Miracle Question of
the Month
“No problem can be solved from the level of consciousness that
created it.”
Albert Einstein
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Starting
this month the new focus of the monthly Success Tip will be
Miracle Questions.
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Miracle Questions
Webster’s definitions:
Miracle: an extremely
outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
Question: an inquiry or an act of
asking.
Miracle questions
are extremely unusual and thought provoking questions. They are
designed to stimulate the subconscious part of your mind, the
neurology of your brain, and your thinking processes to yield better
and more transformative information to help you create success in your
riding and horsemanship.
According to Maxwell Maltz, M.D.,
the subconscious is not really a “mind” but a “mechanism” that
consists of the brain and nervous system. This “mechanism” is
automatically used and directed by the mind to create and achieve
goals. This mechanism is neutral and impersonal. It doesn’t care if
the goals create success or failure.
We
program the direction this mechanism will take and the outcomes it
will produce by what we think about, believe, imagine, and perceive.
It will unfailingly and consistently produce exactly what we vividly
and repeatedly think and imagine about our riding. This mechanism is
like a huge computer – we feed in the data, and it produces the
results. If we are focused on negative things and imagine
unsuccessful outcomes that’s what it will help us achieve.
One of the ways you can use the
subconscious to stimulate better information and ideas and to create
more successful outcomes is to ask better questions –
i.e. – Miracle Questions. Miracle Questions are
success- enhancing questions. They are always better questions that
begin with the words, “HOW” -- “WHAT” -- “WHEN”
and “WHO”. They never begin with the word “WHY”.
For example: let’s say you are
having trouble keeping your leg in the proper position.
Rather than asking the question,
“Why does my leg keep moving?”
Ask one or all of these
Miracle Questions:
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“What could I do differently right now, to
create more stability in my leg?”
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“Who are the riders that successfully keep
their leg in the proper position and what are they doing that
I’m not?”
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“When are the times that my leg does stay
stable, and what am I doing or thinking that creates the
stability?”
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“What question do I need to ask my instructor
that I haven’t asked?”
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“How can I ask the question in a totally
different way?”
MIRACLE QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Ponder the following miracle
question for this month to more creatively and effectively
activate the success mechanism of your subconscious:
"Who
is responsible for my current riding problem -- myself, my horse, my
instructor, my family, my past, the world?"
(Hint: there is only one right answer!)
"If I got my responsiblity issues straightened out, what might
transform in my riding? What might I feel, think, and do differently
that would impact myself, my horse, my instructor, my family, my past,
the world?"
Remember -- Miracle Questions
are designed to get the attention of your subconscious – to shock it
out of it’s habitual and stuck way of perceiving, interpreting and
using information about your riding difficulties so you can optimize
change and success. The more thought provoking and unusual the
question – the better the answer! Try to come up with some really
outstanding and unusual ones of your own!
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