Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.

I think very often in life we assume that what we put out into the world is based on

our actions and our words alone.

So when we talk about meditation and we talk about body speech and mind we may assume

that mind is something very personal.

It's something that we only feel ourselves and that doesn't really impact the world around

us unless it gets to the point of words and as it gets to the point of actions.

But once we start kind of digging into that, I wonder if that's really true.

You know, if you consider, I don't know, the last time you walked into a room and maybe

there was a friend or a family member there and they weren't particularly happy.

Maybe they were upset, maybe they were frustrated.

They didn't necessarily say anything.

They didn't necessarily do anything and yet there was a feeling.

Without anything in particular happening, you could feel the tension in the room.

Same goes the other way, of course, it may be that they were absolutely happy in their

life and very excited about something they didn't say anything, they didn't do anything

and yet you could feel uplifted by the energy in the room.

I think there's something really interesting in this, you know, when you go and visit,

might be buildings or places, especially if they're places that I think have been used

with positive, intentional, visited with positive intention over many years, maybe sometimes

even decades or centuries or even millennia.

There are these places where people have gone to visit and because of that positive

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