Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we are going to talk about spreading

out.

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

Okay, I think this episode could equally well be called becoming bigger, because what

I mean by spreading out is energetically expanding, and I'll worry, I'll make that a little

bit more practical for you.

One of the things that happens when our human, the spine body thing that we're in is interacting

with the world.

It learns who it has to be in relationship to it in order to get basic needs met, and one

of the things it can learn is that it needs to be small in order to not lose connection

or not lose love or being liked or praised.

This can happen for a number of reasons, but I think many of us are familiar, maybe not

throughout our whole life, although for some of us this is certainly true, but at least

in specific contexts, we can resonate with that feeling of feeling like we need to be

smaller in order to get through this, or to not rub anyone the wrong way, or cause

issues that might cause us issues.

So what is the experience of getting smaller?

Well, it's kind of like contracting around the center line, contracting around the spine,

we tighten up, and that can show up as like a physical tightening.

We just kind of hold ourselves in a smaller, more closed in way, but I think it's also the

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