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.

More 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 Pema Trojan that I believe I've shared on this podcast before

the Pema 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 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 10 years investing my time in this particular life path, and I'm actually

not fulfilled in it.

Can you see how actually naming those things and being honest with yourself could be really

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