Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about how to work with a difficult issue,

specifically through the lens of a practice by Dr. Rick Hansen from his book,

Neurodarma. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together

with the sound of the bells. The Okay, so I've been reading a new book by Dr. Rick Hansen called Neuroderma, which I highly recommend.

If you're not familiar with Rick's work, he's written a number of other best-selling books,

including Heartwiring Happiness and Buddha's brain.

He really talks about the intersection between neuroscience, psychology, meditation, Buddhism,

really fascinating person and wonderful human being.

And one of the things I wanted to share with you from his book is a three-part practice called

letting be letting go and letting in and this is a practice that you can utilize

when you're feeling really any experience but in particular

a difficult experience and I'll walk you through what these stages are like.

Now this is something you can do in the moment. walk you're through what these stages are like.

Now this is something you can do in the moment,

you know, as you're going about your day,

but it's probably best,

especially in the beginning to do as a dedicated practice.

And so let's say you're working with something difficult,

you're experiencing something difficult.

The first thing to do is to let be.

And for this, you might just start by being present to something in your body,

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