Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. I hope you're all doing well. Let's take a moment. Just check in with ourselves. Always important to do that. We are often mindlessly moving through the day, moving through the week, moving through the month. Sometimes mindlessly moving through our entire lives. Never really slowing down to check in with ourselves. It's fascinating how disconnected we are from our experience, our emotional experience,

which is internal and external in a lot of contexts, also disconnected from our bodies,

which are really powerful communicators.

Think about it like this.

You're driving your car, right? All intensive purposes, that bad boy looks great. It's running fine. But what do we do? We look at the dashboard,

because the dashboard will have indicator lights that will let us know that maybe something,

something deeper is off, not something profound

or overt enough where we will pick up on it because maybe it's not like our tire is like clunk, clunk, clunk.

Okay, that's an obvious attention grabber.

And we have those in our lives.

Well, I feel something in the pit of my stomach.

Well, I feel a lot of anxiety in my body. Okay, sometimes it's profound enough where it forces your attention, but much

like the car's indicator lights, at times it's like, oh, well, I needed an oil change. That wasn't

anything I could discern just by driving or looking at it. And that's what our body tells us,

what some of our deeper needs are. And so we want to be more mindful, which means being in our body and slowing down and taking

time throughout the day to say, how do I feel?

How's my body doing?

How's my mind doing?

Let me check in with my body to help me understand how my mind and my experience in the world

might be.

Also, just saying like, what am I feeling?

Because a lot of us go to what we call secondary emotions,

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