Welcome to this meditation.
In this meditation we will be focusing on curiosity.
In Buddhism we talk about the seeds that we have in our store consciousness.
And then we can practice watering those seeds to strengthen and grow those qualities.
So in this meditation we will be watering the seeds of curiosity.
Give yourself a moment to just arrive here,
Getting a sense of what here feels like.
Paying particular attention to your physical sensations.
Any shuffles or micro movements that you feel would be helpful.
Often it doesn't take very long to make those changes.
But they can actually have a significant impact and benefit to what the experience feels like.
And so the act of noticing is an act of curiosity.
Giving this some time.
You may want to bring your awareness to your breath as well as you are doing this practice of getting curious about what your body feels like.
And whatever your body may need in this moment.
Yeah.
Noticing what it feels like to be curious about your physical sensations.
Yeah.
And from here bringing your curiosity to any emotions that you may be experiencing in this moment.
Almost seeing it like an observer or a documentary film maker.
Ah,
I'm having this emotion where I'm feeling like that.
Giving yourself here the space and time to practice being curious.
Your emotions as well as your physical sensations may ebb and flow during this meditation.
And that is completely as it needs to be.
Allowing it to arise and ebb away in whatever way feels helpful to you in this moment.
Then bringing your awareness to your thoughts.
Getting curious about what your thoughts sound like.
What kind of thinking are you doing?
Is it slow or fast?
Compassionate?
Critical?
I'd like to just note that it's likely that having a lock is taking a bit of courage.
Noticing that how you are feeling in terms of your experience will affect your ability to be courageous.
Will affect your ability therefore to be curious.
That's okay.
That's part of curiosity.
That's part of courage.
And that's also part of compassion.
We often don't realize that just getting out of bed can often involve a bit of curiosity.
What will my day be like?
Yeah.
And so bringing into our space and our awareness opportunity to have a lock is a way of watering and cultivating our curiosity.
Trying new things.
Doing things in a different way.
All of those are an act of curiosity.
Getting curious about our thoughts.
Getting curious about our feelings.
Asking somebody,
How are you?
How are you feeling?
Is an act of curiosity.
So that when we get in the habit of being curious,
We can then take our attention and our curiosity maybe a bit further or deeper or closer.
To learn something that hasn't been visible to us yet.
To follow the clues.
Remember feelings are information.
And we need curiosity to help us decipher the information that our feelings are giving us.
Yeah.
It might be helpful to just notice what beliefs you may have about curiosity.
And whether you have been encouraged to be curious.
Or whether you have been deterred from being curious.
Those beliefs or those guidelines we were given historically.
May actually be unhelpful at this point.
So noticing if any of those are showing up.
Yes,
Indeed.
It is another opportunity to become curious.
If you find that you want to be curious about something that takes more courage than you have currently got.
My invitation to you is to give yourself permission to get support with that.
To get support.
To have a look.
Yeah.
Somebody to be there with you in that process.
And that that is an act of compassion to ourselves.
You might think of it as the Watson to your Sherlock Holmes.
Because curiosity and being curious is a bit of Sherlocking,
Isn't it?
Yeah.
So with your breath guiding you,
Breathing in.
Guiding you as you breathe out.
This is what here really feels like.
And as we bring this meditation to a close.
Give yourself a moment to absorb and observe.
The information that you now have.
Yeah.
Remember,
Feelings are information.
And that it's more helpful to be curious than critical.
