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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday morning. So a few days

back I was chatting to a friend of mine and she was talking about how difficult it being

to find any sense of rhythm or flow, especially over the last year in the midst of homeschooling

and working from home and everything else, just the changes of trying to find some kind

of flow. She was asking whether the idea of flow is really sort of perhaps meant for

times when things are going a little more easily and where the flow is almost a luxurious

state of mind, not really kind of designed for challenges in life, more for, let's say,

when things are going a little more smoothly and it's understandable because most of the

time of course we experience flow when things are going a little bit more easily, a little

more smoothly and so we associate it with those times. But really when we think about that

quality of flow, that nature of relaxed focus, it can really be applied to any situation

in life. It's just that it's so much easier to apply, it's so much easier to find it and

discover it in those easier times. So we could almost look at it as a journey of mastery

in some way and to begin with, it's almost impossible to find those moments of flow in times

of real challenge, real difficulty. Over time, it starts to become perhaps a little easier,

we start to see it show up more often in times when everything's kind of okay but we

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