How Do You Power Up Your Mind Before It Powers You Down?

Mental-strength coach Harri Mansfield argues that preventing mental-health problems works better than treating them after. He uses an ETA framework (Emotion-Thought-Action) and a Mind Power Scale to build mental resilience, and suggests a three-to-one ratio of positives to challenges, plus regular check-ins on your mental state.
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Welcome, Ross, Roxane, Harry, you are the speaker, and today the Zoom meeting is about preventing instead of curing. And I do have to admit, when I was a kid, we used to learn that from our parents as well. We've been raised with homeopathics and oils and herbs and whatever you want to call it in a very natural way, and still Still today, I'm 55, I'm using herbs and oils and homeopathic stuff just in terms of preventing what might happen. We're not focusing on it, but having a healthy lifestyle and that way you prevent from having different things coming your way for a far more longer time because we're not free of having certain things. But if you can prevent it, it's a far more better way of doing it. And I met you, Harry, through a network event in UK. UK, an online network event, and then I visit Harry in fact at your place and you showed me around and we did an exercise and I was blown away about how you do it and why you do it in the first place. And who else can introduce yourself more and better than yourself, Harry? Please, because Roxane, you don't know Harry, Harry, you do know Ross and vice versa, but please introduce yourself, Harry. Who are you? Where are you from? And what is it that you're doing in fact?
Thank you, Renee. Thank you so much for inviting me. So my name is Harri Mansfield, my company is The Awareness Key, and I am a mental strength coach. And when I say that, people go, hang on, what? And if you think about it, the phrase prevention is better than cure is just known across the board. And you've already mentioned, Renee, loads and loads of different things, whether it's fitness or diet or, you know, nutrition. And it's the same for mental health, and we can prevent mental health problems. So what I do is I teach you the skills generally across the board that can be used for everybody, and then also skills that are specific to you so that you can teach yourself how to power up your mind before it powers you down. And a couple of months ago, I had the best ever testimonial because somebody said to me that I was— and the awareness key is the ultimate vaccine to prevent mental health problems. And I've been doing this for years, but actually, if you think about it, it's only really come to the fore and awareness of how important mental health is throughout this pandemic, because everybody's just suddenly been hit with a tornado. I think of mental health a bit like the weather. First of all, Here I am in England, everybody talks about the weather in a really superficial way. And if you think about it, when we actually go and ask people, "How are you?" Everyone goes, "I'm fine." And then you go, "How are you?" And then you get a little bit more of an honest answer. And it's exactly like the weather, they bring up the conversation just 'cause they don't know what else to say. And that is how mental health has been treated. But if you learn the skills like a physical fitness regime, so whilst I admit, I, I have done it, but I don't do it. I do other sport, um, go to the gym, and I was working with a PT trainer. They would give me a fitness regime and a physical strength regime specific for me and what I wanted to achieve. And everyone in this room here and everyone else who's listening would have a different one. And it's exactly the same with mental health. So I think of the awareness key as the equivalent of you going to the gym for physical strength, you come to The Awareness Key for mental strength. And it is so the foundation of everything that we do. If you don't have mental health and mental strength, there is no health basically, 'cause it is the foundation. And when you've got your mind powered up, your energy is raised, your productivity increases by up to 12%, you're physically healthier, you can manage those curveballs of life. So going back to the weather, we think about in a day, you have the calm bits, you have the stormy bits, and let's face it, in the last year we've had those flipping tornadoes hitting us hard and fast. But if you have the tools to keep yourself mentally strong throughout them, then actually it's a bit like you're sort of rising above it and you're looking down on everything that's happening beneath you. And the mind is just like any other part of the body. It needs work. It needs, it's like a muscle. It needs to be made strong. And if you learn the skills specific to you, you can stay strong when those tornadoes come your way, or looking at the positive side, really, really embrace it, which then again actually adds to your mental health and strength. So it's a completely different way of looking at mental health. And the figures from the pandemic are just miserable, because before the pandemic, it was 1 in 4 people that had mental health problems. Coming out of the pandemic, it's actually estimated that a further 10 million people are going to be in the United Kingdom registered with a mental health problem. And of course there's going to be loads of people that aren't registered, but that equates to 39% of the country that are just registered with a problem. So that's over a third of your friends, over a third of your family, over a third of your business colleagues, you know, over a third of your children's friends. And actually, if people are struggling mentally, then everything that you hear about in the press and the media then gets talked about. And it's the suicide, it's the self-harming, it's the eating disorders, it's people not turning up for work because they're not very well. And actually, it's probably because, um, they— a mental thing has actually become a physical thing. The majority of appointments with the GP are actually related to an emotional illness through stress. And if you learn these skills, we can actually stop these things from happening. So going back to the prevention is better than cure, but it's, whilst I've been doing this for ages, it's actually coming to the fore that it's a new way of working. So that's a very long-winded way of answering your question, Rene.
