Are you struggling to answer life’s toughest questions and don’t know how to find the answers? Maybe you’re mulling over a career change, starting a business or even a relationship.
Instead of sitting around actively thinking about the problem I have a few recommendations to help you solve the problem. Quit banging your head against the wall hoping the answers will find you. Instead, use these tips to start finding the answers you’ve been looking for.
How to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
1. Ask Your Subconscious Before Bed | Life’s Toughest Questions
Studies have shown that your subconscious is very active at two times during the day — morning and night. While you drift off to sleep your subconscious is wide awake. Otherwise, blood wouldn’t make its way to your heart while you were sleeping.
This is why it’s so important to go to bed with the right intention.
The Power of the Subconscious Mind
As Thomas Edison said, “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious mind.”
The reason he recommends this is because while you sleep, your mind is working like normal. If you give it a question before bed it can help you find ways to help you answer it.
Think back to the last time you went to bed with a question (not a worry) and woke up in the middle of the night with an answer. Or right when you woke up and were in the shower or meditating?
This is much better than going to bed worrying. The subconscious doesn’t understand the difference between a worry and a question. It is unbiased and doesn’t understand negative request different.
So if you go to bed thinking “I don’t want to fail at my interview or “I have to pay this credit card bill soon” it will help make those solutions a reality.
Instead, ask a question to answer life’s toughest questions.
2. Take Nap or Meditate | Life’s Toughest Questions
Naps are great because you can’t always afford to wait until tomorrow to solve a problem. Similar to going to bed, use naps or meditation as a way to silence your conscious mind and help find answers to your toughest questions.
When Thomas Edison was puzzled by a problem, he would lie down and take a nap and allow his subconscious mind to work on it. Try to keep naps under 20 minutes to stay productive and not get into too deep of sleep.
3. Write In a Journal Each Morning | Life’s Toughest Questions
Journaling is a habit that has been used by some of the smartest and most intelligent people for centuries. Writing in a journal first thing in the morning is a great way to brain dump and start each day fresh. Again, while you were sleeping your brain was working.
Get out all of your ideas, thoughts, and feelings onto paper. Clear room in your head for more space each day. The effects can be profound in helping you think clearly
Ask yourself, were Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein geniuses because of their intelligence and wrote in a journal? Or did writing in a journal make them some of the most intelligent people ever?
4. Stop Thinking About The Problem | Life’s Toughest Questions
Sometimes you need to stop thinking about the problem. Mel Robbins refers to this as “productive procrastination.”
As she said in her best selling book, The 5-Second Rule, “The next time you’re struggling, don’t keep trying when you’re tired and burnt out. Step away from the problem.”
Get into nature, meditate, think about anything but the answer. Change your environment so your mind can get to work. This is why you get great ideas when you aren’t staring at your screen.
While some of this may seem off the wall, I promise they can help you succeed faster. Use one or several of these tips to finally learn how to answer life’s toughest questions!
I like step 1…telling yourself things before you go to sleep helps your subconscious mind. Never thought of that. Thanks!
What an amazing article.
Tnx a lot.
Yes i do agree with you. There are things which unsettle and disrupt my peace and everything. I sleep with a request…which has to be really intense like an infants cry to his mother…..and most of the time if not always i get the answer or way ahead.
We are a miracle and so is our mind. We need to know the procedure and functioning of it. Also keep it clean like a child’s heart. The Universe stands by you and is willing to help you.
It’s awesome. Thanks for this valuable information .
Your tips/suggestions are great, though I yet to practse it. I think your recommendations will help/guide me right from now.
Short, interesting and practical. Thank you!
Simple yet powerful ! They work like magic. Thank you for the kind help
Will work on these suggestions