Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I am your host Corey Miskara tuning in today from Melbourne, Australia.

Shout out to anyone from Melbourne or Australia.

It's great to be here.

Today, we're going to be talking about

how to turn everything into a meditation and why it might be the key to getting through

some very difficult experiences and also very triggering experiences.

More to come on that in a moment, but first, let's tune in to the idea of turning real life situations into a meditation practice is something I've been practicing for, I don't know, the last several months.

At least I've been more intentional with it the last several months.

And I've found it to be quite exciting for shifting my

relationship to things I'm going through, especially difficult or frustrating

experiences and I've been excited to make a podcast episode on it.

To open this up, let's start by looking at what meditation is.

Obviously we did a whole episode on this, I believe it was

episode three, so if you want to go back you could explore in more depth what

meditation is, but in general it's this set period of time

where we're choosing very intentionally

to be present to, to relax into,

and to work through whatever arises during five minutes 10

minutes 20 minutes whatever that set period of time is so if you're sitting there

on your meditation cushion or in your chair,

and you get some discomfort that comes up in the body,

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