Ask Kenneth Foster what it means to ask and he will tell you that ASK stands for Ask, Seek and Knock.

Sounds so easy, right? Just ask to find new things that make life amazing. Just ask and seek for help to blast past habitual patterns. But what to ask?

Fortunately, if you run into any problems knowing what to ask, in his new book Ken has listed myriad questions in eight sections — including questions to grow your potential, questions to bring you what you want, questions to create financial freedom, and questions that will give you more joy.

Foster came to the empowering wisdom enclosed in his new book, Ask and You Will Succeed, from his own remarkable life path of learning.

Questioning the material path

Into Foster’s self-described “normal” middle-class upbringing, occasionally were dropped bread crumbs of soul intelligence. Like many of us, he would examine these interesting insight bits, brush them aside and go back to the material path he was on.

He recalls his first awareness of insight. He was eight or nine and waiting on the porch of his house for a friend. He felt sad and alone. Then, suddenly, he felt totally connect to everything. “What came into my mind was up and down, yes and no, hot and cold, day and night,” Foster says. Although it was the concept of duality, he didn’t know what it was, he just remembers thinking “don’t forget this, it’s important!”

Raised Catholic, his parents didn’t discuss spiritual matters or expose him to alternative spiritual principles. In church he remembers feeling that there was more to life than just himself, but as the years went along, he went away from anything divine and focused on the material.

Soulful knocks at the door of consciousness

At age 19 he experienced another strong wave of spiritual awakening. Foster explains, “I saw first-hand what duality was. The darkness with the light. I saw the path I was going down.” Subsequently, he read the entire bible searching for spiritual truth. Yet, four or five years later he was back on a material world path.

The next spiritual knock was even louder. In his early 40s he heard a voice in his head that said: “You have to feel the pain to make the change!”

At this point in his life Foster was “mentally, spiritually and physically bankrupt.” He was living in a city he didn’t like, and he was estranged from his children. His very wise counselor told him: “I can’t help you anymore, follow the voice.”

Seeking answers

So, Foster starting asking what the voice was trying to tell him. He realized that he had been trying to distract himself with alcohol, relationships and work from really feeling.

Searching for answers in his old passion for psychology and sociology, he came upon a book that perfectly mirrored the transformation he was about to go through. The story was about a warrior laden with armor who leaves his family behind for his warrior way of life. Then he realizes that the armor is weighing him down. He begins to understand how to leave pieces of his armor behind, until finally he becomes an invincible spirit.

Six months later after losing a 100 million dollar organization, Foster committed to “changing his life and leaving a legacy.” He moved back to San Diego. He continued learning about how he had lost his own story by going into a material focus. He simplified his life.

New life support arrives

One day in 1993 a friend called to alert him to a coaching website started by the founder of the International Coach Federation. Foster says, “I knew instantly, I can do this. I’m going to be a coach!” He had business cards made and got 21 clients within a week.

According to Ken, he was just a page away from helping his clients — meaning he had just learned or read what he needed to know to help his clients. Recalling this time you can still hear the amazement in his voice, “It was uncanny how many people showed up to teach me,” he says.

Even as he was learning his truths, he was passing them along to his clients. Chiefly the belief that with trust and faith we realize that we have the answers to all our questions. Ken became an expert at asking the right questions, questions that enabled clients to move deeper from the conscious mind to the subconscious and deeper still to superconsciousness (intuition).

He explains, “Ask the right questions and you can be calm and get your own answers.” Ken started to write the questions down as he did intensive research. Eight years later he had his remarkable book.

Socrates in your pocket

“Books write us,” he states, continuing, “I got good at hearing people’s minds and knowing what questions to ask. It started flowing…like I had Socrates in my back pocket.”

Ken believes that anyone can get unstuck and find out what they need to know if they start with the assumption that they do know the answers. As he puts it, “When we step back from our own projections, we see we have the answers.”

He recommends focusing on the positive aspects of life duality. For instance, notice your fears but don’t dwell on your fears. “Dwelling on fears shuts down the creative process of life.” It’s a choice. You can break habitual patterns that don’t work very well.

What kind of patterns? Patterns as simple as peeling a banana. Foster humorously points out that we’re socialized to start from the stem, but if you turn it upside down, it’s so much easier.

Foster concludes, “Everyday newness — we have to look for it. If you’re looking you’ll find it.”

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