 Hi, my name is Colette Hemmings and I'm from Riverton, Oregon, originally from Scotland. I've been in sports personally when I was younger and been in that industry for the last 20 plus years and as far as I'm concerned mental health and managing your own energy is the future of sports. I think a lot of, you know, top level athletes do this but they're very nature now. It's not something strange to talk about, it's actually very normal and I think the next step is to make it really an everyday practice for everybody so it's like a daily sport for everybody. The final frontier of sports. An unusual thing in business now is having leaders who really truly listen and create space because actually as you kind of rise through organisations it becomes increasingly important that you're hearing, seeing, feeling if you like, what is going on within your team and you're guiding more than setting rules. Managers set rules and expectations and it's kind of stressful and to me the best leaders I've worked with and what I really try to do now has become a, you know, you've heard the expression servant leader but really see everybody in their fullest potential and my job is really to bring that out in everybody that I meet, everybody that I work with, with no expectations actually. So just really and don't be too hard on people and treat people like you want to be treated yourself. Very simple. I found brain education around 13 years ago when I had been on an assignment for about three years in Shanghai in China and when I came back or when I came to the US I discovered body and brain and I just really wanted to learn how to breathe again and long story short I got very sick for the previous five or six years but I became very aware of the year before that. It was in 2006. When I was sick I had, first of all I had like a gallbladder pain so I was really bent over double almost a year travelling to work and trying to perform every day and do a good job and be nice to people and but really feeling physically and emotionally sick every single day and then the other symptoms I had I had really chronic lower back pain for about 10 or 15 years which I just kind of suffered in silence and every six months my back would I would be on the floor for at least one or two weeks without being able to move. The other things I started to get because I didn't really talk about those things with anybody was was really bad anxiety. I wasn't aware how anxious I was just generally about everything and then you don't deal with that and then I had some depression as well so pretty much a good taste of everything. After brain education I would say my I think there's no before and after but what I would say was there's a gradual unraveling and rebuilding so I always look at my life as you're unraveling the past behaviors that don't serve you anymore and you're also building your future path and that's the part that really changed for me in brain education is I really feel like I'm creating my own future for the rest of my life I become you know really doing all the things I want to do that open up my mind and really create a better society so I'm very confident in following those things now rather than following the voices of others that's been the biggest thing for me and then managing emotions managing things like anger managing things like especially in my case like anxiety where you know I could never have sat in front of a camera and talked in front of large groups of people a lot of people who know me now wouldn't believe that but that's how bad it was before so really when you tune into your own body and your capacity you can really do anything. The thing that helps me most with anxiety is really the main principles keeping your body in the state of so water up fire down well first of all I didn't really know what that was and I think until you feel it in your body you can't really describe what it is and water up fire down is kind of a cool head and a warm belly and that seems really simple but the exercise is all legit to create this heat in the right area so instead of being hotheaded and you're angry and frustrated bringing that hot energy into your core and then the cool head creates more focus and a discipline of the mind and that for me was whenever I feel the anxiety creeping in now and I feel it well ahead I can really manage it well and I'll do like body tapping or intestine exercises just quietly I don't need to do it around people but I just have some simple exercises that really help me manage anxiety the routine that I do every morning I do what I've realized is shorter is better for me so the very short exercises like sleeping dragon where you lie on the floor and just your whole body weight you focus on your core area and just raise your body for like one minute and then one and a half minutes for me to do one minute and then one minute 10 and 20 was really challenging because one minute became two minutes became so just a small increase every day or in things like sleeping dragon the plank I couldn't do at all before brain education so things like holding full body weight and six foot tall was really challenging so I practice all the things that I found difficult I practice every day now to really strengthen those muscles that I haven't used before so the most hopefully inspirational thing I can say is I'm the kind of person I now realize that it never gives up so learn the principles of your body learn how to manage your emotions really never give up and have your own dream and vision like don't blot out the picture but actually make the picture brighter and brighter every day and the more you practice and discipline your mind actually the more free you become and then you don't get so attached to the emotions whether you're in business or whether you're at school whether you're at college actually what you're managing is your environment every moment of every day and when you can get to that place through the body and mind practice and breathing well then you can really manage everything including like family relationships and things just never give up just do it