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.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the concept of non-striving.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I'm going to talk about non-striving in two contexts because I do think there are some

distinctions here and these contexts are within your meditation practice and outside of your meditation practice.

Non-striving is a bit easier to understand

within the context of your meditation practice because it's

essentially stating that while we may have a goal for meditating such as stress reduction all the way up to

enlightenment. The practice itself has an inherent non-doing quality to it and that you're just learning to be with the experience that is arising more and more intimately to understand it to bring it into awareness.

We could even say that the only goal is to become more and more yourself and to really settle into yourself as you are in each moment.

And trust that settling in as the catalyst for any sort of change and growth.

And it's inevitable that changing growth happen from that space of meeting with equality and

attitude of non-striving, not trying to fix it, change it, or get anywhere with it.

Of course, this gets a little complicated

because in the background, we are trying to get somewhere

with it, or else we wouldn't do it in the first place.

But the practice, when we sit down or walk or lay down,

and we're just being with our direct experience, really no other agenda to get anywhere other than more here.

So let's talk about non-striving then in the context of real life, or we could say outside of meditation.

And this at first glance... of

outside of meditation and this at first clients can feel very different

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