Hello, my friends. Welcome to the podcast. I am Corialin and as always it's a great joy

and honor to be here in this moment of time with you.

Today's episode is going to be based off of a listener question.

As I've mentioned before, if you'd like to send me a question or a topic that you'd like to hear me talk about on the podcast,

you can do that by sending those messages through Instagram, some of the most likely places that I'll see them.

You can also email them to me by following the contact information on my website.

Today's question is a really great one and it has the potential to become really complicated,

but I'm going to do my best to talk about it in the most clear and succinct way as possible

because I do think that it is a valuable question, particularly for people who are on the inward journey,

a meditation path, a mindfulness path. The question is from Kyle Becker and Kyle asks how that we can approach our practice

with an emphasis on cultivating self-love through meta or affirmations or whatever method that one chooses.

Well, at the same time, keeping in mind that the quote-unquote self that we want to direct this love towards is really an illusion.

There's a lot to unpack in this question and I'm really looking forward to getting into it with you.

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The best way to go about talking about this is to first define some terms.

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