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The Volume Keeps Going Up

We've all experienced it. You're watching a film or television programme, struggling to hear the dialogue, so you gradually turn up the volume. Then the commercials arrive, and suddenly everything is ridiculously loud.

In Episode 299 of Five Star Minute, this familiar little annoyance becomes a reflection on how we respond to the world around us.

Just like adjusting the television volume, we're constantly adjusting our emotions, behaviour and energy to match our surroundings. Other people's stress becomes our stress. Their urgency becomes our urgency. Their opinions can suddenly demand our…

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