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 following your nose. More to come on that in a

moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so in this episode I want to speak to the person who is confused, person

who is trying hard to get it right to make a difficult decision to do what's best.

We have all these different parts of us that are trying to figure out how to

navigate this life and the different events that come up. Things related to our

work, our relationships, our passions, and then in general just how can I live a

happy fulfilling life? It's complicated. Well, complicated in the sense that we

often feel like we have competing needs and if I choose one thing, I'm going to

let down another person or let down the opportunity to pursue that other

thing and which one's more meaningful to me? How do I know? And it's just a lot.

I mean, it's really a lot at times. I often talk about some of these moments

where it feels like so much as initiations. When we're just brought to our

knees, we surrender our previous ideas of how to navigate these things. Then

there's space for something new to emerge, a deeper wisdom and intuitive

guidance, or the part of you that is less controlling or playing out scripts

and patterns that we could say is the deepest part of you. Part of you that has

a knowing for what to do now that is beyond the conditioned thoughts and

emotions and traumas. And so, you know, these times of confusion, difficult

experiences, I do think are gifts. We don't even have to phrase them as gifts

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