening to me in the moment.

Just recently, I had to pay close attention to how a difficult situation was making me feel, and how that feeling could potentially cause me to make a permanently impactful decision. Emotions are energy in motion, so while they may seem intense as we experience them, and may seem that they need immediate action or attention, they are fleeting and temporary. So our reaction and responsiveness ideally should reflect the temporary nature of the situation.

Sitting in discomfort to listen and learn is one of the most powerful acts of self-love we can embrace.

Depending on how we are wired, or because of long-engrained patterns, it can be difficult to arrive at this place. However, with intentional work to dismantle patterns and self-limiting beliefs, and with work around self-awareness, one can achieve it.

You always have two listening opportunities:

1. To listen to the answers that your questions pose
2. To listen to how situations, people, experiences, and events feel in your mind, body, and heart.

There is unlimited power and potential for change in asking the right questions, and in listening.

I hope this has empowered you to be more conscious of the questions you ask, the answers you hear, and the ability to be open to information in every moment about what is meaningful to you.

I always welcome conversations around Consciousness.

We will be launching Conscious Leadership Forums in 2nd quarter. If you are interested in learning about our format and how it will empower you to be a more effective leader, please reach out.