I think Its so exciting for the world how spiritual practices such as Yoga and Meditation are after becoming completely mainstream and I think its awesome that its now normal to have a pro active spiritual ritual in daily life like Meditation or Yoga or whatever it is for you. 

As we work on our own self awareness or we suddenly encounter increased self awareness through a spontaneous awakening after a certain life event the highs can be followed by anxiety and unknown negative feelings as we become the observer of our thoughts like never before and at first ( maybe for years even ) we think we are going in the opposite direction and going backwards as we were not even aware of most of our thoughts in the past and now our own monkey mind is in full view every hour of every day as it seem like we cant stop the constant stream of useless thoughts.

In today's podcast I talk about observing these thoughts and instead of being angry or frustrated at our selves we can use it as an opportunity to learn greater compassion for others as it becomes more clear then we all experience the monkey mind that is always going going going.  

So often we look back at so called failures and regret the path we took which led us there but that path was the right path at that time. 

Recently my friend and his girlfriend were took a detour to avoid Forrest fires on the East coast of Australia only to be told by officials to turn back and go a different way which added 4 hours to their drive. They were annoyed at wasting 4 hours on this so called wrong path but that path was the right path while they were on it and only in hindsight did it become the wrong path. Often we look at our so called failed relationships and careers like this and be think we wasted years on the wrong path but we need to remember that these so called wrong paths are part of this infinite journey that we are on and so they were absolutely the right path and now this path we are currently on is also the right path.

I hope you enjoy the episode :-) xx