Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Headspace.

I thought today, you know, a lot of people have written in over the last couple of months

saying that they have felt quite helpless, not only in the situation that they're in themselves,

but also in witnessing suffering in others, witnessing struggle in others.

It might be people close to them, it might be people who are in lockdown that they can't

be with, it might be people further away who are experiencing struggle that they're seeing

on social media or through the news, but there has been this repeated theme of feeling

helpers and not really knowing what to do in those situations.

It's really me of a technique that I learned in a Tibetan monastery I was training in.

It's a technique called Tong Leng, which translated would be translated something like sending

and receiving or giving and taking and applying this concept not just to a meditation technique,

but to life can be incredibly helpful.

Typically we live our lives wanting the good things, right?

Of course we do, that's human nature.

We want the good things, we want the good stuff, and when we get it, we want to hold onto

it.

We don't want to give it away.

I'm speaking broadly, I'm sure some of you may be constantly kind of overflowing with

kindness and generosity, but more broadly, we tend to kind of hold onto those things.

That's the nature of the ego.

At the same time, we're living life trying to keep at bay the bad things.

We don't want to experience bad stuff.

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