Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about how things

reorganize when you or someone else stands in their truth.

We're going to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay.

So, there's a quote by Pemma Trojan that I believe I've shared on this podcast before.

The Pemma Trojan's meditation teacher, and she says fear is a natural reaction to moving

closer to truth, and that can look a lot of different ways in our own experience.

But often, if we are getting closer to an important decision we need to make, or a reality we

need to face, or something in us that is painful to look at, there's going to be

an experience of fear that arises before we actually touch and make intimate contact

with the experience of what is true, what is here.

And so, as you can imagine, and as you've surely experienced as a human being, we tend

to want to negotiate away that process, naming what is true, what is most alive, what is

most real, often has consequences.

The consequences can be that we might have to feel some discomfort, we might have to

see something in ourselves that we'd prefer not to see, or our external world might need

to change in some way, in the example of acknowledging that while I'm not fulfilled

in this relationship, or while I've spent ten years investing my time in this particular

life path, and I'm actually not fulfilled in it.

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