The next thing that is absolutely required is the desire to go through this process and have a clear and important interest to achieve results.
You may, and should ask yourself a question like this prior to doing this:
“What is it I want to achieve or change in my life?” and you must be somewhat specific but not precise at this stage.
Standard examples:
Lose weight, earn more money, find more time with the family, become more satisfied with my life, etc.
This is the first step in maneuvering your focus in the direction you want to go. This is just to get us in the neighborhood of where our desires live. Once we are in the right neighborhood, we can create the correct questions.
This is a great “solo act” once you get the process and the discipline figured out. However having a facilitator initially, really makes it easier. It is a mindset that you must accept during this process and it is omnipotent.
OK, here is the first step. Assume for this written explanation that we are doing this in a group setting. It will make the instructions seem easier to understand.
First step is that even though we are all sitting in this group right now, we are about to alienate ourselves from the person sitting next to us, ahead of, and/or behind us. In a moment they will cease to exist. This is not hypnosis, it is just setting the stage for a good result.
So, from this point on, you no longer know anyone in this room except yourself. Maybe you could consider this a mini vacation.
You should also refuse to look back at your life from this day. What I mean by that is that it doesn’t matter what you have done, what you think of yourself, what you think others think of you, mistakes you have made, or successes that you have achieved. You are a new and empty vessel starting at this moment.
Let’s now take 3 minutes to determine a personal area or topic that you would really like to have answers to. When you are trying to decide on your personal area or topic, it is entirely and perfectly fine to write down a few that you can compare. Maybe in that 3 minutes just write down nothing but topics, and then you can choose the one you want to work with. You are going to fine tune a question before we work with it so don’t worry about the syntax concept of a question right now. Just concentrate on the topics of interest or concern.
I realize that for some of you this seems boring and unnecessary. And I’m sure it is. But let’s just pretend and play today like it is something that we can learn that will really help us.
Tomorrow we will start the machine going, and actually start driving to this new and wonderful mind!
