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 Miscara.

Before getting into the podcast, just want to share two things.

The first, after yesterday's episode titled Will Focusing on Pain Attract More Pain?

There were a lot of questions about how to hold a difficult

experience rather than getting caught up in rumination about that experience. So just want to

let you know I will be working on a podcast episode to address that probably this week.

The second thing is, since I've asked in previous episodes after I was doing

longer podcasts for feedback from people of if that was okay, I've heard from quite a few of you that

you actually really like the longer episodes. And sometimes when the episodes are shorter,

there's a longing for them to be longer.

So that inquiry started with me just making sure that you were okay with longer episodes periodically,

less so to set a precedent that every episode was going to be 30 plus minutes.

I do have a one-year-old,

and this is one facet of many different teachings that I offer, and to put together a 30-minute podcast does take much longer than 30 minutes. So unfortunately, that cannot be the case

every day, especially when this is a daily podcast. So just wanted to

set some expectations there. I think most podcasts will average between 10 to 15 minutes. Some will be

shorter. This episode will probably be shorter. And periodically periodically there will be longer ones, especially

when it's a topic that warrants that. But I appreciate your enthusiasm and feedback and hoping

that having a range of different lengths fits different needs and different appetites,

which can vary day by day. All right.

In this episode, I am going to share a mantra I came across recently that you can

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