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 energetic discharge

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

Okay, so being in a physical body means that we are interacting with and taking in a lot of data and

stimulation throughout every waking moment and even our sleeping moments and

And this

primarily comes in from the external world, but can also come in from our internal world where digesting thoughts,

emotions, sensations,

interacting with people outside of us,

change in weather, our job, our environment, and

the distinction between

external and internal is a bit blurred because the external world impacts our internal world and

and all of it is going to have what we could call an energetic impact on our nervous system and

Part of how we process that is by

discharging energy when there's too much stimulation

So if you think about this in the context of trauma and if you've read my book stop missing your life

You're familiar with this where I give that story about the bird I saw hit a window

At a high speed fall to the ground be stunned for a period of time, but shortly after that

what it did was vibrate its entire body went back into stillness, vibrate it more, and then it flew off

this is a form of

energetic discharge

where there was a big impact to the system a lot of stimulation

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