Hey, my friends, what's going on? Welcome to the Astrosse. I am Corey Allen. You are you.

And I'm glad that we're here resonating together. How are you doing? Are you feeling all right?

Hope that you feel nice, calm, chill, nice relaxed, you know, having a good day. And also, I hope that you have voted already.

Or this is coming out on Monday. I hope that you are planning on voting tomorrow.

Or perhaps if you're listening to this after, then I hope that you have already voted.

It's easy because there are so many of us in the world for us to feel like what we do as an individual doesn't matter.

Of course, that is not the case.

Because for there to be the big thing that makes us feel insignificant in our individuality,

we, all of us, all of our individualities, have to add up to create that big thing.

So without us, without the individual, the big thing doesn't exist, and therefore there's

nothing to get lost in.

Please make sure and get

out there and vote and make your independent individual voice heard. And also then, after

that, you know, it can be very stressful just with the increasing pressure of the news

and the coverage and just all the dynamics and tensions that happen around

all this type of stuff and michael my guest today on the podcast we get into that a little bit

but it's so important to put some silence in your life you know instill some stillness as it were

to kind of get out of just having a mind cramped with thoughts and with you know the doom scrolling and all that type of

stuff so that you have a little bit of space to where you can remember yourself and just kind of

breathe hear your own voice and calm down and reflect and not be inhabited by all of the noise

and static out there and on that note i I really love this book by Joan Halifax

called The Fruitful Darkness. I'm rereading it right now. And speaking on the notion of the

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