This quiz is offered as an opportunity to check in with yourself. You can evaluate the condition of your mind and life. These questions below may appear a little daunting, as each of them describe habits that carry some degree of stress. Yet, the good news is that all of these habits can be relieved with awareness, deeper understanding and a choice to Raise Your State.
Use this opportunity to be honest with yourself without judgment. Hold a compassionate heart as you shine increased awareness on the state of your well-being by asking yourself these questions:
If too many of your answers are a familiar “yes”, you might consider that needless suffering has become a subtle or not so subtle visitor in your life. In fact needless suffering may be an addiction for you.
What I know to be true for most people is that they often do all they know how to do to decrease stressful habits and patterns. They read books, make promises to themselves to do things differently, take medication, go to therapy and yet they often fail to change the very ways that cause suffering. They end up frustrated and discouraged.
A quote that acknowledges one reason for this frustration comes from Albert Einstein: " We cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness from which it was created. We must do it from greater consciousness."
To Raise Your State is to access these greater fields of awareness where the power to transform old habitual ways is possible. You can shift what it is you want to shift in your life. Expanding into greater states allows you to discover new ways of thriving and an increased ability to choose your responses to life. In this way, you will relieve ways of needless suffering and at the same time you will recognize that greater ease, confidence and happiness become an everyday reality.
Use this opportunity to be honest with yourself without judgment. Hold a compassionate heart as you shine increased awareness on the state of your well-being by asking yourself these questions:
- Is anxiety an all too familiar companion?
- Does depression dampen your aliveness?
- Is your inner judge a menacing voice in your head?
- Do you stress and worry on a consistent basis?
- Do you harbor resentment or find it hard to forgive?
- Is approval seeking exhausting you?
- Does self-doubt sabotage your dreams?
- Are your thoughts scattered and confused?
- Is guilt a familiar ‘go to’ place?
- Are obsessive thoughts conflicting with your happiness?
- Do you hear yourself asking, “What is wrong with me?
- Are anger and defensiveness common ways you react to others?
- Do you attempt to make people different than they are?
- Do you push yourself to do more, get better or shape up?
- Are ‘ought to, should and have to’ running your life?
- Do you find yourself thinking, “This isn’t it!”
If too many of your answers are a familiar “yes”, you might consider that needless suffering has become a subtle or not so subtle visitor in your life. In fact needless suffering may be an addiction for you.
What I know to be true for most people is that they often do all they know how to do to decrease stressful habits and patterns. They read books, make promises to themselves to do things differently, take medication, go to therapy and yet they often fail to change the very ways that cause suffering. They end up frustrated and discouraged.
A quote that acknowledges one reason for this frustration comes from Albert Einstein: " We cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness from which it was created. We must do it from greater consciousness."
To Raise Your State is to access these greater fields of awareness where the power to transform old habitual ways is possible. You can shift what it is you want to shift in your life. Expanding into greater states allows you to discover new ways of thriving and an increased ability to choose your responses to life. In this way, you will relieve ways of needless suffering and at the same time you will recognize that greater ease, confidence and happiness become an everyday reality.
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