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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Monday morning and just recently

I had a good fortune to work with the Cookie Monster. I'd never really imagine that I would

begin any sentence with those words but working with Sesame Street we've been designing some

meditations and exercises for young children. On this particular episode with the Cookie Monster

we were talking about this idea of waiting for things and how our impatience sometimes

makes waiting for things very difficult but it's not so much the situation itself, it's

more where the mind is going, the mind wanting to get to another place and somehow unsatisfied

with where we are in that moment. Now with the Cookie Monster obviously he was waiting

for his cookies to come out of the oven and we played a little game where he was focusing

on other things in the meantime. Essentially becoming more interested in what was happening

in the moment rather than the potential interest of what might happen in the future when

his cookies came out of the oven. Stay with me, I'm going somewhere here. So anyway,

it reminded me of a story of a man who went to a monastery retreat centre to do some

meditation. As he went in there he didn't really know so much about meditation but he knew

that there was a sitting going on and he was going to go and join in. So he went down

and he sat cross-legged on the floor in the temple and he hadn't sat cross-legged on

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