Hi it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. We're at the end of the week and yesterday

I had the good fortune to have a meeting in a park. So in the absence of office space

these days, a couple of good friends from work we sit down and we try and do some of our

work in the park and obviously socially distancing and everything else. But it's actually a really

nice thing to do. As we were sitting there yesterday, a man walked past. I'm not going to

beat out the words that he was saying. It was quite strong, colourful language, but he

was clearly deeply upset. To such an extent he was no longer able to keep that dialogue

in his mind. It was being expressed through his words and to some extent his body he

wasn't being violent, but everyone was aware that he was deeply upset with somebody

who was walking away at the time. And I was thinking that's a really interesting

thing to be aware of in ourselves. Sort of the progression from mind to body and also

kind of in reverse as well. So what we were watching and what we were witnessing, although

it was quite shocking at the time, it's actually not that far away from where many of us

may go in our mind sometimes. So although something had happened and we were watching him

walk down the street even though he was leaving the situation behind, it was still being

expressed verbally. I think for a lot of us it will still be being expressed mentally

and the conversation will continue for a long while after. But ordinarily in our mind

we kind of have this sort of stuff going on and at some stage it might just be that we're

having a bit of an off day and something just sort of slips out. And then of course sometimes

it can even get to the point where it becomes to be expressed through the body as well.

People often ask why in monastic training, I want to say people as in my friends who

know that I used to be a monk will often ask why is there so much focus on mindful walking

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