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 Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about self-sabotage. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

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So if there's something that you feel like you really want, like you have a clear vision for it, most of you is aligned with the idea of like, yeah, I really want to develop that or have that in my life. But as you make progress in the direction toward attaining that thing, you find yourself

sabotaging the process.

There's a good chance that the journey toward that thing or the actual attainment of that

thing involves feeling something that you're

unwilling to feel or you don't yet feel comfortable feeling or know how to feel. And that's why

so many of the really important changes we are trying to make in our lives and almost any form of

personal development really has to return back to an attunement and awareness and a compassion

toward the body because that's where these things are going to arise. The fear of something happening or getting

the thing you think you want, right? That's arising in the body. The unfamiliar sensory experience

that comes with new territory or new experience, that's arising in the body. Fear, anxiety, resistance,

numbness, all of this is happening in the body. And if we're just glossing over that or

listening to these impulses subconsciously and letting them redirect us in a different place,

then we're going to be pushed in a lot of different directions in our life

that seem counter to what we think we want without realizing how it's actually happening.

And when it comes to self-sabotage, it's really important to remember that the nervous

system seeks out what's familiar to it, not what's good for you or not what you think you want.

So to keep it really simple, when you find yourself trying to pursue something new, a different path,

but you're caught in this loop and you see yourself following that tendency to sabotage the experience,

notice that urge to go down that path, to turn a different direction.

Stop.

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