Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life I'm your host Kory Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about why we should embrace the rain. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so we're talking about embracing the rain and no I'm not talking about the weather.

I'm talking about those difficult life moments where it just feels like life is pouring down on us, we can't escape it, it's

heavy, we're soggy, we're drenched, we just want to be somewhere where it's sunny and dry.

We've all experienced this as part of being human, and you may be going through something

like that right now yourself.

And so I just want to offer the reminder

that the rain can be and often is an opportunity.

In the same way that actual rain washes things away, maybe loose

debris or even shrubbery that wasn't firmly rooted, the rain you're experiencing

right now may be clearing some internal things away.

Things that needed to shift, the false sense of control, or even the material things that we sometimes depend on too much for our

sense of identity. There are a lot of things that start to move and change when the rain comes through and even though

it can be incredibly painful and a lot of things that we don't want to get washed away may. There is a clearing of the canvas so to speak, a new

opportunity for something else to grow and that's the other thing rain can do.

It can help nourish seeds that were already there.

And so these could be seeds of compassion and expanded heart, resilience, courage, presence, gratitude, all the things that often will only get activated when we're exposed

to some sort of difficulty or hardship.

For me, I noticed that there are parts of me that only seem to get activated during difficult

experiences, especially the parts of me that long for connection and make me really appreciate family, friends,

loved ones. When I feel stressed or overwhelmed, those parts really come up, the love for other people.

And part of that's just evolutionary, right?

The stress hormone conditions us to, or we've evolved for that experience to condition

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