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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Wednesday morning. I got to chatting

with some friends the other day about just how much we see in the space around us. Just

how easy it is to fall into a pattern in life where we're just doing the same thing each

day, maybe going to the same places each day. And part of our awareness, our attention,

almost as though it shuts down, almost sort of running on autopilot. A long time ago

I used to work in a clinic in London and as part of teaching people meditation, I think

it was one week of 10 weeks of seeing people I would go out and teach them walking meditation.

And we go out and we walk around and we talk about how you can do that and make it feel

kind of part of ordinary life without walking around in a very sort of slow way and looking

a little, a little lot. As we do that, I would give people different exercises to do.

You know, it could be as simple as sort of just walking around the block and noticing

when the mind is wandering off and then coming back to the body so that you kind of feel

more present as you're walking around in life. Or it could be something like, okay, you

know, walking up the street, when you get to the traffic lights, notice the impatience.

Especially in big busy cities, we're all moving at such speed. The mind is moving at

that speed too and it's helpful just to see that sometimes.

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