While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace.

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

So I was chatting with a friend earlier today and we were talking about taking time out for ourselves

and now I think more than ever it's really important that we take time out for ourselves. It's really important that we take time out for ourselves. It's always been important,

but now with so much going on in the world I think is especially important. And it's really

tempting to look at taking time out for ourselves as somehow

being selfish, perhaps an escape of some kind. But I don't know about you, when I take time

out for myself, I feel better and I don't just feel better for me

I feel better for the people around me I feel calmer I feel more relaxed I feel recharged in some

way I maybe have a little more clarity in my mind.

Whereas when I'm very distracted in the world,

when I'm very called up either in my internal chatter

or the external noise, I actually feel like that

is the escape in some ways. I'm not really experiencing the here and now.

I'm called up in commentary on what did happen or commentary on what might

happen rather than simply being present.

So when we step out of the world and when we are quiet still for just a short period of time in the day there is the opportunity to really reconnect with

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