Hello and welcome to the Calmar You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnotologist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Hello and welcome to

this week's podcast.

Thank you so much for listening today.

I am speaking to Lama Yeshi, who is a Tibetan monk.

He has a new book out called From a Mountain in Tibet.

And it's an incredible story that he has. He escaped from Tibet when he was 15 and

travelled overland through freezing conditions with a group of originally 300 people and only 15

actually made it to their destination, getting out of Tibet to escape from the Chinese regime.

And he shares this story in this podcast.

You can obviously buy his book.

If you want to hear more about the story, it's really beautifully written.

I love this topic.

I was really into Buddhism several years ago and I was travelling about 12 or 11 years ago

and got the opportunity to go to Tibet myself and met a lot of monks and went to Lhasa.

And so this is a really interesting story for me to hear, having had so much interest in it myself.

And I think you'll really like it.

So he starts off by sharing his story of how he escaped to bet.

We talk about how we can meditate.

If you're somebody that finds meditation challenging, difficult, he has some really sage

advice for that. We talk about how we can

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