What Does Kindness Have In Common With the Arterial Health of Rabbits?

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:00.0	In 1902, author Henry James told his nephew, there's three things in human life that are important.
0:06.0	The first is to be kind.
0:07.6	The second is to be kind.
0:09.6	And the third is to be kind.
0:11.4	So now over a century later, there is ample scientific evidence that shows that, quote, could be speaking to our health and the health of our communities.
0:19.6	And so a few days ago, I was driving a dinner with my wife and one of my daughters and I
0:23.9	were sharing something with my wife that I really, really thought that she would remember.
0:28.1	And ironically, as I sit here recording this podcast episode, I really can't remember what it
0:33.1	was that I thought that she should remember, which kind of speaks to the fact that what I felt
0:37.8	heard about or what I thought that she was supposed to remember, because apparently I am
0:41.3	counting on people to be hanging on my every word and remembering every interaction that they've
0:44.9	ever had with me, even though apparently I can't remember my own interaction. But I digress.
0:50.0	But I remember looking over to my daughter and I just said, okay, Mac, I am going to do my best to not say, I thought I already told you that again, like ever to anyone, not just to my wife, but to anyone, if at all possible.
1:02.1	Because really, what is the goal in telling somebody that I thought we already talked about something?
1:06.5	Or, you know, we've already gone over that before because is it to make them feel bad?
1:11.4	Is it, as I joked earlier, because I feel like if people don't remember everything that I've told
1:15.8	them that for some reason, I must not matter to them as much as I thought I did, if you thought
1:20.4	that you shared something with someone and they don't remember, even if you could swear that they
1:24.6	know, and they're just holding out because they don't want to admit
1:27.8	that they remember what you said or for some reason they think that they hold more power over you
1:33.4	because they're telling you that they don't remember or that you can prove somehow that you've told
1:39.0	them or or what you think that you told them the bottom line is that the debate of whether or not
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