Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens.

And I'm Jan Black.

We've all heard the advice that we should let our conscience be our guide.

But sometimes it's very hard to do that.

I shouldn't just say sometimes, pretty much all the time. Our guest on this episode, Leonard

Perlmutter, is here to offer guidance on how we can better tune into and trust our conscience.

Leonard is the founder and director of the nonprofit American Meditation Institute. And his course curriculum on the

Heart and Science of Yoga has been certified by the American Medical Association, among others.

His latest book is called Your Conscience, the key to unlock limitless wisdom and creativity

and solve all of life's challenges.

Leonard, thank you so much for joining us.

It's my pleasure.

Thank you for the invitation.

Just so that we're all on the same page here, how do you define conscience?

Conscience is one of four functions of the mind, and who knew that we had four functions of the mind?

I certainly didn't, but it's true.

All those voices that we have heard since childhood, there are four of them, and one of them is the conscience.

However, the conscience is the only function of the mind that can discriminate,

determine, judge, and decide. So that was a game changer for me because what it meant to me,

because the conscience is the only function of the mind that can make a decision for us.

It means that every single choice that we have ever made and every single choice we will ever make has been and always shall be made by the conscience.

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