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 Miscarra, and in today's episode,

we're going to talk about one of the things that shifts when you start to like yourself.

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

So, I made this post on Twitter the other day, where I said,

an interesting thing happens when you start to like yourself.

You no longer need all the things you thought you needed to be happy.

See how that one lands in your system if you resonate with the truth of it in any way.

If you have followed me long enough, you know, I'm not anti-consumerism.

Well, I'm anti-Western American consumerism, but I'm not anti-accumulating things or material items,

and not even anti-different forms of luxury and pursuing desires you have around attainment.

I think there's a way that that can be done in alignment with

what your particular ego structure and system needs in this world or wants in this world.

And there can be a deep exploration around accumulation, having things,

feeling a desire for something, and getting it, and seeing how that resonates in your system.

And, you know, all of that from the basic needs of shelter, food, to then things like

vacation, clothing, and different levels of all of that.

So, I am not even know I have some history as a renunciate monk.

I'm no longer a renunciate monk, and to be in the world means to be around things and to be

around things means to have to be in relationship to them and to accumulate them to an extent.

So, we're starting from the perspective that I am not anti-things.

However, we can still look at this quote and examine some of the truth of how I think for many of

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