Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday Morning.

I've had a good weekend, I know Monday Morning's for a lot of people, can often be a lot

of sort of negative thoughts in the mind.

Maybe it's leaving behind the space and the freedom of the weekend, maybe it's a sense

of anxiety or fear heading into the week ahead.

Whatever it is though, I think it can be useful to sort of reframe negative thinking.

I know in a past we've talked about sort of these three different areas that can sometimes

sort of obscure our thinking or get in the way of living a happier life.

One is sort of a sense of ignorance, not really knowing what's going on in our mind.

Strangers it may sound, we spend all day, every day with our mind and yet because we're

so involved in the surface thinking we don't really always understand why we think the

way we do, why we feel the way we do and why we sometimes behave the way we do.

The second one is that sense of attachment, that desire chasing after things internally,

externally, that often can sort of lead to its own sense of exhaustion and stress.

But it's this third aspect, this idea of resistance that we're going to focus on today.

Because if you think about negative thinking, most of it comes from resistance, if not

all of it, somehow a sense of dissatisfaction with our situation, again whether it's internal,

whether it's external.

There is a sense that things aren't as we would like them to be or as we think that they

should be and so we sort of push against it a little bit.

Sometimes those things are really big things, they're really obvious in our life and we

see them but sometimes they're actually a lot more subtle than that.

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