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Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace.
It's Monday morning and I don't know how you feel going into the week.
I feel very often there's a sense.
Even when you look at the chatter on social media and everything else, it's like, oh, Monday is coming and it's the same old thing back to work.
There's a sense even before we begin the week that there's going to be some repetition.
We're going back to the same old thing as though the weekend is somehow a break for that.
We don't think of the weekend in that way.
It's always the week. There's a sense of perhaps wanting something new and chatting to a person about this.
They were saying that for them, they find meditation incredibly repetitive.
It's not necessarily going into the week that they find repetitive is the act of sitting down and watching their breath.
And as though this were sort of unusual, it's not.
And perhaps they might be the only person who experienced that.
Again, they're definitely not.
A lot of people have that.
And it's really important to understand the value of repetition.
So I'm talking about meditation, but really, like this applies to every kind of part of our life.
The reason that we strip away all of the distractions in our life is so that we can actually see more clearly.
It's very, very difficult to focus on the breath when there's lots of things kind of going on around us or when we're engaged in other things.
So we're really just trying to create the most conducive conditions possible.
And then when we do sit to meditate and we focus on the breath, we might think was just focusing on the breath again.
Well, one, yeah, we are showing up to focus on the breath, but the breath's not the same again.
We might experience it that way.
But if we do, then we're not really paying attention.
If we are truly with each in breath and each out breath, there is no comparison to any other breath.
And also the breath anyway will be different.
So we can only think of it in terms of repetition.
If we are comparing it to another time in that session or on another day.
It's really important that we're able to show up and have a place in which to sort of play, a place in which to watch.
If we keep showing up in a different place, then there's no way of training the mind.
There's no fixed context in which we can sort of get comfortable with settle into and be undistracted.
So although it may sound in some ways uninspiring that it's repetitive at times, it's only repetitive if we think about it.
If we are truly being present, there is no idea.
Repetitive is it's a concept, it's an idea.
And it only happens when we think about it.
So as much as possible, whether it's in your meditation, whether it's something in your day, today, whether it's something in your week, this week, as much as possible, letting go of what it has been previously, letting go of any idea of what you might think it's going to be in the future.
And instead, simply being present in that moment for what it is in that moment.
Thanks for listening today.
Have a great week this week.
I'll have full-sing you back here tomorrow.
