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 the spiritual waiting room.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So let's start with a provocative statement. I believe that from the spiritual perspective,

it is better to spend 10 years waiting for what feels true than to reactively participate

in someone else's prescription for what you should do

with your life. And here's why I believe that. When you let yourself sit in this spiritual

waiting room, aka, I don't know what my next step is, but I refuse to let it be something

that doesn't feel true. What you are doing is unwinding the karmic patterns that previously

caused you to abandon your inner knowing. Waiting for what feels true might seem like you're doing nothing,

but it is the biggest nothing there is. And it's way more something than those around you who

may accomplish a lot, but have no tether to who they are and why they do what they do. But sometimes when I

share things like this, people will often respond, well, I don't have time to wait and listen.

Or how do you take care of a family or your kids while you're waiting and listening? Or how do you wait and listen

if you don't have a lot of money or you're low income or you're trying to get out of poverty?

To that, I say these realities and these circumstances all get filtered through the waiting and listening.

People's fear when they hear something like wait and listen and don't reactively go into somebody else telling you what to do is that you're

just going to like sit under a tree cross-legged on the ground and not do anything. That's not true. You're still in a body.

There's still things that have to happen. And you could just start with the really basic things.

Like even if you're on a journey of deep listening and not reactively going into old patterns of

codependence and people pleasing and ideas that culture has told you

about what you need to do. It doesn't mean that you're not going to go to the bathroom anymore.

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