You're listening to the feel good effect.

Okay, I want you to imagine a bowl, like a giant kitchen mixing bowl.

And now I want you to imagine that you put the bowl in the sink below the faucet and you turn it on.

So now there's water gushing out of the faucet, quickly filling the bowl.

And now, stick with me here.

I want you to imagine that flowing water coming out of the faucet as all of the stress and

responsibility of your life.

And as it flows, that stress and responsibility, expectations, anxiety quickly

starts to fill the bowl. And pretty soon, as you are imagining, the water starts to overflow the

bowl, spill and slosh out over the sides. Because of course, the bowl was only made to hold so much.

It was never made to hold an unany stream of stress and expectations and anxiety and

responsibility and worry. Right now I want you to imagine instead of a bowl that you take a

colander and place it under that same stream of water

and a colander, unlike a bowl, has hundreds of tiny holes in it through which the water will slowly

escape. I want you to think about each of those tiny holes in the colander.

Because of each of those holes, the water is slowly flowing out and it never overflows.

And none of those small, small holes is huge, right?

And we're not talking about the absence of a container,

but we're talking about these dozens and dozens of small little ways that the stress and the anxiety and the worry and the responsibility has a way out and through. And now I want you to

think about those small holes as self-care or as small mini habits and wellness routines that you create throughout the day.

And by creating these habits and these routines and sprinkling them throughout the day,

you are able to create a life in which the stress and responsibility and anxiety and worry has a way out and through

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