Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cori and mascara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about how

moving toward the thing that you're most fearing or don't want to touch is often the way

that we get to experience a totally new transformation and the thing that we most are looking

for.

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

So I'd like to share a poem with you called Unconditional by Jennifer Payne Wellwood.

As always, as I share these poems, just sit back and receive the words, you don't need

to interpret it in any particular way.

That's the beauty of poetry.

Let it land for you however it does at this point in your life.

This is unconditional.

Calling to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere, turning to face my fear,

I meet the warrior who lives within.

Opening to my loss, I gain the embrace of the universe.

Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end.

Each condition I flee from pursues me, each condition I welcome transforms me and becomes

itself transformed into its radiant jewel like essence.

I bow to the one who has made it so who has crafted this master game to play it is pure

delight to honor its form true devotion.

That again was the poem Unconditional by Jennifer Payne Wellwood.

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