Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Monday morning and I don't

know how you feel kind of going into the week. I feel very often there's a scent, even

when you sort of look at the chatter on social media and everything else is like, oh, Monday's

coming and it's like the same old thing back to work. There's a scent even before we kind

of begin the week that there's going to be sort of some repetition. Like we're going back

to the same old thing. So the weekend is somehow a break for that. We don't think of the

weekend in that way. Like, oh, it's just the weekend. It's always the week. Right. And

there's a sense of perhaps wanting something new and chatting to a person about this. They

were saying that for them, they find meditation incredibly repetitive. It's not necessarily

going into the week that they find repetitive is the act of sitting down and watching their

breath. And as though this were sort of unusual, it's not. And perhaps they might be the

only person who experienced that. Again, they're definitely not. A lot of people have that.

And it's really important to understand sort of the value of repetition. So I'm talking

about meditation, but really like this applies to every kind of part of our life. The reason

that we strip away all of the distractions in our life is so that we can actually see

more clearly. It's very, very difficult to focus on the breath when there's lots of things

kind of going on around us or when we're engaged in other things. So we're really just trying

to sort of create the most conducive conditions possible. And then when we do sit to meditate,

we focus on the breath. We might think was just focusing on the breath again. Well, one

yet we are showing up to focus on the breath, but the breath's not the same again. We might

experience it that way. But if we do, then we're not really paying attention. If we are truly

with each in breath and each out breath, there is no comparison to any other breath. And also,

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