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 something I call the Surrender Walk.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so I want to share a practice that I've been doing that integrates well with meditation, integrates well with my spiritual practice, and integrates well with breaks throughout the day.

I call it the Surrender Walk.

And what this entails is going for a walk, but doing so with a particular orientation of letting go and receiving.

So if we were to put this in context, I might be at a coffee shop, taking care of work, emails, website stuff, writing, do that for a number of hours.

And you know, that's a lot of doing mode. It's kind of inevitable.

And it can create a sometimes contraction in my system, but it just keeps my mind oriented around goals and crossing things off the to-do list, which is great.

But it's not so much a receptive place where I'm letting new things in, where I'm really dropping in and being attuned to what's here in my life right now, and also what's next step.

And this is where Surrender Walk could come in, where I'm feeling a need for a break, I want some space, and I'm looking to shift gears.

And so what this will typically entail is just finding a place where I want to walk.

It doesn't have to be really quiet or in nature, but I tend to like that if it's available to me.

And I go into the walk with relaxation in my body and the intention to listen and to receive.

So there's no special initiation into the walk, I don't stop and bow or anything, or say anything.

I'll just start walking, and I'll notice what's going on in my body.

Is there still tension from work that I was doing, contraction, invite that to relax?

I'm not trying to be good, I'm not trying to do this well, not even trying to really pay attention.

Just inviting the body to soften so that I can drop into receptivity, ease, surrender.

And then from there, I just continue to walk.

And I'm just taking in whatever is arising, trusting it as data, intuition.

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