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 Mascara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about some motivation for doing the thing that may be scary, but is actually required to bring yourself alive. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together have those moments some time throughout the year, week, maybe every day you have them, where there's just a glimpse of the impermanence

of your life, the fragility and the unknown of your life, and maybe just a recognition that

this is it. It's happening right now. It's in front of me. This is my life right here, right now,

and it won't be here forever. I think all of us at some point have these glimpses of awareness.

Sometimes they rattle us into a new action or contemplation.

Other times they can be scary,

and it feels like too much to reckon with.

And the consequences of listening to that call

or facing that reality feel too intense.

And so we kind of just shut it out.

And I want this podcast episode to be an invitation to stay with that a little bit longer the next time it arises and maybe even to

actively and consciously bring into your awareness that you have this one life in front of you.

Let's let go of perspectives on past lives or future lives, and you can even bring that into

the equation if you want and still recognize that this is your life in this particular

human form right here right now

the constellation of you this is it this is the only time it's going to exist it's your only

opportunity to work with the way you think the way way you emote, the way you act, the way you

behave, your unique genius, whatever that is, this is the only time for you to uncover it,

to follow it, to explore it, to surrender into it, your, let's say weaknesses or challenges or the things you struggle with,

this is the only time for you to look at those, to work on those, to descend into them and see

what learnings might be there, what might arise when you meet the things that you

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