Hi,
I'm Trevor Lewis and this talk about asking the right questions is meant to be listened to along with two of my other talks,
The one on self-muscle testing and the one on learning to use a pendulum.
It also has relevance for anybody using any intuitive tools such as the tarot,
Oracle cards or the yi qing.
First of all,
Most importantly,
Ask your questions the way you would approach your most revered teacher.
Be respectful with your questions and trust your answers.
Think of this the way you would feel if you were answering questions from a beloved child.
You would have lots of patience,
Hopefully,
But even then there would be limits on how many times you would answer the same question before you became impatient.
Similarly,
If the child kept asking you different questions but never took your advice,
How long would it be before you gave up answering at all?
So before you start asking questions,
Make sure you are calm and centered and that you are in a good mental and physical space to receive the answers.
If you had half an hour to spend with the Dalai Lama,
What questions would you ask?
How would you prepare for the meeting?
How would you respond to the answers?
Ask about your health and ask about your spiritual development.
If you ask about material possessions,
All I can say is beware.
This work is meant for your spiritual evolution and I'm going to suggest that it's more likely that your spiritual development will benefit from losing money rather than making money using a pendulum or muscle testing.
Take it from someone who learned the hard way,
I really don't recommend using a pendulum for playing the stock market.
The best place to start is by grounding yourself.
Walk barefoot in the grass,
Hug a tree or simply imagine roots coming down through your legs,
Through your feet going deep into the centre of the earth.
Make sure you are calm and centered.
The first question to ask is,
Am I clear to ask a question?
Then,
Is it appropriate for the highest group of all concerned for me to ask about,
Name your topic,
And then you can ask your question.
Muscle testing and pendulums are oriented towards giving you an answer of yes or no.
For that reason,
Of course,
Make sure that you are asking a yes no question.
For example,
Should I accept this offer of a new job with XYZ Company?
If you are using a more descriptive tool such as the Tarot,
Oracle cards or the Yi-Qing,
It's usually better to ask an open-ended question.
For example,
Please talk to me about this offer of a new job with XYZ Company.
Let's talk about wording the question.
If you ask,
Can I do such and such?
The answer will probably be,
Yes,
You can.
You may be physically able to do it.
It just may not be advisable.
You can ask,
Do I need to do such and such?
The answer will probably be,
No,
You don't need to.
Your needs are quite simple,
Food,
Water,
Air to breathe.
So if you ask,
Do I need to accept this offer of a new job with XYZ Company?
The answer will almost certainly be no.
If you ask,
Can I?
You'll usually get a yes.
If you ask,
Need I?
You'll usually get a no.
The best phraseology is around the highest good of all concerned.
For example,
Is it for the highest good of all concerned for me to accept this offer of a new job with XYZ Company?
It's important that you pay attention to your thoughts as you ask the question.
This is especially true if you're having a conversation with a friend or a client while you are using a pendulum or muscle testing.
If you say one thing and think another,
The answer will reflect your thought.
Pay attention to what you are thinking more than what you are saying.
The answer will always match your thoughts.
You can use muscle testing or a pendulum to select from a list of choices.
For example,
I have a list of many hundreds of affirmations I work with when I install affirmations for my clients.
I don't need to ask for each affirmation in turn.
Instead,
I've numbered all of them and start asking,
Is this affirmation numbered 1 to 500?
If yes,
Is it numbered 1 to 200?
If no,
Then I can move to ask,
Is it in the 300s?
No.
400s?
Yes.
And so on until I can narrow it down to a single number.
Once you get fluent at this type of procedure,
You can work through a list of a thousand numbers with just about a dozen questions in only a few seconds.
Next,
What if you have a strong attachment to or a vested interest in getting a particular answer?
If you've got a strong interest in getting a particular answer,
It can be hard to trust that you're not influencing the answer with your own willpower.
One way around this is to use index cards.
Take two index cards and write the word yes on one of them and no on the other.
Turn the index cards over and shuffle them until you can consciously know which is which and spread them out face down in front of you.
Now the question becomes,
Which of these cards contains the answer to my question?
Should I accept this offer of a new job with XYZ Company?
You can ask this of each index card in turn until one of the index cards gives you a yes response when you muscle test or use a pendulum for that card.
You can turn that card over and whatever is on that index card,
You will have your answer.
One last point.
You can ask questions about yourself.
You can ask questions on behalf of anybody who gives you permission.
It is inappropriate to ask questions about someone who has not given you permission.
Again,
It is inappropriate to ask questions when someone has not given you permission.
Firstly,
It's an invasion of privacy and second,
I doubt that there is any guarantee about the accuracy of the answers you will get.
Make sure you keep your questions ethical,
Ask only about yourself and about people who have given you explicit permission to ask on their behalf.
If you haven't already listened to my talks on muscle testing and using a pendulum,
Now would be the time.
If you have already listened to them,
You may still benefit from listening to them a second time.
Thank you for sharing your time with me today.
