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Meditation & curiosity

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Curiosity About Our Minds—Nikki Mirghafori

Nikki Mirgahfori at Spirit Rock Meditation Center talks about cultivating a curiosity towards our practice, making it a study, a process and even perhaps a bit fun.

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Radio Headspace Rewind: Uncovering You

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.

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There Is No Right Time

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.

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Every Day’s a School Day

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.

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Room for Not Knowing

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.

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Radio Headspace Rewind: Why Don’t You Just Try It?

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.

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Radical Curiosity

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.

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Practice Being Still

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.

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The Stories of Our Minds

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.

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Endless Curiosity

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.

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