99. How to Ask Yourself Better Questions

The Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

The way you ask questions and the questions you ask significantly impact whether you feel content or happy with your life.

The questions I am referring to are not the questions you ask others–they are the questions you ask yourself.

We spend a lot of time and pay careful attention to how we ask questions of others. We ask patients, children, partners, parents, colleagues, and our bosses strategic questions.

We do not give the same attention to the quality of questions we ask ourselves.

Yet they are the most important.

Listen to the podcast to learn how to ask better questions so you get better answers.

Pause to notice the questions you ask yourself in the background.

Noticing alone can create huge shifts in your level of contentment and happiness.

What questions do you ask routinely in your day?

What energy do you ask them with?

Do they give you the feelings and life experience you are wishing for?

Are your questions mindful, empowered, directed, strategic, intentional, or helpful?

Asking better questions can create ease in your life. It can help you be happier, more calm, content, and even get unstuck.

What makes a good question?

One that helps you generate a feeling you want in your life.

Empowering questions helped me be brave enough to change my career at age 50.

Loving questions helped me save my neurodiverse marriage and raise healthier, happier and more responsible young adult children.

Strategic and intentional questions helped me figure out how to finally feel more content, calm, and happy with my life.

They can help you too.

Learn how to implement this life-changing tool in your own life through coaching - 1:1 attention to your default questions changes everything. www.jessiemahoneymd.com.

If you want to develop a mindfulness practice, reach out to Dr. Liang www.awakenbreath.org

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.