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Moving for your mind: A conversation around the role of fitness in mental health
She's conducted numerous corporate wellness programs and has trained influential personalities like Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor to just name a few. Hello and welcome to Swell Karishma Paloma. Such a delight to have you both here today and we are super excited to have you both spark this very important conversation around mental health and fitness. Over to you now
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:17
A big hello to this well community. And thank you, Ramya, for such a nice introduction and a big hello to Paloma as well. It's a pleasure to come here today and to be able to communicate and speak to people who are tuning in and listening. And I'm really looking forward to the entire conversation today
Hi everybody. First of all, I would love to thank Swell for having me here on board. I am Paloma and thank you so much Ramya and Karishma to have on board to speak about wellness, holistic wellness and about yoga. I'm very, very excited for this talk. So yeah. All you guys, welcome to the yoga and the mindfulness world. Thank you very much. Namaste
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:29
Okay. So Paloma, you know I want to ask you a question regarding yoga. People know that yoga and exercise helps physical outcomes like weight loss, improved energy levels, etc. But there is really less awareness about out the whole mental health aspect and the outcomes and benefits of being fit and how much it could help mental health. So can you give us your thoughts on this that how do you translate this awareness into like exercise, action
And we know that any kind of perception happens when your body and lung integrates the signal to your mind and it is due to yoga and through the various asanas and the blood flow that your mind understands and perceives, I would say the feelings that your body tries to signal to your
So, Karishma, I have a very interesting question for you. Okay. A lot of people often complain about one thing, that they have lost a lot of weight, but again, after their normal eating habits, they gain back the weight that they have lost. What do you think can be a solution to this? And what do you think is a reason that even after weight loss, they kind of quickly bounce back the amount of weight?
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:35
Thank you for that beautiful insight. Paloma another thing I wanted to ask you was that I came across an article that talked about how yoga and regular workouts might help people who are prone to anxiety become less likely to get those kind of panic attacks or anxiety attacks because during workouts the body produces many of the same physical reactions, heavy perspiration, heart rate increase, etc. And people who regularly exercise actually show better anxiety sensitivity than those who didn't
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 1:55
So I feel like if you achieve your weight loss goals and if you do them in a sustainable way, where you've seen you've done something for a long time, you've eaten all the things that you like, your emotional health is in check. Your mental health is in check. You haven't kind of deprived yourself of a lot of things, then that's the best way in which you lose weight. And nine out of ten times people don't gain that weight back
Definitely there is an overall understanding that people who do different set of exercises feel overall better in their daily lives and living. And people who have a very monotonous and stagnant lifestyle definitely don't have that kind of pump up for their everyday life. Now, a simple understanding is if I'm an athlete, be it an athlete or be it not be an athlete. Any kind of physical activity keeps a person happy, healthy and much more active in the understanding of day to day life
And how do you think diet and nutrition can benefit a diabetic person in the long run? And how do you think a diabetic diet is different from a normal nutritional pattern
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:16
I completely agree with your understanding and explanation of the mind connect with yoga and the different aspects of yoga which people think that it's just exercise but actually there's so much moderate. Thank you for that Elaboration. I think it kind of solves so many questions
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 2:43
Now, in diabetics, they don't understand that it's very important for them to keep a check on their insulin levels, to keep a check on their glucose levels. And this is a daily job. And once they learn how to do this on a daily basis, they shouldn't be going hyperglycemic, which is a very low state of sugar, and they shouldn't be becoming hyper glycemic, which is a very high state of sugar
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:41
But do the I effects of physical activity extend beyond the short term? And I would love to have your views on the link between the whole physical activity and the mood perspective in this
But as a holistic understanding, how do you think how important and how distinctive and different do you think is child nutrition and adult nutrition and what do you think should be the digestion pattern and the metabolic pattern of a child rather different from an adult? And do you think the fiber, protein and the carb content how should we balance between a child or an adolescent and an adult body
So there are certain aspects which do prove to us beyond any doubt that physical activities does definitely improve your lifestyle, improve your living, improve your perspective, improve the way, how you react and how you emote and how you behave with your fellow human being, with your near and dear ones, with your friends, with your family and with and also the way you would actually conduct yourself in a very intimate relationship as well
Thank you so much. The entire team of swell Ramya, Karishma for having me over for this chat. It was an enlightening experience. Thank you so much, Karishma, for also giving the entire idea and knowledge that you've imparted to me. And a lot of it I was not aware about. And yeah, it was happy learning. And I'm sure we always learn from each other and love you, buddy. Take care. Lots of love. Thank you so much
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 2:25
Their mood is better, their mental health is good, their activity levels are good, they like to eat the things that they like to eat, and they're going to be responding to you and communicating to you as parents in a more healthier and more understandable way
Karishma Shah
@Karishma · 0:22
It's been a lovely experience. Talking and conversing on the whole Swell experience. I would like to thank the entire team, Ramya, and also Paloma for this entire experience. I'm looking forward to doing more sessions like these in the future and communicating and connecting with more people on Swell. So thank you for having me. And this has been a pleasure. Bye
Riya Bhagat
@Riya0 · 0:25
Okay so first of all Hello Ramya and the yoga instructor here I am Riya and really very impressed and feel knowledgeable after this session. So after listening this question come in my mind. That how yoga and meditation will provide us mental peace
Hello Paloma Ma'am, I have a question for you as you have beautifully explained like how yoga is like a good healer for the body, mind and soul. But there is also a case like there are also several Asnas which a layman cannot perform unless until that person is being trained from childhood. Like a person in the mid 40s or 50s cannot perform the asanas which require flexibility of the body. So what should that person do then?
Priti Jaiswal
@Priti195 · 0:40
Hello Karishma Ma'am. I'm Priti. And from the introduction, I came to know that you're an anxiety counselor too. So I have a question related to that. Actually, I'm a second year student, College student. And like from some time I'm facing some anxiety issues. So to overcome my anxiety, I have Googled it to know more about it and how can I overcome it. But instead of helping me, the Google results are scaring me more
Tanishka Singh
@Tancy_0818 · 0:41
Hi, guys. Thank you so much for this insightful information that you have given us all. I think it's just very helpful how you describe how exercising and how all of this is related to our health, not just for physical reasons, but also mental reasons. It's been really helpful. And I think I definitely will take a lot from this. And hopefully all the people who are listening to you also understand and get some help from your insightful information that you have given us
Palak Jain
@palakjain · 0:20
Hello. Many teenagers have been going through anxiety issues. One of my friends has also fallen under this trap. She don't like engaging with new people. She don't feel like going out. She don't feel like having a conversation with anyone. Could you advise something so that I can help her out