Hi everyone is Kaysonger.

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app. Space Studio. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space and to Monday morning. So what now you've

woken up feeling Monday morning. So I want now you've woken up feeling this morning.

I was looking back a few days ago at one of my favorite books and the author of this book

has been called the happiest person in the world.

I can think as well of another person who's had that same title who was on the front of Time magazine once.

They both happened to be Buddhist monks.

I quite like to see them going up against each other, to be honest.

Smiling, seeing who can give a bigger smile. It's an interesting thing we don't talk a lot about science on radio head space, but there is something interesting at looking at what's happening beyond the mind perhaps in the brain, in the body as we train the mind no matter what nature that training takes

whether it's more sort of reflection, contemplative, meditation, whatever it might be.

Certainly in these studies where they've ended up coming out with these ideas of sort of the

happiest person or the most compassionate person. They're looking very specifically at

what's happening in the brain and and the different areas of the brain.

The areas of brain associated with feelings of positive well-being,

where we perhaps might be less reactive reactive where we might be more focused.

There's something I think really interesting in that. The bottom line of course is that

it's how we feel it's not what we read about in a scientific paper

but it is helpful it's helpful to know because some days right you sit down and it

doesn't necessarily feel like anything's happening.

It doesn't feel like anything's changing.

And to know that actually even in those moments something is still changing,

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