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. In today's episode we're going to talk about how life is always just one moment and how that helps

us navigate it a little bit more skillfully and easefully.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The So sometimes we need to remind ourselves that life is happening in just one moment. We've talked about this in different ways on this

podcast and it's a core principle of mindfulness and meditation learning how to

inhabit our present moment experience. and snapshot type way, which means we're just tending to what is here right now.

However, in my experience, even with a lot of meditating and knowing this in the back of my mind it's very important to bring

it into the forefront because there are times in our lives where it almost becomes a form of survival to remind ourselves that I just need to get through this moment.

And if we can get through this moment, it means we can get through the next and then the next.

And if someone were to ask you, if you could be with one moment of intense pain,

you'd probably say yes.

That doesn't mean that you would want to nor would you choose to

tolerate it but you could be with just one moment. Well life is always just one moment.

It's when we pull 100 future moments of potential pain

into this moment that we really start to become debilitated.

And let's keep in mind that it's important. become debilitated.

And let's keep in mind that it's important to look at the pain we're experiencing right

now and contemplate, wow, if this were to last for a while, then the current circumstances are

creating this pain, then maybe I should do something about it.

So this isn't to dismiss that reality.

But it is to give us a little bit more power over our well-being to see how the

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