A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Practice to Cultivate Curiosity

Our curiosity practice can start with the simplest tools we have at hand—our breath, our body, and our awareness.

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Our curiosity practice can start with the simplest tools we have at hand—our breath, our body, and our awareness. And we can deepen into it with loving-kindness.

A Guided Loving-Kindness Practice to Cultivate Curiosity   A Loving-Kindness Practice to Cultivate Curiosity 15:30 Find an easy seat and make a commitment for these next few minutes to just be here, not moving around, not deciding you’re going to check an email, not talking to anyone. Take time right now to take a special moment for yourself.
Start to notice what’s happening in your body by paying attention to sensation. The light entering through your eyelids. Taste, smell, the weight of your body in your seat. The feeling of your clothing on your skin. Allow sounds to enter your ears. You don’t have to change anything or fix anything. You’re just allowing, letting everything be. Notice, welcome, and appreciate your intention to cultivate curiosity. This is an expression of your natural wisdom arising.
Bring yourself to this moment, with a sense of wonder and allowing. Relax your shoulder blades, the back of your head, your forehead, your cheeks, your jaw. Experience what it’s like…