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Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Tuesday morning and I wonder if

you've already done some kind of meditation, some kind of physical exercise today. You

always interest me how people think about looking after the mind, training the mind. And obviously

I know a lot of you probably do some kind of meditation, something like that if you're

listening to this show, but I know some of you won't as well. You may well have a broader

interest in health. I meet many people who say, I don't meditate, running my meditation

or whatever it might be. It's interesting because many of those activities, although there

is a mindful quality to them, in fact some of them I would say even help cultivate a mindful

quality. So really important, really, really useful. They're still fundamentally different

from meditation and training the mind in that more formal capacity. And there's a good

reason why if you imagine that you are in a difficult situation, this is an argument

with a partner or somebody who may be receiving your boss at work and it's getting very stressful

and you feel yourself getting increasingly tense. It's very difficult in that situation.

If you are dependent on, let's say, running, if running is your meditation, if running

is the place that you go to to find the place of calm and clarity in your mind, in that

moment it's very difficult to bring that about. We don't really have that luxury in life.

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