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Greetings everyone, this is Radio Headspace. I welcome you this Wednesday. So for these

past first episodes we've been reviewing and discussing the eight mindfulness concepts

and how they are related to the new year and any resolutions you have made. And finally

today we'll talk a bit about humor. This concept of humor speaks to the idea of not taking

life so seriously and allowing yourself the time to smile and laugh. Now surely there are moments

in life that need to be taken seriously but I personally believe that we sometimes get stuck

in those serious spaces and we forget to smile and laugh. I was thinking about how I make room for

laughter in my own life just for the sake of practicing what I preach. For me what naturally came up

is the hilarious times I've had with my brother and my brother. So a brother is a cousin

that's so close they feel more like a brother than a cousin. When I get around those two the

silliness just spews out. I was thinking about a situation that happened when we were much younger

that to this day still makes us crack up laughing. As I've stated before I grew up in New York City.

I lived in a part of the Bronx called Castle Hill. Castle Hill projects to be specific.

Now my neighborhood was a bit volatile so we definitely had to watch our backs but at the same

time most of the people were just very nice hardworking individuals trying to survive.

My brother lived in the building around the corner from us and on this particular day he had come

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