Hello and in today's episode,

welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better

at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about what are you letting accumulate and build up

in the background.

In other words, what are you not addressing and why that may be hurting you. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle

in with the sound of the bells. Okay, so what are you not addressing? What might be building up for you in the background of your awareness that may be causing

extra heaviness and tension.

You know, the thing about this pandemic that we're all going through at least at the time of

recording this episode is that we're all being impacted in some way. It's

impossible not to be. It's impacting our belief systems, our relationships, our technology use, our sense of safety and predictability, relationship with ourselves, our patients, our health, our sleep. and some of these changes are positive, no doubt.

For me, I'm exercising and meditating more than I have in years, just had to admit.

But with such a radical change in the ecosystem of our life,

it's very likely that there are a lot of negative things

accumulating in the background. the stress, fear, relationship tension, relationship grudges, grief, worry, the strain of isolation, poor sleep, and all of these experiences in isolation, you know, in small doses are fine and normal, a little bit of stress, a little bit of fear a bit of fear a night of poor sleep I mean this is just

what it means to be alive but where it gets tricky and dangerous is when these

things start to build and they become more of

our normal routine and where it becomes even more dangerous is when these things are happening more in our

subconscious awareness, meaning they're so familiar to us that they almost become our default

way of being and we don't even recognize

that they're there anymore.

That's when things can really build up.

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