How to Pause

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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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss one of the many (but often undermentioned) benefits of taking a few minutes, every few hours, to stop, drop, and be.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're
0:05.2	getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's
0:10.6	episode we're going to talk about the importance of taking a periodic pause.
0:16.0	More to come on that in a moment. First let's settle in together with the sound of
0:20.5	the bells.
0:30.0	So I've talked about in the past the importance of taking time to be still. I've also
0:47.0	talked about how I use a timer often throughout the day as a buzzer that
0:53.8	reminds me to stop, take a breath, and just check in with where I'm at right now.
0:58.4	In this episode I want to follow along those lines but really make an argument
1:04.1	for the importance of integrating longer than momentary amounts of stillness
1:14.0	periodically throughout the day. So what I mean by that is not just these 10 or
1:19.4	20 seconds, check-ins once every 10 minutes, but more like a three to five
1:25.9	minute stop and be still, check in every one, two, or three hours. And the main
1:35.6	argument I'm going to make for this is that it helps keep you more connected
1:41.5	to and inspired by the state of groundedness and calm than connected to and
1:49.2	inspired by the place of agitation. Now you might hear that and go, well why
1:56.0	would I ever be inspired by the experience of agitation? And inspired might
2:03.9	not be the right word but we can get caught in the agitation of our mind or
2:09.9	the agitation of our day or better way to put it might just be the fast
2:14.5	pace caffeinated crossing things off our to-do list to quickly get to the next
2:20.1	thing on automatic pilot and being seduced by that process just being swept away
2:26.8	by the momentum of it to the point where it actually feels almost oppressive to
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