How to transform activities into mindfulness anchors

- [Instructor] So why don't you try this for a second? Those of you who are not driving. Just pretend like you just started washing your hands. You've got soap and water in your hands and just rub them together. And what I'd like you to do is just be intensely curious, like you've never washed your hands before, and just notice what is it actually like to wash my hands? What does the skin feel like as it's being massaged by the other hand? What do the muscles feel like that are making the arms and the hands move? Are there any thoughts happening? If not, doesn't matter. Either way, it's not important. Just be curious about what is it like. Now, every time I've done this exercise with any group, 100% of the time people say that washing their hands like that is diametrically opposite (laughs) of how they normally wash their hands. So this is a very different experience, right? Some people even get anxious because what…