{"id":12780,"date":"2026-04-16T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/some-reflective-questions-to-assess-your-relationship-with-life-steve-pavlina\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:54:01","slug":"some-reflective-questions-to-assess-your-relationship-with-life-steve-pavlina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/some-reflective-questions-to-assess-your-relationship-with-life-steve-pavlina\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Reflective Questions to Assess Your Relationship with Life \u2013 Steve Pavlina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I invite you to ponder some inner reflective questions to help you sense how much harmony there is in your life. You can listen within for your answers. Another option is to use these as journaling prompts and write your answers.<\/p>\n

Reflective Questions<\/h2>\n

Do you feel free? Do you enjoy enough freedom in your life?<\/em><\/p>\n

Would you say that your life feels delightful? Do you have a lot pleasure and happiness in your life? Do you love and appreciate the life you get to live each day?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel supported by Life? Do you feel that Life takes really good care of you \u2013 like it meets all your needs and then some?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel at peace within yourself? Do you feel at peace with the world you inhabit?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel that your life fits your heart?<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you in love?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel that you\u2019re really good at receiving many different kinds of gifts from Life? Like there\u2019s always something wonderful coming up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you enjoy one or more close friendships \u2013 with people who see you, know you, and love you as you are?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel seen, loved, held, and cared for by Life?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you feel like you\u2019re on a really devoted path through life? Do you feel positively engaged with how you\u2019re living? Do you have the right level of stimulation and motivation to enjoy a nice sense of flow?<\/em><\/p>\n

And\u2026 Do you trust Life? Do you trust this Reality? How strong is that trust?<\/em><\/p>\n

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    So what came through as you reflected? Are you enjoying a delightfully harmonious flow in your relationship with life? Is there some room for improvement here? Or does it seem unrealistic to feel loved, delighted, happy, positively stimulated, and beautifully supported by Life?<\/p>\n

    What\u2019s your current truth here?<\/p>\n

    Cooperating with Life\u2019s Intelligence<\/h2>\n

    To create a really harmonious life, you need Life\u2019s cooperation, don\u2019t you? It\u2019s not really meant to be something you figure out and do all by yourself. Harmony is something you\u2019re invited into \u2013 by Life \u2013 when Life signals that you\u2019re ready for it.<\/p>\n

    To cooperate with Life in this way requires that you trust Life. It\u2019s pretty hard to harmonize with something you don\u2019t trust. What you\u2019re really choosing to trust here is the intelligence<\/em> that flows through Life and Reality.<\/p>\n

    So what you\u2019re actually seeking to harmonize with is intelligence<\/em> \u2013 more specifically the currents of intelligence that flow through the Reality around you. Creating a harmonious life is a matter of aligning your own best intelligence with the intelligence of the Reality that you inhabit. And this requires being sensitive to those currents of intelligence and paying careful attention to them.<\/p>\n

    Now when we reach a certain point in life, Life reaches out to invite us into a new level of harmony. Often this involves letting go of an old path that no longer feels harmonious. We feel a disconnect rising up, such as feelings of agitation to want to change something, even if we don\u2019t know exactly what to change.<\/p>\n

    The Key Skill of Orienting<\/h2>\n

    What actually wants to change here is our orientation<\/em> towards Life.<\/p>\n

    Life is an evolving intelligence, and so are we as individuals, and now and then we may fall out of sync, much like two people can fall out of sync during a conversation. This is when an invitation can emerge to reorient ourselves and get back in sync. This kind of orienting is a skill set, and it can be learned, developed, and practiced. It\u2019s a wickedly important skill set for a world that doesn\u2019t sit still and keeps shifting. People who don\u2019t consciously develop and practice these skills are likely to be in for a very rough ride, if they aren\u2019t already succumbing to that now.<\/p>\n

    How can you assess your current Life orienting skills? Review the reflective questions above. These questions serve to reveal the quality of your orienting skills and how well you\u2019re currently applying them. They help you get a more honest picture of how well you\u2019re cooperating with Life\u2026 or if you\u2019ve fallen out of sync. And if you have fallen out of sync, don\u2019t panic. It happens.<\/p>\n

    Receiving Life\u2019s Gifts<\/h2>\n

    What I can tell you is that this is shift into greater harmony is very connected with a willingness and an openness to receive more from Life without feeling like we have to earn it with effort.<\/p>\n

    A telltale sign that we\u2019re in harmony and in sync with Life is that Life is very generous with us. In this place of beingness, it feels like Life keeps showering us with gifts. It\u2019s a place of feeling deliciously loved by Life.<\/p>\n

    Sometimes that shift comes from exhaustion or exasperation with over-stressing and over-working ourselves \u2013 like doing hustle culture for a while \u2013 until we finally conclude there\u2019s a gotta be a better way to live.<\/p>\n

    Where this often starts is with a sense of Wonder, so that\u2019s something I want to invite you into right now. I invite you to Wonder: Could it be possible that Life could take much better care of you and make your life feel a whole lot lighter, a whole lot freer, even a whole lot luckier, if you were able to let yourself receive more?<\/em><\/p>\n

    Will you let Life help you create more harmony? Could it be that simple?<\/p>\n

    Yeah, in a way\u2026<\/p>\n

    But sometimes it\u2019s hard to let go of old limits in our thinking and allow that help to flow through. That\u2019s our challenge \u2013 to say yes when Life offers us a harmony upgrade. That\u2019s a big part of the skill set of orienting \u2013 recognizing that yes there is a better way and letting that flow through without blocking, declining, or deflecting it.<\/p>\n

