Wash The Stress Away….

Why are these Power Washing videos
SO strangely satisfying??

Well, for starters, it turns out that there’s just something intensely satisfying about
watching these power washers make everything new and clean again. Who knew?

Perhaps it comes  from some deep seated desire for cleanliness and order (my house
however is hardly  a testament to this desire), or maybe it’s the satisfaction that comes
from a visible marker of completed work and progress in a world (and especially
a line of work) where nothing ever seems to be completely finished.
The result, however,  is the same… soothing, satisfying, calm.

Hit repeat and remove a layer of gunk from the inside of your brain…… feel the calm.

It kind of reminds me of a meditation exercise that I learned many years ago, in a grade-
six class,  from an exceptionally creative  teacher, a free-thinker who would begin every single
school day,  with 5 minutes of focused meditation in which the students would silently pick a
focal point (say, a picture of a hot air balloon) and clear all thoughts to reach a zen-like calm.
And if stressed, imagine yourself standing under a dome, like a planetarium, looking up at the dirty
walls, grimy with pollution and graffiti. In your hand was a hose (or a power washer!), and over
the course of 5 minutes, you could really get that sucker clean. That was the inside of your head.
You’d feel that dirty water funnel down the drain and just leave your mind.

Well, will you look at that! How cathartic.
I think the Scooby-Gang may have solved this one after all.
I blame it on the power-washers…

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This post was written by Matt McNeill