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, I'm going to share a simple reframe

that can help you drop more intimately into your present moment experience.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay, so today will be a nice, short, punchy episode. I want to give you a simple

strategy that you can use to really help drop more intimately into your experience when

you're feeling something that might typically feel unusual or something that you wouldn't want

to feel. And so often in these moments where we feel something out of the blue, like a flash

of sadness, anger, grief, pain, discomfort,

uncertainty, confusion. It's a normal human experience to evaluate it through the lens

of, like, why is this here? Does this make sense? Is this okay? Am I safe to be

having this experience? In other words, this is your brain essentially trying to make sense of why

this is coming up and that it doesn't mean anything that could potentially be threatening to you.

And so to a certain extent, this ability to assess what we're experiencing

through the lens of why am I experiencing this is a good thing, but it primarily pertains to

those bigger experiences that are quite unusual and actually do represent something more being off. Usually, a flesh of

sadness, anger, or confusion, it's just part of the human experience. And so when we're

constantly evaluating those experiences through the lens of, why am I experiencing this? Well, it can add another

layer of judgment, not just the mind that's critically thinking about it, like what does this

mean, but maybe you could even hear it in the tone, why am I feeling this way? There's judgment

in that tone of voice, and that attitude. And it creates a bit of an

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