Hey, happy Tuesday. Welcome to Radio Headspace. I'm Dora.

Today I'm continuing on with questions I received from you all. This question is a question

that I get asked a lot. How to turn meditation into a real job? This person wrote,

I'd like to initiate meditation here in my community and transform it into a

real job for me and for my people. I love it and I'd like to make it my job. Can

you give me your opinion about it? Now I think people arrive to this path of

meditation either by desire or by desperation. For me, it was desperation. I really

wanted to feel better and I also wanted to find a sense of community. Looking back,

those were my intentions. Those were my wise that continued to fuel me despite

everything I had going on like being in nursing school, taking six classes,

and working a part-time job. Intentions are what can give us direction. They're

the starting point for any journey we embark on. They help us get clear on our

motivation and purpose for doing what we're doing and what makes a good

intention, ensuring that it benefits the good of all beings, especially when

being in service to others. I like to think of intentions as seeds. Our minds are

the soil and our thoughts, feelings and actions are the water, sun and

fertilizer needed for the seeds to grow. Intentions can help foster the way we

put thoughts into action. If your intention is to bring meditation to your

community, ask yourself what's the first step to doing that? For me, it was about

hosting workshops. I remember my first ever event back in 2017 when I began

hosting women's workshops in Vancouver. I had just made an event page on

event bright and really had no expectations as to whether anyone would come. A

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