Are you feeling stuck in the mud? Maybe you are ready to upgrade your current “operating system” — your beliefs about yourself — with a system reboot.
Spend some time with these questions. It’s the first step of inner research. Questions act as a magical tool, if you allow them to challenge assumptions. You’ll be able to discover the ones that are outdated or not working effectively.
Reboot to follow!
Questions for Inner Research
Are you living the invitation that life is offering or are you questioning the invitation?
Do you feel at home with yourself? What would allow that?
Are you able to observe your own actions?
Do your actions align with your words?
Are your words and actions aligned with a picture that extends beyond you?
Do you give credence to what your body tells you? Do you pay attention to its signals?
Have you learned how quiet and calm really feels?
Do you want to know truth or do you want to be right?
Do you know when someone is not telling you the truth?
How do you know when you are telling the truth?
System Reboot
Now. Take a breath. Release it. Take another. Devote some dedicated time of concentration/meditation to these questions. It doesn’t need to be hours of quiet, perhaps only 15 minutes. Then allow the questions to simmer within you through the weekend. Let responses bubble up into your awareness. Notice new ways of thinking, of images or ideas that arise spontaneously. Pay attention to your dreams. Let it happen. Be aware. See where it leads you next. Let yourself savor this process of receiving from yourself. Don’t judge whatever comes up, just receive it. Make notes.
You may want to share something from this process. Sharing can be an important way to anchor an insight in your body. It can lead you to deeper insight. It can stimulate action. Feel free to use this arena to share whatever moves you.
2 Responses
“Do you feel at home with yourself?” This is such a daunting question. I recently came across a great quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that is very parallel to the idea you present here. Have you read it? It’s very insightful.
Lindsey,
I remember reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in college and being impacted. I did find it quite insightful.
If you simply reflect on that question, letting yourself sit with it without trying to answer it, is there a feeling that arises in you? Is there an awareness of something you want to do differently in order to feel more at home with yourself?
Best to you!
Laurie