Discover Joy In The Quiet Wonder Of Curiosity

What if there was a simple shift in perspective that could change your entire life?

 On our first-ever episode of Calm and Centered AF, I'm here to walk you through the power of curiosity and how it can be the secret sauce to reclaiming your serenity, with a side of sass, of course.

 Inspired by the delightful Dr. Richard Hill, whom I had the pleasure of meeting, we explore the transformative magic of curiosity and its ability to elevate your mind and life.

We'll be kicking anxiety to the curb and embracing an open, curious mindset that helps us connect more meaningfully with the world around us.

Join me, Cheryl J Reynolds, as I share insights from my encounter with Dr. Hill, including his intriguing breakdown of the three types of curiosity.

We'll discuss how the simple act of asking questions and seeking answers can reward your brain with delightful endorphins and a sense of purpose.

With humor and practical steps, we'll embark on a journey to heighten our awareness and find joy in exploration.

So buckle up, buttercup, because it's time to get curious, get centered, and feel fabulous!

Dr. Richard Hill 

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:57

What if there was one way to shift your perspective and change your mind and make your whole life better? Sound ridiculous, all right? Well, let's talk about that. Welcome to Calm and Scented AF, the podcast that guides you back to your path with a touch of serenity and a dash of sass Cheryl I'm , your hosting guide, and I welcome you. This pod is for my intuitive souls who veered, off course, somewhere between overwhelm and anxiety. But not to worry, I got you my friend. It's time to step up and bask in your brilliance, where where you'll feel lighter, more relaxed and fully in control. And I'm going to help you do that by kicking overwhelm to the curb, ditching your anxiety, and help you stop chasing those shiny objects like a distracted squirrel. Here you'll find quick, actionable steps, insightful ideas, humor to light the way and a whole lot of zen. So grab your coffee and buckle up buttercup, it's time to get you feeling calm and centered AF. Hey, if you're enjoying this podcast and you would like some more resources, including live videos, then head on over to my Facebook Calm and Centered AF community. Just go to facebookcom. Forward slash groups. Forward slash calm and centered AF. I look forward to seeing you there and when you join, please say hello. And when you join, please say hello, welcome.

Speaker 1: 2:47

I am Cheryl, your host. I recently went to a convention, back in July, and I met some amazing people, but I also met one gentleman named Dr Richard Hill, and he taught a course or a class that I took. Have you ever met anybody in your life who makes you want to be a better person? It's happened to me with a few people, and he happens to be one of them. He's a delightful man, very intelligent, very approachable, funny, and he has a curiosity within his soul. It is a true curiosity about life and about things. So what I want to ask you because this is the first podcast episode and it's always hard to come up with a topic, but what I want to ask you as you start listening to this podcast episodes, you're going to hear things that are going to sound weird. They're going to sound outright ridiculous, they're going to sound like a waste of your time, but what I want you to do instead is to be curious, is to drop the part of your brain that goes nope, or I know this or this won't work for me, and instead I want you to get curious. I'm going to link Dr Richard Hill's information in the show notes and it's going to be easy to find because it's going to be episode 01. But I want to read something a very short, tiny paragraph from his book, and I'll also link his book to the show notes as well. It's called the Practitioner's Guide to Marrying Hands, and marrying hands is a whole other thing I'll talk about at another time.

Speaker 1: 4:30

The curious mindset stimulates movement and interest toward things. An exploratory, interested, wondering mind, an openness to learning, heightened focus and attention, a sense of pleasure and purposefulness. See when you were curious, again your interest is piqued. There's heightened awareness. You're leaning in. There's a bit of excitement that is behind you because you want to know. Part of you needs to know. People who are lifelong learners are curious. People who are happy and outgoing tend to be curious because they want to meet people and they want to engage and they want to explore and know and share. But curiosity is openness, it's receptive. It means that you're taking a situation like when you meet somebody for the first time and instead of going yeah, hi, you're like hey, hi, who are you? And you really want to know that person. And that is curious. That's curiosity.

