Mindfulness & Wellness | S1

Got you.

Okay, we're going to move on because I think you've all explained in terms of your work how illness perhaps is either taken seriously and if it's not, how you've stamped your feet and said, look, You've got to help me because if you don't help me, it's going to continue.

And this is where I want to look at.

When you look at, before I go into men and the stress men give you, and I will be very guarded there, of course, but I want to go back to points that a lot of the time, a lot of women, have not been taken seriously in terms of their role, which has then moved forward into not being taken seriously at home, which has then had a mental impact and a detrimental impact on people or women themselves.

But the government has taken action and said, no, we're going to let this change.

I'll give you a small example.

For example... ensuring that certain women get into certain positions of priority.

Bank managers, head of world global things, women are there, and you can see they have empowered their roles.

But I want to put this to you, just because they are in those roles, does it necessarily make them be able to perform their job properly? And if not...

the mental wellness, can it really help them improve in their work? Let's start with Padma on this one because I know you're into coaching wellness and lifestyle coaching.

Can a change of lifestyle actually improve someone's role if they are being told you're not very good at that? Why? Because you're a woman.

You know, I think the first and foremost is know thyself.

You know, once you're very sure of who you are and you're very grounded in that and you believe in yourself, whatever anybody else says, it's not going to affect you as much.

I'm not going to say it will not affect.

It will not affect you as much because you'll bounce back.

So people can say what they want to say.

Through the centuries, there have been women who have bounced back even during the roughest time.

So really the onus is Going into a position knowing your identity, knowing who you are, and not let anybody

else shake you.

Gina, would you agree with that?

Yeah, I think that definitely knowing yourself is the most important.

And when you come back to yoga, I think linking to what Srini was saying before about the different roles that you play, a big part of the philosophy of yoga is actually learning to detach from those roles and see yourself as not identified with any of them on a deeper level and actually realize that, no, I'm a soul beyond all of this.

And these are things that I have to do in the world.

but they don't define who I am.

And once you're secure and you're solid in who you are beyond that and underneath that, that's when you can also let go of a lot of things that might happen on the outside and not let them impact you on the inside.