Hello and welcome to practicing human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Musgara, and if you're listening to this episode on November 27th, 2019, and you're from the States,

I wish you a happy Thanksgiving.

And if you're listening to this on any other day, or do not celebrate Thanksgiving. And if you're listening to this on any other day, or do not celebrate Thanksgiving,

I wish you a day of connection, goodness, and presence.

Since this is Thanksgiving for me, I'd like to use this episode as an opportunity to share its sentiment, or at least a way that we can hold and embody the sentiment of Thanksgiving. We'll get to that shortly, but first

let's settle in with the bells. When I ring them, bring your full presence and focus to the sound, as if this were the most important

thing in the world right now. earlier today I was talking to my partner about this episode, discussing what the topic could be and how to communicate it.

Obviously, since it's Thanksgiving,

the low-hanging fruit is a topic on gratitude.

And we both have degrees in positive psychology

and know a lot about the science and practice of gratitude,

focusing on what's going well, the different forms of savoring,

and even reflecting on everything you can be grateful for in your life.

And all of this is good, it's incredibly important,

but something about it just felt surface to me.

It's predictable in a lot of ways.

And we all sort of understand the importance of gratitude on some level or at least that kind of

gratitude where we focus on what is good. So in my wrestling with how to talk

about this she asked me what do you hope listeners could experience today? How do you

hope they could orient to their life? And I reflected on that. And what came up is, my hope is that however the day

unfolds for you, that you could glimpse

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