Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about relaxing

the nervous system while observing thoughts.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

So many of us struggle with difficult thoughts.

They create patterns of remination, keep us stuck in what we could call negative patterns,

they create a lot of noise for us, and they can keep us just swirling around limiting

beliefs that keep us in the same place with the same people, doing the same things, and

with the same frustrations.

And so it's obvious that many people are looking to work with the thinking mind, and for many

folks starting out, one of the first steps is something like meditation, where you practice

becoming the observer of your thoughts, rather than being caught up in your thoughts.

And if you're familiar with this, this may be quite a simple idea.

If you're new to it, it's quite a profound idea.

I remember first learning to do this when I was about 20 years old, 21 in college, and

it was transformative.

It was radical to take that different orientation to my thoughts.

Let's just dive a little deeper into what's happening when we do that, and what we're

really aiming to do when we do that, and how we might actually accomplish that a little

better.

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