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Hello and welcome back to Radio Headspace. It's Sam here. I hope you're having a great Tuesday.

So I like to work out, and I often partake in guided runs that motivate me to reach certain

endurance or sprinting goals. And during a recent run, the instructor said something that

fueled, inspired, and resonated deeply with me. She said, you are made for hard things.

Maybe it was the runner's high, but in that moment I thought about the strength of the human spirit,

and our ability to survive experiences like childbirth and scaling mountain peaks.

No matter what the challenge is, luckily, we have some inner resources that allow us to take

them on, and one of the most powerful things that can help us is our curiosity.

So how do we use our curiosity to handle the tough tasks of our lives?

Well, it starts with observing our urges and patterns. Instead of reacting to something

impulsively, we can get curious about the experience itself. And from there, we can explore

what we're going through with more clarity. For example, a few weeks ago, I was in a situation

that sparked a feeling of fear. And it would take a whole other episode to get into the details,

but it was one of those existential moments when you realized that your life might be halfway

through, and that people you love will eventually pass away. Tough stuff to hit you in the middle of

the day. And when hit with thoughts like these, our initial reaction might be to try and avoid

or limit contact with the thoughts. And that's pretty natural.

Certain emotions like fear make us want to search for a cause of the fear for something that we

can point our finger at and say, yes, that's it. That's the thing I need to get rid of.

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