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 Muscarra, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about what you really want.

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

Okay, so let's talk about what you really want. This is one of those inquiries that if we can get clear on earlier in life,

or let's just say as early as possible from where we are right now, it can really make things a lot more

simple in our life and direct us down a path that is actually fulfilling rather than one that we

perceive to be fulfilling. Because here's the thing, almost all of what we we want and I would be bold enough to say

that 100% of what we want reduces to some sort of feeling some sort of sense of safety ease calm

and purpose.

And I would really argue for wholeness

that most of us, whether we realize it or not,

are doing things that help us to feel more whole, complete,

okay as we are.

We wouldn't necessarily admit to that because we feel like, no, I'm doing

things, I'm growing, I want to manipulate certain things and improve and change. And so the idea

of feeling like okay as we are feels antithetical to that. But it's in service of some future moment where something in us can

rest, where we've moved toward an integration, a sense of wholeness, a sense of completeness.

And so everything that we're doing is essentially in service of some feeling. And we won't go too deep

into like what specifically that is,

but let's just agree upon for now, at least partially or hopefully as much as possible,

that much of what you're doing is in service of some feeling, whether it's like I want to make

money so I could go on vacations and then

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