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 Miscara, 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. 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,

then 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 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 I do more walking meditation

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