What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this episode, we explore we you begin and where you end. How much of your experience, inner and outer, would need to be compromised before you stopped being yourself? And how might this inquiry help expand the sense of who we are, leading to greater groundedness and peace. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to ...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting
0:05.6	a little better at life.
0:07.4	I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and today's episode, we're going to talk about what it
0:12.9	means to be human, and when, if ever, would you be less human?
0:20.0	What would need to change, and how would you know?
0:23.5	More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the
0:28.0	bells.
0:47.6	So what does it mean to be you when you feel into yourself the felt sense of you of being
0:56.8	human?
0:58.3	What does that mean?
1:00.2	What comprises who you are?
1:03.8	Where do you begin, and where do you end?
1:07.2	I think we all have a sense of this for ourselves, but it's probably not something we think about
1:14.0	too deeply, but what amount of your body or mind, let's just say the two things that we
1:21.3	might most often characterize as ourselves, like our thoughts, our emotions, sensations,
1:26.4	personality, our body, et cetera.
1:29.7	What amount of these things would need to be compromised before you stopped being you?
1:36.6	So would you need to lose an arm, let's say?
1:40.4	Would you be any less human, any less you?
1:43.5	What about all of your limbs?
1:46.2	Your face?
1:47.4	What if your face was mangled?
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