Somedays I’m perfectly fine sitting around staring at the walls. And with good reason.
Yesterday was one of those days.
The night before we pulled into town, completing a 2,800+ mile cross-country road trip.
When I got up in the morning, per usual, I filled out my daily goal card and immediately knocked out the first two goals on my list.
Then spontaneous forces took over. I walked outside to look at my bamboo garden, where we have 14 species growing.
Last May before we left town, I wasn’t sure if some of the giant bamboo were going to survive the winter freeze we had. And upon further inspection yesterday, I clearly saw which ones were beyond the point of no return.
I grabbed my Japanese reverse-bladed saw and got to work.
Next thing I knew I was wiped out. Some of the culms I removed were 50 feet tall, and heavy. I not only had to saw them off as close to the ground as possible, but pull them out of the cluster and drag them across the yard.
When I came back into the house I rested on the floor to recover. I stared at the ceiling – reliving similar exhausting moments from my former days as a college wrestler.
Afterward I sat in my La-Z-Boy and stared at the walls.
As I sat there transfixed, thinking about nothing in particular, ideas flooded my mind, which I recorded.
What I wrote were answers to questions I had recorded earlier in the day on my goal card. These answers took me by surprise. They were perfect.
But where did they come from?
Later still I called my friend, Shawn, to rap for a bit. And within 30 seconds, he began answering another question I had written on my card, that I never mentioned to him.
Ain’t life grand, I thought.
While so many people are focused on changing their self-talk and reciting affirmations, asking yourself questions, which I call askformations, carries you to a level that is downright uncanny.
The process of using askformations is mysterious, and sometimes somewhat mystical, and yet it works without fail – provided you don’t try to force the answers.
There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t get startling answers, helpful answers, to the askformations I use… because I don’t “try.”
I let the answers come to me.
There’s no force involved. There’s no trying and hence, no trials.
The only force involved isn’t your own will or your own force. It’s the force of Nature and how your brain and subconscious mind work.
You can read much more detail about this process in my newest book, Enter the Zen Zone, which is now available in print and digital formats.
Have at ‘er.
This process will do you more good than you can currently imagine.
Matt Furey
Note: Enter the Zen Zone is filled with plenty of positive askformations that will get you started, and keep you moving forward. I also go into detail on how I use my daily goal card and why it’s a game changer.
