DWQA QuestionsCategory: Limiting BeliefsIsn’t curiosity itself a form of doubt? And doubt a form of curiosity? Is it true that if one is suppressed, the other is also suppressed to a significant degree? How are doubt and curiosity related to the feeling of guilt? What can Creator tell us?
Nicola Staff asked 11 months ago
What we can tell you is these expressions of inner disquiet, an unresolved state of being and awareness, are not similar except to share the quality of uncertainty. That is the connecting link, with respect to the kind of vibration they represent, an indeterminant status. The mind seeks certainty in varying degrees of intensity depending on what the stakes are perceived to be. So someone who is quite complacent will seem quite uncaring and may well be oblivious to things going on around them. That state of being, of great insensitivity, is a dulling of the senses and a lowering of divine alignment regardless of the feelings within of relative calm. Like the famous saying, "Ignorance is bliss," the absence of uncertainty is a state of pleasurable existence by default. Your wanting to tie this in with guilt is not a given but may well end up happening because when people are reacting to doubt, in particular, that uncertainty may well keep them from taking action when action is gravely needed to right a wrong or to protect the self or loved ones in some respect and, if ignored for too long, can lead to tragedy, and then remorse upon reflection, and guilty feelings about not stepping up and taking on the challenge and knowing what to do. So this will invite self-judgment, it is human nature, as a self-correcting mechanism for that to happen, at least to some extent. This helps to keep a person honest about who they are with respect to higher standards and morality. If there is no grounding in these foundational principles, it will be much harder for a person to be in divine alignment because one does need a compass and to know where one is going, both. If there is no moral education, there will likely be an absence of worthwhile goals, because a person will be adrift in their life without guidance, and sorting out good from bad will be uncertain and flawed. Much will depend on individual life experience, so such a person will go through life learning things the hard way, and this is also an example of why holding doubt can get one into trouble. In general, curiosity is a good thing, but there must be always reasoned judgment accompanying you wherever you go and whatever you are engaged in. So you can temper curiosity with some wisdom to help seek a happy medium in satisfying the curiosity, but not at the expense of overindulgence in unpleasantness or taking reckless chances, simply wanting to see what is on the other side of something, or wanting to know the gory details and then sticking one's nose in others' business and getting slapped for it, and so on. So these states of being have an emotional accompaniment oftentimes and are appropriate as, in a sense, guardrails to let you know when you are in arrears or lacking in some respect. Curiosity is a spur to growth and learning and, for the most part, a good thing. Doubt is a safety mechanism because it will help steer you away from unwise risk-taking, to not follow bad advice, and that can pay great dividends. But if the doubt is too fear‑based, or built upon prejudice, it will simply not represent something good at all but provides a misdirection, and a limitation, because it will lead to a missed opportunity for learning and growth to take place. So the goal is always growth and the gaining of wisdom to have good judgment and discernment of what serves the self and what will serve the soul.