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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Monday morning. So I think very often

with training the mind, the idea of mindfulness being more present, the temptation is to think

that spending any time in the future, in our mind, spending any time in the past in our

mind is inherently a bad thing. I think it only really becomes a problem when we are

attached or we hold on to tightly to either the things that we hope for in the future or

the things that we've experienced in the past. And we're going to focus more on the

past today. And normally it's more on the future. I don't know about you. There are certain

times in life. It might be a place, a spend some time in, it might be a person that I

was with. It might be a piece of music. They're reminding me of a particular feeling in

a particular time. But there are particular moments in time which I think can't really

be recreated. And yet somewhere in our mind, we are looking to either recreate or relive

to somehow replicate the conditions so that we can experience those same feelings again.

Not so long ago I had to give fortune to head back to India, to Northern India back to

the monastery where I became a monk. And I had the chance to go with some friends and

they were friends who hadn't been there before. You know, a lot of that stuff was quite

new. And I was really excited to share with them the experience that I had had. The only

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