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Hi, this is K-Sunga and I welcome you this Tuesday to Radio Headspace. I've had the pleasure

of teaching mindfulness and meditation on many platforms. I've taught it privately to

my private clients to children at a local monastery school, to corporations, athletes, college

students, and on and on. I thoroughly know that I'm biased when I say this but I truly believe

that everyone can benefit from mindfulness and that it's the answer to everything or at

least the beginning. But as with most things there isn't a definitive conclusive solution

to everything. Mindfulness included. So am I saying that mindfulness is not for everyone?

Not at all, not at all but let me tell you a story of what happened in the session I taught

and I think it will better illustrate the point I'm trying to make here. This particular occurrence

happened when I was leading a group of colleagues in a meditation. This group of colleagues was

composed of psychologist and therapist. It was about six or seven of us so we were all knowledgeable

about mental health issues and personal mental health care. As I usually do when I lead a meditation

group I ask the participants to pay close attention to the coming and going of their breath,

of their breathing. The instructions sound something like taking a gentle deep breath in through

the nose and out through the mouth. Or noticing where in the body you feel the breath, the rise

and fall of your stomach or chest, the feeling of the lungs wherever that place is for you.

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