Hey everyone, it's Dora here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand new

call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers along with

some amazing new friends are answering your questions about relationships, work, life,

mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've ever

created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every Tuesday

on the Headspace app and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hi, my name is Dora. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday. So if you didn't know already,

I'm one of the newest headspace meditation teachers, which has truly been a dream come true.

Like imagine, our requirement for my job is just to meditate and be present. Another aspect

of the job and something I do for my own personal practice is to continue to learn and expand

my knowledge bank. So recently I've been educating myself more on the Eastern philosophies

of meditation and came across a book called Feeding Your Demons. It explores an ancient

Tibetan practice called Chod, which is a meditation process for resolving inner conflict by offering

ourselves the very things that we resist our demons. When we don't, this is where things

like self-sabotage, doubt, fear, and a lot of our self-destructive behaviors and thoughts

are birthed from. So in this Tibetan practice, demons aren't big, scary, black creatures

with fangs. The book describes them as anything that hinders us from our liberation. So

they are in necessarily things that live outside of us. For the most part, they live in our

mind, coexisting with our thoughts and emotions. And it made me think about, eventually, we'll

have to stop running before we turn into the very things that we're running from. One

of the ways we'll know for running away from our demons is by looking at the things that

we criticize or try to control in others or in our environment. Often times, we judge

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