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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to RadioHeadspace.
Welcome toFriday, the end of theweek.
I was chatting with a good friend the otherday.
I'm not going to say who it was because they have neighbors and because it's about theneighbors.
But they had particularly sort of noisy neighbors and they were telling me about how difficult it had become living athome, especially inlockdown.
Always feeling like theirnoise, theneighbors' noise was part of theirnoise, their life was part of their life and it all had become very sort ofcomplicated.
He was saying sort of how often he had started to almost listen for sounds coming from nextdoor.
Not in a sort of glass against thewall, listen kind ofway, but just in hismind, almost like he was on a lurch the wholetime, just waiting to sort of hearsomething.
It really reminded me of what we do in the mind sooften, which is to go back to those places that frustrate us or that we finddifficult.
Almost to sort of keep the story going to keep the emotionalive.
It's not alwaysintentional, it's just something wedo.
We might even do it if we have some discomfort in thebody.
Continually going back to that place in our mind to remind ourselves of just how uncomfortable itis.
And he reminded me of when we had young children and what we still have youngchildren, they're only three andfive, but it feels like they've been around forever in a goodway.
And if I think back to when they werebabies, you'll know if you've gone throughthis, babies cry a lot in thenight, and after a while you hear those cries so often that you don't really know anymore what's real and what'snot.
It's almost as though it becomes animprint, a groove in themind.
And because it's not always particularly pleasant to be working up in thenight, it's something that you're perhaps almost waitingfor, anticipating in someway.
And I would genuinely sometimes have to sit up inbed, almost sort of not shake myhead, but to be really clear that there actually was no crying going on atall.
I'd woken up because I'd been dreaming ofthat.
It just becomes this groove and I feel like so often in ourlives, whatever itis, whether it's physicaldiscomfort, whether it's asound, whatever it mightbe.
There is a temptation to be onalert, carrying that tension in our body and our mind waiting for something tohappen.
Maybe even imagining that we are experiencing thatthing.
Andclearly, this is an incredibly uncomfortable way to live ourlives.
Farbetter, ofcourse, there are always going to be things that will frustrateus, that will annoyus, that will feeluncomfortable, unpleasant in ourlives.
And some of those might be repetitious innature, but if we go through life constantly waiting forthem, looking forthem, intentionally going back tothem, then we will always keep the storyalive.
We will always fan the flames of the emotion that surround thosethoughts.
So as you head into theweekend, letting go of any ofthose,niggles, any of those little things that you might be holding onto, anticipating in some way and just allowing a greater sense of ease in yourlife.
I hope you have a greatweekend.
I look forward to seeing you back here onMonday.
