Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Headspace, the Thursday morning.

So I wonder how you were brought up as a child, I wonder how you have developed your

character, your personality, over your years on this planet. I think all of us, you know,

it's our conditioning. We grow up, we often don't have a lot to say about it, it just kind

of happens, and then one day we realize, ah, I'm this kind of person. But have you ever

stopped to check to see whether the storyline that you have in your mind is actually accurate

of who you are? So often, we have one story in our mind of who we are, and yet it's not

necessarily reflective of how our life is being lived. It's really important that we check

that, to make sure that we're not limiting ourselves in any way. You know, at the entrance

to every office we have at Headspace, we have a quote from one of my teachers from the

monastery, Interbetton, it says, only the impossible is worth doing. And it hints at this

idea of limitless potential that each and every one of us has the ability to be free in

our minds at least, even if not in our environment. From that teacher, I heard so many different

stories of people who had been in really, really difficult, physical, emotional, mental

situations in their life, and yet, who have been able to experience that sense of freedom.

And part of it, I think, was a willingness to let go of that storyline in their minds,

you know, and to have the courage, if you like, to put that story down and go beyond that.

I was in an interview, a discussion the other day on Instagram. Someone said to me,

like, well, you're a real risk taker, aren't you? And that's not how I think of myself

in my mind, but definitely as I look back through my life, there have been moments where

I've had one set of information in my mind that could very well perhaps should very well

have stopped me doing something. And yet, there is a feeling, you can call it, got feeling

...