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

I'm your host Cori Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to share a relaxation practice I use to release tension and drop into a deeper state of peace and ease.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. How it? Okay, so let's talk relaxation. I have a simple strategy that I use when I notice that I've accumulated tension in my body.

This is something I like to do often at the end of the day, where I don't need to be on anymore I really have a

chance to tune into my body to relax to let go but it's also something that can be

done in the morning I sometimes like to do it

after my morning meditation practice so that I transition into the day with a greater

sense of calm and groundedness.

And it's very simple.

It involves intentional relaxing of the body,

but using a number line to assess where you are tension-wise and slowly start to lower and release

that tension.

So what this would look like is you evaluate your tension on a scale from 1 to 10.

Could be 1 to 100, but I do 1 to 10.

Where 10 is most tense and 1 is not tense at all so very calm very peaceful and so what I would

do is start by evaluating where I'm at on that number line which you can do right now. Let's turn this into a

practice because you don't need to get into any posture. Whatever you're doing you

can tune into this. So on a scale of 1 to, where do you feel like you're at where 10 is

maximum tension, one is no tension. I'm feeling into it for myself. I'd say I'm about a four right now. A one takes a lot to get to a one.

So four is pretty low but I feel some tension

especially in my shoulders and my chest a little bit in my jaw so notice

where you're at you might be three, you might be an eight, doesn't really matter, that's our starting point.

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