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 Musgara and in today's episode we're going to talk about working with fear.

More to come on that in a moment, but first, let's settle in with the sound of the bells. goals. Okay, so, working with fear.

This is day two of what we might call the coronavirus series.

As I mentioned in yesterday's episode, given that this is the reality of what's going on at the time of recording,

I'm going to make these episodes in alignment with what is most alive for people listening right now.

But if you're also listening many months down the road or years down the road, I want these

topics to also be relevant to you. So even if this

particular context doesn't feel resonant at the time at the moment see how you could filter it through something that would feel similar.

And since we are still in the early stages of what's going to happen with COVID-19 and every day something

something new is arising. I mean I'm here in Palo Alto right now and where essentially on lockdown mandatory, what's it called

self-sheltering or sheltering at home, essentially a quarantine other than for essentials like

going to the grocery store or medical stuff.

And that's for three weeks.

So that's a new development and all of this just keeps coming out each day.

And I know different people are going to have different responses to this based on their situation,

based on dependence you might have, family, how many children, your job, how this is affecting you financially all of this will condition a different response for some people this could actually feel like a bit of a

Vacation or relaxation. I think that might be more in the minority.

But for a lot of people, this is very significant.

There's a lot of uncertainty. and the big thing still coming up as this becomes

more and more serious is just fear, fear and anxiety.

So I want to speak to some of that today. We talked yesterday. If you didn't listen to yesterday's episode, I do suggest that just five ways to work with that initial response that arises in a very practical

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