All right, here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Happy New Year to you, I suppose, is in order. I hope that the holiday time was okay for you.

Thanks for tuning in. If you're new, welcome. Everyone else, what's up? Do you do the new year's resolution thing i usually do not i

have a whole thing about new year's resolutions i've written about it before i don't like this

idea of my behavioral patterns supposedly all being addressed with one wish that I make

at the beginning of the year or whatever it is. I like to think of paying attention to my

behavioral patterns and seeing where I can make adjustments to them tweaking the formula of my

actions and attitudes. I like to consider that a year-round effort, needing daily reassessments.

However, this year I actually do have a resolution,

and it's not something that I tried to come up with

or really intended to have.

It happened of its own, And it was an interesting revelation and is relevant to a lot of

the conversations I've had here on the show around receiving guidance. I talk about going inside and making yourself quiet and hearing a voice

of knowing from within. Maybe you've heard something like that before. That's very common in yoga

circles, that idea that we could do that. And I've then talked about how sometimes

when you're able to hear that voice,

you can also get messages.

And I think that when I have spoken about that

or when it's been discussed here on the show,

it's made out to seem like it's a very contemplative, meditative thing

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