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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. --Shunryu Suzuki
Cultivate An Open Mind: When people look back on their years, many of their most trying or difficult experiences became an essential turning point in their lives; hardships that they would never trade away. It seem that we are most receptive to personal growth and making big changes when faced with hardship. Knowing this, what if, when facing adversities related to Covid-19, we become a bit more curious about how we might grow from this experience? Getting curious requires releasing judgement and the belief we know how things will play out. This shift might allow you to drop old fixed views and opinions, thus inclining a more open mind and heart. Is it possible that the virus is the exact impetus our society needed to pull us together? Or maybe it's what your family needed to reconnect? Or it is what you needed to pause, reflect and reorient your way out of old habit patterns that no longer serve you? Today, learn to grow your muscle of curiosity. Try something new, listen without judgement to a friend, or ask others for their perspectives and approaches. For further inspiration, watch this short parable of a man who opened up to such a beginner’s mind.
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