Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscarra, and in today's

episode we're going to talk about the difference between sitting with your

experience and sitting on your experience. More to come on that in a moment, first

let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So in yesterday's episode I shared a quote by Robert Augustus Masters from his

book Spiritual Bypassing. Well this is a book I am slowly working through and

making lots of notes and there's another quote I'd like to share of his. On page

75 he says, plenty of meditators work at sitting with their unwholesome states

including anger, not realizing that they may not be so much sitting with these

states as they are sitting on them. And you know when you read something and it

just makes you go mm-hmm this was one of those experiences it just puts so

succinctly something that I've seen in my own practice and I've seen for many

other people and it's very common in meditation where we think we're sitting

with and being present to the fullness of our experience but in reality we're

using the practice to sit on our experience to suffocate it and repress it.

And so just notice how that lands for you whether you have a meditation

practice or you're just someone trying to be more present in your life. Do you

feel like your practice opens you up to and allows you to be with more aspects

of your experience really embracing and befriending especially the what we

might term the unwholesome states or what we perceive to be unwholesome states.

The painful emotions the difficult experiences that could arise or is your

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