Hello and in today's

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

receiving joy.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. I'm going to talk about receiving joy and this was inspired by a quote I read by Ruth King. She

says another measure of emotional wisdom is our consistent capacity to recognize, tolerate, and welcome goodness, joy, and ease in our lives.

This requires practices that soothe and rewire our mental programming and nervous

system allowing us to rest more in our own skin and heal. So I think this is an

important point that can sometimes get lost in the space of

personal development and mindfulness and even this podcast. I know I am certainly guilty at times of emphasizing

perhaps working with discomfort, pain, the process of healing, and the negative sides of that.

And all of that is important.

And I think I tend to emphasize it just because it's not always, there's not space made for those conversations

in all domains and so a big part of my stance in moving toward a good life is being able to not guard

ourselves against the difficulty and invite that into the full experience of

being human.

But what I will say I sometimes forget is that we tend to have an equally difficult time

as humans of really taking in and appreciating the good in our lives, the joy, the pleasure, when it's there.

We tend to assume that, well, of course, it's easy to feel goodness and joy.

Like that's what I most want. But when it's there, do we really let it sink in?

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