Hey what's going on my friends welcome to the Asper

I'm Cori Allen and hope that you're having a beautiful

restful peaceful day and that you are currently or you're about to

have a wonderful holiday with the people that mean the most and create the meaning

in your life. You know at the end of the day we all get caught up in trying to do this or that and the distraction and just the momentum of our daily lives and

really what matters is being with those people spending a present beautiful moment with those who you love unconditionally

and those who unconditionally love you. I think, you know, when we look back, that's what really will matter.

Not what we quote-unquote accomplished, not how other people saw us, not what our status was, not how philosophically deep we got or anything

like that.

But what really matters is spending time and just being there with those people who

mean so much to us. So I hope that you're doing that now or that you're about to get

to do that a little bit. I take the holidays that you're about to get to do that a little bit.

I take the holidays, you know, because it's a good time that's built into our cultural

schedule that everyone agrees like, all right, let's break let's chill let's connect and it's

always a wonderful wonderful time so I hope that you're having a beautiful one my

guest is the wonderful Spring Washam. She's a

meditation teacher, an author, a visionary leader. She's one of the founders of East Bay

meditation center and is member of the Teacher's Council at Spirit Rock

Meditation Center. She's also the author of the new book called A Fierce Heart.

I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful holiday time, get some rest, get some relaxation,

fill the coffers of the heart and soak in some of those meaningful moments. So let's do it. The time is now.

Let's go talk to the great and wonderful Spring wash them. What's your normal kind of routine as far as getting

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