Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.

Throughout these podcasts, every now and again we touched upon meditation itself, even

the techniques to some degree.

I wanted to talk about one particular technique today.

It's not really about the technique, it's more about the quality, the reason for doing

the technique, the intention behind it.

You might have heard of it, it's called loving kindness.

And I think it's a really interesting way to think about how we show up in the world

in one of the earliest monasteries that I trained in.

Many of the monks and nuns will not only spend time in the monastery, in the monastery

by the way, and the retreat center is actually in the jungle.

So it's surrounded by wild forest, wild animals and everything else.

So the training takes place not only there, but actually in the forest itself.

And monks and nuns will go away into the forest for extended periods of time.

And on sort of elevated platforms, sometimes in the tree, not always, sometimes it will

be on the floor, but often to keep away from snakes and other wild animals.

Some are really intense by the way, really poisonous.

They would build these platforms in the trees.

It's interesting if you look at the training before they go into those periods of retreat

and meditation.

They actually spend a lot of time practicing loving kindness.

And you might kind of think, you know, sort of what's the association.

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