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 Muscara, 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 and 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. 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

hours 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. So

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