This ladies and gentlemen is a rotten tomato
nobody in their right mind would eat this because
It's right, and you would get sick yet. See when it comes to the mind
We eat rotten poisonous dirty thoughts every day here are some examples
And you know what happens when we eat these rotten thoughts we get sick we get depression anxiety
outrage
Overwhelmed our culture has normalized
Sickness they feed it to us on a silver platter making us not insane, but definitely
insane
Krishnamurti said that it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly
sick Society
And yes, we are sick yes
We are so sick that our society cares more about oral hygiene than mental hygiene
We brush and floss every day twice a day to keep our teeth nice fresh and clean, but what about Mental Hygiene?
What do we do for most of us?
Nothing, but if I was to ask you would you rather lose all your teeth or lose your mind? What would you pick?
Exactly you would happily be a toothless mother if you could keep your mental health now
I'm not saying don't brush your teeth. I'm saying we need to start treating mental health like it's supposed to be treated
We are in dire need of mental health practices and support in our society
And if we don't we will continue to see the devastation
That we see today
John Milton said the mind is its own place it can make a heaven out of hell or hell out of heaven
Napoleon Hill once said that thoughts are things and powerful things that that everything you see around you in your room right now
Was a thought first before it existed in the physical form the world is the mind
So if we're unhealthy here
What do we create an unhealthy world?
there my message to government is not focusing on mental health and only changing laws is like putting a
Band-aid on a broken leg or trying to stop an overflowing sink by throwing towels on the floor, yeah
You're gonna clean up the water
But you're gonna need an infinite amount of towels
Until you get down there and fix the pipes because that's where the problem started
so I'm saying we need to fix our mental health because this is where our
problems start imagine if every school taught classes on mindfulness or how to deal with rejection
anxiety depression or loneliness and imagine if these classes were taught
mandatory like like science or social studies
I don't know when that's gonna happen
But I cannot end this video without giving you a simple mental health practice that you can do right now
and if you combine this technique with proper sleep
exercise nutrition
sunlight and good friends
You just might start floating off the ground now
I mentioned all these activities because so you can't talk about mental health without
Talking about brain health and all of the activities that I just mentioned according to John Medina in his book brain rules
Helped to create a healthy happy brain now
I call this technique the smiling mindful breath it combines three of the most powerful tools that we have available to us
smiling
Mindfulness and breathing number one smiling. What is in a smile? Well a simple smile can relax your entire nervous system?
according to the facial feedback
Hypothesis the facial muscles have the largest impact on our
Emotional state see when you smile even when you're unhappy the brain senses the flexing of certain muscles
And if they exhale I must be happy about something
resulting in your mood being lifted number two
Mindfulness meditation is your mind running your life
do believe
Everything that you think see the more watchful and objective you are to the thoughts that come in and out of your field of awareness
The less you will be overwhelmed and trapped by them people who practice mindfulness report higher levels of everyday
happiness and fewer problems with regulating emotion number three the breath
Hey, you know if you don't think the breath is important
Don't five minutes without breathing and see what happens just kidding don't do that so your breath is your lifeforce
When you breathe deeply you send oxygen to your brain resulting in your thinking becoming more clear you feel your body
With more vitality, and you improve blood flow and overall health, okay, that's enough science now
Here's what you do you can do this sitting in your car
You can do it in the morning after you finish brushing your teeth step number one close and relax your eyes
now smile
Authentic genuine smile big smile for about 15
Seconds it works
Even better if you picture somebody you love smiling at you and allow their smile to penetrate you
Step number two now relax your smile and begin to take deep
Spacious breaths inhale as deeply as you can and exhale out as much air as you can push it
and relax those shoulders
step number three last step
Focus all of your attention on now right now not the past not the future
focus all your attention on
Now on your breath if thoughts start to pop up. That's fine. Just bring your attention back
to your breath gently
Observing the thoughts that's it ladies and gentlemen set your timer on your phone and do this for one minute
Every day you cannot do this wrong you cannot fail at this just do it according to William and Mary professor peter vishton
Your brain will alter its happiness ratio, and you will find yourself happier now you may say. Oh just one minute
That's it, but see what we're doing is we're building a habit and pretty soon
you're gonna do this without thinking and the more you do this the more you breathe the
More you are mindful and the more you smile
the greater your mental health will be
peace
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