Hey, friends. What's going on? Welcome to the astroosal. I'm Corialin, and you are you, and

here we are once again in this moment of time together. Hope that you're doing well. Hope

that things are going right in your life. Everything's clicking and coming together, and the

path before you is revealing itself. Each time that you take a step, you can go further,

and further towards the life that you know is possible. That's what I try and do anyway. On

today's podcast, I'm going to talk about something that it took me a long time to understand how

important it is, and that is mindful communication. Basically, everything in our lives breaks down

the communication. If we don't understand each other clearly, then we have no hope at being able

to build together, to get closer, to you know, overcome things, to really deeply enjoy some of

the profound experiences that we might have. And so learning how to mindfully communicate is so

important, and it's a little trickier than we might expect. First off, as a general overview

definition of what mindful communication is, to me anyway, is being able to communicate in a

thoughtful and reflective, impatient way. One, where you're not just locked into this tunnel of the

way that you're seeing things, the way that you're hearing things, and you're just trying to kind of

drive that through and make whoever you're communicating with come along on the ride with you.

But instead, it is a open, receptive dance to where you are receiving, you're also giving

your open enough to continue to reassess the present moment in each instance, and really get

closer to the truth of what's happening and what's going on in that conversation, as opposed to

getting stuck in the story in your mind, and not being able to hear anything or experience anything

outside of that. One of the things that I have discovered just throughout my life that

made communicating mindfully and clearly really challenging, was not asking a lot of clarifying

questions in conversations. So of course, this could be in your romantic life, this could be in

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