‘The important thing is to keep questioning and to keep the holycuriosity’—Albert Einstein.
The type of question that you ask determines the type of answer that you get.
If you ask a negative question like, ‘Why am I poor?’ you will get a negative answer like,‘Because you are lazy’ and when you ask a positive question like ‘What can I do to become prosperous? You will get a positive answer like,
‘Create a product using your in-born power of divinity, talent,creativity and application and then sell it at the market’.
A negative question weakens while a positive question empowers.
A negative question sends your mind to sleep while a positive question sends your mind to work.
A negative question justifies failure while a positive question looks for new ways with which to overcome your challenge at hand.
For example, for 232 years since the American independence in 1776 all the American Presidents had been white and male.
Barack Hussein Obama II born in 1961, a junior senator from Illinois, only the fifth African-American senator in US history and a son of a black father from Kenya and a white American mother questioned this existing belief and challenged it with his extra-ordinary ‘can-do-attitude’ and a positive presidential campaign affirmation and creed of ‘Yes we can’!
He went on to win the US Presidential election after defeating John McCain on November 4, 2008 to become the 44th US President and the first African-American President in US history.
This historic and seismic political tsunami of global implications happened at 145 years after Abraham Lincoln the 16th US President (1861-1865) issued the Proclamation of Emancipation in 1863 to free the enslaved people of the USA; 45 years after the Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior in 1963 prophetically said that ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character’; and 43 years after Lyndon Johnson the 36th US President (1963-1969) signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which gave voting rights to the black people of the USA. Soon after winning the US
Presidential election in 2008, one Television commentator described Obama as ‘A black man who has made it in a white man’s world and also a young man who has made it in an old man’s world’.
To honor him for his super-colossal achievement the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize at 10 months in his US presidency.
Since the beginning of life people believed that a person can only live with a heart.
In 1967, a South African cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard questioned this belief and challenged it.
He went on to become he was first person in the world to perform the first successful human-to-human heart transplant. It took nine hours with a team of thirty people in Cape Town, South Africa.
In 1974, Christian Barnard again went on to become the first person recorded in the world to implant the second heart in a person linking the circulation of the two hearts so that the two hearts worked together as one.
In 1903, the British Olympic Coach Harry Andrews said that ‘The mile record is 4 minutes 12:75 seconds.
The record will never be broken’. Fifty-one years later in 1954, Roger Bannister, a British medical student questioned this belief and challenged it.
He went on to become the first person recorded in the world to run a mile in less than 4 minutes 59:4 seconds and since then many other athletes have done the same. In 1943, a three-year old Jennifer Land asked her father the question ‘Why can’t I look at a photograph of myself as soon as it is taken’?
Her father and physicist Edwin Herbert Land questioned the existing belief and challenged it.
He went on to invent a camera that could allow her daughter to do just that. Edwin Land later said that ‘Within an hour the camera, the film and the physical chemistry became so clear.
That with a great sense of excitement I hurried to a place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera that would give a picture immediately after exposure’. Edwin Land took three years to perfect his camera.
In 1947, he demonstrated his invention to the American Optical Society and in 1948 he launched the Polaroid Land Instant camera with sales worth US$5 million during the first year.
Since human creation, people in Europe and other parts of the world believed that the sun moved around the earth because they could see it move from sunrise in the morning to sunset in the evening.
In 1545, a Polish astronomer Nikolaus Corpenicus questioned this belief and challenged it. He went on to become the first person recorded in the world to formulate the first scientifically-based model of the solar system which established that it is the earth that moves around the sun.
Therefore, if you want to achieve a positive change and success in your life you must only ask positive questions like ‘What can I do to be healthy and strong? Instead of asking negative questions like ‘Why am I always sick and weak?’
Your positive questions send your mind to work so that you can receive positive answers to all your questions and solutions to all your challenges.
Anthony Robbins explains that ‘Questions set off an effect that has an impact beyond our imagination. Questioning our limitations is what tears down the walls in life, in business, in relationships and between countries.
All human progress is preceded by new questions.
The questions you ask will determine where you focus, how you think, how you feel and what you do’. Robert Kiyosaki says ‘Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.
They conform rather than question.
Often, they mindlessly repeat what they have been told.
The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems’.
The advice of Deepak Chopra is that ‘Question dogma, question ideology. It is only by questioning what people take for granted and what people hold to be true that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning’.
As you ask positive questions remember that the mind has power to answer any of your questions. In other words, the mind is Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all knowing), Omnipresent (all present everywhere) and has answers to all your questions and solutions to allyour challenges.
In addition, the mind also transforms your thoughts into reality.
So, if you are thinking about a negative thing that is what you are going to get and if you are thinking about a positive thing that is also what you are going to get. What you think about most you create and experience in your life.
A positive question willbring you a positive answer or solution to make you succeed while a negative question will bring you a negative answer or problem to makeyou fail.
In other words, the type of your answer that you receive depends upon the type of question that you ask.
Ask only positive and empowering questions that look for answers to your questions and solutions to your challenges; and celebrate your uniqueness or difference from others.
Author is a Motivational Mentor and Consultant in Positive Mind-Set Change. Email. positivemindpower1511@yahoo.com