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

I'm your host, Coria Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the healing power of positive emotion

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

Okay, this will be a short episode just a quick reminder that I want to offer all of us and it's something that's been showing up more and more in my own practice and my own life

Which is that well, let's also let's backtrack and first start by saying a lot of times in meditation space

We're talking about stress and tension and relieving stress and tension and all categories

Suffering

And this is important to do that to normalize it and hold space for it

And to even see the wisdom that's arising in something like stress or different forms of suffering

And it's really important to also let yourself experience positive emotion when it's there

And that's the key reminder that I want to offer to you here

That our brains are not very good at making space for positive experiences

It's less making space for them and more about like really giving ourselves permission to feel it and to linger with it and to let it saturate you

And we're just programmed evolutionarily to focus more on what is bad in our experience because it can indicate death

And it doesn't mean we also we haven't also evolved to have positive emotions

There's a reason that they're there but the negative emotions and negative experiences take up a little bit more space in our minds

Because well if you don't get the carrot one day, you can get it maybe tomorrow

But if you get hit by the stick one day, well you're not going to wake up tomorrow to try and get the carrot

So we really have the sensitivity to negative experiences

And on our healing journey it does mean that when there are moments of feeling good

We can tend to gloss over them without even realizing it

And so today one invitation I offer to you is when you feel something good even if it's subtle

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