STEP 1: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
WHY DAYS
Why days are the difficult or even devastating days of life. As long as there has been pain there has been the nagging question, why?
Why days are the difficult or even devastating days of life. As long as there has been pain there has been the nagging question, why?
Why days change us because we didn’t expect them.
Acknowledgments in Processing Why Days:
1. The first acknowledgment is the awareness that pain is necessary, but suffering is a choice.
Losing and love in the same sentence is so hard to fathom. Everything we love we are going to lose. If you don’t want to lose, don’t love. If we don’t go through losing, we will not be loving and will not enjoy living.
2. The second acknowledgment is to know that we are wired to ask why.
We are created with a mind that wants to know. Logic is to the mind what breath is to the lungs. The mind grasps to understand reason. If it is just about trying to figure it out with the mind, that does not leave opportunity to experience spirit. The soul accepts both mind and spirit as a part of the whole.
3. The third acknowledgment is to realize that we are not alone in asking why.
Question marks punctuate our lives on a corporate level. Love and pain are the connectors in our relationships, not just those who are living and are present but those who have gone on before us.
The Replacement of Why:
The why question is typically a dead-end question and if we keep asking it over and over it leads to an impasse.
Instead of asking why we can ask how.
How questions move us forward and as a result looks to find answers in the progression.
How questions bring us to a place of trust.
Examples of Replacement Questions:
How can I move on from here, realizing that my pain will keep me paralyzed if I let it?
How does this allow me to get the big picture?
How can others be helped?
How could this deepen other relationships?