Hello and in today's episode,

welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Kory Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about starting fresh.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together

with the sound of the bells.

D' Okay, so starting fresh. At the time of recording, we are entering the new year of 2021 and so this is an appropriate topic as people are creating new year's resolutions and thinking about new beginnings But regardless of when you're listening to this,

I think there's something powerful at various points in our year

and throughout our life of taking this approach of starting fresh.

There's something compelling, and you could disagree with this, but for me at least, about

the idea of trying to clean the slate and just view this moment as the beginning of the rest of my life.

Now I can't take credit for that phrase. That's a common one that you hear in spiritual communities and personal growth communities and it's a bit of a trite saying, but I like it. This moment is the beginning of the rest of your life.

For me, there's something really empowering about that.

It sort of frees me from the past, what has come previously, and allows me to design the next moment, to feel

some empowerment and freedom and creativity to decide starting now what will ensue, what will unfold.

This is a bit complicated because of course we can't dismiss the role that the past plays in who we are in this moment.

In fact, I think there are two very different ways to view it that are equally valid.

One perspective is that who you are is nothing more than your past.

Everything that creates you in this moment,

how you think, how you emote, how your body is, how you

a moat, how your body is, how you respond, how you react, all your conditioning is based on a very intricate

series of unfolding, genetic and social variables that are interacting, that have interacted

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