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

So it's Monday morning, and just recently I had a good fortune to work with the Cookie

Monster.

I'd never really imagine that I would begin any sentence with those words, but working

with Sesame Street, we've been designing some meditations, some exercises for young children.

On this particular episode with the Cookie Monster, we were talking about this idea of

waiting for things, and how our impatient sometimes makes waiting for things very difficult.

But it's not so much the situation itself, it's more where the mind is going, the mind

wanting to get to another place, and somehow unsatisfied with where we are in that moment.

Now with the Cookie Monster, obviously he was waiting for his cookies to come out of

the oven, and we played a little game, where he was focusing on other things in the mean

time.

Essentially becoming more interested in what was happening in the moment, rather than

the potential interest of what might happen in the future when his cookies came out

of the oven.

Stay with me, I'm going somewhere here, so anyway, it reminded me of a story of a man

who went to a monastery, a retreat centre, to do some meditation.

As he went in there, he didn't really know so much about meditation, but he knew that

there was a sitting going on and he was going to go and join in.

So he went down and he sat cross-legged on the floor in the temple, and he hadn't sat

cross-legged on the floor for a long time before, so it quickly became very uncomfortable.

He sat cross-legged, he changed his legs over a few times, and he started feeling a bit

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