A Simple Hack to Feel Empowered

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, we continue to discuss how to work with living in the age of COVID-19. There is a simple mind trick we can use to feel more empowered in the face of difficulty and uncertainty. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's session we're going to talk about how to ask different questions to get different answers in times of difficulty.
0:19.0	More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in as we always do with the sound of the bells.
0:51.6	Okay, so in this episode will continue with the theme of working with COVID-19. Again, if you, if this is not a reality for you right now at the time of listening,
0:58.2	you can just insert any potential difficulty you might be going through or you could imagine yourself going through.
1:05.0	And in the last couple days we spoke specifically about working with the fear and anxiety as it's coming up. Just some baseline ways to
1:16.8	to reground to settle to not get completely swept away and to learn to reframe the fear and the anxiety to use it in a way that
1:29.8	could actually stretch you and allow you to expand and grow and soften rather than something
1:35.8	that immediately needs to be suppressed.
1:39.4	And so now I want to transition a bit and then instead of talking about some of the fear, the anxiety, the negatives that can come up around this,
1:50.0	which are still there and still meaningful.
1:53.0	Let's also look at what could be good, what could be positive.
1:59.0	So the questions you ask yourself in your mind are going to give you a particular set of answers.
2:07.0	So what does that look like if you start running the question in your head of how am I going to get through this or how long is this going to
2:15.8	last or even why is this happening to me or why is this happening to us as a collective?
2:24.1	You know, those questions are going to give a certain set of answers.
2:28.6	You ask those questions and now your brain is going to its job is to search for responses to those
2:35.6	questions. So if the question is why is this happening to me? Well you're
2:40.2	going to marshal all sorts of evidence to support that.
2:44.0	Or if you're just asking how long is this going to last,
2:46.6	all you're going to be thinking about
2:47.9	is how long it could potentially last.
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