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 the importance of taking the journey toward inner peace. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So when it comes to the pursuit of inner peace and the ways I think many of us conceptualize it,

it can often feel like a selfish pursuit,

or we could say a self-oriented pursuit. That it's primarily related to my happiness,

my fulfillment in this life,

and less to do with other pursuits that we might connect to our

sense of purpose related to helping other people serving the planet or something that is

not related to ourselves the idea of just cultivating inner peace, it's like, okay, that has to do with me.

So I just want to talk about why I think this is one of the most important things you can do,

not just for yourself, but for all of those whose lives you aim to serve, who you care about,

or any endeavor that is meaningful to you. When you don't have a sense of okayness in your being,

the ability to be still, the ability to feel whole in yourself,

the ability to know yourself thoroughly and be calm in your heart, then what ends up happening is you look subconsciously to the external world

to fill internal holes, gaps, and to mend wounds. All of this can take a lot of different forms from things that may have happened in

childhood, where we were abandoned or didn't get the love that we needed or felt powerless

or weren't attuned to to things that happen even later in life where we're mistreated or we experience a trauma but all of

these things in some way shape or form that we've all experienced to some degree can leave us feeling

less whole and complete and what the mind does with that is it goes outward.

When it comes to healing and growth, the heart goes inward, the mind goes outward.

And so the mind looks toward things that can be arranged in your life to give you a sense of stability,

a sense of safety, sense of fulfillment, praise, acceptance, love.

And what does this look like?

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