The Five Remembrances

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss Thich Nhat Hanh's 5 daily remembrances. These are five important truths that he suggests we keep in mind each day in order to live a meaningful, purposeful, and intentional life. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to get daily inspirational text messages to your phone from me, just text...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.6	I'm your host, Corey Mascara, and in today's episode, I'm going to share with you
0:13.1	Tick-Nat-Han's five remembrances that you can carry with you throughout the day and serve as reflections for living a good and meaningful life.
0:24.2	More to come on that in a moment.
0:26.0	First, let's settle in together calls the five remembrances, and these are five things
0:59.5	to keep in mind, five truths to remember that can guide a more intentional, purposeful, and well-meaning
1:08.0	life.
1:09.0	The first is, I am of the nature to grow old. I am of the nature to grow old.
1:18.0	Second, I am of the nature to experience ill health. The third, I am of the nature to die.
1:29.0	Fourth, all that is dear to me is of the nature to change.
1:34.6	Five, I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
1:39.7	They are the ground upon which I stand.
1:43.9	So you might hear these and go, well, they don't exactly make me feel good.
1:50.9	It's not really positive psychology, and it's not very uplifting.
1:55.7	I am of the nature to die.
1:57.0	I am of the nature to experience ill health.
2:00.1	How does that help me live a more meaningful life?
2:03.6	Well, these are truths that we live with as humans, and we could deny that they exist and try to
2:13.2	just be positive and pretend like everything is good, but anyone that's tried that for an extended
2:19.3	period of time knows that life will eventually catch up to you. And so if we're not also
2:25.6	acknowledging these other real dimensions of what it means to be human, we develop no useful
2:31.6	skills for how to work with them when the difficulty does arise.
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