Speaker 1: 5:46

Dr Hill breaks down curiosity into three different types, and the first one is there is a curiosity for information, and what he talks about is that the moment you get an answer from something you're seeking, there is a pleasurable reward in the form of your endorphins, like a puff of endorphins, as he puts it. This means that when you're seeking an answer to your question and you get it, there can sometimes be this ah, there it is, and your brain likes that. It's kind of exciting to your brain. That's the first type. The second type of curiosity is curiosity for play. Now, this is what I love. We want to change our brain by playing with it, because the brain is actually very childlike, very childlike. So what he puts down is that play is an incredibly important and useful tool to shift people out of a negative state and into a more receptive, engaged and integrating state.

Speaker 1: 6:55

With play, as he goes on to talk about, you lose some of the boundaries. With play, you lose some of your rules. With play, you're allowed to express and experience and be inquisitive, and there is also that sense of wanting information. It all kind of ties in together, and when you start listening to this podcast, I want you to approach it, as I like to say with childlike wonder If you were a five-year-old, how would you be engaging and listening? You'd be like why? And your eyes would be wide and you'd be really excited, like maybe they're being told a story.

Speaker 1: 7:34

Okay, the last type of curiosity he talks about is curiosity for possible meanings, and this causes people, as he puts it, to step out of the now and out of our held past beliefs and into a new state of being. He continued to say, and this changes the mindset, the brain state and neuro biochemicals, even in somebody who has depression. Now again, I'm not a doctor, I am a former nurse, but I don't do any kind of diagnosing. So if you think you have depression, go see a medical person. Okay, done with that rant. This helps you to release a fear of the future, it helps you to let go of your past because all of a sudden you start to find meaning and our brain is driven by finding meaning. We're always trying to find the reason behind why we do or what we have or where we're going. So when you open yourself to curiosity to help you find the meaning of something, and when you find it, it's exhilarating, it's almost as if everything finally makes sense.

Speaker 1: 8:49

So the main reason why I want to talk about curiosity for the first episode is because I want to set you up to keeping an open mind more than anything else. And if I share a technique, I want you to be curious and try it, but not only once, because a lot of things don't work the first time around. I mean, come on when you were a child and got on a bicycle, did time around? I mean, come on when you were a child and got on a bicycle, did you just, you know, ride off into the sunset? No, you had training wheels and you flopped over and you may have scraped your knee, and if you were of my age, you didn't even wear a freaking helmet. But I really want you to open up to some of the things I'm suggesting, because think about this If this one thing which is called curiosity helps to decrease that overwhelm, reduce your stress and get rid of your anxiety, isn't it worth it? Oh, and another benefit from curiosity when you're an intuitive person, it will help you to expand your intuition.

Speaker 1: 9:58

I want you to do something with me. A simple, little exercise. The first thing I want you to do is take a big, deep breath in hold for the count of two and exhale twice as long, and do that again for me. Take a big deep breath in hold for the count of two and exhale twice as long, and do that again for me. Take a big, deep breath in Hold for the count of two and exhale twice as long. Now I want you just to shake your body. Shake your body like a five-year-old, put some gusto into it. For gosh sakes, don't just sit there flicking a finger and don't flip me off, but just give a shake. You know that helps you to release some of that energy, especially if you feel anxious. But that breathing and shaking is something you find that I do on almost every video that I host, because it just sets the tone. And I'm doing it at the end here because I want to leave you with that, and this is something you can do throughout the tone. And I'm doing it at the end here because I want to leave you with that and this is something you can do throughout the day. It's very simple, but it's just a tiny little mindset shift just to get you prepared with whatever is going on in your life.

Speaker 1: 11:04

I thank you for listening to this first episode and I will see you next week. Bye-bye, I thank you for listening all the way to the end of this podcast. I appreciate you more than you know. For more information and access to show notes, go on over to calmandcenteredaf. com, and if you're looking to work with me one-to-one, you can find the information there as well. Remember, once you clear your mind and become calm and centered, you can find the information there as well. Remember, once you clear your mind and become calm and centered, you can create the life you desire, and I'm here to support you in doing just that.