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 Miscarra, and in today's

episode we're going to talk about a process for getting in touch with your

deeper desires. More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together

with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so the other day in my meditation practice, I was noticing that as my mind

settled, I was getting more in touch with a deeper sense of my life's

desires, less of the superficial desires or what we could call superficial

desires, such as like, I want to eat that thing right now, or I want to go to

the bathroom. That's more like a biological need. But more just like the

general craving of the mind that is just happening in each moment, want this,

like this. Give me more of that. That is important, right, going to the bathroom,

eating food important, but isn't necessarily like the deeper desire, like the

deeper in a compass of your life, the deeper wisdom that is informing, you

know, what is next for me? What do I truly want? And one of the things I was

seeing is that as the mind softens its grip around the more superficial desires,

we become more attuned to our deeper desires. And I want to talk about a

five-step process for dropping into that in your own life, if that is something

that is calling to you. So the first is very simple, sit and be still in

order to get in touch with what I'm going to be talking about. It does require

equality of stillness so that we're not quickly reacting to the momentary

impulses that are always moving through the mind. So we just create the

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