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Imagine you're walking down a street.
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It's a street you know well.
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Maybe one you walk down every single day.
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But you're so caught up in your own thinking, wondering what you're going to have for lunch, or thinking back to a conversation you had earlier, that you end up falling down a hole.
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At the bottom of this hole, you find yourself thinking, how did I end up here?
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Worse yet, the next day you do the exact same thing.
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And then again the next day.
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It may not sound like an especially cheerful idea, but as an analogy for the mind, it's really helpful.
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Because so often, we follow the same habits of mind, over and over again.
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And so we find ourselves in an emotional hole.
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Maybe even a place that's really painful.
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But imagine if you started just noticing being more aware of your surroundings.
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Sure, maybe next time you'd realize it a little too late you'd still end up in the hole again.
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But maybe the time after that you'd notice the hole and choose to walk around it instead.
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This is what it means to train the mind.
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This is what it means to have "headspace."