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Hi, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. Until Wednesday morning. So one of the questions

I get asked the most is how do I know if this is working as in the meditation, the mindfulness,

the mind training and how do I know if I'm progressing on my journey. So that question comes

up all the time and it's an understandable question. I think most of the things we do in life

in fact, yeah, pretty much everything, not quite everything, but pretty much everything.

We normally have an idea of progression, but I don't know what age that kicks in. I don't

feel it's there quite so strongly when we're children, but even if I look at my kids who

are still really young, there is an idea of wanting to progress and to get better to

develop a particular skill even within play. It's an understandable question at the same

time. I'm not sure how helpful it is. So we can talk about it and yes, we can talk

about it scientifically and we can measure it even scientifically. There are ways of

doing that. But even then, we're really only talking about how it progresses or develops,

how physiology, our brain and how in turn that then comes back round to influence our

psychology and our brain and then as a consequence, our mind. And I think mind is something bigger

than that. It's not just a brain. It's not just our body. Mind is bigger. So in terms

of trying to judge it, it's a little bit like, I don't know, for me, I think of love.

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