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You're listening to Mindfulness Weekends with Bruce Langford,

and today we're talking about the brain and mindfulness. And of course, I mean,

the brain has everything to do with mindfulness. That's obvious because we're thinking about it or

we're not thinking about it. How does our brain work? I mean, some people say the brain is the

thing that we know the least about. I think Alex, who was on the show with me today, he later on, he says something about that. It's a quote that he mentions. And, you know, the brain, it's really got me thinking because yesterday I was at a speaking engagement in Toronto where all the way there, two hours, well, it's actually

three hours of driving and then a couple of hours of driving on the way home.

I was listening to Michael Singer's book, The Untethered Soul.

I've wanted to read that book for a while now and just absolutely loved his other book,

which is called The Surrender Experience.

Oh, it was amazing. And you know what? It's all about the mind. It's all about the inner psyche

and how the mind controls us and how we can control our body with the mind. And, you know,

it's just, to me, it's a fascinating topic.

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