Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and welcome to the start of the week.

So about 10, maybe even 12 years ago now, I did a TED tool and the very first line of

that TED tool was asking the audience, when was the last time that you did absolutely nothing?

That includes not watching TV, not chatting to someone on the phone, not scrolling on social

media, literally doing nothing.

I think for most of us, we don't really take a lot of time in our day to step back from

the busyness of everyday life.

And whilst that may not feel that important on one particular day, when it continues

day after day after day, we tend to accumulate a feeling of weight, a feeling of stress that

we just start to carry around with us.

One of my teachers used to talk about meditation in this way, used to say, you know, meditating

each day was a little bit like emptying the trash can, the rubbish bin, where we kind

of felt a little bit lighter afterwards.

There are times in our life, maybe we've just moved house, I spoke to a friend the other

day, he's always moving house actually, and he said that he felt like he was constantly

on the back foot, like he was always busy doing something, dealing with something.

In those situations where we've just moved house, we've just moved city, maybe we've

just had children, might be in a new relationship, I think it's quite normal in those situations

to be busy a lot of the time.

There's just a lot of stuff to do, and we only have so much time to do it.

I think the risk is when that becomes a habit, something that feeds into our everyday routine,

where we are simply doing something all of the time.

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