 Next question is from x rice ball x What is your go-to thing for dealing with anxiety from simple over stimulation or something more major that life throws at you like Justin's evacuation? This is a big thing right now. Yeah, have you guys seen the articles like how much anxiety and mental Illness is going up. It's everywhere. I mean, it's not just my situation Obviously, this is everybody's dealing with this on another level. I think right now than ever before but to be honest, I could I could sit here and talk about Meditation and breathing and all these kind of bio hacks and all that shit But to be honest for me, it's been all gratitude and humor like that that really has been like carrying me through a lot of What what obstacles and what crazy is sort of presenting it in front of me is really to take that time out to? reflect on things that are going well that on things that I do have on You know a life that I do want to live and and so like for me gratitude is just It's a practice that I think a lot of people it sounds so basic and simple, but I think a lot of people don't Recognize the power of it If you really, you know set your mind on more of those things like it's amazing what starts to kind of appear in front of you As you're focusing Exclusively on on those things and not just consuming. It's really about the consumption That you need to assess like where you're flooding your mind That's making you like it's creating all this anxiety I think the first step of overcoming anxiety is is recognizing that it's self-inflicted Which you know, I don't know if it's this generation or this time that we're going through right now but a lot of this is like we're always Pointing at the things that are happening to us, but it's us who allows ourselves to feel anxious over all this stuff And you know, so my answer to that is to reframe it In every every obstacle that we have every challenge every hardship. There's an opportunity there There's an opportunity for growth. There's an opportunity for you to learn. There's an opportunity for your refocus I mean, I think Justin made the the point of trying to make Lemonade out of the lemons that he was given the last couple weeks and you know, I think that's what you have to look at this Is like okay because of what's going on that's causing you quote-unquote, you know Because nothing else is causing you're causing yourself to be anxious over it Where are the where do the opportunities lie to improve now? Let's use Justin's as an example And I don't know if this was going through his head or not, but you know, all you you get evacuated from home This is a a scary sad time and probably a lot of emotions going around it But it's also a time that your your family's all brought together you guys are and it also can bring perspective of like These things that we put so much value in like a home and items and stuff like that really mean nothing if we if we Don't have each other, right? And so and that's kind of like to his point about gratitude is it's really reframing Where your values are and what's important to you and the opportunities that are there now We have this time together that we could focus on each other and now I bet you when he came back to his house He had a whole different feeling because of it And so you know and that's just it when you went the one of the best things too that I learned going through adversity Was when I got to the other side of it those were some of the best times So if I'm feeling anxious or having anxiety and I feel stressed or I'm going through a hardship One of the things I always remember is that men it's hard right now But when I get to the other side of that It these those are always the best times and so I just got to get through this and so if that means You know meditating or using positive affirmation or reframing your situation That's up to the individual on what works best for you, but just remember that something like anxiety is self-inflicted This is something that you are internalizing you're allowing something else. That's external That's happening around you to affect you internally. You're giving up your power And so you have the ability to stop it in its tracks and look at its opportunity and now I Have a religious background and so there's the part of me like I I always kind of like if it's really really bad I kind of chuckle and I look up in the sky. I'm like, what are you trying to tell me? Yeah, what am I supposed to learn right now? What is the lesson here right like so and if you're not spiritual and you have other practices that you practice to do that Then you know, so be it that's my own like that's I always feel like there's a lesson in everything that I'm going through And I'm always looking for it. Of course. I'm human so initially when it hits me it hurts It freaks me out. I get scared all the emotions are swirling around But once I take a deep breath and realize that it's not the end of the world. I still have my health I'm still here in my family still here. Okay. This is a shitty situation What part of this situation can I control? Can I own and what can I learn from it and and reframe it and get through it because on the other side of it? It's better. Yeah, it's so the way I look at it is there's there's kind of two Aspects of anxiety that you want to look at there's the physical feeling of anxiety and then there's the mental Anxiety and they typically go hand-in-hand and one can cause the other right so you can think about things that make You anxious and that causes a physical response the faster heart rate the dry mouth the the clammy hands You know feeling a little bit dizzy sometimes or whatever that can happen physically or you can get physical anxiety Those same symptoms which then make you freak out because you feel crappy or you feel a particular way So the reason why I'm saying that is because I want to address the physical anxiety first Physical anxiety can come from poor health Okay, this is why exercise and diet has been shown to be extremely effective for many many people with anxiety If you have poor health if you have a nutrient deficiency your diet's not working for you have poor sleep and you're not active You could you're literally your body could be producing Hormones that make you feel anxious chemicals that make you feel anxious It's like your body your health is poor and your body's sending out these signals And so it's like when you have a dog and you keep your dog in a crate all day long And then you let them out and they chew up the furniture and stuff It's like energy that needs to come out so if you have physical anxiety and you can't figure out Why the hell am I getting this anxious reaction? Everything seems to be okay. This is what's happening to a lot of people right now They're like, well, you know, I still have my job. Everything's okay. Why the hell am I getting this anxiety out of nowhere? exercise diet and sleep Can can be tremendously valuable for physical anxiety now the mental let's talk about the mental anxiety Nothing has been shown to be as effective as a spiritual practice spiritual practices and it could be philosophical like stoicism It could be religious like Christianity It could be Eastern with meditation But those practices a lot of their value is in exactly what Adam and Justin are talking about which in which have to do with refaming things and gratitude and Eventually letting go of the things That you can't control so those are the two those are the two ways I handle my anxiety Exercise for me is the best cure for physical anxiety ever if I'm ever super stressed out And I feel that anxious physical feeling and I go work out man. My body's chill afterwards I don't got that physical feeling of anxiety more now if my mind is still racing That's when I turn to things like prayer and gratitude and I start to leave things That I don't I can't control and I start to be a quick become okay with Whatever happens, right? So those are the ways that I tend to handle it and I think both of those are the approaches that most people need to take I don't think one tends to solve all of it. I think both tend to be the solution