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, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about the importance of knowing your no in order to know your yes.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. So if you're a human being, chances are you have to make decisions in life. Some of them

are easier decisions. Like, okay, what am I going to have for breakfast today? Am I going to

shower or not? Sometimes these can be hard decisions. But other times we have more

significant decisions. Should I take this job or not? Should I stay in this relationship or not?

And these can be really hard to understand and to get a clear yes and a no on. And I think a lot of

torment for people is often the space of ambiguity,

not sure if something is a yes or a no.

And I think when we're really trying and pushing for a yes,

we tend to focus primarily on all the things that we like about the scenario

and really tell ourselves all the goodness about

this thing, this person, this opportunity, and convince ourselves of it. And it's not like it's

false. We're just really playing up the good side of this decision, which we should know if we're going to go into

something. And then as it relates to the downsides of it, we might touch on it, but not necessarily fully

or not always really go into that fully, because maybe there's a fear that if we go too deep into it,

well then we won't be connecting fully to the yes or will scare us ourselves out of the yes.

Or it just doesn't feel relevant if we're really trying to tell ourselves that this is going to be

a good thing for us. However, if we don't

allow ourselves to fully go into our nose and really embody the felt sense of why this might not be

good for us, the subconscious perception of what this could take away from us, the freedom it could

take away from us, the freedom it could take away from

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