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.

Before we go into the episode, I just want to let you know that I have a cool announcement of a new thing a new thing

that I am doing and I'll tell you at the end of this episode after the last bell so make sure you stay for that. In today's episode we're going to talk about

having a warm-up routine for your meditation practice, especially if sitting still or meditating in general, brings up difficult emotions.

So we'll talk more about that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the first people to say that it's not always the right time to practice

meditation and that could be the right time of day for you

based on what you're experiencing

or the right time in your life.

Sometimes when we go into the meditation,

if we're experiencing very deep grief, very deep loneliness or

severe depression the meditation can sometimes make things worse because we're coming more intimately into our

experience and it can just be hard to create enough distance to be able to

observe it and we end up getting sucked into it in an unhelpful way.

So during those periods of time it's okay to just let the practice go entirely or find other

ways to practice like a walking method. entirely or

anything that just helps you feel better and

and ground it just helps you feel better and grounded.

But if you're in a place where you want to engage in a

meditation even though it's difficult, then one thing that can be helpful in

preparing for the meditation is to give yourself a warm-up routine. So what can this look like?

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