In this video, I want to talk to you about one of the ingredients, which is the body. The body for us really includes several different things, exercise, nutrition, rest, so on and so forth. The things that give you a healthy body, it doesn't necessarily mean you need to be decked out in muscles and only eating raw vegetables. body just means that you're feeling well and it's not causing you aches, pains, discomforts, or you don't have an issue with you know, self perception. Do you feel well in the clothes that you wear? Do you feel well, putting yourself out there in public and going for a walk outside body is something that's really important because it's what keeps us moving?

It's what keeps us talking. There's components of that that we want to break down for you. We think it's really important and you've seen it all before that daily exercise is something that is necessary. If you are feeling low energy. It's really hard sometimes just to get out of bed, and I know what that feels like. I know What it's like to just shut the door, close the blinds and not want to get up.

But your body craves movement, blood needs to flow and your heart needs to be elevated if and only for 10 minutes a day. So if you can think of just simple ways of getting your body moving every day could be as simple as busting move dancing to your favorite song. But if dancing isn't your thing, how about just a walk around the block outside, anything to just get yourself moving and feeling active, because this is going to help fuel you for the rest of the day. Maybe you only have time in the evening, maybe life is really busy and you can only carve out you know, 45 minutes in the morning when no one else in the house is awake. Whatever you need to do, you need to make sure that you're fulfilling that portion of getting some regular exercise at least three to five times a week.

Okay? nutrition is also really important. In fact, it is an entire course on to itself. meal planning and proper nutrition. No matter what diet you find yourself on. You want to make sure You're making time for yourself to feed yourself properly.

Because it's in fact what we put into our body that fuels our body moving forward, it feels our mind, it feels our spirit, if you just eat to survive, I mean, it's okay to just eat the basics. But Food and Nutrition is definitely something that you want to look after, because it keeps us feeling great. And then rest is also really important. So whether this means that you're getting a good night's sleep, or maybe that's really challenging, because at this period in your life, you have young children and they're constantly waking up in the middle of the night. Or maybe you work shift work and you're working through the night and sleeping during the day. Wherever you find yourself, you need to be able to create a sanctuary where you can get rest.

So whatever that looks like for you, we want you to feel like you're in control of that portion and acknowledging that if there's external factors like a really noisy neighbor who likes to turn on the music at 11pm, right when you're going to bed, how can you make steps towards improving that situation? Maybe it's some noise cancellation earphones if you can find reason between those people. But rest is so important because our brains need to shut down, our bodies need to slow down. It's that kind of reset mode where your body it's, it's magic, really, when you go to sleep, you're tired, you're exhausted sometimes, but you wake up and you're like, Hey, I'm ready to go again. And sometimes feeding in that nutrition right after can really help motivate you for your day. So when you reflecting on your body, if you're not feeling great about it, if you're not feeling well, when it comes to sleeping, or you're not thinking that you're eating well, those are the kinds of things that reflecting on this particular ingredient, we want to change.

We want to end those frustrations that you're having with the body. And we want to move towards how we can solve them, getting you solutions that are practical, that fit into your day, that aren't going to be an added frustration but are actually going to help make you feel more in control of this ingredient. For example, I just want to share I had a really hard time With self image and bodyweight when I was growing up all the way up until I was 26 years old, it didn't seem that no matter how many groups that I was a part of in terms of sports or going to the gym, I just couldn't seem to, you know, feel well in the clothes that I was wearing. And I always carried around a lot of extra weight. And it wasn't until I found out that my alcoholism was actually a contributing factor to my weight problem.

And when I was able to eliminate and become alcohol free, which is just a personal choice for me, it actually helped me lose 20 pounds permanently. I didn't do anything other than eliminating alcohol for my body. And I was able to lose that weight and feel really good about myself. Just because I identified this one thing, this one behavior and habit that I was always doing, that I didn't actually realize was adding and contributing to the thing that bothered me the most, because every day when I put on my clothes, I just didn't feel confident. And now I feel really, really well with who I am and how I look and I love playing sports. And I feel really good.

So by identifying some of those things that might not necessarily be helping you with a common frustration, it's all about the awareness. It's all about bringing clarity to that. So don't let that put you down. Just the fact that you're here. And you're thinking about how do I feel whether it's a 10 out of 10, and you feel great and body is not an issue. Or you say, Hey, I feel like I rate my body three out of 10 because I'm not sleeping well.

I'm not eating well, and I'm not doing any exercise. And throughout life, this is going to change, there's always going to be ups and downs. So I encourage you think about your body. And we're going to move on after we've gone through the seven ingredients to talk about how we can make those changes practical simply, and and have you feeling really well about that. So keep watching