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

I don't know how you think about your mind in relationship to your life but I wonder how often,

rather than simply living our life, we try to strategize how we're living our life and what we're doing with our mind.

As I look through social media each day as I chat to different people, I feel like there is a huge amount of effort that goes into coming up with different strategies

and even when it comes to something as innocent as meditation.

I've shown someone the other day and they said meditation, I've tried it but it just doesn't really work for me.

I said what do you mean? He doesn't work for you.

They said well you know I sit there and thoughts come up regardless and well sure yeah that's part of meditation.

Witnessing the thoughts, getting comfortable, witnessing the thoughts.

And they said yeah but it didn't stop the thoughts.

And that very idea suggests that there was a strategy as in if I do this I will get that.

A meditation, it's not really about that.

We're not doing it to get something.

We're doing it to understand the mind and we understand the mind by stepping back and witnessing the mind watching the mind,

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