Yeah, but 10 million is a lot, is an awful lot. I remember there's 65 million people in the UK, so 10 million, that is an awful lot.
And that's in a year that that's happened. I know the circumstances of the pandemic are horrendous for so, so many people, and everybody's story is individual, no story is the same. But to add to the figures that were already rubbish of 16 million people in the country, to add another 10 million people in just one year. And people haven't been thinking about their mental health from day to day. Just literally about 6 weeks ago, I was talking to a pilot who had very sadly, because that industry has been hit so hard, lost his job because of COVID And he had never ever thought about his mental health. And he found himself sitting on his kitchen floor with his head in his hands in floods of tears, not knowing what to do. He didn't know how he was going to pay the bills. And he suddenly went, oh my God, that's my mental health. And he had never ever thought about it before. So we've got to change society. We have to think about what we do daily to actually make ourselves mentally strong. And it's, it's specific skills, because people quite often think about, oh, I go for a walk, or I do some exercise, or I do meditation. And yes, of course, they are all amazing, they are absolutely brilliant, but that is actually different to skills specific to you, which you can then put in place, you know, as your emotions are going up and down throughout the day. So it's a completely different way of looking at it, as I say, the foundation. And the other things like the meditation and, you know, Roz's Bach remedies are absolutely amazing, and I speak from experience. But it is a case of actually making all these things work together, and that is actually what's going to prevent the mental health problems. So the skills are out there to be taught, but people just haven't realized it before now.
And even I think that mental health issues are a pandemic on their own. If you have a lemon, when you squeeze a lemon, what comes out is lemon juice, not orange juice. Lemon juice comes out of a lemon when you squeeze it. Now, if I squeeze myself with my mental health, what will come out is my mental health, and I will attract those kind of people that are like me, right? So, which is normal. I mean, tell me who your friends are and I will say who you are. You become the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with is not a quote that was invented yesterday. What you squeeze is what's come out, is what you squeeze. So I think it's very important to take care of your mental health in all kinds of ways. I mean, when I would relate it to body language, for example, and Ross, you met Roxane the other day as well, and Harry now as well. You're from Greece, you're a fellow speaker, fellow female, lady fellow speaker in body language. I mean, what happens is that if your feelings, what you feel is wrong,, or if your feeling is down, or your feeling is depressed, what will your body do? It will express these emotions, and then you will attract those people with the same emotions. So, Harry, what I would like to hear from you, because this is going to be— this is recorded, that will be out there on YouTube as well— if people are going through certain, uh, thought patterns, say, how can I prevent this? Is there a method? Is it a way how you work? Is there a— do you work with a certain, uh, I mean, I know who you— how you work.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can you explain this? What are the methods that you use?
