How to be Less Impulsive

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we'll talk about how to manage the build-up of energy we feel when we really want something but know we shouldn't give in to it.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Corey Musgara, and just as a quick reminder,
0:11.0	the upcoming online retreat is September 25th through 27th.
0:15.6	If you're not yet signed up, I would love to have you there.
0:19.1	This is a great opportunity to go deeper into the ideas that we've talked about on this
0:23.4	podcast really put them into practice. There are a lot of breakthroughs and big
0:28.9	insights that come on these retreats and this is all online you can do it from the comfort of your own
0:34.3	home and you'll have the recordings forever so you could technically go through the
0:38.6	retreat over and over again I'd really love to have you there you could check it out
0:42.4	at quarry maskara.com
0:44.5	forward slash retreat. All right. In today's episode I'm going to share a simple
0:50.4	breathing strategy that you can use to reground yourself and disperse and
0:56.5	integrate some of the charge of energy you feel around things like impatience,
1:02.0	craving, and lust. More to come on that and why that's important
1:06.7	in a moment, but first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so lately I've been finding myself using a technique that's been very helpful for reducing cravings, improving patience, making me a better listener, and just
1:48.0	regounding me in moments where I feel a strong emotional and emotional charge and buildup of energy in my body.
1:58.9	And so we could see that buildup of energy in a lot of different contexts throughout our life.
2:05.8	Let's take an example of a craving for instance.
2:09.9	It might be a craving for a cigarette and feeling this charge of energy that wants to get released
2:16.4	or wants to express itself or wants to have something.
2:19.9	You could see that in relationship to a piece of cake. You're driving your car and you think of that
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