Hi, my name's Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Monday morning and welcome back.

Hopefully you've enjoyed listening to the best of Radio Headspace these past two weeks.

There's a pretty good chance that if you've been listening to Radio Headspace for a while

that you got to listen to an episode for a second time. And on the surface that could feel like

well you're just listening to the same thing again. But I wonder how true that really is.

Not just for this but for so many things in life. When we repeat something we assume that it's

just the same thing. And yet our mind is in a different place. Our thoughts are working differently

each day. Perhaps our mood is different. Perhaps the way that we're able to assimilate that

information is different. It got me thinking back to a particular retreat in the monastery where

we were going in there for a long period of time many months and we were only allowed to take

one book. So the choice of book becomes quite important when you think you're only going to have

one book. Bear in mind there's nothing else to do there other than your meditation of course.

There's no other sort of external information coming in. Now I chose this particular book and

there are a number of short verses throughout the book. It was really interesting over the course

of that year. How differently those words felt every single day. You know I didn't read a lot

every day a few pages at most but it always felt different and it wasn't that I was necessarily

repeating what I'd read before the words were the same but it felt so different. And the same

was true for the meditation too of course. On the surface sitting down closing the eyes

focusing on the breath. It sounds like the same thing every single time. And yet there is something

fundamentally different. If we have a curious mind and open mind and interested mind we see

that it's never the same. Session to session, moment to moment, day to day, it's never the same.

It's always different. And if we're able to apply this same approach to our everyday life we

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