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

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and it's great to be here with you. If you didn't get the memo, we now have a

Facebook group. So definitely make sure you go over to Facebook, if you have a

Facebook profile, and search for practicing human. You can request, we'll accept you,

and then you'll be part of the group. Within the first 24 hours of that opening,

we already have over 200 members, so I'd love to have you there it's a great way for us all to

collaborate for you to comment on episodes to ask questions I'm very active in that group so

I'd love to see you there but now we're here in that

we're here. So let's start our episode as we normally do with the bells.

If you're new, I'm going to ring some very pleasant sounding bells.

And your task is just to listen to the sound of the bell from the moment it begins

all the way until it dissolves into silence.

And let's remember, there's nothing particularly special or wholly about these

bells. We're just using them as a way to anchor and ground our attention, which is priming us to be a little bit more receptive and

present for the content in the episode. So we can look at it as a priming exercise

in that way.

So here they come. Well done

any subtle shifts that you might have experienced

having done that short focus exercise

really didn't take longer than 12 to 15 seconds.

And there can be something very grounding in that.

You didn't have to go off and meditate for a long period of time,

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