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 mascara and in today's episode we're going to talk about wherever you go there you are

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

Okay, so if you've been hanging out in the mindfulness space for some time chances are you're familiar with this phrase

Wherever you go there you are it was the title of the popular book by John Kepitz in wherever you go there you are

There's something about it that

Immediately has resonance with the mindfulness movement presence in general this idea that in each moment wherever you might go however

Far you may travel any distance you might drive any geographical location you might explore

however far you try to get from

Here you're always going to be here. You're always taking yourself wherever you're going and

And I want to speak to this from the perspective of life being more simple

we

tend to over complicate our life with everything that we're bringing into a given moment

everything that we're

needing to take care of all of our to-do's and especially when we get caught up in a linear

orientation to our life such as

I'm here and then these are all the things that are going to happen in the next moment and then the next day and the next week

and you can probably feel into it creates this sense of like

Your life and the span of your life and all the places that you're traversing

I know when I think about my future it tends to involve images of different locations and then airplanes and

Trains and inboxes and then I'm going to be here and I'm going to be doing this

And it's just like whoa that is a lot of places to be and when I associate all

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