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Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Head Space.

So I was chatting with a friend earlier today and we were talking about taking time out for ourselves

and now I think more than ever ever it's really important that we take

time out for ourselves it's always been important but now with so much going on in the

world I think is especially important and it's really tempting to look at taking time out for ourselves

as somehow being selfish, perhaps an escape of some kind. But I don't know about you, when I take

time out for myself, I feel better and I don't just feel better for me.

I feel better for the people around me. I feel calmer. I feel more relaxed. I feel recharged in some way. I maybe have a little more clarity in my mind.

Whereas when I'm very distracted in the world,

when I'm very called up either in my internal chat

or the external noise, I actually feel like that is the escape in some ways. I'm not really experiencing the here and now. I'm called up in commentary on what did

happen or commentary on what might happen rather than simply being present.

So when we step out of the world and when we are quiet still for just a short period of time in the day, there is the opportunity to really reconnect with

what's happening right now, with how we feel right now, to feel a greater sense of appreciation

for those people in our lives so that when we go back out into life

we can be there in a better state of mind not only for ourselves but for the people

around us. So my hope is that however your Monday unfolds today,

there is the opportunity to pause, to take a little time, whatever

you want to call it, for yourself, so that you can better show up for the people around

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