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Hello and welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Eve here with you and it's Friday.

I have to say I am ready for the weekend. As I was thinking about today's

episode and the fact that the weekend is ahead of us, I kept thinking about this idea that mindfulness is really a

pause button. You know when you watch a game show on TV and they have a big red button that the game show participants push to

signal that they have an answer. Well for me, mindfulness is my imaginary red button

that I regularly push and practice through the day.

There's a beautiful quote by Victor Frankel who was an Austrian psychologist.

And it goes, between stimulus and response, there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

All day, every day, freedom.

All day, every day, we're bombarded with distractions.

Simply put, all that is stress, and it's not always big things. Someone cuts you off in traffic, you have a

difficult call with your boss. And as a result we hurtle through the week,

dodging and diving all of that,

and arrive at the weekend a little exhausted.

When we get caught up in the busyness of our lives,

it can be so easy to forget to take a moment to pause and to reflect and come back to the present moment.

I often hear folks say that they don't have time to practice meditation or mindfulness.

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