hello I love potatoes and all their altered forms french fries chips buttery mashed potatoes but I have to admit there was a time in my life when I faintly resumed one and this isn't to say that looking like a potato shape was inherently bad or unhealthy but it did impact my health I'm not a dietitian or a nutritionist but I can tell you this you are what you eat self-improvement takes on many forms and eating healthily is one of the most impactful when something feels off in your body your first instinct is to find the
root cause and address it the same applies to the food you consume for example whenever I drink a can of soda I immediately feel icky inside my mood shifts from jittery excitement to an energy crash that's my body sending me a signal that something isn't right I bring this up because I care about your Health both physical and mental and while it might seem obvious the two are deeply connected maintaining your physical health is closely tied to your mental and emotional well-being the mind and body are not separate they're part of the same system for
instance a study by rangan at Al 2004 published in the Journal of neurophysiology found that participants who mentally practiced strength training exercises increased their elbow flexion strength by 13.5% over 12 weeks imagining exercise activated the same neural Pathways as physical movement helping maintain the connection between the brain and muscles this mental practice can't replace physical exercise but it highlights how profoundly your thoughts influence your body an Insight worth keeping now let's flip this idea and apply it to your mind you create your world you are what you think picture your mind as a prism light
enters your experiences memories and beliefs and refracts into a unique Spectrum coloring your reality in Shades only you can see the external world might see might be the same for everyone but how you interpret it is entirely your own if we decided to start calling an apple a banana decades ago over time that would become true for us today because labels are human constructs not Universal truths for one person a tree might symbolize life for another it's just a source of paper both perspectives are valid because reality is shaped by the lens through which you
choose to view it in the end your perception is your truth and you are the artist painting the world you live in [Music] [Laughter] [Music]