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 Muscara, 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 Nazar 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.

Interesting, cool framing around meditation, hey, I particularly like it because it resonates.

I definitely noticed 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, it's

part of how you decorate your life and apply 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

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