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

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about building your life from wholeness.

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

Okay. So the reason many of us don't build a life from wholeness or from alignment is because we don't have a reference point for what that feels like internally.

That is, what is the resonance that is serving as the backboard from which we are

making decisions and taking action? It's one of the interesting things that will start to

develop with a meditation practice, especially when you are doing heart-opening practice,

is you start to fill yourself up from the inside out. You go from kind of being squirmy in your own

skin to settling more and more and more deeply into the spaciousness

of true self. And as you do that, it becomes a reward unto itself just to simply be. You can feel the comfort of just being. You can feel the stability of

resting in your heart. And from this deeper place, there is a natural, it's like a soft wellspring of joy, contentment

that envelops you like a warm blanket.

It's really a beautiful thing as it starts to develop and to deepen. And what's interesting is

once you're more connected to that, you become very sensitive. Or let's say you can see much more

clearly all the things that aren't that. You can see how the energy of the people

placing pattern doesn't actually feel good, how it pulls you out of that place. It requires you to

go up into your mind or to disconnect from yourself. You can see how

doing something like lying or manipulating another person also has a particular resonance to it

that will disconnect you from this place. And that starts to feel really icky and might even

trigger like a disgust response. And so there's a natural repulsion to certain behaviors,

actions, patterns, and even cravings that starts to develop, as well as a natural magnetism

that emerges pulling you deeper and deeper into this place that feels most you, this warm blanket of true self, of an open heart. And it's just so clear

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