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Hello, it's Eve here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday. So I don't know about

you but changes in the weather can really affect my mood. I'm based in Los Angeles now and

we are lucky enough to have sunny weather most of the time but before that I lived in the

UK most of my life in a somewhat less sunny Scotland so believe me I'm very used to cold

and grey weather. But recently a huge storm hit the west coast of America with weeks worth

of rain falling in about 48 hours. The skies were dark and stormy and the wind was howling,

you know rattling our apartment. Anyway it got me thinking about one of my favourite

analogies in meditation which is that of the blue sky. So imagine that the mind is a bright blue

sky and the clouds are our thoughts, feelings and experiences. So we may naturally have a restless

mind or frequently feel frustrated, irritated or critical and we might mistakenly believe that

this is who we are or this is just how our mind is. But this really forgets that thoughts and feelings

are simply on the surface of the mind. Needless to say my mind during that storm was subdued

and all the rain got me thinking about home. The fact that I haven't seen my family and many of

my friends for over a year and I know a lot of people are in that same situation. You know I'm

missing human contact and it really highlighted some of the challenges that I'm facing that we're

all facing and in these gloomy moments it can very often feel like the storm will never end

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