Questioning is a very efficient tool to access the particular dimension that’s unconscious for each one of us.
This was one of main things discovered by Joseph Breuer and then, Freud as his disciple, started to use it on patients that were dismissed by the contemporary medical and neurological treatments back at that time.
The mind went from being understood as a physiological “machine” to being seen as a dynamic organism with its own rules that ended up affecting the physiological and neurological dimension.
So, questioning is useful, but there are non-efficient questions too that do not offer any value for this endevour. Like, if I ask you: “What did you eat last night?” I doubt you get any meaningful way into your unconscious.
Therefore, one needs to find the right questions that are the most efficient to become aware of things that were bothering you on the background without your notice, and those questions are related to particular values each one of us has, like @SammyG pointed out in his process for limiting beliefs, which I’ve tried myself and it’s really powerful.
Our mind is very simple when it comes to problems. When we are stuck in a problem, it’s a conflict that consists in a binary ground in which that problem arises.
Good vs Bad. This is were our particular ideals and morals come into play and become a nightmare for us.
The bigger the gap between ourselves and our unrealized ideals, the more impotent we feel, the more anxious, the more troubled we become.
Being aware of what’s haunting us in a certain sense is a relief, because consciousness directing light into our conflicts makes them less binary and conficting in nature.
To access this particular dimension in which ideas come into play, I’ve came with a few questions that may bring some light into our impotence, and maybe recover some potence in the process:
- What’s bad about my life?
- What’s bad in general?
- What’s bad about me?
- What’s bad about others?
All these general questions, target our own impotence in relationship to our ideal of how things should be and are not.
Then, we could change the focus a little bit, like:
- What’s not so bad about my life?
- What’s not so bad in general?
- What’s not so bad about me?
- What’s not so bad about others?
Again, we start to shape the attention to what we percieve as a more potent aspect of ourselves.
- What’s good about my life?
- What’s good in general?
- What’s good about me?
- What’s good about others?
This doesn’t end here, it should be a circular process, like an ouroboros that eats its own tail. By moving in a circular way, it’s like the snake starts to eat its own tail more and more, until nothing its left:
- What’s not so good about my life?
- What’s not so good in general?
- What’s not so good about me?
- What’s not so good about others?
Again, then, starting with the first set of questions, this may bring some light into the ideals, norms, morals that are determining us and making us impotent to become more free and more potent in the process.
This may be useful to do while listening to this:
