Hello and welcome back to practicing human 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 authenticity.

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

Okay, so authenticity has been one of those topics that, you know, it's very popular in

personal development space and especially in the mindfulness space, but I think it's

incredibly vague when it's actually pointing to and I don't think most people really understand

what they're pointing to when they say be authentic because it gets confusing very quickly.

What do I be authentic to?

Is it this feeling that's arising right now that's telling me I can't do something?

And I'm, you know, we listen to that because it's being authentic.

Is it another part of me that's saying, I can do this, I'm scared, but I feel inspired

to try.

Do we follow that?

Right, it can be kind of messy, just like, oh, what am I, what am I actually listening

to?

You know, one of the, the common things that does tend to arise is we associate authenticity

with a sense of our past self, a felt sense of our past self or behaviors of our past

self.

And often when people think about us being authentic, their sense of us being authentic is how

they've perceived us in the past.

Wouldn't you agree?

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