Curiosity Keeps Me in My Higher Self

Hey stranger… pull up a chair, there’s something I’ve been thinking about.

I’ve started to notice something about myself.

When I’m able to access curiosity—real, open, spacious curiosity—I know I’m in my Higher Self.

Not because everything feels calm or resolved. But because something inside me has softened.

The urgency eases. The pull to fix, defend, or control loosens its grip. Curiosity arrives when I’m no longer bracing for what just happened or what might happen next.

Curiosity brings me into the present moment.

When I’m caught in the past, I’m replaying. When I’m stuck in the future, I’m bracing or planning. But curiosity doesn’t live in either place. It lives right here. It asks, What’s happening now? And in that question, my body settles and my breath deepens.

When I’m in my reactive self, curiosity disappears. I narrow. I tell familiar stories. I move quickly toward certainty. But when curiosity returns, something opens. I become available—to myself, to others, to what’s actually unfolding in front of me.

Curiosity is how my Higher Self listens.

It doesn’t rush. It doesn’t assume. It’s willing to stay with the moment a little longer. Instead of searching for meaning, it allows meaning to emerge. From this place, I don’t need answers right away. I can simply notice.

With myself, curiosity sounds like gentleness.What am I feeling right now?What’s being stirred?What might this part of me need?

With others, it sounds like presence.Help me understand.Tell me more.What’s it like for you?

When curiosity leads, I feel more aligned. More grounded. More like myself. Even when things feel uncertain, there’s a quiet trust—because I’m here, not lost in what was or what might be.

So now, when I feel overwhelmed or disconnected, I don’t ask myself to be calm or enlightened or healed.

I ask a simpler question: Can I get curious right now?

If the answer is yes, I know I’m in my Higher Self.

I know I’m present.

And I know I’m home.