Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Greetings fellow earthlings
I hope your day has been an enjoyable one so far - if not don't worry - you never know what the future has in store for any of us ...
I figured this was a good place to stick this thread. Other people may disagree but that's okay.
mindful.org is a great site for anyone interested in being more mindful. As the name suggests!
I like this one in particular for some reason -
Although curiosity killed the cat it would appear that it is an essential quality for human development and learning.
It is also a primary aspect of mindfulness. Curiosity allows us to begin to turn toward the entirety of experience, moving us from avoidance to approach, including that which we don’t like. I would argue curiosity and kindness are the antidotes to judgment and other harsh evaluations we may direct toward ourselves or others and it is a quality that can be developed.
Curiosity can be used as a way to inquire into our experience—the joyful and painful alike. Curiosity may allow us to begin to level the playing field of our lives so we don’t have to excessively privilege one experience over another. It just takes some of the dys out of dysregulation, smoothing out our internal psychological rollercoaster as we are faced with moments that can take us to ecstatic heights and ones that may take us into an abyss. In the words of Martine Batchelor, a teacher and former Buddhist nun, we can begin to ask, “What is this?” We are not looking for a specific answer but rather using the question as a method of experiential investigation.
Read a lot more here -
Let's Get Curious! - Mindful
Enjoy the rest of your day!
I hope your day has been an enjoyable one so far - if not don't worry - you never know what the future has in store for any of us ...
I figured this was a good place to stick this thread. Other people may disagree but that's okay.
mindful.org is a great site for anyone interested in being more mindful. As the name suggests!
I like this one in particular for some reason -
Although curiosity killed the cat it would appear that it is an essential quality for human development and learning.
It is also a primary aspect of mindfulness. Curiosity allows us to begin to turn toward the entirety of experience, moving us from avoidance to approach, including that which we don’t like. I would argue curiosity and kindness are the antidotes to judgment and other harsh evaluations we may direct toward ourselves or others and it is a quality that can be developed.
Curiosity can be used as a way to inquire into our experience—the joyful and painful alike. Curiosity may allow us to begin to level the playing field of our lives so we don’t have to excessively privilege one experience over another. It just takes some of the dys out of dysregulation, smoothing out our internal psychological rollercoaster as we are faced with moments that can take us to ecstatic heights and ones that may take us into an abyss. In the words of Martine Batchelor, a teacher and former Buddhist nun, we can begin to ask, “What is this?” We are not looking for a specific answer but rather using the question as a method of experiential investigation.
Read a lot more here -
Let's Get Curious! - Mindful
Enjoy the rest of your day!
