Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Miscarra, and in today's episode we are going to talk about shifting

patterns.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so many of us have patterns that we want to change.

One of the things I see in many spaces, personal growth spaces, psychology spaces, when it comes

to trying to change patterns, is an over-emphasis or what I would consider an over-emphasis

on the mind, shifting our thoughts and beliefs.

Of course, this is important to an extent, but one of the things I think it can miss or

at least under value or underestimate is the reality that thoughts are not the final

thing that actually trigger behavior.

What thoughts do is they trigger emotions and sensations in the body, and it's that

somatic experience that drives the behavior.

The truth of that, you might need to investigate for yourself through paying attention to your

own experience.

But chances are what you will see is that you have a thought that moves to the mind that

says, I want that, I want that cookie, I want to do that, I want to talk to that person,

and it's not that thought that drives you to that action, it's what that thought brings

up in the body, the chemical cocktail, hormonal cocktail that it triggers and it creates

a feeling and then that feeling pulls you or drives you or fears you away from something

or towards something.

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