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, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the importance

of tuning into and holding your own inner complexity and how that then extends out to how

you relate to other people.

More to come on that in a moment.

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

Okay, so when I use the word complexity, I'm referring to the, we could say the mess

of your inner world, what it means to be human.

The fact that we have seemingly contradictory needs at times.

We crave to be able to let go, but another part of us really wants to and feels the need

to hold on.

We want to be loving and open, and at the same time we feel the need to put up a boundary

or create separation.

We may have a part that wants one thing and another part that wants something else that's

in conflict with that.

We may notice that we have desires that feel really positive and aligned and mature and

other desires that feel dark or negative or potentially destructive.

So this is what I mean by the complexity of your humanness.

And our tendency is to avoid complexity.

Complexity is hard to hold space for.

It's uncomfortable to look at.

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