Where:
Permission to Succeed by Noah St. John
Pat Carrington’s perspective on this in relation to EFT (look at part 6):
My point of view is that we humans are inquisitive by nature…We need only watch a young child first learning to talk and first exploring this world, to verify this fact. “Why? Why? Why?” is the constant refrain of the child. Only rarely do they ask the question “How?” and then only when they want to be shown specifically how to do something (most of the time they’d prefer to find it
”How” questions are of course useful ways of conveying information from one person to another. “How do I operate this new software?” is a very good question if you want to learn a transmittable technique, something someone else knows a lot more about than you do. By contrast a “Why” question is an open ended one, it is tremendously broad in its scope and can access large vistas. The minute you say the word “why” you tap a profound area of the human psyche. You contact that part of yourself that asks unanswerable questions as well as answerable ones. The deepest philosophical, religious, or intuitive questions that have been asked down through the ages have all been “Why” questions rather than “How” questions –– the latter have been asked of course but they are much more practical in nature.
and in this article by, Rebecca Marina, she tells how she took a method in the best selling “Book Of Afformations” by Noah St John and turned it into a unique way to expand EFT.
Notes:
Ask yourself Positive Why? questions
We know the “how-to” but we haven’t bought into the “why-to” and our brain is a “why” asking machine. We play low-light (vs high-light) films of our actions in our head and our brain finds answers to negative why’s (“why-not’s”) such as “Why do I always blow it”. When you ask yourself a question, your brain will look for the answer. When you change the questions you ask yourself, your brain will find different answers.
Change your affirmations to questions. Don’t wait for the answers, just let your brain dig them out underneath.
Ask yourself positive why’s:
“Why am I so attractive?”
“Why am I so smart?”
“Why do so many wonderful people love me so much?”
“Why do I always say and do the right thing?”
“Why am I so safe wherever I go?”
“Why do I always get what I really need at exactly the right time for me?”
When feeling fear, listen to it and thank it for taking care of you
Noah St. John says:
“You’re doing what you’re doing for a reason. You did not wake up one morning and say, “Hmm, I think I’ll start not getting what I really want to day”, What happened was, over time you learned that getting what you want caused you more pain than not getting what you want. Since we’re biological organisms who are wired to avoid pain, it is next to impossible for you to willingly place yourself in a situation that you believe will cause you more pain that the pain you are currently feeling. That explains why for many of us, it really is easier to want what we want than to actually get what we want.”
Fear’s job is to keep you safe. The feeling of fear is telling you “watch out, be careful” just like your Mom did. It’s like a little child tugging at your pants, pointing the monsters out to you. If you don’t respond the child will get more insistent, until things escalate out of control. If you listen to the child, you can evaluate the monsters, reassure the child and decide for yourself whether action needs to be taken.
Review:
This book was confusing and many of the points it made where not clear to me. I would read a section that sounded attractive or helpful or I agreed with, and not be able to see how it fit with the other points. It doesn’t make my “Re-read” list. However, the positive why questions (afformations, he calls them) vs negative why questions (“why-nots”) was fascinating. I’ll definitely be trying that out.
