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Oct 2021
7m 27s

A Surfing Analogy

Headspace Studios
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When you look at the ocean, what do you see? Waves, endless water until it meets the horizon. Would you try to control the ocean? Doing so would be pointless. It’s too big! Yet trying to exert a sense of control is the tactic many of us try with our own lives. Today, Eve shares a surfing analogy that helps us better understand how to glide through life.

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