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 Muscarra, and in today's episode we are going to talk about stillness

and patterns and how they intersect, more to come on that in a moment, first let's settle

in together with the sound of the bells.

So often when we think of stillness, we think of inaction, immobility, not doing anything.

Or we could just say, non-doing.

We don't really think about our patterns, behavior, ways of operating in the world.

They feel like distinct categories, meditation, and stillness perhaps, and then work real

life, everything else that we're doing.

However, these two areas are not distinct categories, they are intimately, intricately,

and delicately connected, specifically our relationship to stillness, and the ways we

feel comfortable in stillness or avoid stillness, really have an impact on how we live our

life, which is why I often say, show me the ways you avoid stillness, and I'll show you

the patterns that run your life.

So let's break that one down a bit.

Show me the ways you avoid stillness, and I'll show you the patterns that run your life.

What does this mean?

Well, let's start by looking at the latter portion of this statement, the patterns that

run your life.

This is referring to the actions and the behaviors that we take on a day-to-day basis, usually

unconsciously, but maybe even somewhat consciously, that create the fruits of our life.

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