Episode Details

Where does the pressure actually build up? Not in the big things. In the notifications and the small unanswered stuff, in a cooker nobody thinks to let out.

A river with no rocks and no twists in it is not a river anybody stops to look at. Some days I do not want to meditate or do anything useful. I want to sit and let the moment settle, and that is allowed. We all have our vices and nobody is without them. The cooker keeps building until you notice it, which is why nature works so well. It asks nothing of you.

One thing to try: Notice when the cooker is building, rather than when it goes off. The noticing is most of the release.

In this episode

• (0:07) Preparing for the quiet before life gets loud
• (1:40) The chair, the weather, and April doing all three things
• (3:22) A river with no rocks is not worth stopping for
• (5:12) Some genuinely good news, for once
• (7:54) Wanting to sit and do nothing. Not meditate. Nothing
• (9:06) We all have vices, and nobody is without them
• (10:51) The pressure cooker, and the notifications feeding it
• (12:19) Why nature gives you peace. It asks nothing of you

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