If you were asked, would you like to be born, that is given the opportunity to accept lifes journey or not, what would you do?  The response varies widely by person, but it can be very a very compelling indicator of your current emotional state.

This is a point in time question you can use to do a quick check of your own emotional well being.  An abrupt no probably means you are not having a good time, on the other hand an enthusiastic yes is the opposite.

Set the Context

For this technique, from a personal perspective,  the first thing I did was set the context.   I asked myself some clarifying questions.

What are the options, being born or ” ?” .  And secondly what does lifes journey mean, given I haven’t been born I would not understand the context of “life”.

For this hypothetical analysis, I classify the state before birth as non-existance.  Being born gives me an existance for which I am free to do whatever I am able, subject to unknown constraints .

That is , life will have constraints but these are not always predictable.  Some will be helpful, some will not.  It will continue until my existance ends, that duration is unpredictable.

And the answer is

For me the answer is always on the yes side of the equation, the level of enthusiasm I feel about it relates directly to my current state of mind.

The value in asking the question lies in the assistance it provides me in determining what I need to do to trend toward a widely enthusiastic yes, that being the state of mind I prefer.

Simply put,if I am trending toward wishing I was never born, I need to examine myself internally, take control and change my state of mind toward the positive.