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 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. 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 of suffering.

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

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