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 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 okness in your being, the ability to be still, the ability

to feel whole in yourself, the ability to know yourself thoroughly and become 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,

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