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 deep acceptance of another person and why that is valuable in your own journey.

More to come on that in a moment.

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

Okay. come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I'm going to share a post that I wrote for Instagram the other day.

Periodically, as you know, I like to share those here and then elaborate on them.

So the post was, deep acceptance of another person is often the doorway to deep acceptance of ourselves.

Since so much of what we resent in others is a reflection of what we've disowned in ourselves,

meeting another person with curiosity, compassion, and love is an essential component in our journey toward

becoming whole.

So this was a popular post.

It seemed to resonate with a lot of people.

I wanted to talk about this in the reverse context that I think it's often talked about, which is that as you

accept yourself, you're better able to accept others. Well, it can also work in the other direction.

As you work to hold another person with acceptance, with love, with curiosity, understanding,

compassion, you're simultaneously

reorganizing your relationship to yourself. And it can be really powerful as a practice.

When other people are triggering you or activating something in you, it usually means that

they represent something that you have committed

your life to not being, that you've said, I'm never going to be like that. And so you can ask yourself

in those moments, what about this person have I committed to not becoming? And why? You know,

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