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.

This is why you often might feel like, ooh, 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 the 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.

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