Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Ask What You Most Wish to Know



Cynthia Sue Larson with Romel Axibal at New Living ExpoCynthia Sue
Larson
at the New Living Expo on May 1, 2010 with radio show host Romel Axibal in San Francisco, California




Ask What You Most Wish to Know


"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -- James Thurber


When I was a little girl, asking questions was something I avoided because I was painfully shy. When unclear on a classroom assignment, I found it easier to tackle a project from every imaginable angle rather than suffer through the anxiety and blushing that followed when I raised my hand to ask for clarification. Because my preferred approach of avoiding asking questions often resulted in my doing more work more quickly than expected, I began to notice an unanticipated bonus from my shyness -- that sometimes my unspoken questions about what to do next brought excellent, inspired answers immediately to mind. I thus observed that the very act of my thinking a particular question focused my attention and subsequent events in line to provide me with what I most wished to know. I thus learned how to work backward from the answers that would so often spring to mind, mastering a kind of thinking-from-the-answer-back-to-the-question, along with the art of getting inspiration and clarification in direct response to my thoughts. All of us have access to this kind of intuition... all of us are capable of learning to listen more carefully, to focus our attention more clearly.


Cynthia Sue Larson at New Living Expo in San Francisco with Marianne JasCynthia Sue
Larson
with author
Marianne Jas
on May 1, 2010 at the New Living Expo in San Francisco, California

One of the most interesting things to me about paying attention to the questions we ask is the way they seem to demonstrate the focal point of our attention. Sometimes there is a sense of playfulness in the back-and-forth interchange between questions we ask and the way subsequent events play out.

During one of my MBA school projects, I once worked with two partners on what began to seem to be a doomed mission to document data flow diagrams for departments at our school. When the first couple of departments we were to interviewed denied access to us, our query to one another, "What next?!" seemed to invite a series of further obstacles. After several weeks, we reached the deadline for our assignment and had absolutely nothing to show for our work. On the day of our group's presentation to our class, my team partners Susan and Stanley nominated me as group spokesperson, so I stepped forward to the front of the class to describe in somber tones the series of unfortunate events that had befallen us. When I mentioned how our team had asked, "What next?!" at various points on our journey, I saw a smile flicker across our teacher's face as he stood with arms crossed, leaning against the wall by the door. I relaxed a bit, noting how an element of intrinsic humor imbued our sorry tale with an undercurrent of vivacious effervescence, inviting smiles and then outright laughter as I described in pseudo-tragic terms the sequence of events that so clearly demonstrated our participation in some kind of divine comedy. I was amazed to see that by asking, "What next?!" we experienced such a wild experience that was so warmly received by our teacher and class, and I was further surprised and amazed when we got an "A" for our report!

The reason I encourage everyone to ask the question, "How good can it get?!" is that such a question naturally guides us to explore more positive outcomes than we would likely otherwise imagine. There is a great gift we can receive when we set aside our ego in order to allow ourselves a glimpse of the overall story in which we reside... for sometimes we may discover that inside some apparent tragedies lie comedies waiting to emerge.


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Thanks for staying in touch with me on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and in person, too. Thanks for sharing your reality shift stories, and for doing all you do! Thanks for shifting reality as you look forward with joyful anticipation, and back with grateful appreciation. And most of all, thank you so very much for just being you!




Love always,

Cynthia Sue Larson

email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com