Hi, welcome to yet again another Wednesday and to Radiohead Space. I'm Dora.

So after moving to LA and spending a considerable amount of time in line at the grocery store

or sitting in traffic, I decided to google how long we actually spend waiting in line during

our lives. Some websites say six months and some say five years. Either way, that's

a long time to spend waiting. Waiting is a part of our lives, whether we want it to be

or not. The thing is, we also forget that we're the cause of waiting for someone else.

Other and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg put it best when she talked about how we

get mad at being in traffic yet forget we are the traffic. And there's different types

of waiting. There's the waiting for a job, waiting for a response, a call, waiting in suspense.

And then there's the waiting in line, waiting for the next representative. Waiting is so

much a part of our lives that there's even research on waiting. Science has shown that

when our time is occupied, that waiting time feels like it's decreasing. And when it's

unoccupied, waiting feels like forever. This explains why there's TVs in hospital waiting

rooms and shelves full of toys and candy as you wait in line at the grocery store.

So how can we occupy our time and make waiting less of a chore? I wanted to share a practice

I learned in a mindful self-compassion course that I recently took called Souls of the

Feet, where we direct our attention to the groundedness of the feet, connecting to the

floor or the earth. And the felt sensation of being anchored can help dissolve the feelings

of impatience or frustration as we wait yet again in another line. Let's give it a try.

Now I find it best to do this practice standing up so if you can, take a moment to stand

on your feet. Now of course, if you're doing this in a car, please stay where you are.

Eyes can be open to a soft gentle gaze or closed and softening the space between the eyebrows,

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