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 are going to talk about what to

do when the body squeezes you into the mind.

More to come on that and what that means in a moment first, let's settle in together

with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so when we're going through life, we are experiencing things at a lot of different

levels internally, which if we were to look at it at a gross level, we could chunk things

down into two categories, the level of the mind and the level of the body, so what

we're feeling in the physical experience and what we're feeling, and we're sensing in

the psychological experience.

And I would make the argument that even deeper wisdom or spiritual wisdom still manifests

itself through those two domains that might just show up in a different way.

And so when you're having a conversation, when someone cuts you off while you're driving,

when something important happens at work, you're experiencing these things as stimuli,

and it's impacting this mind-body system that you inhabit.

And it's always going to create some physical experience, part of what it means to be an

embodied human means that we are interacting with the world around us on a physical level.

We're going to feel the experience of what's happening around us, it's going to be emotions,

it's going to be physical pain, and so that's just part of what it means to be human.

Now the exchange or the relationship between the mind and the body has always been interesting

to me.

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