Open curiosity very much sounds to me like a familiar aspect of the state that IFS calls “being in Self”: you’re curious about the nature of your parts and those of others, but you don’t have any particular agenda that you would want to achieve, and are open both to the possibility of learning more about your parts as well as to the possibility that they won’t tell you anything more on this particular session.
When facilitating someone else’s IFS session while in Self, you are also not driven by any particular goal (including wanting to “fix” them), but are also just open to exploring things together and seeing what you will find. It’s a familiar and pleasant state to me.
In my IFS training, I explicitly heard Self being described both as a curious state and as a state where you don’t have an agenda, so I don’t think that this is just my interpretation either. Also watching other people who got into a strong state of Self, definitely seemed like they were very much in a state of open curiosity.
Meditation has also once brought me into an even stronger state of Self / open curiosity than IFS work has managed to: one where I’ve been totally open to all mental and physical experience, without even the slightest need to experience particular thoughts and emotions, and have just been deeply at peace with whatever I might experience.
Open curiosity very much sounds to me like a familiar aspect of the state that IFS calls “being in Self”: you’re curious about the nature of your parts and those of others, but you don’t have any particular agenda that you would want to achieve, and are open both to the possibility of learning more about your parts as well as to the possibility that they won’t tell you anything more on this particular session.
When facilitating someone else’s IFS session while in Self, you are also not driven by any particular goal (including wanting to “fix” them), but are also just open to exploring things together and seeing what you will find. It’s a familiar and pleasant state to me.
In my IFS training, I explicitly heard Self being described both as a curious state and as a state where you don’t have an agenda, so I don’t think that this is just my interpretation either. Also watching other people who got into a strong state of Self, definitely seemed like they were very much in a state of open curiosity.
Meditation has also once brought me into an even stronger state of Self / open curiosity than IFS work has managed to: one where I’ve been totally open to all mental and physical experience, without even the slightest need to experience particular thoughts and emotions, and have just been deeply at peace with whatever I might experience.
yes, this is basically what I’m referring to