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 Muscarra and in today's episode we are going to talk about mindful savoring.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so let's talk about mindful savoring.

At the time of recording, the days are getting shorter,

the nights are getting longer, and it feels like an opportunity to savor the light when it's

there and the cool air as we transition from fall into winter.

And then also just the evenings.

There's a coziness, and all of it is inspiring this savoring idea in the context of mindfulness. Now, savoring and mindfulness are two technically

different constructs. They overlap, but they are distinct.

Mindfulness has more of this bare attention, quality of awareness that we're bringing to the moment.

We're not actively grasping at it

or trying to make it better.

We're just sort of knowing it and inhabiting it. Whereas savoring tends to be a more active

reflection on the experience, trying to amplify the experience, really letting yourself take it in.

And you could see the merit to both of those.

As mindfulness has become mainstream, it often gets conflated with savoring and honestly there are a lot of ways to

or different variations to how you can teach mindfulness and one of them can include

in infusing that awareness with the quality of gratitude

and appreciation for what you're experiencing.

And so I'm going to offer a similar variation here, which is that as you continue to tune in to your life and you develop

this quality of presence, awareness and whatever you're doing, whether it's a shower, getting out of bed,

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