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 bringing more ease into your moment to moment

experience. More to come on that in a moment. First let's settle in together with

the sound of the bells.

Okay, so I've been doing a lot more walking meditation recently. I like to

wake up early and I go for this long walk here in Palo Alto, usually about 40

minutes in each direction. At the end of one 40 minute, one of the 40 minute

legs I'll sit down on a bench and I'll do some sitting meditation and I'll walk

back. And whenever I'm trying to deepen my meditation practice like adding

more time to my day, I always do it by first increasing walking meditation

because I find it just the least oppressive form of meditation on my nervous

system. I get to be outside, I get to move, but I'm simultaneously developing

concentration, mindfulness and awareness. And I also really appreciate walking

meditation because it is training me to bring a certain quality of awareness,

relaxation, attunement, compassion, and ease to my moment to moment

movement experience, if we could put it that way. Even though the movements I'm

doing throughout throughout the day aren't exclusively walking, there's something

different about bringing awareness to any form of movement rather than simply

bringing awareness to like being still in meditation, which is incredibly

important as well and can take your concentration and practice to a whole

another level. Stillness that is. But one of the things that always comes up for me when

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