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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace.
So it's Thursday morning and I don't know if you were able to catch any of it but a few
weeks back for about, I think almost two months, we ran a short series called Take 10 on
Instagram Live and every morning I was joined by a guest and by lots of members of the
community from around the world and we paused to do some meditation and to have a chat about
what was going on.
Now this one particular morning we were talking about not only the struggles that people
were facing but also the inspiring stories that were coming out from around the world to things
that people were doing, the acts of kindness and generosity and these weren't just sort of
financial in nature, these were people coming out and doing things for their neighbours,
for their community and in some cases it may be as simple as reconnecting with loved ones
and with friends looking out for other people and somebody commented, well that's fine
but we can't give what we don't have.
The idea of being it has to be something tangible, it has to be something physical.
Giving the act of generosity, the act of kindness, we can't put limitations on it in that way
and say that it is only something physical, there are so many different ways for us to give and to
be kind and never in search for thanks or appreciation simply to practice that.
But this same person then followed up with another comment saying well we can't pull from an empty
cup. As we dug into that a little bit again the suggestion is that somehow we don't have what we
need to give and when I think back to one of my teachers in the monastery he always used to say
this sort of mentality, again this isn't in a judgmental sort of way, because it's almost sort
like a poverty mentality as though we think we don't have what we need to be able to give to others
in the world. When in truth we have everything we need and it's not that the cup is empty even if
the cup is empty we fill the cup through those acts of kindness in generosity. So today is you
head into your day as you head into the rest of the week maybe looking for those opportunities
to practice that moment of kindness, that act of generosity. If you can doing it in such a way that
the other person doesn't even know maybe you're able to do it secretly with no expectation of
thanks or maybe it's a simple call to someone you love, someone you care about, someone who you
know would value hearing from you. There are so many opportunities for us to practice kindness.
Sometimes it just takes the intention and the commitment to follow through with that idea.
Thanks for listening today I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.