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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning. A few days back I got

to catch up with my mum, which was nice. I live quite far away from my mum about 5,000 miles I think

and so I don't get to see her that often but we try to catch up once in a while. Anyway,

she'd been away and she'd been staying in our house looking after it for a friend and she was staying

there with my stepdad and she said that one of the nicest things about being there was having a big

garden and being able to be out in the garden and just gardening. She's got actually quite tired

but in a really sort of positive way. You know when you've been doing something that really

energises you physically that you feel good about. She was telling me that after about sort of

four or five days they were there for about a week I think. My stepdad came out of the house and said

are you just about done with the gardening? Surely you must have finished by now.

And my mum laughed and she said that you don't finish gardening. The garden requires ongoing

care. It's something that you sort of tend to every day. It's something that requires of course the

warmth, the light, the sun, also requires the water, the rain wherever it kind of comes from.

But also it requires a little bit of sort of gentle care and attention. It's not that you just

go and do the gardening and then it's done and it's finished. And in the same way I think sometimes

we're looking after the mind. There is this idea that okay we feel stressed go and do meditation.

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