Hey everyone, welcome to the human design podcast with your host, me, Emma Dunwoie.

In this podcast, I'll be talking about mindset, human behavior, human design, and basically everything that you will need to transform your life into the life of your design.

Hey, hey, and welcome to podcast number 12.

I'm really excited about today's episode. In fact, I think I'm really excited about any day's episode, if I'm honest. I have definitely fallen in love with this whole podcasting thing. Now, today I'm going to talk to you about something that's really a powerful shift.

And actually, one of the first ever videos I did on Facebook I did on this subject.

And what I'm going to talk about today is overthinking,

or as my original Facebook video was all about,

choking the guinea pig.

So in 2015, I did this video all about this great metaphor, right?

And it came about because at the time I think I was watching The Voice, that's what it was, because it was Joel Madden.

And he was watching this contestant singing and he said, you know, the thing about when you sing, it's like, I can see how hard

you're trying. And this person couldn't get it they're like yeah I am trying really hard

so I'm really really good at this like I'm trying my harder so therefore it should be the best

right and he said okay so what I'm how I want you to see this is you know how when little kids

cuddle or play with a guinea pig and they hold it really tight and they love it so much that they squeeze that little guinea pig till it like they almost kill the poor thing well that's exactly what this contestant was doing this contestant was trying so hard that he was squeezing the life out of his own talent.

And that is what overthinking does to us.

It's all about the more we think about something, the more we squeeze the life out of it.

And we lose our possibilities. we we shut down our quantum possibilities as

well to be able to see something different for the future or to create a shift that we need or look

for that answer that we want it never comes when we're overthinking. So what happens a lot with

overthinking is, and the reason why we do it as human beings, is that when we're little,

when we're very, when we're babies, we actually experience our life through our kinesthetic

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