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 the new

possibility that results from a loss.

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

bells.

So today's episode is going to follow along the theme of what I introduced yesterday, which

was the idea of learned hopefulness based on a book by Dr. Dan Thomasulow that I am

really enjoying, and research shows that the feelings of hope and optimism result from

reframing past experiences, and so the exercise I'm going to share with you today as outlined

in the book, but as originally researched by Dr. Tidev Rashid and Dr. Martin Seligman

can help you understand how darkness can shift to light in your own life.

But this exercise is pretty simple, it involves two steps.

Step one is you write about three moments in your life when a negative event led to an

unforeseen positive consequence.

So something important was lost, but another opportunity presented itself that otherwise

might not have.

So you closed one door on one thing, but it opened up another door.

And I think we can all reflect on past experiences where that has been the case.

The important thing here is that the second door could not have been opened unless the

first one closed.

So step one is just to reflect on three events where that happened, three moments in your

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