Hey everyone, it's K-Sunga here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand

new call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers, along

with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,

life, mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've

ever created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every

Tuesday on the Headspace app and anywhere that you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday. It's Eve here. So I'm pretty sure

that when President Kennedy said to Congress in his 1961 speech that they were going to

send a man to the moon, many, many people would have gone, there is no way that will ever

happen. How many times have you been in a situation where your first thought of being asked

to do something or to try something was along the lines of, oh I can't do that? The truth

is we don't actually know what we're capable of until we're sometimes forced to try it

out. I remember when I was asked if I'd be willing to move out to America for work, I

thought, no, I'll never be able to leave family and friends. But here I am five years

on and I think it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Had I not been willing to try,

I never would have known. Mindfulness is a practice that can actually help us to reposition

how we see things, how we can approach things with a fresh perspective. So often we create

a box in the mind and we can't deviate from it. Through mindfulness we can start to see

that there actually is no box. The box doesn't exist except for the fact that we think it

does. And this extends past just problem solving or trying new things. We tend to label

or judge other people as well. We put them in boxes based on our preconceived idea of

who we think they are. And I was in the grocery store the other day and there was a long

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