Hello my fellow practicing humans, I'm Corey Musgara and this is the practicing human

podcast where every day we're getting a little better at navigating this human life.

I am still reporting to you from Philadelphia

where it was 25 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. Way too cold for me even though I grew up in the northeast, but I'll be in California next week.

I don't know if there's anyone listening.

Well, there is from San Francisco Bay Area.

I'm looking forward to that trip and some warmer weather. So let's start

our session off with the bell today and if you're new or just tuning in, I'm going to ring these bells, very pleasant sounding

bells you'll hear in a moment.

And we're just using that as a way to anchor our attention.

So even if, maybe some of you are into meditation,

mindfulness, presence, but even if you're not,

it's not like this is something that is exclusive to a certain category of

personal development like spirituality or meditation. We're talking about training our

attention, training our focus, and training how to be more here in our lives, which is going to be foundational to any sort of change or growth we want to make. So we can view the bell listening

exercise through that lens and just see what it's like to bring your full

presence and focus to the sound all the way until that split second moment

where you can't hear it anymore. It happens in a micro moment. So see if you can get

as close to it as possible. Let's go. Well, great job. Hope your day is going well today. All right, as I like to say, I hope your day is going well, however your day is going, but I do also hope it's going well even though we are cultivating

kind of mind that is not so attached to things needing to go a particular way. It is still nice

when they do go the way we kind of want them to go.

And in today's session, I'm going to talk about giving ourselves permission to shift through and actually be in the different gears that

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