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 are going to talk about the

Importance of establishing a sense of safety in your meditation practice or

Any sort of contemplative or stillness practice more to come on that in a moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay, so a big thing I have always looked at when guiding meditation creating my own meditations for others and

Something that has just become increasingly

Strong as a guide point for me has been how to help people

Create a sense of inner safety when they're going into the meditation

Not just for the sake of the meditation, but to learn how to generate that for themselves in their own mind and their own body

But it's particularly important in meditation because meditation is a very intimate experience

If you've lived your life on autopilot suppressing emotions

Disconnecting from your body which are all very understandable things when you look at how complicated and messy life can be

Well, then turning towards your experience as you do in something like a meditation practice

Can be a shock to the system. There may be a lot that you're turning toward

That you've intentionally turned away from over the years

Unresolved emotions past traumas or just

Now pain in the body or a mind that is scary

So many of us are scared of being in our own minds because

Thoughts they can get dark. They can be negative. They can get loud. They can be annoying

So all of this we we come closer to in a meditation practice

And as a facilitator it is like the thing that I am most

Clued into and and really trying to

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