Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're talking about a reflection

that will help you develop more empathy.

More to come on that in a moment.

Next, let's settle in together with a sound of the bells.

Okay, so a lot of the issues I'm seeing stem from an inability to associate into another

person's experience, and because of that we tend to other people.

We see what someone is doing.

We say, how dare they?

We associate into our own experience and go, I believe this, I believe that, I would

never do this, and it creates more division separation rather than an opportunity to move

closer to understanding.

Now, I'm not saying that we have to accept everything everyone is doing and not have opinions,

nor am I saying that we don't need to have judgments.

I think all of that is a part of being a collective and learning to live in harmony with one another,

but when we don't make some effort to understand, and we just adhere to our own opinions, our

own beliefs and mental constructs, it can keep us feeling strong in our individuality,

in our own ego, and that can create more division and subsequently less harmony, more issues.

So one of the reflections I've been playing with lately is, if I see someone acting in

a way that I disagree with or condemn or don't believe in, I've reflect on the fact that

if I were this person with the same birth into this world, the same experiences as a child,

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