The core of what I invite you to explore right now is the power of living in questions.  The 2 types of questions – Check-In and Open-Ended – are both very powerful transformers in the challenges of our lives.  The essence of the first check-in question is “What does this situation bring up inside of me?”  And the essence of the first open-ended questions is “What do I need to say, do or be that is for my (or ‘our’ or ‘all beings’) highest good.”

The invitation is to keep on cultivating curiosity no matter what is happening in our lives, for life is not happening to us – it is happening for us.  Bring the power of both the check-in questions and the open-ended question into your life.  If you are interested, there is a list of many possible questions in the chapter on questions in my book The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing.

Underneath all of the busyness in our lives, what we truly long for is to just be. Even though it is one of the most profound things a human being can do, most of us don’t know how to be. Our minds are usually planning what is going to happen, rehashing what did happen and struggling with everything else in between. We love to acquire and do, fix and achieve, attain and figure out. There is nothing wrong with all of these except that when they become our primary mode of existence, they cut us off from the astounding healing of simply being.
When we relearn how to simply be, we begin to discover moments in which our minds, our bodies and our hearts are all in the same place at the same time. These moments hold the power to heal us at our core. The more we cultivate them, the more connected we become. The more connected we become, the more we live from the wellspring within us that holds all of the clarity, peace, wisdom, and joy that we long for. We then learn how to use our doing, fixing, achieving mind when we need it, allowing it to fade into the background again as we discover the truth and the beauty of life as it iright here and right now.