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 the conditions

for deep rest.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

So as I mentioned the other day, my upcoming online retreat April 16th or 18th is

around the theme of deep rest, restoration, relaxation, ease, unwinding.

So I've been putting more and more thought into what contributes to deep rest, and while

that will be an in-depth exploration, I want to pull on one strand in this episode that

I think is important in the context of rest and relaxation and letting the body unwind.

And that is the role of space and patience.

So maybe you've had this experience where you're feeling tension, tightness, something

in you is stress, and then you come in and go, that's bad, I need to relax now.

And then the mind goes into relaxation mode, but in a way that is almost bullying the

stressful state, the tension, relax, relax, come on, let it go, relax, come on, you can

do it, you can do it.

And do you feel the energy behind that intention?

It's almost another form of stress, agitation, it's creating extra tension in the system.

And while it can sometimes be useful, it's like, okay, let's take a deep breath, breathe

in, breathe out.

The thing that actually helps that tension unwind is not the forcefulness, it's the space

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