How to Simplify Your Growth

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, we talk about the power of practicing what you want to develop, and how sometimes, it's as simple as inclining your mind toward what you want, over and over.

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0:00.0	Hello and in today's episode,
0:01.0	and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Kory Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about why you become what you practice.
0:16.2	More to come on that in a moment.
0:17.8	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I'd like to start this with a post I shared recently on social media, where I said,
0:50.0	the more you practice gratitude, the more grateful you practice gratitude the more grateful you become the more you practice relaxation the more relaxed you become the more you practice mindfulness the more mindful you become. You become what you practice. Sometimes it's truly that simple.
1:12.0	So, this post was inspired by my desire to come back to some of the simplicity that is involved with personal growth and personal development.
1:27.0	I always appreciated my training in the monastery because my teacher my
1:34.2	teaching in the monastery because my teacher would just essentially say just do the practice, trust the
1:38.9	practice. If you want to be more present just practice being more present. If you want to be more present, just practice being more present.
1:44.0	If you want to understand the nature of experience, pay attention to the nature of experience.
1:50.0	If you want to cultivate loving kindness, then practice loving kindness.
1:56.2	And it was just, there was no BS.
1:59.6	It was just, if that's what you want, then do it and do more of it until you get what you want and I
2:05.8	think sometimes in the journey of our personal growth and when we're considering
2:11.7	our own past histories, making space for our own past histories,
2:16.4	our pains, our traumas, the things we're working through, and trying not to totally avoid
2:22.4	those and pretend like they don't have relevance because they do.
2:26.0	It can be this tough thing between, you know, how much do I hold all the complexity of these variables?
2:33.8	And I have to make space for this experience
2:37.2	and process this pain and then simultaneously
2:40.3	try to focus on this. And it could just feel like really big and I get that some of it is
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