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, we're going to talk about the things that you fear that arise in stillness.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so let's start with a quote.

This is something I wrote in our text message community the other day.

I said, the things you fear when you're still are the things you avoid when you're not. The things you fear when you are still are the things you avoid when you are not.

So see how that one lands in your system, in the stillness of your system.

So let's focus on that word to begin.

Still.

This doesn't have to be physically still, but what I'm pointing to is those moments where we get quiet enough to actually listen to what is rumbling beneath the

surface, the activity of our heart, the depth of who we are, or even just our subconscious

mind, the deeper layers of our mind, that have an intuition around what is happening

in our life, decisions we've made, things that have been subtle betrayals against what

Mary Oliver might call the soft animal of our body.

These are the things that we start to tune into when we step out of the story of our life,

or we could just say the momentum of our life.

I know I've talked about that quite a bit on this podcast,

but I think it's always worth repeating what that is pointing to.

The momentum being, the very understandable flow of thoughts, emotions, behaviors that we get into,

that we kind of just repeat and follow out of habit or out of fear or because it's comfortable or good enough

that isn't necessarily aligned with a spark of aliveness within us, a voice of deeper truth

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