A speaker uses the image of holding a glass of water to show how worry works: hold it briefly and it's fine, but the longer you grip it, your hand hurts, then goes numb. Prolonged rumination leads to anxiety and mental paralysis. The answer is to put the glass down.
Take a glass of water and hold it in your hand. Can you hold it for some time? Yes, if you hold it for a minute or two, it's bearable, it's okay, you can hold it. If you hold it for 1 hour, your hand will soon start aching a little bit. What if you hold it for 6 hours at a stretch? Your hand will start aching a lot, you'll start feeling absolutely terrible, your hand is paining. And what if you hold it for the whole long. You start feeling paralyzed, right? You want to leave that glass of water. So this is the same for any worries or problems if you have in your life. If you hold a worry for a minute, you can handle it. You can think of solutions. You can be productive. If you hold a worry for a full day, you can't handle it. You become anxious, you become stressed, and you become absolutely hopeless. Learn to leave the glass of water and aside. Learn to leave your worries and think with a calm mind.
