I'm going to start this talk with a short poem.
Here it is.
You climbed that hill,
So much sweat,
So many wounds opening once again.
Now on top of that hill,
Too much fog for even one thought.
As you apprentice yourself to yourself to get behind yourself,
Let curiosity help you to see your current world through the eyes of the child you so long left behind.
This was a poem I wrote to reflect part of my journey,
Trying to adapt and understand the changes my mind and body was going through in a time of life where these changes were inevitable.
And this stage was the perimenopause.
From my own personal experience,
It was like climbing a hill with overwhelming sweats,
Especially nice sweats.
What I found rather compelling was also how past wounds that were explored and then healed.
They appeared to be opening once again as if they needed to be reexamined from a different lens,
But not from another perspective where words can have an abstract function to label feelings and emotions,
But more from a child curiosity perspective where artistry can be seen in it all.
Some argue that curiosity evolved as an instinct and Dr.
Brewer states that curiosity is an antidote to anxiety.
And the latest research demonstrates that being in a state of high curiosity enhances our memory for interesting information.
What I have personally found is that by looking at my old wounds with an element of curiosity enabled me to unlock some very important lessons that I didn't learn perhaps the first time around and maybe because I was driven by the motivation to move on.
I kept asking myself,
How did that little seven-year-old girl manage to conquer spectacular adversity in her young life in such a calm and positive way?
And the answer was curiosity.
So here I invite you to use curiosity as a tool to help you revisiting certain emotions that may unpredictably reemerge in your life.
And you may experience that by looking at it through this inquisitive lens,
You will have a better understanding perhaps of it and won't forget it again.
And to explore the fact that there is a new kind of innocence possible in each different threshold of our lives that can be nurtured through the curiosity lens which may enable you to undo and evolve in a way you never thought possible.
You climb that hill,
So much sweat,
So many wounds opening once again.
Now on top of that hill too much fog for even one thought.
As you apprentice yourself to yourself to get beyond yourself,
Let curiosity help you to see your current world through the eyes of the child you so long left behind.
