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.

First, just a quick reminder, this is the last chance to get the opening the heart course before the price permanently increases by $300 as we reposition it into a core program within my ecosystem.

So I do not discount my core programs. So this is the last opportunity to get it at this

price point. That deal closes on February 20th at midnight. The link to learn more is in the show notes,

or you could go directly to corymiscara.com forward slash heart. And in this episode,

I'm going to walk you through the process of what it means to open the heart and how we actually do it.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. So I questioned when I was first creating this course, whether or not to call it opening the heart, because I think when people hear that phrase, they tend to think it more has to do with just being

more open, loving, kind, compassionate, all of which does come downstream from an open heart. But the work we're doing

in this program is much deeper and also much more universal than those particular things.

Because my direct experience of the ways that the heart space closes, how I've learned to identify and

feel the heart space and what it feels like for that to be shut down, really relates to any of

the patterns and beliefs that we've developed that have taught us it's not okay and not safe to be honest, to be open,

to be ourselves, all the patterns that have developed that we often condemn and become our

identity and our personality, the people pleaser, the perfectionist, the overworker, the part of us that feels victimized,

the part of us that gets caught in judgment, an identity of being rigid, controlling,

hyper-independent, afraid of commitment, the pattern of living more in our heads and not in our bodies, getting

caught and overthinking. Really, any pattern that has become a defining feature of your life

can be viewed as a wall around the heart, a guarding of sorts.

And these become the beliefs, the emotions, the behaviors that we employ to get needs met

on a simple level in order to just get through life, in order to feel safe,

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