Hello, welcome back to Radio Headspace.
It's Eve here, and it's a brand new Thursday.
So I often joke that I'm a natural born warrior.
I didn't come to meditation because... I have a naturally mellow mind.
14 years of practicing mindfulness later, I still worry a lot.
But the difference is that my practice has helped me recognize when I've hopped onto the worry train.
And it's given me tools to step off before it picks up too much speed.
A restless mind is one of the most common challenges in both meditation and daily life.
And restlessness often begins as a scattered mind.
This inability to focus, bouncing from one thought to the next.
But left unchecked, it can quickly turn into worry.
And we've all been there, playing out the what-if scenarios in our mind,
overthinking every little thing and finding it nearly impossible to relax.
So in meditation, this restlessness might sound like, why is this taking so long?
Or... I should be doing something more productive right now.
Or I emailed them about that job five minutes ago and I haven't heard back.
Do you think they hired someone else?
This is such a common experience.
And it's easy to forget that taking time to meditate is actually a very skillful use of your time.
When you take a few moments to pause,