Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. So welcome, welcome to the gathering room. It is, you will hear me cough.

I've been coughing for the last several days.

And I also, I do not test positive for anything gnarly, but I have lost my sense of smell and taste. I don't know if any of you have had that

delightful symptom. It's not something I've had before. And when I was reading about how it

happens to some people, I thought, boy, if I got that, I hope it doesn't happen to me. Well, it did. So, here I am without a

sense of smell or taste. And I'm thinking, life is less fun without a sense of smell or taste.

I'm sure those of you who've gone through the experience would agree. And it can happen that even

after one gets over infections,

the sense of smell and taste do not come back.

So I have been researching how I can make this come back

even when my sinuses ever clear,

which is an open question at this point. And I found that was an interesting thing.

And it connected with a lot of other stuff that I've learned about the brain and neuroplasticity

and the connection between the body and the brain. We think culturally about the body being

something physical and separate,

just an object and then the mind and cognition being something airy-farian. Neurological, yes,

but not that connected to the body. Well, if you want to get your sense of smell back and yours is

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