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

So don't you have ever noticed in life, sometimes there can be a really big gap between what

we think we know and what we actually know.

And I'm defining the difference here by, you know, there's our intellectual understanding

and knowledge of things.

Maybe we read some books about it, maybe we went to some talks about it.

Maybe we've thought a lot about it and come to some conclusions in our mind.

We have some opinions or beliefs.

So that's our intellect, our sort of thinking mind.

And then there's the experience of it itself.

How it actually feels and manifests in our life.

For example, we might know that we don't like the feeling of anxiety or that it's not

helpful to be anxious.

And yet we still feel anxious.

We've read lots of books about it, but it doesn't seem to change that feeling.

Or it may be feeling angry, sort of consistently angry at another person or something like

that.

And we know it's not helpful, we know it's not particularly friendly.

And yet that doesn't change the experience of anger.

There's something really interesting in this gap between the two.

It's almost as though we could go through life thinking that because we think we know,

don't we know, but it's only in letting go of that thinking that we are able to make

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