Hey, friends. How's it going? Welcome to the Astro hustle. I am Kory Allen. You are you and it's great to be here with you today in this moment of time in this very second of time hanging out and speaking with you.

I hope that you're doing well, that you're feeling good today and that things are going right in your life.

One of the really fascinating aspects of developing your inner life, working on your perception, your self-understanding and your general expansion of your consciousness and self-awareness is that the changes in your mind are much more difficult to spot than let's say the changes on your body.

If you exercise, you can visually tell that your body is changing based on the exercise that you're doing. However, whenever you were working on your inner life, the issue is that those changes are ephemeral. They aren't as apparent as something that has an immediate visual quality.

So in this episode, I'm going to talk about some of the common changes that people experience whenever they start meditating or simply working on their inner lives and how to notice those to help track the progress and growth that you're making and hopefully I'll keep you more inspired and motivated to keep going and keep making the changes that are making your life better.

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The really beautiful thing about working on your inner life and on yourself and again just to expand a little bit about what that means that is paying attention more to your actions during life.

Just paying attention to the way that you're speaking, the intentions that you have paying attention to the emotions that are arising in real time and responding to those less reactively in with a larger perspective in mind.

Of course through meditation you're able to gain a clear focus of your own thoughts and your own mind and observe the arising impulses in your mind as they're happening which helps you have greater intentionality as you're moving through life.

All of these things translate to a more focused, more kind, more compassionate and more patient and also generally a more loving type of life.

These are all beautiful things that increase our lives immensely but the issue is that sometimes people work towards these things through meditation or trying to be more mindful in their lives.

And they easily can get off track because they feel like perhaps they aren't getting anywhere.

So someone might meditate a little bit and they say, you know, I feel a little bit more calm. That's great.

But then a few weeks goes by and I think, well, you know, where is this really getting me? I do feel a little bit more calm but is this all them getting out of it?

Because you hear about so many benefits now transformative that something like meditation or just increasing your mindful awareness can be.

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