Intuition Zone Review: The Quality Questions Book
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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Okay, I admit it - I’m lazy 
Well, not exactly, but since I’ve been really busy lately I decided I’d review the smallest component of the Intuition Zone program: “Quality Questions”
In all honesty, since I have a pretty busy life it’s hard for me to sometimes see the “value” in intuition. Logically, I know the value is there, but experientially I think I just need more practice with developing my personal intuition zone.
And in light of the opening quote from Intuition Zone, perhaps I need to ask my intuition whether or not developing it is for my highest good right now…
(Though isn’t that sort of like asking a car salesman if you need a car?)
I hope you’ll forgive the humor diversion - I’ve found that humor is a great spiritual tool to help me clear through some of the seriousness of life and see things more candidly. It helps to not take myself so seriously sometimes.
Anyway, in going through the “Quality Questions” book, I felt I really connected with some of Aine’s points. One thing she talks about is the importance of distinguishing between empowering and disempowering questions. This resonates strongly with me, as she is also one of the few people I have come across who really talks about why “should” is such a disempowering word.
In Intuition Zone: “Quality Questions,” Aine also talks about the difference in nature and effectiveness of various questions: particularly the difference between asking “Yes/No” questions and open-ended questions.
With my own conditioning, I instantly assumed that asking open-ended questions would be less helpful than asking yes/no questions. After all, if I’m asking my intuition for guidance, then doesn’t it make sense that I’d want the answer to be clear and direct? Yes/No I felt would provide that, whereas open-ended questions I was concerned might lead me on a wild goose chase.
It turns out that I was wrong…
Asking Quality Questions isn’t that black and white according to Aine. It turns out that there’s certain situations where asking Yes/No questions is the most effective, and yet other times when asking open-ended questions will provide optimal results.
This surprised me, but her explanations really help. I plan to experiment with this more, and as I do you’ll be the first to hear about new insights, and any changes or addendums I make to my review of the Intuition Zone.
The other thing I really appreciated in “Quality Questions” was that Aine provides some valuable insights on how to ask questions in ways I hadn’t thought of before. Aine shares specific techniques on how to take what seems like a very ambiguous question and bring clarity.
What I mean is, a lot of our lives are not black and white. As a result, it can sometimes be difficult to gain clarity within the gray area where we live most of the time. Quality Questions from The Intuition Zone program had practical, meaningful information that helps me see how to understand that gray area, so I actually can move in a specific direction that is for my highest good.
All in all, though “Quality Questions” is the “smallest” part of this massive tome of information called “The Intuition Zone,” it does pack some serious punch and gets a thumbs up in this review.
