Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to be sharing a little exercise you can use

to expand your mind and shift your perspective. More to come on that in a moment, but

first let's listen in to the sound of the bells. Okay, let's start this exercise. Wherever you are right now, whether you're standing, lying

down, sitting in your car, well, sitting in your car might be difficult for this.

So use your best judgment.

Here's what I want you to do.

Focus on one object in front of you.

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe don't do this in a car, not a good idea. So if you're still just anything, anything that you see, it could be your phone, it could be your hand, it could be your hand it could be any object in the room I just want you to bring all

of your focus just to that and just fixate your eyes there if you can't see then you can do this with sound. Fix say on just

one sound. Okay holds that attention, focusing, focusing, focusing, focusing, focusing.

Focusing.

Good. Now, expand your awareness so that you're in touch with the space around the object.

Again, if you're doing this with sound, just notice whatever other sounds you can perceive.

So expanding the awareness so that you're in touch with the space around the object.

You'll see the object has an outline, and outside of that outline is space.

Not outer space but like actual space.

Okay?

Good.

So this little perspective shift, right, focusing really closely into something really absorbed in the object and then stepping out, expanding the awareness, expanding the perspective, so that we can

see the space around it and then start to see the outline of the object that we were with

and seeing that it's part of of or it's a smaller thing within a larger

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