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

and so Wednesday morning. So I don't know if you know, back in early January, we had a TV show

launch on Netflix. You may have seen some of it, you might have heard about it. It's called

The Headspace Guide to Meditation. And as a result of that, I got to chat a lot of different people

about it doing interviews and various things. And one thing that consistently came up was really

meditation on TV. Is that a thing? And it really reminded me of the early days of Headspace when

we first launched and people were like, really? Meditation on a phone? Is that a thing? And I think

of first glance, you know, I mean, meditation on a phone, I think the assumption was the phone

is the very thing that stresses us out in the first place. How on earth could we relax using the phone?

I think when you look at it in that way, it can be very tempting to think that we're missing

something. As things evolve, as things kind of change, that we're losing something along the way.

And I look at it really, really differently. There was a time where in terms of meditation and

mindfulness training the mind in any tradition, it would have only have ever been shared person to

person. But perhaps there was an acknowledgement that more people kind of actually wanted to learn

how to do these things. So it became one to many. And you know, sort of events and things were

kind of born in the world, where it was like congregations or communities or however, you know,

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