Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Kory Miskara and today we're going to talk about fully experiencing your experience.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So one thing I vividly remember from my time on retreat. This has been true for any retreat, but specifically

in Burma, which was an extended retreat, was that there was an ability to quickly and fully experience whatever

was moving through my mind and body.

Thoughts, yes, but more specifically

the physical experiences, emotions, physical pains, and sensations.

In the early stages of that retreat and the practice,

a lot of it felt like it lingered.

But as my awareness and presence got sharper and more able to

fully hold and envelop experience, those experiences were more deeply experienced and because of that were more

quickly integrated and released.

Now, you might think that you don't feel or experience much in a monastery,

but it's not true. There are still a lot of little activating events and a lot of

different emotional experiences that come up that range from deep peace, joy, gratitude, to deep sadness, despair, loneliness, fear, and grief.

So you really get a front row seat to the full spectrum of the human

experience when you're paying that close attention to your experience. And if

there was an experience that was lingering for a while, a sense of stress, a sense of sadness, a sense of fear, I slowly

connecting with it,

experiencing it and making contact with it.

That actually feels key. Making contact with it. That actually feels key, making contact with it, touching the experience.

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