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 are going to talk about the importance of

focus

More to come on that in a moment first blood settling together with the sound of the bells

Okay, so focus I'm going to talk about it in maybe a slightly different way than you're expecting

when I am referring to focus here I am referring to stability of mind which is

potentially different than what you're expecting because I think when a lot of us think of focus

we think primarily in like a work context the ability to direct attention

Then that's certainly a part of it, but I do mean it more broadly like a general stability and groundedness

of the mind and I want to talk it specific talk about it specifically in the context of how it helps us

free ourselves from

the

onslaught of thoughts and the overwhelm of thoughts

so

there's a

quote by John Kevin's in a metaphor he offers that I've always really liked and

He uses it to describe the importance of

stability and groundedness when doing something like a meditation practice

When it comes to cultivating a certain wisdom and understanding about our experience and he says

Trying to observe the mind and understand the mind without first developing a degree of focus is

Like trying to look at the moon through a telescope while standing on a water bed and the slightest bit of movement in your body

You know moves the telescope, but it's just very hard to see what you're looking at

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