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 are going to talk about shifting your attitude of awareness.

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

So, as many of you know, I'm running an eight week course at the moment on working with thoughts.

And one of the big things that we're currently working on, and looking at is the particular attitude that we might bring subconsciously to our awareness of anything.

In our life, we're working on it specifically in the context of meditation when you're focusing on the breath, but also when you're looking at your thoughts.

But we're taking it to what is the felt attitude that you bring to your relationships, to your work, to a new context that you're in.

And what I mean by the attitude of awareness, it's this subtle veil that sort of filters the part of you that is just aware of what's happening in any moment, and then what you're being aware of.

And it's slightly different, but also connected to the story of your mind for anyone who's read my books, stop missing your life.

You know, I talk about the three layers of experience, your awareness of the experience, the actual experience, and then the story you have about the experience, such as this is good, this is bad.

I like this. I don't like this. It's safe, unsafe.

So that's a more obvious layer between awareness and experience, but there's something that can even proceed that that's more subtle.

It's harder to track and to see because we often perceive it just as who we are, the felt sense of who we are.

And this might be, you know, showing up to a new social event, let's say with different people.

And there's just a sense of you while you're there that's like a little skeptical or a little mistrusting or maybe a feeling of being like slightly superior or a feeling of like leaning back energetically,

leaning back from the situation, not fully immersing in.

This I would start to put into this category of the attitude of awareness.

We may feel like we're just being present for the experience, really there, open in a particular way, aware of what's happening, but there's something a little extra happening between that awareness and that experience.

And meditation, what this can look like, I mean, it shows up in a very similar way.

You know, we might be focusing on the breath, but there's also just this subtle sense of, this is a little boring or I don't know if this is working.

And you might not have those thoughts actively, but it's just this felt sense in relationship to the experience

that we're not being aware of, we're actually being aware from that place.

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