Questions

As I embark on this journey into what feels like the unknown I have felt prompted to begin asking questions. The question I have been asking myself lately is where does inspiration come from?

Deliberate creation cannot begin without a question. The question holds the answer to what is to become. When we allow ourselves just to be in the moment, random thoughts and images may come to us. But if we want to create something specific we must first allow ourselves to ask a question. This is what deliberate creation is about. It is about knowing what we want and making a choice to create it. By first deciding what question we want answered we open ourselves up to something larger that can begin to assist us in our creation.

If we make a conscious decision to ask the question and look for the answers we are much more likely to see them. We are asking ourselves questions all of the time. But often we do it unconsciously so we are not conscious of the answers when they come. We have to be conscious and specific about the questions we ask ourselves to really be active participants in our creativity.

I have noticed lately that I have become increasingly forgetful. It is as though I cannot access areas of thought that I once did. My thoughts are so grounded in the now that it is difficult to retrieve information from the past. Yesterday I was looking for the ear piece to my phone. I couldn't find it anywhere. I could not remember where I had put it. It had disappeared several days before. I thought it was gone for good and I had lost it.

Out of the frustration over losing things I have started requesting that the angels help me find what I have lost. So yesterday I asked "Where is my ear piece?" I was given a clear message that the ear piece was under the seat in the car. I went out to my car and looked under the drivers seat. It wasn't there. Then I looked under the passengers seat. There is was all tangled up and stuck in between the seats. Somewhere I would never have found it on my own. I was shocked and started laughing out loud as I pulled it from under the seat. I realized in that moment that the angels are here to help me all of the time. My job is to ask the questions!

The new paradigm is telling me by disconnecting my memory, if I am to exist in it I must use my intuition or divine guidance to create my life. In the forgetting was the answer to the question I asked, where does inspiration come from? Call it God, the Divine, the angels, muses, or just call it my intuition. It is my higher self speaking to me in that still small voice in my head that guides me to make greater choices in your life. It is separate from my ego and the chatter that cause me to become fearful. It is the part of me that answers the questions in a way that I never imagined was be possible. It is my divine guidance.

Our minds are like computers. The quality of the question defines the quality of the answer. The more focused the question, the more focused the answer. This is how we create by asking questions and we create in a more defined way by asking more focused questions. If I tell myself I can't do this, that is what will be my answer. You can't do this! If I ask myself, how can I do this and remain open and trust that the answers will come I will begin to see the answers in my experience. Or if I listen closely I will hear my inner voice tell me what the answers are.

The trick is to discern for ourselves how that inner voice speaks to us. For me, it is a quiet voice that I hear in my right ear. I hear it in a different way then the sounds that come from this world. I hear it from within my heart and my mind somehow discerns it. My minds chatter has to be still to hear it. I have to make a conscious decision to listen to it. It is subtle and I have to be open and allow it to talk to me. It won't force itself on me. It is a practice and the gift for me in becoming forgetful has been that it has taught me to discern it.

Action Step:
Begin each day with a question you want answered. Ask you Divine Guidance the question. Now quiet your mind and listen. Access your right brain. Depending on how you interpret your own guidance it may come in thought or images. Write down any thoughts or images you that come to you in those first few moments after you ask yourself the question. Follow the prompting if it is appropriate. If you don't get any answers or you don't feel prompted to act on them, go about your day expecting to get your answers but let go of the question. Trust that the answers will appear in your thoughts or your experience. It can happen either way. At the end of the day or first thing tomorrow, look back at your question. Did you get any answers? Write them down. You don't have to know what you are going to do with it yet. Or you may want to act on the answers. Trust inspiration and act according to how you feel in the moment. That is your creativity speaking through you. It is inspiration. You have created the answers by asking the question.