Well after talking about the body, the next ingredient that is really important is your mind. So once you have your body taken care of once you have energy once you are feeling good, and you can move, that's when your mind comes in place. If you have a healthy body, but your mind is not in the right place, it's very difficult to be your best self and it's very difficult to do what you want to do. Mine includes self care, we talk about what self care means is basically taking care of yourself, understanding your needs, and making sure that you are doing the things that you need to be doing. in mind, include any hobbies that you may have creativity, fun activities, recreation, we are including here, spirituality, religion, all these things that help you feel your mental health feels better with all those activities are very important and you need to notice those, like minus our power center without our mind We cannot do anything.

So if you are not feeling well mentally speaking, if your mind is not in the right place, if you are confused if you are feeling some sort of mental health, like depression, anxiety, all those things is very difficult to function. I know that from experience I, my family, my sister, she developed schizophrenia when she was 14. She's only one year older than I am. So I lived a really, really rough life, and she wasn't feeling well. And she also didn't know how to deal with that. And our family didn't know how to help her.

And so that whole mental health piece was really a challenge. And from experience, I can tell you that finding that self care, finding those activities, making sure that I was protecting my time a little bit every week and every day was a key factor for me to stay sane. And for me to be able to be my best self for them, for my parents and for my sister when they needed me So, minus really, really, really important. You have to make sure that you are taking care of yourself. things that you can do is doing the self care exercise that we talked about writing down all the things that you need to do to feel well. If you are a spiritual person or if you follow any kind of religion, and that's your guidance, and that helps you you can always bring any questions that you may have to your group and they may be able to help you speaking sharing what you are feeling is really really important.

We are lucky here in Canada that mental health is becoming a trend everybody's talking about it. Companies are more aware that employee employees may experience some like difficulty sometimes life events happen, depression, anxiety, a DD ADHD, all these things are exist, we all can be a victim of them. So it's really important that you share your challenges with orders, with your good friends with your family members. If you don't have those resources yet, we invite you to seek professional advice. Sometimes you can find like free resources in your community, people who are willing to volunteer their time, sometimes you can call to align, and so on. So the other side, a human being, with a lot of patience, I can hear you and can advise you and guide you through a possible solution.

So don't give up it's always mind is something that we have to work on every single day. And we believe that after body mind is probably one of the most important ingredients because without having this to organize, without having this to taking care of all the rest is going to be way more challenging. So that's why make sure that your body is taking care of make sure that you are in the right place with your mind. activities that I do personally, often is like debriefing. I try to do that every day a few times. is really important has me to come down.

I try to meditate every day at least 20 minutes. I know it's challenging for some people, but you can start slow. You can start with one or two minutes, and then increase your time every day. I don't do it every single day. If I can be honest with you, sometimes I'm busy and I just don't make the time. I always have the time, but sometimes I don't make the time.

But when I make the time, I can tell you that I feel so much better. And you can do it anywhere. Yes, sit down, close your eyes. And then just try to watch your mind. Try to just watch yourself. Try not to think too much.

And just listen what's happening the sounds. Visualize something that you like, maybe visualize where you would like to be in your next vacation. Maybe remember a good experience that you had in the past 248 hours or something that you did last weekend that made you laugh, visualize that and then after doing that exercise, it's gonna be way nicer to feel better. So I hope this this video helps you with Understanding and becoming your word of the mind ingredient and we will see you in the next one.