Get Connected to Yourself

The more connected we are to ourselves, the happier we can be.

Start with asking questions.

That might make you uncomfortable. Maybe it wasn’t okay in your family to question your thoughts or feelings. Maybe you weren’t taught to think about things. To question at all. Life just was what it was, for better or worse.

The problem is that sometimes our daily lives become “worse” without us seeing it happen. When we don’t stop to ask questions we can end up stuck in a rut and not really know how we got there. The day-in, day-out of life loses its joy. We lose connection with ourselves. We forget our purpose. We can’t remember anymore why we do the things we do, even long after some of them have lost their luster.

It’s not a lost cause. Simple steps, like being intentional about asking questions, really can help. They can lift you to a better place of connection to yourself, and bring more happiness into your daily life.

So, how do you start? Sometimes the easiest way is to just create a space for it.

Do Tell the Relationship Game was created with that purpose in mind. To give friends, families, neighbors or any group or couple a way to ask questions, and get to know themselves and each other better.

Imagine playing the game and picking up a Tell card that asks: “When are you greedy?” Most of us don’t like to think about ourselves that way, but truthfully we can ALL answer that question. Right? Maybe the answer is something relatively harmless like, “I’m greedy when there’s a new bag of chocolate in the house.” But, in answering you’ve just revealed a little something about yourself. To those you are with, and maybe to yourself too.

There are lots of ways to create space for question asking. Setting aside time at dinner, or playing a game like Do Tell when you get together with friends, but you can do it by yourself too.  Journal the answers, or take one card from the Do Tell game with you in the morning and think about it during your commute to work.

Asking questions could be your first step to getting connected with yourself. Then, the next time you go after that secret chocolate stash, you’ll remember why it’s there. Maybe it will make you want to share. Or maybe it will just give you a reason to smile, and feel more connected to yourself as you enjoy the chocolate and laugh at the answer to a question you never thought before to ask.