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The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

Episode #204 Free Your Mind: Getting Curious

The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

Dr. Thema

Health & Fitness

51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Thema describes curiority and shares the benefits of opening our minds. She then prepares concrete strategies to becoming more curious, more open. Intro and Outro music by Joy Jones. Opening reading by Howard Thurman. To learn more check out Dr. Thema's new book Matters of the Heart.

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0:00.0

Welcome home

0:03.0

Welcome home, cojourners. I'm glad you're here for another episode of the Homecoming

0:24.8

podcast. I'm Dr. Tama, your facilitator on the journey back home to yourself. I'm a licensed

0:32.5

psychologist, an ordained minister, and a sacred artist, and I welcome all of you here. We're going to start

0:41.3

this episode, as we do most episodes, with a reading. And this is an excerpt from the book,

0:48.5

Deep is the Hunger by Howard Thurman. Deep is the hunger. And I am reading from section 17 on page 87.

1:00.8

The most difficult thing about learning to ride a bicycle is to keep one's eyes away from the

1:07.3

obstacles, such as stones or bits of wood that may be directly in one's path.

1:13.6

The inclination almost always to fix one's attention on the object so as to be sure to guide around

1:22.6

it. Alas, the error. The surest way to guarantee that one will run over the object is to keep one's eyes

1:32.2

focused on it. There is a sound principle here. An idea held steadily on a point of focus in the mind

1:41.0

tends to express itself in action. This reminds us that we concentrate on the

1:48.7

obstacles solely at our peril. Wise words, where your treasure is, there is your heart also.

1:58.8

Obviously, if we are to escape becoming evil in our behavior, we must bring

2:04.1

our minds to bear upon the good and hold them there on dead center until our lives are organized

2:12.9

on that basis. We are living organisms. We are not things. We become like the things we love.

2:25.1

How wonderful, because it places so large a share of our destiny in our own hands.

2:36.0

Thank you so much, Howard Thurman, for that reminder for us to consider where we put our focus

2:45.3

and where we put our energy.

2:47.9

This is an important framing as we focus today on free your mind,

2:55.5

the gift of curiosity. Free your mind, the gift of curiosity. And so I want to encourage all of us

3:07.3

to consider the gift of thinking outside of the box,

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