© Copyright 6-27-2007 By Dana Shino, The Purple Phoenix, LLC www.thepurplephoenix.com Energetic possibility and potential swirl around the art of question crafting. A well crafted question will beget more questions than the answers they fulfill. (It’s a bit maddening sometimes in a wonderfully neurotic kind of way.) The nature of the question, if used properly, embraces and creates the very multi-dimensional aspects of energy we live in. When one question spawns ten others, you’ve asked a hummer having the potential to completely open and transform your life. Yet, as I explored in the article “Eh? What was the Question?” how people ask questions affects the answer as much or more than what they are asking about— whether they are aware of it or not. Frequently, people ask questions they think they want the answer too, but ask in such a way that blocks, shifts or distorts the answering energy dynamics. It’s a professional psychic’s dilemma of a ‘double psychic fake out’ — people are asking, but do they really really want to know the answer? The responsive or lack of responsive energy tells a psychic a lot. I’ve come to realize the questions people ask hold as much or more energy than the answer. In essence, the question IS the answer. How so? Let’s look: Non-Constructive Types of Questions: The Descriptive Question or the Non-Question Question: The question or situation is described in many of its aspects, but in the end, a question is never asked. It is assumed that the question is understood in all of the describing and that it will be asked in the nature of the description. Yet, a question, in the end, is never ever asked. What does the energy and universe do with this? Not really anything. It can’t, because no question was formulated in the first place. For some reason, the person describing the question doesn’t really want to know the answer. So, the channels from these types of questions are like pulling energetic teeth. There is little to no flow in the energy. The Mallet Slamming Statement Question: “Tell me my health. What is my cat doing. Where is my sock. Tell me my financial status. My wife has three ears...” Can you feel the energetic mallet wacking the small amount of energetic snot out of these statement questions? These are not really questions. They are statements posing as questions, but not really getting there. They lack question marks and they create a ‘demand’ feeling, a defensive feeling. When you defensively demand at the universe, it energetically tends to crumple up and run away. If you want to ‘fee, fi, fo, fum’ your way into asking questions, that’s fine, but the universe won’t be able to squeeze much out for you. The Helpless, My Life is Going to Hell Question: “Finances, yug, will my struggles never end?” The energy in the question circumnavigates around and back, helping create what the question asker is standing in: Helplessness. Inertia. Unending struggle. We truly create what we are looking at and asking. The question is asking for support of more never ending financial struggles. “Okay,” says the universe, “Here’s more unending financial struggle.” The Double Back and Can’t Get Out of My Own Way Question: “Am I expecting to have more abundance spiritually and financially so I can help more people?” Rhetorically, the first thing I hear is, “I don’t know. Are you expecting?” The energy feels as though it double loops back on itself and never leaves the question or the question asker. It feels like an energetic lasso, lassoed back on itself, tying itself in a knot. The Not Quite Sure What I am Asking Question: “Finances are always a concern and while I am fortunate to have enough for my needs, I don't have enough for all my wants. But there's a part of me that thinks I need to restructure my life and make my wants fewer and my needs less. Should I be listening and how do I begin?” Picture Charlie Brown with a squiggle hanging over his head when he is somewhat confused and disgusted but not quite sure. That’s the energy held in this question. If you isolate just the question: “Should I be listening and how do I begin?” it reflects obtuseness from a sense of multi-directedness. The universe energetically registers ‘should’ (‘would,’ ‘could’) as ‘nothing.’ And it’s hard to establish an energetic direction and connection with the general ‘how do I begin?’ The question is not sure what it is asking, so it energetically asks everything undirected and not really anything can energetically come back from this. The Ambivalent Question: If you don’t want to know and you don’t really mean it, don’t ask. You are a precious being with precious time on a precious planet with other precious people. Ask the questions in your life that matter to you. Questions asked lacking interest generate answers lacking compelling motivation and energy. The Question Asking About Everyone Else But Me: “My first question is about my daughter. She is 30 years old. She is well educated and very beautiful. I want to know when she will find a man who she will marry? When will she become settled in her career and her family life?” As inviting as it is to learn and know about everyone else’s life, it’s actually more important to know about your own. Sometimes that’s hard because it means responsibly caring for yourself (something our culture likes to ignore under the ‘selfish’ justification). Actually, responsibly caring for yourself is one of the best ways to help others. Also, I consider psychically answering these types of questions a form of psychic eavesdropping and I don’t participate. Here are some tips that will help you clarify your own questions: Release your need to describe. The universe already knows. The universe already sees you. Just get down to the brass tacks of asking the question. Remember to include the question mark. If you don’t, you’ve just put a statement out there. The universe returns full throttle with an answer where there lies a question mark. Gut Check: Are you standing in helplessness or empowerment when you ask your question? Just checking. Release the Question: Ask your question in a way that energetically allows it to move and fly of its own accord. Once you’ve asked, let it go. Trust what happens next. Know what you want to ask: Sometimes it takes time to decide what you want to ask. That’s okay. Take your time. A question asked backed by the compelling desire to know one thing will work for you far better than the question asked from three directions. Maybe the starter question is, “What do I want?” Ask Questions that Matter to You: Ask the questions about your life compelling you to breathe as if you have been holding your breath underwater for 60 seconds; compelling you to eat as if you haven’t eaten for three days; compelling you to drink water as if you’ve just finished a marathon with only two water stations and no water bottle. Care About Yourself, Ask Question About Yourself: You are important first in your life. Be sure that the majority of your question about you and your well being. If you do ask about someone else, ask it in relation to your own life. Keep it direct. If you beat around the bush, the universe will chase you around the bush. Step out of the bushes. Stand in the sunshine. Lay out the question. Ask from the center of your emotional honesty and vulnerability. The universe already knows the honesty of your situation. Why hide? You’d only be hiding from yourself. “What” and “How” questions: If you want practical results from your questions, ‘what’ and ‘how’ are a lot more likely to get you there than ‘why’ and ‘when’ and ‘do’ and ‘will.’ Keep questions present tense, first person and active. This is actually advice a copy editor at the Longmont Times Call gave me when I interned there eons ago. It works for writing great copy, but it also works for crafting great questions. (Thanks Michelle!) Include only ONE SPECIFIC IDEA per question. Since you get to ask the universe as many questions as you can possibly pack into one lifetime, it would help you considerably not to pack all your ideas into one question. Space them out. If you put three ideas in one question the universe is going to be confused as to which direction to start first, and will try all directions at once, and then none will work. (It’s the Chinese Fire Drill version of question asking. There’s a lot of activity, but no forward movement.) Always keep in mind what you want to create. We are here to create our lives. The question is one of the wonderful tools to help us create what we want. Keep that in mind when you are asking. The question directs the paths you are willing to follow, the creations you are willing to build. Law of Attraction: Just like Esther and Jerry Hicks channel in their book “The Law of Attraction,” what you focus your attention on is what you draw into your life. So, be sure to ask your question directly towards what you DO want (a direct, positive question), not trying to keep out what you don’t want. Examples of Constructive Questions Creating Energy Flow: How do I cultivate my intuition and become more whole? What happened to me in the early morning hours of April 17, 2007? Is there anything blocking development of my intuition and spiritual growth? How is my grandmother and son who have passed? Do they ever visit me? Are they busy? Who plays with the lamps in my house? What is the exact issue that I am not addressing in my life and how do I address it? What are the orbs or little dots that always surround me? How can I better sensitize myself to direction from my guides/angels when doing healing work with Reiki? Why do I put others’ feelings and needs before my own? How can I change my energy so that I attract healthy and balanced people into my life?  Your contributions help support The Purple Phoenix Press.
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