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.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about that feeling of not being enough and a practice you can use to work with it.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay. So this is going to be a simple episode with a simple practice.

One of the common themes I hear for people, my students in general, is just this feeling of unworthiness

that can arise, a feeling of not being good enough. And I've talked about this in different forms

in different episodes and there are a number of

different practices and strategies we can use in relationship to it to develop a sense of

self-esteem, sense of self-worth, loving kindness toward ourselves, etc. But I really want to simplify it here and give you a practice to,

that really cuts to the heart of this, we could say,

which is that feeling of not being good enough.

It's just a feeling. The raw experience of it without story or past ideas or why

it's there or what it means or how long it's going to last, whatever, all of that extra could be

true, but it's just extra separate from the actual experience. The actual experience is just this feeling.

And so often when that feeling of not being enough arises,

it triggers that cascade of thoughts and ideas and what this means and how long it will last.

And it makes it often a bigger thing than it has to be.

And so from like a meditative perspective, especially a Burmese meditative perspective,

the traditions that I was practicing, they would just say, you know, it's just another arising, just like a thought

moving through your mind, just like any emotion moving through your mind, just like a sensation.

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