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 one of the powers of meditation,

especially as it relates to creating long-term changes in you.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

The Okay. So sometimes people will ask me about the value of meditation and say certain things like, well, I have experiences of peace.

I have experiences of reduced stress.

I've had experiences of feeling like one with everything.

That's on the more extreme end of things.

But maybe people who have done plant medicine, psychedelics,

or even just in waking life, it's not uncommon to have what can be called spiritual experiences

where you feel a sense of oneness and openness, or even just spontaneous feelings of awe.

Like if you've visited the Grand Canyon

or have been out in nature,

it's not uncommon to have these spontaneous experiences

of openness, compassion, love, freedom, and selflessness.

And so people will sometimes say, like, okay,

I've touched into that.

Why do I need meditation?

It's clearly possible that I can access this in other ways.

And that's true.

And I'll often be the first person to say that it's not like meditation is giving us access to certain states that we can't get elsewhere.

Many of them were already familiar with or have touched very deeply or profoundly in other ways.

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