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 are going to talk about intuition and the ego. More to come on that

in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so this episode will be based on a post I wrote on Instagram recently,

specifically talking about intuition and how a core hindrance to us following our

intuition is often our ego's resistance to the intuition being true. Now the

ego is really just a conglomeration of beliefs that tell you who you need to be

in order to be safe and loved in the world. It's developed from a very early age

and it is essentially designed to protect you. So if the ego perceives that

following your intuition will cause you to lose any safety or love, it's going

to fight back. It's going to try to convince you that it's not the right

decision. And this is why you often might feel like, oh, something's pulling me

in that direction, but then the mind comes in and talks you out of it and causes

you to settle for something that's not quite right, but feels safer. And that's

a key thing. The ego can make you feel protected, but it will also suffocate the

aliveness in you. And so the path to reclaiming this aliveness, reclaiming your

life is the path of surrender, the path of trust. It's walking into the fire,

letting it melt your armor and seeing that you're still here. You're still safe

on the deepest level. Because true freedom, safety and love do not come from the

ego's protection. They come from aligning with the deepest spark of aliveness

in you. The purest expression of I am placing it on the altar of your heart and

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