Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace. So it's Thursday morning and I have a question

for you. Who is it or what is it that you appreciate most in your life. And ordinarily

when we are asked a question like that, we tend to sort of immediately flip it around

and we think to ourselves, okay, what do I appreciate or who do I appreciate? And in

turning it inwards in that way, somehow it makes the mind a little smaller. If you were

to ask that question to yourself, I'd suggest keeping it in the second person, so who

do you appreciate or what do you appreciate most in your life? And the reason I ask you

this question is because very often we are so caught up in life that we don't necessarily

allow in that feeling of appreciation and gratitude that actually brings a huge amount

of joy to our life. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work with lots of different

people using lots of different types of meditation techniques. This one time we sat and I was

talking him through the exercise, we were dropping these questions every now and again,

and at the end of the exercise, he said, do you mind if I share with you what it was?

I said, you can, but you don't need to. That's for you, it's not for me. And it's more

about how you feel rather than the idea itself. And he said, yeah, but I find myself feeling

maybe even a little guilty about what came to mind and it's a bit surprise. I didn't really

know what he was going to say. I'm like, sure, yeah, okay. So he said the thing I really

appreciate is my morning cup of coffee. I have an incredible wife. I have young children

who I love very much, a healthy business that looks after us. There are so many things

to be grateful for in my life and yet I just found myself thinking of that morning cup

of coffee and the smell of it and the taste of it and the silence in the house at that

time in the morning. And it had really kind of moved him. It wasn't just a thought that

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