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Yoga Yoga and but mental hygiene is a new one Compassion. A surprise included
for me. For this reason, I decided in their list is the Chant of Kirtan
Ro’s Mental Hygiene to take the challenge. Here’s what I Kriya, an exercise to help induce

learned. Guillaume Tremblay, LNP relaxation of the brain. According
hile browsing Facebook last at the Royal, is the developer of to the Alzheimer’s Research &
Wmonth, I spotted a post “The the Mental Hygiene program. He Prevention Foundation, the chant
By Rosanne Fortier
Royal, Mental Hygiene Challenge states that “we need a shift of view is a type of meditation from
- an invitation to spend 10 minutes on mental health in terms of how the Kundalini yoga tradition
every day, for the month of March, to empower ourselves. The term practiced for thousands of years.
on simple activities to boost mental “mental hygiene” refers to daily This meditation is sometimes
wellness.” activities that support and maintain called the singing exercise, as it
mental health. Like showering and involves singing sounds, along
I would say that have a good
understanding of mental health, brushing our teeth, we are now with repetitive finger movements,
mental illness, and mental wellness, extending the same concept to known as mudras. This non-
mental health. Just like going to religious practice can be adapted
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building up that mental muscle.” shown to reduce stress levels and
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Mainly, I’m proud to say that I’ve If you’d like to try it, go to the

always bounced back. Exercise a Royal’s mental hygiene toolkit,
big part of my wellness routine, see link below. Practice the easy

and later in life I added yoga and finger movements by accessing the
meditation. All of these helped exercises, select “practices” tab at
to improve my sleep and my the top of the page. Mental Hygiene
outlook on life. Coming back to Practices - The Royal Mental
the Mental Hygiene challenge, Hygiene Challenge Participant
I noticed that of the list of 16 Toolkit (mystrikingly.com)
research-based mental hygiene To add some music to this
practices, 7 of them originate from
chant, this one on YouTube is very
the practice of yoga and its sister nice: https://www.youtube.com/
science, Ayurveda. The Royal’s
watch?v=HTzR9Ru-pSg
short sequences include a variety
of meditations, movements for Quote du Jour: “Deep breathing

wellness, and one of my favourites, is our nervous system’s love
the RAIN exercise for Self language.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel
Mersy