Hi everyone is Kaysonger. Just a reminder that you can listen to all of our

podcast ad-free on the Headspace app. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space. So it's Monday morning. I hope you

enjoyed the weekend. I know in lots of places, it's a long weekend, this weekend, you are I hope you're you're safe and

that you're well now chatting to friends over the last few weeks the last few months

a number have said to me how they're using this time to reconsider their lives, you know,

what's working for them, what's not working for them, professionally, personally,

are the things that they want to stop doing, are the things they want to start doing.

In those conversations brought up how they feel perhaps a little nervous about trying, something different about trying,

something new, and I think so often in life we don't necessarily follow through with the

things that we would like to do because we're worried about the outcome

because we're worried about how it might be experienced by ourselves

or perceived by others.

In fact people often ask me, you know, when you went off to become a monk, what were you thinking?

That's probably the point right there I don't think I was

thinking and of course there are times when it's really important that we do think ahead but

there are other times when we tend to overthink things.

I'm always reminded of a particular teacher at Circus School

and yeah, you heard that right, Circus School,

so after the monastery I did a degree in Circus Arts and as part of that

training we used to have to do a sort of a theatre element and we'd have to get up on the on the stage.

Basically the entire class would be there,

the teacher would be there and as soon as he got sort of bored

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