Hello, and welcome to our first lecture on guided meditation techniques. This is where we get into the real magic of guided meditation because we can get into some deep healing and some really powerful creativity. Now, each of the techniques that I'm going to introduce there are scripts in the summary, so feel free to use those scripts at any time. But I also encourage you, as you get more and more experience under your belt, is to come up with your own scripts because when you use your own words, it carries your own vibe and can make you a more effective and more powerful meditation leader and healer. So the technique I'm going to introduce today is called the curious mind. And the curious mind is very useful for people who are just being introduced to guided meditation as healing for the first time can be a very powerful technique which helps someone detached from their emotional state or their mind to gain new perspective and some peace.

So how you use the curious mind technique is that you'll talk to your audience before you begin the meditation. If it's a one on one, you'll let them talk and find them maybe find the starting point before you begin the meditation. If you're in a group, you're just going to introduce them to the topic, then you're going to take them into a lightly relaxed state. And then using your transition to go into more deeply relaxed state, you'll find the starting point or the emotion or the thought that they want to work with. And then you will begin the curious mind technique. And so what this does, is that you'll have your audience call their emotion or thought or belief or whatever it may be is disturbing them or is making their life uncomfortable.

And then you're going to have an experience that emotion with a curious mind. So they're just going to call up say they're feeling anger, for instance, you're going to have them that experience that anger with curiosity, like isn't that interesting that I'm experiencing anger. So what that does is it helps shift their their perception Have that emotion. So all of a sudden, they're not angry, but they're only experiencing anger. And so you allow them to experience that with that new perception. And what that does, it creates a gap or a detachment between them, and the thought, the emotion or the belief.

And in that space, some real healing can be done or some release can happen also. And for some people you work with, that may be all they need. It might be just great for a group experience to have that detached sort of experience. And then if you want, you can layer another technique on top of it or after it, but that's only with a little more experience. So let's go visit the sample meditation of a curious mind and I'll see you at the meditation