Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about short moments

of deep rest.

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

Okay, so one of the things I've been trying to pay attention to more throughout the day

is making sure that I'm giving my mind and my body ample opportunity to disengage from

its whatever its default survival mechanisms are, you know, fight, flight, freeze, you can

add the F of fawn as well, that we all tend to fall into when we're under stress.

For a lot of us, you know, we're just in the momentum of the day, maybe of kids, maybe

of a job, maybe have a relationship, maybe have all of those things.

On top of just everything else that comes with being human and all the particular complexities

you might be navigating, it's very easy to get caught in low grade stress throughout

the day, let alone all of the high grade stress that's there.

In between moments, the system is still kind of just buzzing, even when we have the opportunity

to relax a little bit, maybe we're in the car, and we have a five minute commute from

one place to another, or we're in the bathroom, you know, three minutes, nobody needs anything

from us, or we're cooking, or we're walking out to the mailbox, whatever it may be, there

are these periods throughout the day that we have that actually don't require much output

from us, and at the same time there isn't much input as well, not as much stimulation,

and yet we can easily carry out the stress patterns that preceded that moment, that kind

of just keep the system in this buzzing, tight state, and the more we just learn about

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