The Positive Role of Suffering

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, we explore how to reframe the role of suffering in your life, reflecting on past experiences and how they may have served you in unforeseen ways.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about reframing the role of suffering in your life.
0:16.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:18.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So I wanted to use this episode as an opportunity to reframe your perspective around suffering in your life.
0:52.0	The word suffering is often through around suffering in your life.
0:52.8	The word suffering is often thrown around quite a bit in the meditation world.
0:58.6	If you're not used to hearing that word, it can sound a bit extreme like really deep suffering but in the meditation
1:05.8	context it's designed to refer to anything that that can create tension in our life and this includes the deeper sufferings and traumas, but also
1:19.4	things like anger and resentment, hatred, clinging, self-centeredness. These are all forms of
1:28.8	suffering that are not connected to the inherent peacefulness that is the mind.
1:38.0	And when I say mind, I mean mind with a capital M, mind that part of you that is spacious that is
1:47.4	connected to wholeness goodness and is inherently calm.
1:55.7	It's a part of us that we touch into in meditation
2:00.1	and other practices of course. And so the simple reframing that I invite you to explore in relationship to suffering
2:09.7	is to see how the various sufferings you've had in your life have also led you to pursue new
2:17.4	insights, learnings, growth, expansions.
2:23.0	I mean, think about it.
2:25.0	What has brought you to an interest in this podcast,
2:30.0	or this kind of work,
2:32.0	mindfulness, meditation, being a better human.
2:36.0	Yeah, it's possible that there's some optimizing that you've wanted to do,
2:42.0	but even that can be a result of feeling unsatisfied where I currently
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