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 why your

ability to hold another person's suffering is directly related to your ability to hold

your own suffering.

More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so let's talk about holding space, specifically for another person who is going through something

difficult, something painful.

Now as human beings we are always interacting with others, and this ability to be able

to hold a compassionate, caring, spacious presence for another person while they're going

through something painful is one of the greatest gifts you can offer another person.

And if you're looking to deepen your relationship with your partner, deepen your relationship

with your children, with your friends, with your students, with your colleagues, this

is a skill that is really important to have and will improve your quality of life and

then those that you connect with subsequently improving your life even more because it deep

ends connection.

And you can think about it in your own life anytime you've gone through something difficult.

There are those people that you think about who you know hold space for you to have those

experiences, people who you've interacted with in the past who could just listen, could

just be there with you, weren't trying to fix you, change you, judge you, could just

hold your pain with you.

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