Hey everyone, it's K-Sunga here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand

new call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers, along

with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,

life, mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've

ever created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every

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Hello, it's Eve here. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to this brand new Wednesday. So I wanted

to start with a very quick exercise today and you can do this wherever you are and you

can keep your eyes open so noticing your posture, whether you're sitting or standing and feeling

the connection of the ground or the surface beneath you. Taking a deep breath in through

the nose and then out through the mouth. And then noticing where in the body you feel the

movement of your breathing. Might be in the nostrils, the shoulders, the chest or the stomach.

A not breathing in any special way the body knows how to breathe. But resting the attention

with the movement of the breath, the rising and falling sensation. And when you notice

that the mind has wandered gently guide the attention back to the breath. Coming back to

this moment over and over. So thank you for doing the exercise with me. I don't know about

you but I really needed it. The exercise we did earlier was really an exercise in mindfulness.

I'm going to talk in detail today about what mindfulness is and how we can practice it

in our daily lives. So I'm going to start with a little story. I'd recently graduated

from university and I was going for job interviews. I applied to various places and waited to

hear back. And I was actually surprised when I did get an email. It said something like

we understand your fresh out of college looking for work but you should really pay attention

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