Hi everyone is Kaysonger. Just a reminder that you can listen to all of our

podcast ad-free on the Headspace app. Space Studio. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space and to Monday morning and

welcome back. Hopefully you've enjoyed listening to the best of Radio Headspace these

past two weeks. There's a pretty good chance that if you've been listening to Radio Headspace

for a while that you got to listen to an episode for a second time. And on the surface that could feel like, well, you're just

listening to the same thing again. But I wonder how true that really is, not just for this, but for

so many things in life. When we repeat something we assume that it's just the same thing.

And yet our mind is in a different place. Our thoughts are working differently each day.

Perhaps our mood is different.

Perhaps the way that we're able to assimilate that information is different.

It got me thinking back to a particular retreat in the monastery where we were going in there for a long period of time many months and we were only allowed to take one book.

So the choice of book becomes quite important when you think you're only going to have one book.

Bear in mind there's nothing else to do there other than your meditation of course.

There's no other sort of external information coming in.

Now I chose this particular book and there are a number

of short verses throughout the book. It was really interesting over the course of

that year how differently those words felt every single day.

I didn't read a lot every day, a few pages at most, but it always felt different.

And it wasn't that I was necessarily repeating what I'd read before, the words were the same, but it felt so different.

And the same was true for the meditation too, of course.

On the surface, sitting down, closing the eyes, focusing on the breath.

It sounds like the same thing every single time.

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