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 going to talk about surrender

and expansion.

More to come on that in a moment.

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

Okay, so I'm going to share a simple equation.

It says, pain plus surrender equals expansion.

Pain plus surrender equals expansion.

This isn't an equation you're going to find in a math book.

It's one that has come from my own experience of working with internal, just comfort, and

what happens when I resist and what happens when I let go.

And we experience pain, the usual tendency is to resist, suppress, and brace.

I think there's a time and place for this in the sense that sometimes it is just a very

normal, necessary part of our journey.

We need to fight before we can release.

But this as a primary strategy, it reinforces patterns of internal tension, and it also

strengthens our ego's resolve to stay in control.

When you meet your pain with soft awareness, however, you invite your ego to surrender,

which creates acceptance, trust, space, and expansion.

Little piece, deep piece, does not come from the ego staying in control.

It only comes from this deeper surrender, because the reality is that nothing is fully

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