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 Muscara.

Before going into today's episode, I just want to share we have a very exciting new announcement.

My new membership platform called Practicing Human.

Yes, it's the same name as this podcast.

This will also be the name of the new teaching community where I will host all my different teachings.

And one of the foundational elements of that will be for the first time a membership subscription offering.

I'll share more details about that at the end of this podcast, but I wanted to put it on your radar

because this has been a long time in the works, comes with a desktop version and a mobile app, lots of exciting things.

So more to come on that in a moment.

Before going into it in today's episode, we are going to talk about the relationship between letting go and feeling out of control.

More to come on that too in a moment.

But first, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

One of the things I've noticed recently is that

one of the reasons I resist letting go or this feeling of just like surrendering and touching the deepest truth that is here,

which might be a pain, I don't want to feel, which might be a reality, I don't want to confront.

Maybe I'm still holding on to some idea of the way I want things to be or trying to protect myself

or an idea of my identity that I'm trying to uphold.

All these different things can actually prevent us from letting go and just surrendering into the truth of what's here now.

And as I feel into that for myself, and I circle the edges of it of like, oh, this is what a letting go would be like or what it would take.

It immediately has this feeling of everything being out of control.

I'll immediately go into, sometimes it feels like an abyss, but just like, I don't know what's over there.

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