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.

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link in the show notes or go to Coreymascarat.com forward slash heart. In today's episode,

we are going to talk about how to reclaim your life. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay. So here's one of the biggest and perhaps the most surprising thing that I've learned about happiness over the years. And it's taken a while to see. But when the heart

is closed, it will convince you that there are many things in your life that need to be fixed

before you can be happy.

Partners who need to change and be better,

people who need to be different,

work that needs to look a certain way,

the external environment that needs to shift,

and it will feel very compelling it will truly feel like no

of course i can't be happy until this changes which is why this is one of the most tricky

traps for us as it relates to our own well-being.

And it's not to say that the external world doesn't have an impact, but the way the mind

interprets it and what it thinks is possible or not possible until something changes is very, very distorted.

This is specifically what the walls around our heart do. They are protective patterns. They are

specifically designed to see something externally that's not right and go well

i'm not going to be open i'm not going to be okay until that changes that that's the very reason

they exist they came in and they guarded you and they say hey don't don't open up. Don't give yourself. Don't be okay until they shift,

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