I’ve discovered how incredibly valuable questions are in my life. Have you noticed this being true for you too?
A well-timed question can open doors you thought might never be opened or guide you in directions that provide insights you hadn’t anticipated.
Asking questions can narrow our focus so that we can feel, sense, or work our way forward. They can also prompt us to dive deeper and find meaning and purpose.
Asking questions was one of the main reasons why my friend, Cheri Warren (Website www.creativewarrens.com. Instagram @cheriwphoto. Facebook.com/creativewarrens) and I developed the Four Word Questions Oracle deck, also known as Self Discovery Cards. In addition to the questions I offer, Cheri provides stunning artwork which adds imagination, color, and beauty to the cards, making them immensely appealing. Together, we believe they have the power to spark your creativity and offer you clarity and insight in your everyday lives.
To give you a better idea of how it works I’d like to share a quick example, so you can see exactly what I mean.
There are 52 cards in the deck, along with two instruction cards, one section of which outlines three ideas for card spreads. A card spread is where you select four individual cards which represent meaningful aspects in your life. In the case of my example, I chose the card spread that focuses on, ‘influences, obstacles, solutions, and outcomes’.
It would take some time to review all four of the cards I selected, so I thought I’d center on one card for now.
The first card I chose proposed this question, “once free, what then?”, and represented the ‘influences’ part of the spread.
Occasionally, at first glance nothing of importance comes to mind, but I know if I stick with it, benefits will follow, as was the case with this card.
I wondered, what are the negative influences in my life? What impacts me the most and impedes my sense of progress, happiness, and hope?
Of course, each of us is surrounded by both positive and negative influences, but I don’t seem to pay as much attention to the positive, as I do the negative. How about you?
Maybe that’s because I tend to take the positives for granted, so my focus shifts to the negatives, the dramatic or the troublesome aspects of my life. And along comes this question reminding me that I have a choice. Further, it prompts me to ask a follow up question, sort of a part A and part B question.
If I allowed myself to release the elements of my life that I label ‘negative’, and free myself from them, ‘what then’?
The promise of liberation from these negative influences and the chance to embrace what I consider to be the ‘positives’, entices me forward.
There is excitement in the idea that this is up to me. No one outside of me is actually in control of my direction, despite any appearances to the contrary. I can choose my attitude and decide what to pay attention to.
Not bad observations for a card that at first glance did not seem to offer me much.
The rest of the reading increased in value and allowed me to adopt new beliefs, ones that serve me and bring happiness and joy into my life.
I believe this deck offers everyone this same opportunity and it is why Cheri and I believe in it so much. If you’d like a deck of your own, go to Cheri’s website: https://www.creativewarrens.com/self-discovery-cards and follow the simple directions.
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