Hello and welcome to Happy Place, your weekly guide to finding mental freedom in our

frenetic world. I'm Fern cotton and today we're going on a bit of a spiritual journey

with an actual real life monk. I suppose I've got a pain in my foot or a headache.

That's not the whole of me, I've got a headache but other bits of, so okay I've got a bit

of self hatred going on in the side but there's more to me than that and meditation helps

you connect with the more rather than the less. I tell you what, my chat with Gellon

Tipton is going to make you think and rethink about everything you thought you understood

about your own thoughts and feelings. Gellon by the way is a title meaning senior monk.

How are you feeling today? Have a think about it. How are you really feeling? If the answer

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There are new practices dropping every day this January and they're all short and easy

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that brings people and dogs together to make life possible. In just two years more than

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