 Hello and welcome to day 82 of the mindfulness challenge. We've come outside today. It's a beautiful sunny day here in south Wales. We are now well and truly into our summer period. June this year, 22nd, is the summer solstice, is when we have our longest day of the year. Still 24 hours, but in terms of daylight. I wanted to come on today really, just to talk about a couple of things. The words that we consistently use, words like compassion and empathy and love and trust and surrender and equality and all of these things are words in many ways that are getting stuck. In the throats of people as we see the world sort of lurch from one situation to another. Coronavirus striking here in the UK in March and now the scenes that we're seeing in America and around the world due to the killing, the murder of George. And I really want to try and help build the words like compassion and love and equality and trust and all of these things and empathy and compassion and patience. And it's hard because you're seeing so many things going on that are not right. And that affects you and you think to yourself, well, you know, if that's not right or that's not going right, then, you know, what difference in the world do I make what I do? And, you know, it gets to all of us and today I'll be completely honest to you as a spiritual person. My energy feels a little bit depleted because, you know, I'm feeling the pain and the suffering and the hurt and the anguish of so many people today. And that's difficult and, you know, what we want to try and conquer is divide and bring equality, black lives matter, you know, and that's important. I just want us to say, you know, just to be, get to that place where we can all hold hands and love each other and live our best lives together because that's the word, isn't it? Togetherness, the ability to be together with differing values, with differing, you know, religions, I embrace all religions, I embrace all cultures, I embrace, you know, all creeds. Oh, to me, we are part of the human race and there are different times when we need to talk about different things. And at the moment, you know, we're talking about racism predominantly when it started in America and now people are standing up around the world. My concern, and I'll be completely honest with you, I think that, you know, everybody has the right for their freedom of speech and I'm sat here now on YouTube channel talking about mindfulness today because of the lives that were sacrificed in the past to be able to give me a free voice in the main of free country for me to be able to do this and, you know, we celebrate that in November of every year when we say, let's we forget and, you know, we honour all of those people who have put their lives or gave us their lives to be able to do this video today. But I just worried that, you know, a lot of these protests, you know, have been infiltrated by people who purport to have, you know, the same values that you want to demonstrate about. I'm also concerned about, you know, the size of numbers in terms of, you know, the spread of the coronavirus. I'm really hoping and praying that some of the numbers that I've seen in London, you know, over the last couple of days, don't have a spike in or don't bring on the second. Wave of coronavirus, because I really feel sorry for those frontline workers who probably at the moment are sort of just starting to think, because they've been so under pressure and and I hope that these protests, you know, we're not going to fuel the pandemic fire again. And I would like to protest, I would like to stand up and say what's wrong is wrong, but at the moment it's difficult because of where we are and I just wanted to say that. I just wanted to be honest and say, you know, I think we need to think about how we convey our messages based upon the risk and everything that goes on it. And that's not down crying anybody who's done anything to me. Just, you know, I have to have that moral conversation with myself. You know, in the UK, we all stand outside and we clap on the door every Thursday night at eight o'clock to thank those people who every single day of their lives go into hospitals to put their lives at risk to help save the life of others. And, you know, it'd be interesting what are those key workers thinking when they see 17,000 people in London altogether. The message is right. It's wrong what's happened. But, you know, can we send a more powerful message of togetherness and equality and love and compassion by understanding the whole situation that the world is in today and how we can bring it all together to ensure that there are no more murders like George and how we can all work together on the back of that. And it is hard because you just think, where's it all going and where's it all going to end? All that I know is that every day I try as best I can and I've had a disagreement with my daughter yesterday about this is that I try the best I can, you know, to be love and give love. And those are two really strong messages at the moment. Love yourself, have compassion and patience and tolerance, you know, for you and the things that you do in your life and for others, you know, and that's important. So today really isn't about anything really, just about my thoughts and it's quite, today I feel a bit sad. I do feel a bit sad today because of, you know, what's going on in the world. But I know, and I've said it a million times and it brings a smile to my face, is that we all have the opportunity to help to change the world and to help to make this world a better place where there is true equality, where there is true compassion, empathy, patience and love for everybody that's around us. And I'll keep trying to work to that day until I leave this place. And the only way to do that is by starting to build love and compassion and empathy and everything right here, right now, in a very small place in Wales. So Day 82 isn't about meditation, it's just about our talk and how we need to think about our actions and what we do and be more mindful and have self-awareness and compassion and love and thing for others. So I suppose today's exercise is about when you think of these situations, let's think about how we can be more compassionate, how we can be more loving, how we can be more empathetic and how we can develop ourselves and develop those around us on Day 82 of the Mindfulness Challenge. Show my challenge to you today is be more mindful of everything that you do with solid values of empathy, compassion, love, patience and trust. I'm going to go and do a meditation so all I need you to do today without me is just close your eyes and check into your body. There's a great timer called Insight Timer, it's a free app and you can download it to do timing meditations. All I want you to do is download that app today, set it for 10 minutes and just focus on your breath. You'll hear a timer ding and once after 10 minutes you hear a ding and just focus on your breath. Every time you drift away you should bring your thought back to moment to moment breath by breath to your breath. So today I'm going to try and be more mindful today, I'm going to try and cultivate more compassion, more love, more patience, more empathy. I'm going to try and send out those healing energies to the world as well to try and bring some calm and some settlement. But based on that we've moved forward, that the lives of all of those people who have been taken to give us the opportunity to move forward as a race. That's for what it's about for me today. So it's a rest and reflection, it's a mindfulness meditation, it's about me building and loving and creating an understanding and compassion for myself. And for everybody else, everybody else. Good morning Julian, I love you. Good morning the world, I love you. Good morning everybody, I love you. Have a great day on day 82 and today just be more mindful. Thank you for watching, I'll see you on day 83. God bless, be there and give love. Take care, bye bye.