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Rewind: On Simplicity

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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On today’s Radio Headspace Rewind, Andy challenges us to find ways to free up space and simplify our lives. Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radiohead Space.

0:17.5

And the Friday morning, we're at the end of the week, I don't know what you've got

0:20.2

planned for the weekend, I'm going to be packing boxes, I'm in a process of moving home.

0:24.8

And I don't know, some people don't like it, I really like it.

0:28.5

There's something about, I don't know, maybe it's giving things away, giving things

0:33.5

up, there's a sense of sort of clearing out and decluttering that happens.

0:37.1

When you move home, even moves that I've had in my life that have not necessarily been

0:41.4

through choice, where I've sort of had to move.

0:43.6

But even in those situations, I quite enjoyed it.

0:46.0

There's one move in particular that I was reminded of, as my wife and I were going through

0:50.0

some things the other day deciding sort of what to give away and everything else.

0:54.5

And I was reminded of the time when I actually sort of became a monk for the first time.

0:59.6

And the instructions for the monastery were to give everything away.

1:02.1

So as a monk or a nun before you go there, you give all your belongings away.

1:06.2

At that stage I'd been away traveling and stuff and so most of my stuff was at my parents'

1:10.2

house, I went back to my parents' house.

1:12.0

And I went through a process, probably over a number of weeks and months, just giving

1:15.3

everything away.

1:16.3

It's a very strange experience, but also quite a liberating experience.

1:21.2

You know, I started with the wardrobe and I got my clothes out and I thought, okay, which

1:25.6

friends would like these clothes and you know, they came round and they took them.

1:29.1

And even I was just about to say I got rid of my takersets.

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