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Greetings. My name is Kaisanga and I welcome you this Monday to Radio Headspace. I hope

everyone had a great weekend. Today we'll be talking about the mindfulness concept

of Letting Go. Letting Go speaks to the aspect of our mind that tends to hold on to the

experiences that we encounter in our lives and it's this holding on that can often lead

us to a place of feeling stuck or stagnant. To illustrate this point I love to use the

story referenced in one of my favorite books Full Catastrophe Living by John Kapitzen.

It goes like this. They say that in India there's a particularly clever way of catching

monkeys. As the story goes hunters will cut a hole in a coconut that is just big enough

for a monkey to put his hand through. Then they will drill two smaller holes on the other

end, pass a wire through and secure the coconut to the base of a tree. Then they slip a banana

inside the coconut through the hole and hide. The monkey comes down, puts his hand in and

takes hold of the banana. The hole is cleverly crafted so that the open hand can go in,

but the fist cannot get out. All the monkey has to do to be free is to let go of the

banana, but it seems most monkeys don't let go.

Just like the monkey in the story, we tend not to let go of our experiences. This behavior

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