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Hello, I'm Eve and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday. Thanks for tuning in today.

So I know a lot of us are probably driving a lot less than we used to. For many of us

we're still working from home but we can still all remember what a good old traffic jam

is like. Anyway, I did need to use my car the other day and I had to get across Los Angeles.

So I was on the freeway or the motorway as we say in the UK and I could see the traffic

was starting to slow down and a very gradually it got down to a snail speed and all the cars

were bumper to bumper and we were just crawling along. There were a number of cars who then

started beeping who were trying to you know change lanes and move in front of other cars.

So as I sat there surrounded by cars I thought to myself, well you are part of the traffic

as well. It's not that I'm the only person who is experiencing this. We are all the

traffic. Getting annoyed about it is only going to make it much worse and I could visibly

see how frustrated people in the other cars were getting and it got me thinking about an analogy

that I was taught when I was first learning about meditation and it used to cars on the road as a

way to represent thoughts in the mind. Before I tried meditation I thought that in order to

meditate you had to clear the mind of all thinking, all feelings and if I wasn't I wasn't

doing it right. Thankfully my teacher saved me a lot of frustration and explained that

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