Hey everyone, it's Dora 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 Tuesday

on the Headspace app and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So, at the end of the week, it's a Friday.

I don't know what you have planned for the weekend. I don't know if you're planning to take

any time out for yourself, but if you get the opportunity, you might just want to check

out what your breath is doing. I don't mean that in a meditation kind of way, but just

stop every now and again and notice what your breath is doing. I've been working on

a project recently, very much focused on the breath and I think very often we forget

not just how precious the breath is, how important the breath is in our life, but we forget

as well how the body and mind are connected through the breath, how we experience the body

in the mind and how we experience the mind in the body directly via the breath. Also,

forget as well that the breath exists far beyond the boundaries of our body. If you think

about the entire planet as a living, breathing organism, the trees and plants, exhaling oxygen

into the atmosphere and in turn absorbing the carbon dioxide that we breathe out, the entire

planet is moving in that way. The more you look into breath, the more we see that it has

this universal and timeless quality. It's oxygen that's created thousands of miles away

that somehow makes it to us that we're breathing in in the same way as we breathe out.

In terms of time, the air that we inhale may well be the air that dinosaurs once exhaled

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