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 Mascara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about moments of completeness.

More to come on that in a moment.

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

Okay. So on some level, we're all looking for these moments of feeling complete.

We've talked about this on the podcast in different ways, moving toward a sense of integration, a sense of wholeness, a sense of resolution after a period of drama.

In fact, a lot of times we create our own drama and problems and issues just so that we can continue to have this process of solving them, moving toward resolution,

pursuing this completeness, a feeling like

something is done, something deep in us can rest. And from a contemplative perspective,

you know, different meditation traditions, Buddhist tradition tradition you could even perceive this sense of

completeness as nirvana the conditioning that is just running a cycle of do this figure it out grasp

release grasp again release attachment, just to cycle over and

over and over, tension and release, want this, don't want this, push, pull, push, pull.

It's the entire source of agitation and what we would refer to as suffering and the sense of completeness

no longer needing to engage in that cycle

to reinforce that cycle

with some sense of there being a refuge

in the next fixing

that we could perceive as a form of liberation, nirvana.

And this is something that we can start to touch into in a meditation practice,

where we just drop into a stillness with the flow of our conditioning.

And conditioning referring to the momentum of thought, emotion, sensation, sensory experience, all sort of coming together, creating something that feels pleasant, something that feels unpleasant,

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