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 Muscarra, 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.

So in today's episode we're 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? And

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