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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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning. So I wonder

if there's a part of you that you would like to change. For most of us, I think there

are aspects of ourselves that we might wish were a little different and sometimes there

might be a feeling as though it's impossible to change and the older we get we might assume

that well the longer we've been alive the more solid those qualities become and therefore

the less likely it is to change. But today I'd like to kind of reframe that a little differently

and maybe offer a glimmer of hope that we can change at any age and look I say this

as not only someone who's getting on in years but you know we've had people along at Headspace

in their 70s, 80s and 90s learning meditation and talking about how even at that age it's

really transformed their thinking the way they feel about themselves and about particular

aspects of themselves and I'm always fascinated by this idea of impermanence and change and

how everything is in constant flux all of the time if we think about the physical body

for example. Okay so more than I don't know exactly how many but I know there's more than

30 trillion cells in the body and that those cells are refreshed, replaced in full every

six months, something like that we want to sort of a cycle. So even though we look at our

physical body and we might assume that it is solid, that it's fixed, that it kind of

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