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Hello, it's Eve here and welcome to another episode of Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.

So I went on a silent meditation retreat recently. It was online but it worked really well

given the circumstances. Normally with the meditation retreats or the ones that I've been

on you go away to a retreat house and that's where you stay for the duration of the retreat

with everyone else who is also joining and it's interesting doing it from your own home

and working out how you blend retreat life with real life. It's a good test of meditation

in action. Even though the retreat was silent, as in those of us attending and practising

how to stay in silence, the teachers gave instructions and each day they would give a

talk often referred to as a Dharma talk and on one of the days the talk was focused on balance

or as it's traditionally known equanimity. So when we talk about balance in meditation,

we're talking about an evenness of mind, a mental voice, a quality of mind which isn't

easily overwhelmed and if it is overwhelmed we know how to come back to a place of feeling

grounded and centered in our life. And it's not that we need to create this evenness

of mind. It's more about reminding ourselves that that is already here. It's a little

bit like the idea of the blue sky as though this quality is always present. It's just

that sometimes we get so carried away with our thoughts, so overwhelmed by emotions

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