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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 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 cooled up either

in my internal chat 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 cooled 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 what's happening

right now, with how we feel right now, to feel a greater sense of appreciation for those

people in our lives so that when we go back out into life, we can be there in a better

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