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 Mascara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about the value of daily meditation.

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

Okay, so I'd like to share a quote from Nar Gadada Maharaj, and it will frame this episode.

And they write, the value of daily meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of your daily routine and reminds you that you are not what you believe yourself to be.

The value of daily meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of your daily routine and reminds you that you are not what you believe yourself to be.

Interesting. Cool framing around meditation. I particularly like it because it resonates. I definitely

notice that so much of my life is spent in my beliefs about who I am, where I'm going, what's important, what's meaningful,

what's not meaningful, what I need to accomplish by this point and this age and all of it.

And it's fun. It's like part of life life it's part of what you you how you decorate your

life and apply a certain kind of meaning to your life so not bashing it at all but all of those

ideas are not who you actually are there's actually no words to describe who you are.

It's only something that we can connect through direct awareness.

And often in those moments where things just tend to fall away

and we have a moment of stillness, a moment of clarity,

of really dropping in, really seeing things from a different perspective. And meditation is a way that we just take that time intentionally to step out of,

at the very least, reinforcing that story, dropping beneath that noise and feeling

into a different sense of who we are. And I think that is incredibly valuable. Because on some level,

you could say it's connecting you to the source of who you are or who you are on the deepest, most

essential level, the story can be quite agitating, even if it's a pleasant story. You know,

it still has a beginning, a middle, an end, it still has to unfold in a certain way to be

okay. We can get very attached to the story.

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