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 Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about what would happen if you were actually still.

More to come on what I mean by that in a moment, but first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So I'd like to share a poem with you by Kaviri Patel, and it's called Dear You.

Dear You, you, you who always have so many things to do, so many places to be,

your mind spinning like fan blades at high speed, each moment always a blur because you're never

still I know you're tired I also know it's not your fault the constant brain buzz is like a swarm of

bees threatening to sting you if you close your eyes. You've forgotten something again.

You need to prepare for that or else. You should have done that differently. What if you closed your

eyes? Would the world fall apart without you? Or would your mind become the open sky,

flock of thoughts flying across the sunrise

as you just watched and smiled?

So notice how that poem lands in your mind, in your body, and we could even say in your

heart.

I think many of us use our busyness, our worries, as a way to have something to work on, a problem to solve, a sense of accomplishment

that might be around the corner, a sense of meaning and purpose for our life.

We say we hate it, we hate the stress of being busy, all these things going on, the drama of the news. This we have to worry about, that we have to worry about. We say we hate it, but deep down, really deep down, I think we like it. Not just like it, I think we love it. It's the stuff that

gives us that feeling like, oh, it's just one more thing, one more checkbox, it's just around

the corner. Or it's the stuff that gives us an excuse to not have to face something deeper, to not have to have that important

conversation, to not have to do that really creative work that's most aligned with our heart.

You know, we say if we're still, we won't be getting anything done. We'll be useless.

It's selfish to be still to stop.

But that's all a narrative.

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