#23 Are We Experiencing Life...or Just Managing It?
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Hi everyone, I'm Cass and this is the Mind Your Being podcast. A space where we'll explore health and what it really means to care for our whole being, our physical, mental and emotional health. Each episode you'll hear from leading health and wellness experts or everyday people who share powerful insights and lived experience. And sometimes it'll be just me sharing thoughts, tools and reflections from my own journey. More than anything, I want you to feel supported, encouraged and empowered to make informed health choices that feel right for you. If this sounds good to you, please enjoy. Welcome to Mind Your Being. Whether you're a new listener or a regular listener, thank you for taking time out of your day or your evening to listen to this episode.
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I love the idea that you're listening from all around the world and I hope the podcast is living up to your expectations. I hope to keep bringing you interesting and relatable episodes and it makes me so happy to think that we're starting a little Mind Your Being community. So thank you. So today's episode's just me. It's not going to be a very long one. I'm going to be talking about something that a lot of us in midlife can relate to, how midlife is such a busy time and whether we're managing our lives at the expense of actually experiencing our lives. And toward the end of this episode, I'm going to offer a short meditation. It's an invitation for us all to just take a moment to slow down and reflect on the present moment.
So the reason I thought I'd talk about this today is because there's a couple of phrases that I'm hearing quite regularly lately. Things like, oh, I can't believe how fast this year is going, or every year it seems to go faster and faster. Where does the time go? I've even caught myself saying it too. So I'm recording this toward the end of February, but Christmas actually feels like it was six months ago. There's something interesting about the way we experience time. When life feels novel and you have a lot of new experiences going on, time doesn't seem to pass as quickly. But when we're overloaded, when we're mentally multitasking, as we do in midlife a lot of the time, our lives are often so full with lots of things going on and time can seem to speed up and go by very fast.
But what I wanted to talk about is something I see and hear constantly in my conversations with my friends, conversations online. We are very good at managing life but it's got me thinking lately, are we actually living our days or are we just managing them? Are we just organizing them, optimizing them and surviving them? So today I want to explore the difference between managing life and actually experiencing it. And I want to talk about why that distinction matters more than we realize. For a lot of us, midlife can be a time of busyness. It's often a time of peak responsibility. You might be at the height of your career. Many of us are raising children. We might also be supporting aging parents. A lot of us are navigating changes in our identity around this midlife phase.
We're also dealing with changes in our health, fluctuating or declining hormones, changes in energy. It's just a full season of life. And from the outside, it can look like we're coping beautifully.
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