The Martian Walk

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this episode, I share a beginner's mind exercise that I call "The Martian Walk," designed to reconnect you to a sense of awe and wonder for the world around you.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Cori Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to share a practice with you called the Martian Walk.
0:16.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:18.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So, do you ever feel like you're caught in the monotony of your life as if you're just
0:50.3	going through the motions, often with a been there done that mentality.
0:56.0	If so you're not alone. I think a big challenge for all of us is continuing to look for and feel into the novelty and
1:09.2	richness of each moment, especially those moments that feel very familiar, like our commute to work,
1:17.0	conversation with a partner, our normal routine that might be familiar from day to day.
1:25.0	And connecting to what is called beginner's mind
1:29.0	is one way that we can start to feel into the moment-to-moment novelty that is there, because the truth is we've
1:37.2	never seen this moment before, even if it's familiar.
1:42.3	And it's easy to get caught in this trap of
1:46.0	needing more and more extravagant moments
1:50.4	in order to get the high of novelty.
1:55.0	But it doesn't have to be like that.
1:57.5	We can train ourselves to be more attuned to what is here in each moment and appreciate the subtleties and the nuances that maybe we didn't experience beforehand with a sense of gratitude and even awe.
2:15.0	Now one of the practices I've utilized to help me reconnect to this
2:21.0	is what I call the Martian walk. Now this didn't start as a walk
2:27.8	when I first did it it started as a Martian drive.
2:33.2	I'll explain why I call it the Martian walk in a moment.
2:37.3	But on my commute to the gym in the mornings,
2:40.5	back when I used to go to the gym, early in the mornings.
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