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How Questions Work -

There's a big difference between an affirmation and a question. When you say to  yourself, "I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy,"  this might cause you to feel happy if you produce enough emotional intensity, change your physiology and therefore your state. But in reality, you can make affirmations all day long and not really change how you feel.  What will really change the way you feel is asking, "What am I happy about now? What could I be happy about if I wanted  to be? How would that make me feel?" If you  keep asking questions like this,  you'll come up with real references that will make you begin to focus on reasons that do in fact exist for you to feel happy. You'll feel certain that you're happy. Instead of just "pumping you up," questions provide you with actual reasons to feel the emotion. You and I can change how we feel in an instant, just by changing our focus.  Most of us don't realize the power of memory...

How Questions Work

Questions accomplish three specific things:   Questions immediately change what we're focusing on and  therefore how we feel. If you keep asking questions like "How  come I'm so depressed?" or "Why doesn't anybody like me?" you  will focus on, look for, and find references to back up the idea that  there is a reason for you to feel depressed and unloved. As a result,  you'll stay in those unresourceful states. If instead you ask, "How  can I change my state so that I am feeling happy and am being  more lovable?, you'll focus on solutions. Even if your brain  initially  responds, "There's nothing I can do," but like Stanislavsky  Lech  you persist with a sense of certainty and expectation in spite  of it all, then eventually you will get the answers you need and  deserve. You will come up with  authentic reasons for feeling  better, and as you focus on the...