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 Miscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about Deep

Rest and Letting Go of Inner Struggle.

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

bells.

So I recently ran an online retreat where the theme was Deep Rest and the way we framed

Deep Rest in this context was Letting Go of Your Inner Struggle against Yourself, Letting

Go of Your Inner Struggle against Yourself.

So often our struggle and tension in life is not a struggle with the outside world, it's

a struggle with ourselves.

And when it comes to giving ourselves the space to actually rest and unwind, or even just

to simply relax, the thing that can prevent that is this constant tension that we're

creating in our system, fighting against an experience that we're having.

And in the retreat I talked about this on three levels, the psychological contraction,

where we go, oh I shouldn't be having this experience, what's wrong with me for having

this experience.

Here's the emotional contraction, which is an anger or frustration toward the experience

we're having, and then there can be a physical contraction, which is the body actually

tensing around the experience we're having.

And so in the context of actually deepening a sense of rest, restoration, relaxation, ease,

unwinding, deep tension in the body.

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