My dear Asterites, my dear Asterites, welcome to the Asterhausal.

Hello fellow human critters scurring around the planet Earth.

This is the Astro Hustle. I'm Corey Allen. And hey, I really appreciate you directing your attention towards my podcast

out of all of the things and places and areas that you could be pointing your

pinhole of awareness. I do not take it lightly that you're pointing it at my voice and therefore allowing my voice to light up your

auditory cortex in your brain and hopefully some other parts of the brain.

I really do appreciate it.

Isn't that weird how, you know, they say sometimes they, whoever they are?

They say that you should smile whenever you record stuff because the smiling just the sound coming out of the

mouth whenever you're smiling is subconsciously heard by the listener and it makes them feel warm and positive and respond better to the thing that they're hearing.

But man, it sounds so creepy to me.

Sounds like a serial killer. Sounds what they sound like. Not that I've ever

met one that I know of, but I imagine that's what they sound like. Anyway, you just know that I'll

never smile while I'm talking to you if I don't actually mean it.

For whatever time that's some seal I'm gonna, some weird twisted guarantee I'm gonna put on this podcast.

There's no disingenuous smiling while I record these

intros. Speaking of under the hood, today on the podcast I speak with Dr. Dave Vago and I had a great time talking to him. He's a

cognitive neuroscientist research director at the OSHA Center for

Integrative Medicine and he's been studying for quite some time

neuroscience, meditation, mindfulness,

and he's essentially has been mapping the meditative mind

on a neurological level by plug-in advanced meditators into fMRI machines and watching their blood flow

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