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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.
So today I wanted to focus on it's quite a subtle difference but I think a really
important difference between two different phrases or ideas if you like.
One of not minding and one of not caring.
They may sound like one in the same thing but I think they're really really different.
But like not minding there's real strength to that.
There's a sense of taking life as it is, being open to change, being willing to adapt
whilst at the same time being fundamentally at peace with either changing or not changing.
Not caring on the other hand.
It feels a little different.
It feels like it comes from a place of indifference and even that phrase itself I don't care.
Suggest that we really do care and in needing to say it it's almost like we're
finding a way to express ourselves in a slightly more subtle way.
When I think back to a lot of the original teachings I learned in meditation,
indifference actually fits into a particular category and it fits into a category called ill will.
And within ill will there are lots of different thoughts and feelings and emotions but some for
example might be sort of dislike or anger even sort of hostility towards another person.
And indifference not caring that comes in that category.
So it gives us some sort of sort of flavor as to what the underlying feelings are to not caring about something.
And look sometimes this can just be semantics and we say I don't care when actually we mean I don't mind
and that's something else but it's really worth looking into those thoughts that exist in the mind.
When you have that inner dialogue, when you witness or hear that inner dialogue in the mind of I don't care or I don't mind.
Noticing how the mind is talking to itself and noticing what's beneath that thought.
What's the feeling beneath that thought?
Because unless we're aware of it we're not really able to address it.
We're not able to address it in our life and sometimes it requires something practical to happen in our life.
And equally we're not able to address it inwardly.
We're not able to let go of it and define peace with it.
If we don't mind we've already found peace with it. If we don't care there's a pretty good chance that there's still a little bit of work to do.
So as you head into your day today noticing that in a dialogue and maybe even noticing it in people around you,
noticing it on social media see, witness how people talk and in seeing that outside of ourselves often we learn something about what's going on in our own mind.
Thanks for listening today I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.