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Calm it Down

Life in Focus: Seeing Past the Details

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like there's more to your story than you can see? In this episode of 'Calm It Down', I'm taking you on a journey to uncover the bigger picture of our lives. We're going to try out three different ways to look at ourselves, ways that really change how we understand who we are. Let's put down the magnifying glass and look at our lives with a wider view, to find the beautiful, complicated parts of our stories. Come along and discover a new way to see your life as we Calm it Down in 3...2...1.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine this scenario. It's a rainy day.

0:04.0

You have read until your heart's content, nearly dozing off,

0:09.0

and you've tried every indoor activity that comes to mind.

0:13.0

In a moment of what now, inspiration, you decide to tackle the junk drawer. Yes, we all have them. It's that one door that

0:24.5

never seems to have a real purpose, you know, yet you find it impossible to resist sorting through

0:33.2

its mysterious contents. Countless paperclips, even though you can never find them when you need them.

0:40.6

Random keys that go to, who knows what, but you decide to keep them just in case.

0:48.2

The Uno cards, ah, so that's where they are, you say to yourself. Take a mental note.

0:55.4

But the real surprise comes when you unearth an old magnifying glass.

1:02.3

It's familiar form bringing a wave of nostalgia.

1:07.8

Oh my gosh, I remember this guy.

1:11.3

It's like reuniting with an old friend.

1:15.3

Just like a kid with a new toy, you can't help but to be drawn to its magic abilities.

1:22.7

I mean, magnifying glasses are pretty incredible if you think about them.

1:27.0

At first, you're really into looking at just small things really closely.

1:32.1

You see the tiny lines of a leaf, how a cloth is woven, and even a little grain of sand.

1:39.4

I mean, it's just fascinating.

1:41.1

It's really interesting to see these small details and things that you see every day, right?

1:46.0

I mean, things you didn't even know existed or were just too small to even recognize.

1:52.0

As you move the magnifying glass around, your view changes.

1:58.0

At first, you're amazed by the small details, right? The lines of the leaf and the

2:02.6

cloth and the tiny grains of the sand. But as you look from a distance, you see these details

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