Not answering your questions

I recently ran an event, where I invited questions beforehand.

Then during the event, as part of exploring the topic at hand, I addressed these questions.

So far, so good.

But then when I got in touch with attendees afterwards, to check in with how they were getting on and to ask them if their question had been answered, they all gave roughly the same feedback. They pretty much all said:

“Not really Giles, no. But it doesn’t matter.”

Oop.

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So, hang on, what’s going on there…?

Well, I can tell you what’s not going on.

It’s not me giving the classic politician’s ‘non-answer’ where I have an agenda that I will bend your question to.

(As an aside, I actually got quite good at doing that sort of thing when I held a semi-governmental position, years ago, and we definitely had an agenda to promote. Every question or objection I received, I managed to twist around to the ‘party line’ … and thank god those days are over, is all I can say!!)

No, this is part and parcel of looking at life from an Innate Health perspective. It’s like that Zen saying:

“In Zen, we don’t find the answers, we lose the questions.”

Sounds a bit obtuse, but is really very straightforward.

You see, questions (which are problems) are not tackled in the way the questioner expects them to be.

Because so often, the foundations on which the problem/question is created, don’t actually hold water.

Innocently enough, they’re not based on sound principles. In fact, that’s the whole reason the problem has stuck around and the questioner has felt compelled to seek help for it.

They’re trying to tackle it at face value. On its own terms.

Real world examples

It’s like the sorts of questions and ‘solutions’ doctors used to come up with to infectious diseases, before they discovered that germs were actually a thing. You know, stuff like:

• blood letting
• carrying around posies
• emetics and laxatives
• even exorcisms.

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Not based on sound principles.

Or the (mis)calculations of astronomers, when we innocently, understandably, thought that the sun rotated around the earth. (Still looks like it does, to this day!)

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But when we realise, insightfully, the true nature of the universal principles at play (e.g. germs/a solar-centric system)—in other words, how reality actually works—then the questions/problems just kind of go away.

They don’t even make sense any more.

Back to my event attendees…

Which is why one person replied:

“Does it matter that my question doesn’t appear totally sorted? It doesn’t to me. I am just grateful for a reminder and the insight I gained from attending.”

And another said:

“You manage to point in directions I have never seen before – like opening doors you didn’t even know existed. I think it was amazing – thank you for that!”

And a third said:

“Hey Giles, wow, I mean, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣”

(This kind of relieved laughter happens a lot in client sessions too.)

I know I’ve shared this before, but, for me, this whole shebang is encapsulated beautifully in that quote most often attributed to Einstein:

“The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.”

I used to think that meant ‘think harder’ or ‘think better’ but having spent years pouring fuel on the fire in that way, I’m not so sure I do any more.

Swap out ‘level of thinking’ in that quote for ‘level of consciousness’ or even just ‘from the same perspective’ and it makes a lot more sense.

Unlike the original questions.

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So if you’ve got something going on for you at the moment that you’d like to get help with, and you’re open to seeing it from a completely different perspective in order to solve it, then get in touch:

💟

Giles

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