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, I'm going to share four things you

can consider when meeting the present moment.

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

bells.

Okay, so I recently came across this acronym that is often used when you're navigating

something difficult as a way to relax into the experience.

And I also think it can be applicable for meeting a moment with deep presence.

The acronym is SATA, S-A-T-A, four parts.

And it stands for surrender, allow, trust, accept, surrender, allow, trust, accept.

And I think there's something helpful about having little acronyms like this in our back

pocket, especially when we're going through something difficult.

We can just serve as reminders of things to bring to the forefront of our mind.

You know, if we are feeling a lot of contraction around our experience, a lot of ambiguity

and certainty around something that just happened, imagine what it would feel like to just

drop into surrender, allow, trust, and accept.

And there's, I think, an internal expansion that can happen there that allows us to hold

our experience with more space and ease rather than defaulting to other patterns of control,

rumination, frustration, anger, all of which can have their place.

But you can even surrender, allow, trust, and accept those difficult responses like anger,

like sadness, like fear.

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