The idea of sitting still, in quiet, doing nothing sends shivers down most of our spines. It brings us face to face with our belief systems about productivity and laziness, and more deeply, face to face with our own SELVES.

This episode expires why this pull towards constant distraction or busyness is so detrimental, where it comes from, and how to practice the art of staying, when you want to run.

142 | The Art of Doing Nothing: How to Let Yourself Be

How we think is how we live. Hosted by life and mindset coach Taylor Gage, this show explores our relationship to ourselves, our nature, and the world at large, so we can be more aware, present, and alive.

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Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we want to rewild ourselves, then these are some places where we might want to stop looking to our screens and instead look up, or look within.

208 | Human, Interrupted

We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city.

207 | Closer to Nature

How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness.

206 | Loneliness V. Solitude

These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.

205 | Energetic Balance

As humans, we all crave comfort and ease and safety, and it’s important that we establish these for ourselves through decisions and time. But for many of us, there is a point where the pursuit of safety or stability is no longer protecting us, and starts hurting us — turning into a cage that we become more and more scared to step out of.

142 | The Art of Doing Nothing: How to Let Yourself Be

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