Ep 8 Blog for Consciousness and Following the Bliss of
Curiosity
Curiosity is one of the most instinctive
drives we can know in being alive. All animals demonstrate it. It leads to questioning, creativity and
actions. It leads to exploring and looking for something different or just
because. It leads to maturing and finding one’s place under the sun. It can
shorten a life or extend a life and totally shape the quality of that life.
Something propelled life
out of the seas and onto land. It had to then adapt and evolve in order to
maintain a totally different breathing in this new environmental relationship.
It isn’t because there wasn’t enough room in the ocean. What if it was curiosity?
Curiosity is what pushes our innocence to gain knowledge of all kinds and what we feel about that knowledge and where that takes us. Life shapes and forms and evolves.
Curiosity is a neutral state. It is not good or bad. But
what comes from being curious leads to outcomes. Consciousness has no agenda,
so it has no outcomes, it has no attachment. This is in each of us as our core. The
human we are will judge the outcomes developing biases and predictability. It
shapes our curious nature. We can give it license to develop and stimulate new
processes or it can be set to limit.
Consciousness technologies celebrate curiosity that leads to
creativity and actions in our quantum realities. New patterns of behavior come
not because we force them to. They come because we are curious and ask a
question. A great question is “What would it be like if this could be
different”? It is our invitation to the
Unknown. Something so simple in this quantum state is the most powerful
generator of potential in action as energy.
When one has no attachment to outcome but is open to something
different. And when one holds that whatever comes as the change enhances one’s
life, no matter what it looks like, there is no fear about what comes in being
different.
This is the power of curiosity. Non attachment, innocence
experiencing new information. We are always retaining our innocence. About
things, about feelings, about thoughts about stuff. Inquiring minds want to
know, right? Doesn’t matter if it is about the barking dog next door or the
answer about black holes. Each is an outcome of questioning and that
questioning comes from curiosity. The emotions that may overlay at the time are
by products.
Life is about potential and possibilities. It is our
curiosity that activates the potential and possibilities into reality.
Satisfying our curiosity brings a certain sort of sense of completion.
It can be as simple as picking up a book and letting it take
you where it leads you and that sense of “Ah” at the end or the “Hmm” at the
end. Or trying a new recipe or when you just throw given ingredients together
on “Chopped”.
As adults we are responsible for helping children develop
their curiosity. We are being given a remarkable gift in fostering potential
that we maybe don’t value enough. We might leave it to our schools and teachers
who may be in overwhelm. We may feel overwhelmed with the endless questions
that you may have a knowledgeable answer to, or you may have no answer or don’t want to have to think of an answer or have to know something different.
Remember how you had
to ask your question at the right time, or the right parent when you were a child? There are all kind of reactions
and responses and how you handle this is reflecting your own relation to
Curiosity. Letting it become something you explore together shares with the
child that we are never too old to learn and to question.
Maybe our own curiosity has been stifled. We act mindless in
our lives when we are not encouraged to find our own answers. Questioning
authority of any kind is a healthy premise in the right context. It helps keep
our alignment of Essence and Self in harmony and our subsequent health
happy.
Our curious natures are present from the baby grabbing on to
some thing and putting it in their mouth and learning it and asking a few years later the
eternal “Why?” Isn’t this our cue to Curiosity engaging?
If we are lucky. we never stop putting something new in our
mouths and asking “Why?”
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
