Hi, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Friday morning.

So we've made it to the end of the week, I think.

My guess is that there's probably a little more clarity this morning to some degree

and yet at the same time things I'm sure are not certain and all of us will be asked

to be patient in the days, the weeks and maybe even the months ahead.

Patience is an interesting thing.

I think when we try to be patient, actually it doesn't necessarily gel with how we're

feeling at that time and it's not like we can just push everything else aside and say,

oh, okay, yeah, sure, I'll be patient now.

Life's not like that, the mind isn't like that.

And also when we look at our conditioning, I think most of us have been conditioned into

thinking that, well, if we want something, we're going to try and get it as fast as we

can, even when it's out of our control sometimes.

So this last week, I think for a lot of people, has been really challenging in terms of

resting in uncertainty and being able to be more patient.

I think patients seen through the lens of meditation, mindfulness of training the mind,

is really interesting because it's, I think quite different from how we normally think

about patients.

So from the perspective of meditation, patience already exists, it's with us.

It's with us right now.

It's with us all of the time.

We don't have to go anywhere to get it.

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