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 Miscara, 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 that 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, you know, 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 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, wow, I'm not fulfilled

in this relationship, or wow, I wow, I 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

difficult? It's almost easier and often

feels much easier to just pretend like that's not the case and to talk ourselves into, well,

it's good for this reason and it's okay for this reason, or to numb it, suppress it, disconnect

from ourselves entirely because to actually have to feel the

reality of that would be too much. And so this is just why so many of us try, tend to avoid that,

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