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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning. It's not just because

it's Friday but I thought today we would perhaps talk a little bit about not doing. I don't

mean stopping everything and not doing anything. It's more about our approach to uncovering

the innate qualities of the mind. It applies I think not only to the mind but also to many

other areas of life itself. Even if we just take sort of awareness itself as an example,

if you think about sort of cultivating the idea of cultivating awareness, it's not that

it's necessary something we need to do. Definitely there needs to be the intention. Definitely

we need to create an environment in which we can cultivate it. But ultimately it's more

about what we stop doing or stop doing more about what we notice what we're doing in

letting go of what we're doing we experience awareness. So awareness is found in not

being distracted. Even the cultivation of awareness is something very passive. It's very

gentle, kind of nuanced in that sense. It's in letting go of distraction that we find

awareness. It's always been here, never going to go anywhere. So it can't be lost. So

we don't need to have any anxiety, we don't need to apply any pressure to ourselves to cultivate

awareness. We know that it's always here. We simply need to notice when we're distracted.

In the same way, kindness I think very often is found in the mind when we let go of criticism,

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