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Hi, my name is Sam and welcome to Radio Headspace and your Thursday morning.

So for graduate school, I went to Columbia, New York City and it was my first time being far away from family and my long-term boyfriend that I had at the time.

I was feeling completely alone and I was really stressed and anxious.

I was feeling overwhelmed by the crowds of people, the towering skyscrapers that were above me and just the general busyness of New York City.

And the more anxious that I felt, the more I started to notice things about the city that I really didn't like, like the speed of life, the cold nature, my interactions with people, and this increasing feeling of loneliness.

And my attention really became selectively focused on all of these distressing elements. That was all that I was seeing around me.

It was really lucky that during this time I found a Buddhist community and a meditation group on campus and it was really a refuge for me.

It offered this big dose of community and the connection that I was craving.

So while I was meditating one day, my mind was recalling all of these lonely moments that I've been having recently, like the people rushing by and my yearning for friendship and community.

And I would watch my mind presenting me with these memories and stories about how bad things were turning out in New York and how I wished I was back in California.

And then I would come back to my breath and those words, those anchor words I had learned breathing in and breathing out.

And during a particularly long period of focus on my breath, I had this insight that emerged and it replaced the words breathing in and breathing out with

if you want love, give love. If you want love, give love.

Immediately I felt my heart skip a beat and this feeling of clarity just arose and bathed me in this feeling of joy.

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