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What new thing have you always wanted to try? In today's podcast we challenge you to be curious and explore to uncover new talents and abilities.
How often have you waited for the ‘right moment’ to make a change or start something new? It can be tempting to wait until the situation is just right, but here’s a spoiler: that will never happen.
In meditation, there’s a quality called “beginner’s mind,” which means dropping your expectations and preconceived ideas about something and approaching it with an open mind — a beginner’s mind.
If we have to be so certain all the time, we lose space for curiosity, imagination, and even intimacy and connection with other people. This weekend, practice curiosity instead of certainty.
If you’re reexamining your life right now, you’re not alone. We’re taking stock of what we like and what we would like to change. But with change, no matter how positive, can often come fear. Fear of not knowing what the end result will be.
When we greet difficult thoughts and feelings with a sense of interest rather than shutting down, we are welcoming an opportunity to practice curiosity in a way that would lead us to a constructive outcome. This can ultimately add to our toolkit to push through adverse moments.
One of the biggest obstacles to meditation is the restlessness that we feel when we are attempting to do nothing. When we give in to every urge, it’s hard to reach deeper levels of concentration, or to give ourselves a chance to see how fleeting those feelings can be.
Our minds are uncomfortable with uncertainty, so we innately try to predict the future to protect ourselves from disappointment. With that, we draw conclusions and form hypotheses around the thoughts and beliefs that come from past experience.
It can become easy to feel that there isn’t much to learn or understand about the relationships and life occurrences we’ve become accustomed to. No matter how much you think you know about something, allow yourself to find new curiosity about the things that have become commonplace.
As information can be so widely accessible, it’s easy to become frustrated when we find ourselves in situations where we don’t have all the answers. Tapping into our innate nature of wonder and curiosity can help to shed the shame of not knowing something, and instead look at learning as a gift.
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