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 Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the mindful way to work with urges.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle and together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so the mindful way to work with urges. First, let's just talk about what an urge is.

Well, I'm defining this broadly and an urge can be

any sort of a sense of volition toward something, an impulse. I want to eat this food, I want to say this thing, I want to do this

instead of that. We experienced these throughout the day many, many times and in many different contexts.

And a big part of personal growth, personal development, living a life in alignment,

living responsibly, even authentically,

requires being able to manage these urges

that might take us off our path or cause us to do one small thing

that's out of alignment that can become a snowball effect or just manage different unhealthy urges throughout the day,

such as, you know, wanting to eat

that extra piece of dessert

when, yeah, I probably don't need it, but I just really want it.

It's often that feeling of like I need to do this.

Then it could be in relationship to an addictive setting as well,

such as for a cigarette or something else that you you struggle

with on a day-to-day basis. So this is what I'm talking about when we're talking

about urges and our usual way of thinking about working with urges is one of

willpower and self-control.

We feel this urge in the body

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