    Life checks in now and then to see if harmony is really important enough to us to receive it, and if Life sees that we\u2019d rather prioritize something else, it just holds off till we\u2019re ready. And Life is immensely patient with us, waiting and waiting till we\u2019re ready to get back in sync.<\/p>\n

    Help Is Offered<\/h2>\n

    My own Life has felt really harmonious lately, especially in the past few years. I just turned 55 on April 14, and I feel so light, lively, and energetic. I wouldn\u2019t say that my relationship with Life is easy per se, but it is harmonious \u2013 in the sense that one enjoy the thrill of riding a galloping Fire Horse. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

    This year I sensed a really interesting invitation from Life flowing through, which was to host a space where I help people improve in this area together \u2013 where everyone arrives with the intention to make their lives more harmonious. So we\u2019re on the same page because we all want more harmony. I knew this would be an awesome group energy to engage with, so I said yes to the assignment.<\/p>\n

    By taking this on, I\u2019m learning a great deal more about harmony and how to sync with Life more consciously too. This has helped me significantly upgrade my own orientation skills and discover more nuances and subtleties within them.<\/p>\n

    We\u2019re doing this in the form of a live, in person event. It\u2019s called Open<\/em>. Just that one word. Open<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    We\u2019re opening to receiving more. More flow. More freedom. More flexibility. More ease. More lightness. More friendship. More love. More cooperation.<\/p>\n

    We\u2019re hosting this for three days in Las Vegas on April 28th through 30th, so it\u2019s this month.<\/p>\n

    Open<\/em> is an invitation to increase the level of harmony in your life, and to work with like-minded and like-hearted people who want the same. It\u2019s a deep inner journey into a very personal reorientation process.<\/p>\n

    At Open<\/em> I\u2019ll guide you through a series of orientation containers, each with a different theme and different skills to practice within. These containers are very thoughtfully and lovingly crafted to help reorient to Wonder. To Intelligence. To Trust. To Freedom. To Embodiment. To Magnetism. To Love. To Friendship. To Pleasure. And more\u2026 I want to keep some of these delights a surprise.<\/p>\n

    So this is intended as an offer of help from Reality. It\u2019s chance to orient yourself to Life differently.<\/p>\n

    Not recorded. Not streamed. In-person. This month.<\/p>\n

    You\u2019ve got to be in the room really feeling it. Your body has to come along. Note that Embodiment<\/em> is one of our core containers. Open<\/em> is an experience for your body too, not just your mind and heart.<\/p>\n

    A Preview \u2013 Come Inside the Room<\/h2>\n

    Open<\/em> is very experiential. It\u2019s not content-based. NOT 3 days of lecture.<\/p>\n

    As the name suggests, Open<\/em> is a space of opening into greater harmony \u2013 both within yourself and with Life. These arise as a package deal.<\/p>\n

    Open is a very deep inner journey. And this journey invites you to reorient yourself to Life, specifically to create a lighter and more harmonious relationship with Life where you get to receive a lot more. Think of it like Life offering you its hand and asking if you\u2019d like to be best friends from now on.<\/p>\n

    You can expect a very warm and welcoming atmosphere. Very compassionate. Very human. Very intimate. Very accepting. We\u2019re not using social pressure. Every exercise is by consent.<\/p>\n

    I hope you like handpan music because we\u2019ll have some live music with a handpan while you\u2019re doing some reflective exercises.<\/p>\n

    So we\u2019re creating a very gentle, very yin space that encourages emergence \u2013 especially the emergence of new perspectives and new possibilities.<\/p>\n

    The energy of Open<\/em> is very warm \u2013 but not tame. Open<\/em> invites you to take a deep and honest look into yourself and your orientation towards Life \u2013 and to then translate that into new understanding and new decisions. So Open<\/em> is also very grounded and practical because harmony is something you live within day to day. In the final segment we\u2019ll spend a good bit of time on integration, so you can start putting into practice what you\u2019ve discovered.<\/p>\n

    Hence, Open<\/em> is designed to be a very supportive space to reexamine and then rebuild your overall orientation towards Life. That\u2019s a big deal. It\u2019s meant to be life-changing.<\/p>\n

    If you\u2019re seeing this invitation, then as a representative of Life \u2013 some people have referred to me as the Emissary of the Simulation<\/em> \u2013 I\u2019m personally inviting you to come to Vegas. Let me guide through this inner journey experience for 3 days at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

    Join Us in Las Vegas<\/h2>\n

    Open<\/em> is happening at the New York-New York Hotel in Las Vegas. That\u2019s right on the Las Vegas Strip. It\u2019s a 10-minute ride from the airport. It\u2019s literally on the same street as the airport, right on Tropicana Avenue.<\/p>\n

    The price is $888. You can think of it as three vertical infinity signs.<\/p>\n

    I can\u2019t predict how many people will go to Open<\/em>, but based on our room size, we can accommodate up to about 150 people, so it ought to be a fairly intimate event.<\/p>\n

    And I want you to know that I\u2019m really pouring my heart into this one \u2013 because getting to a place of better harmony with Life has so much to do with dropping into our hearts and getting our mental decisions to really respect our feelings.<\/p>\n

    If this sounds appealing to you, you can read the full invitation and sign up to join us in Las Vegas at StevePavlina.com\/Open<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

    I hope to see you there. It\u2019s this month, so it\u2019s nearly here already. The close proximity is part of the invitation, so that the people who show up are the ones who feel the most ready to have this kind of experience together. The invitation and the actual experience are meant to be very close in time.<\/p>\n

    I can tell you it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun too!<\/p>\n

    Do you want to get to a place of receiving more from life? Life is offering that. Tune in to yourself and see if you\u2019re ready for more harmony and more receiving. I encourage you to trust whatever decision comes up for you.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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