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 how meditation

helps you feel good.

More to come on that in a moment.

Let's settle in together with the Sound of the Bells.

Okay, so I wrote this post on Instagram the other day, and I'll share it here.

It's a bit cheeky.

I said, everything is easier when you feel good.

To feel good, just start meditating.

And to meditate, just stop trying to feel good.

I told you it was a bit cheeky.

So there's a handful of things here worth addressing, and I'll address two.

The first is the line that says, everything is easier when you feel good.

This is, I think, just a truth.

When you're feeling more positive emotion, when you're feeling more ease, when you've

been just chemical or monobalance is an alignment in a way that makes you feel good, life

becomes easier.

You feel more optimistic.

Notice that where they feel less problematic, you tend to be more creative, see more solutions.

So in general, I am a proponent of feeling good.

I think a lot of times when it comes to mindfulness and people who are getting familiar with mindfulness,

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