They say that curiosity killed the cat. The meaning of that phrase is that being inquisitive about other people's affairs may get you into trouble. When I invite curiosity, it is very different. I invite you to direct your curiosity inside in an enquiring way. The curiosity I invite starts with a simple understanding. The truth that your feelings are an update from your system letting you know about your state of mind. Your feelings are never telling you about the outside world, other people's behaviour or a mental illness label. Your feelings are letting you know about your thinking.

From that simple understanding the curiosity can come in. The question I love to start this exploration is, 'What am I believing that isn't true?' The answers don't have to be the actual words of the thinking. It seems to be more like a genre of thinking which comes to mind. Should thinking, future/ past thinking or thinking we know what is in someone else's head. When we start this enquiry, our natural system starts to self-right. The thinking and feelings pass without us needing to do anything. Awareness and curiosity are so powerful. If you would like to stop all that feeling management and control, please get in touch.

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