Are you asking yourself any of these 12 Dumb Questions?

Prosperity Practice

1. At this moment, what is my aim? This a wish, not goals for the next fiscal year. Put your key life purpose at that moment, not in the past or the future.

2. If the truth be known, what's really going on? There is a certain magic in asking for the truth. Use this question to cut through to the basics in any situation so that you can act with efficiency.

3. What is the VOJ saying? This question reminds you to be aware and eliminate the negative effect of inner blame and criticism.

4. Is this who I am, or who I'm attempting to be? The central contradiction of your life is between the Essence and ego. This question helps silence the ego.

5. What is it that this person provokes in me? Instead of concentrating on questions such as: “What's wrong with her?" "Why are they doing this to me?" focus on what you can do something about: your own actions, thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

6. What is the objective reality? Appeal to your own objective intelligence with this one. Strip away all the rest: fears, judgments, chattering of the mind, ego, false personality. This question acts like a meditation: All that is extraneous slips away and you concentrate on what is real.

7 What is the emotional truth? Four emotions - fear, anger, hurt and sorrow - cloud your thinking. If anger, or any of the emotions, is getting in the way, you must acknowledge that truth first rather than blame other people.

8. What pain am I avoiding?

Over and over, our speakers, students and clients point out that real learning and progress arise from pain difficulty. This question teaches you to pay attention to the pain in order to gain insight.

9. What stubbornness am I holding onto? You know intellectually that the only constant thing is change, but you may find it difficult to live this truth. Change isn’t the problem; holding on to stubbornness is. Acknowledge and understand that with this question.

10. Is this choice the same as my real choice? Your real problem might be different from the apparent one.

11. What is it that I don't yet understand? Again, if you feel upset, there is something that you do not understand. If other questions fail to lead you to this understanding, you can just ask yourself directly.

12. Who said that, my mother or my father?

This question smokes out the VOJ. The question-a-week program. You can use questions to take stock as well as to deal with ongoing problems. You will find that if you ask yourself a review question at the end of each week, you will gain much clarity about what is actually going on in your life.

Try asking one of these questions each week, and then go back in subsequent weeks to the ones that prove productive for you.

This week who or what was my teacher?

This week what did I learn?

This week what did my VOJ say?

This week what did I observe?

This week what did I forget?

This week how did I take care of myself?

This week what was my relationship to time?

This week what permission did I give myself regarding emotions?

This week what did I notice about love?

This week what truth did I find?