Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara.

And in today's episode, we're going to talk about figuring out the difference between your soul's purpose and your mind's ideas.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So a big part of my inner exploration, spiritual development, and general personal growth in recent years has been learning to uncover an inner knowing that can guide one's life.

If you've been listening to this podcast for a while or attending recent retreats,

you've probably seen this as an emerging theme in my teachings.

The impetus for this exploration has been the recognition that there's a lot of noise in the system.

Even for someone with a developed meditation practice, it can be hard to parse the noise, the wheat from the shaft, understanding what is mine and what is others.

This noise often shows up as other people's ideas, could be past traumas, complicated childhood

memories, media, cultural influence, and just the general buzz that can

accumulate from living a fast-paced, disconnected life. And many of us can fall in that category.

Now, all of this tends to create a busy mind and body, and that's what it, what can

make it difficult to identify an inner voice that is uniquely ours and can often lead us to

question if something like that even exists.

I think I was in that camp for a while questioning,

is there really something, something deep, something fundamental that we can listen to,

that can actually guide us on a particular path that has a karmic trajectory inherent to it.

This was a big question for me for years.

And my experience now is that it does.

There is something within us that is uniquely ours, that is fundamental, that we can

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