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That's best of you. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Wednesday morning.
Question for you, when you're on holiday, are you the kind of person who can immediately switch off, relax, and settle into your new environment?
Would you tend to find that, at least for the first few days or so, the thoughts continue.
When you go to bed, do you immediately fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillar?
Or are you someone who lies there and all the thoughts of the day come up and sometimes it can even get in the way of you falling asleep if you do meditate?
Are you someone who immediately sort of settles in?
It's all essentially the same thing, of course, is there is a sense of wanting to reach a state of relaxation, a little quicker, or perhaps even as quickly as possible.
And for most of us, that's simply not how the body works, it's not how the mind works.
There's a certain amount of momentum that happens in our life when we are caught up with the busyness of life, the stress of life, it sort of accumulates and it's perhaps a little unrealistic to expect it to immediately cease as soon as we sit down to meditate or lie down at night or go on holiday.
So it's really helpful to think about this as you approach different parts of your life where you have the room and the opportunity to experience a calm mind and less sort of tension in the body.
When you sit to meditate rather than thinking that okay I need to do this as quickly as possible and why isn't it happening?
That's all thinking, that's all effort, is the opposite of letting go, there is no room for relaxation.
I remember my teacher, he would say, the first 15 minutes of an hour long meditation, don't worry too much about it, the mind's just kind of relaxing, it's just calming down.
Same thing, if you're doing a 10 minute meditation, just accept the first few minutes, the mind that momentum just playing out, starting to slow down.
A night time when you go to bed, just because we're lying down and we close our eyes, doesn't mean that we're immediately, the mind's going to switch off and we're going to, we're going to go to sleep.
Perhaps even give yourself, build in that time and say okay for the next 15 minutes, maybe even for the next half an hour if you get to bed early enough, I'm not even going to try to go to sleep.
I'm just going to let my mind wander and do its thing, giving it the space to relax and unwind.
We may find that we even fall asleep during that time and the same again, when we go away, when we go somewhere new, we might get really frustrated with ourselves sometimes, that we can't switch off, but getting frustrated about not being able to switch off is just adding more fuel to the fire, is moving further away from relaxation rather than closer to it.
So just knowing, recognizing, oh this will probably take a couple of days, just to sort of let go of some of that stuff and to settle in.
When we approach life in that way, it just feels easier.
Not only are there a greater sense of ease as we go about our day-to-day life, but in those opportunities when we can truly remove ourselves and take some time out, relaxation just seems to come that much more easily, and it seems to last that much longer.
Thanks for listening, I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.