Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Miscarra, tuning in today from Melbourne, Australia. Shout out to anyone from Melbourne or Australia.

It's great to be here.

Today, we're going to be talking about how to turn everything into a meditation

and why it might be the key to getting through some very difficult experiences

and also very triggering experiences.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's tune in to the sound of the bells.

So, the idea of turning real life situations into a meditation practice

is something I've been practicing for, I don't know, the last several months.

At least, I've been more intentional with it the last several months.

And I've found it to be quite exciting for shifting my relationship to things I'm going through,

especially difficult or frustrating experiences.

And I've been excited to make a podcast episode on it.

To open this up, let's start by looking at what meditation is.

Obviously, we did a whole episode on this, I believe it was episode three.

So, if you want to go back, you could explore an in more depth what meditation is.

But in general, it's this set period of time where we're choosing very intentionally to be present to, to relax into,

and to work through whatever arises during five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, whatever that set period of time is.

So, if you're sitting there on your meditation cushion or in your chair,

and you get some discomfort that comes up in the body,

instead of immediately turning away from it, getting frustrated by it or trying to get rid of it,

we might practice being with that discomfort,

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