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

A few weeks back, I had a meeting.

And I don't know if you've ever had one of those meetings, maybe there's something significant

going on in your life in my personal, might be professional, but there's a sense of build

up to it. There's a sense of anticipation.

And although you might not consciously be thinking it through in your mind, at some level

that anticipation is felt. And it's not just felt in the mind, it's also felt in the body.

I think very often we sort of separate the two out, almost as though they exist independently

from each other. But of course, the activity of the mind is reflected in the body, the activity

of the body is often reflected in the mind.

So as the time got closer, I started to become a bit more aware of the sense of anticipation,

but I still couldn't really get a hand on it. I wasn't really too sure why I felt that

way until I got into the conversation itself. And it was interesting, I noticed in having

the conversation and in reaching that point, having moved beyond the anticipation. There

was a very subtle release. It wasn't that I suddenly burst down sobbing in the middle

of the conversation. It wasn't that kind of conversation. But there was a release. You

know that feeling when you sort of well up, there's such a sense of letting go of putting

something down that you just feel that movement of letting go in the body. And it results,

sometimes it results in welling up, sometimes it results in tears, sometimes it might result

in some other way. And I think it's so easy to move through life, actually not giving

ourselves the opportunity to let go of that. So it builds up. And that's when life

starts to feel heavy. When I first went to a particular monastery, I was there to do

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