A New Year of New Questions
Every new year we start by seeking answers to the questions we’ve been asking ourselves all our lives.
How can I be healthier? How can I do what I want? How to lose weight? How can I be calmer?
Accordingly, we make resolutions. “I will go to the gym every day” … “I will meditate for 10 mins daily” … “I will stop being angry with myself.”
These never stick. Few days, or at max a few weeks, and you’re back to your old self with your old habits and old mindset.
Maybe we should change our approach.
How about asking the right questions. Questions that cut through the fluff, through the superficial upper layer and go deep into who we are and what we want to become.
Instead of asking, “How can I be calmer,” maybe you should ask, “Why am I so angry? What’s bothering me deep down?”
“How can I do what I want?” … “What am I afraid of? What’s stopping me from doing what I want?”
“How to lose weight?” “Is my weight a problem medically? What’s causing me to gain weight? Is it a particular habit or a particular food?”
Seeking the right questions can help our well-being far more than seeking answers to generic questions that may not apply to us because each one of us is different in our own ways. We have had a different life, a different history and have different bodies.
Let this new year be about new questions.
Read Next:
