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.

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.

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.

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 develop a sense

of self-esteem, a sense of self-worth, loving kindness toward ourselves, etc.

But I really want to simplify it here and give you a practice that really cuts to the

heart of this, we could say, which is that feeling of not being good enough.

Is it 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.

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