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 letting things settle.

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

Okay, so we're talking about letting things settle. And specifically, referring to mental activity, the various thoughts, stories, ideas,

communication that moves through our mind that can be not only very compelling and captivating, but can also distract us from more subtle, intuitive, grounded ways of knowing and feeling into our relationship with the world around us.

That more subtle way of feeling is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it is more grounded and tends to feel better.

We tend to feel more aligned, and there's higher levels of well-being when we're not so caught up in the ideas and story and mental activity of our mind.

But I want to talk about it specifically in the context of making decisions and following a path that feels right for you.

And this can be anything from should I have this conversation with this person today to planning out something significant in your life.

And the thing is, when we're caught in our mental agitation, we're usually running scripts, ideas, other people's thoughts, cultures, thoughts.

And we're just taking in so much data around us and responding to it, reacting to it, that we're hardly in touch with one our own life force.

To our sense of truth, and who am I in all of this?

Then one could argue that your life force and the sense of who you are are no less than the same thing.

But this is a more subtle sense of knowing.

It tends to be more intuitive, and it tends to be more feeling-based, meaning we might have thoughts about what we should do.

You know, these are the things that we might write out on our, you know, an Excel spreadsheet, the pros and the cons and the ways we think through something.

And that has merit.

But there are other more subtle forms of knowing that we feel in our gut, or we feel an openness and an expansion,

which is something feels correct about going in this direction or doing this, or this just feels aligned with something very true to me.

And I'm increasingly interested in how we get in touch with that voice and follow that guidance.

And one of the things that continues to emerge as being true is that it's nearly impossible to get in touch with that felt sense.

But deeper sense of ourselves when we're agitated, when the mind is all over the place and when we're overly identified with that.

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