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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning. So one of the most

common, most popular questions I get asked is, okay, the training the mind bit, the meditation

bit, I get it. We see still the eyes are closed. It's a relatively conducive environment

for sort of being more present, being less distracted. But how do we do that in the

rest of our life? And it's an interesting thing, I think, very often despite the fact that

mindfulness is all about being more present in our life. There is a, even with meditation

actually, there's a sense sometimes I think of working towards something like maybe the

will be a moment of insight, a moment of clarity, a moment of enlightenment in the future sometime.

And therefore, what we're doing right now doesn't matter too much. So we're waiting for

something to happen. And because we're waiting, we're not really present. We're actually

focused somewhere in the future. And I remember being in one particular monastery where there

was, I want to say there was less focus on meditation. I mean, you know, on a daily basis,

you're probably still doing about eight hours of meditation a day, but compared to a lot

of retreats and things like that, it was less. The focus was very much more on daily activities

and on the daily sort of chores. It was cleaning windows, it was gardening, it was cooking,

it was ironing, it was vacuuming, you know, doing stuff, the stuff that you need to do to

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