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

A couple of days ago I was doing a podcast and someone asked me an interesting question.

It's a question that I've heard before but phrases it was made me reflect on it a little more I guess.

The question was, someone does Headspace on meditation on an app.

What do they do when they become spiritual or want to go on and become enlightened or something like that?

I kind of caught me by surprise in so much as I've never really thought about it in terms of a leveling up or a graduation in that way.

In fact, I find the idea of separating life out in that way quite alien in some ways.

And it kind of begs a question of what do we mean when we talk about the idea of spiritual.

For some people it's comfortable language. For some people it's very uncomfortable language.

I feel like for most people it's a way of differentiating consciousness from a journey in a particular religious sort of thing but trying to take ourselves out of our everyday life.

I'm aware of something bigger than myself and yet it's not tied to a particular journey.

From a meditation point of view or just in terms of training the mind actually when we train the mind we're kind of unpacking the mind.

Rather than adding labels and putting new labels on ourselves we're taking labels off.

We're letting go of the identity and the story we have around us.

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