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This is episode number 264.

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Hello, all my dear friends.

How are you today?

Well, I'm really excited because part of what I'm doing is I've done a new three-part series on urges. And I know so many

of you are so interested in them because basically what I've been talking about is like,

for instance, what is an urge? And an urge is when you feel something physically in your body

that makes you feel like you urgently have to do something. Now, the problem with this urgent

feeling inside of you is that if it leads to a positive result, it's not a problem.

But most of the times the things that I'm talking about is that these urges lead to negative

results. And specifically what we're talking about in these three parts of the podcast

is the whole idea of eating when you're not hungry

and wondering what the heck is going on inside of you. Why can't you control yourself? Why can't you

do this? And so I've been using Pema Shodron's book, Taking the Leap in these last three episodes,

to talk about urges and to give you different examples of how urges work.

So in my first podcast on this, which was 262, I talked about the whole idea of comparing

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