Yeah, I mean, basically there are loads of skills that I can teach, and one thing I'm really passionate about is that you teach through something that you love. So if you came to my outdoor center or if you did a session with me online, I actually use primarily, though not totally, sport, animals, and nature. And I say not totally because actually just a few weeks ago I was teaching somebody through remote control helicopter flying. I don't care how I teach you as long as you love it, because I look back I think back to my time at school, I didn't really have a nice time, didn't really enjoy it. But the one subject I did do well in, and we've already been talking about it today because there's a Greek theme in this room today, was Greek civilization. And it was because I was automatically interested in it from having a Greek family. So my first thing is, coming from a coaching background, is that you've got to make sure you learn these skills from somebody you click with. There's no point in any of the sport coaching that I was doing 20, 25 years ago if you turn up and you just don't click with that person, you know, the energy is going to clash, it's not going to work. So on that basis of working with somebody that you, you know, feel comfortable with, learning in a way that you enjoy, because a sporty person might not like the animals and the horses, or they might not want to sit in the nature zone, you know, around the fire pit, it really doesn't matter. But from that, it's just learning some basic skills. So I work on something called ETA, and it's not the business estimated time of arrival. So the E is for emotion, the T is for thought, and the A is for action. So the E, the emotion, is perfectly normal. It doesn't matter if it's a positive emotion, and it doesn't matter if it's a challenging emotion. It is what it is. If you think about it, in just this time that we've actually just been speaking now, our emotions have actually gone up and down because of what I'm saying, because of actually other things that are happening perhaps around us, and that is what we're having to become aware of throughout the day. And if you're not aware of it, then actually that's when the problems start to kick in. So whether you're happy, whether you're sad, whether you're angry, whether you're frustrated, it doesn't matter. The E is just what it is. The emotion is just what it is. So then you have to start looking at the T for the thought, okay? And this is the bit that we have to change because our mind automatically starts doubling up on the emotion unless we train it. So it sounds really silly, but when you talk about it, it does make sense. So what our mind does is it starts thinking about, you're happy about being happy, you're sad about feeling frustrated, you're worried about feeling anxious. So straight away you've got twice the amount of emotion to deal with. So that's when your thought has to kick in and you have to become aware of the emotion, accept the emotion, whatever it is. And then if you can become aware of that thought process and accept whatever you're feeling, then the A, the action, is going to be the right thing. It's going to be the right way forward. For whatever emotion you're feeling. So for example, if somebody's angry, if they are just aware of that and they think about it, then hopefully they're not gonna go and deck the person that's next door to them, which is gonna be the wrong action. But instinctively, if they don't actually stop and think about what they've been feeling, then they are gonna spiral and their mind is gonna spiral out of control. And what they do next is gonna be inappropriate or make the situation worse. Or also not really appreciate a positive, because actually our mind can easily focus on other things. So the first thing I always think about is ETA, accept your emotion, then think about it, about what you can do about it, and then the action you put into place will be fine. From that, I would always say do a mental health check-in, and that is really easy, but once it's learnt, you don't just do it morning and evening, you do it literally all the time throughout your day because your mind is going 100 miles an hour, it's changing all the time, and so you have to keep checking in with yourself going, okay, where's my mind now, what's it thinking, what's it doing? And a mental health check-in is something really easy to learn. So you, whilst you're, I don't know, something that you do automatically, whether it's washing your teeth or having a drink, something that subconsciously you don't have to worry about focusing on. You just say, what is my emotion at the moment? What am I feeling? Because then you are actually becoming aware of it rather than just passing it by. Because you can't do anything in life unless you're aware of something. It's a bit like, you know, the addiction, whether it's chocolate, alcohol, drugs, whatever it is, you can't do anything about it unless you're aware. So the mental health check-in just is literally telling you where you are and making you aware of what your mind is doing. From that, okay, the next step would be putting what you feel on what I call the Mind Power Scale, and that is a number system. So it's very simple, from 1 to 10. So the lower numbers, from 1 to 5, are on the positive side, um, basically a calmness. You're feeling really settled. If they're on the challenging side, it's something that's sadder. You feel more depressed. The higher numbers from 6 to 10, again, divide into positives and challenges. If they're positive, you're feeling really happy, you're feeling really excited. If they're challenging, then your anxiety is kicking in, you're getting really worried. And so once you've done your mental health check-in, you just have to plot it somewhere on that Mind Power Scale, because if you don't know what you're feeling, again, it goes back to that awareness and acceptance, you can't do anything about it. So I would always start with the ETA of just understanding how the mind works, Then do the mental health check-in, and once you've learnt it, do it tens and tens and tens of times throughout the day. Because any conversation, even if you go for a dog walk, your emotions are changing throughout that dog walk. You know, a telephone conversation, somebody coming to the door— if they— well, probably not in pandemic time, but if they came to the door and asked you for directions, you know, if they ask you politely, you're mentally in a really good place. But if they slag you off and are shouting at you because they're cross the fact that they've lost the way, you know, that's automatically going to change your mental state. So once you've done the mental health check-in, then plot it on the Mind Power Scale. So I would say those are the 3 initial things that across the board that everyone can put into place.
Yeah. It's like starting a new relationship with somebody, right? I had the example the other day by somebody that said, hey, starting a new relationship, both of male, female are very conscious. They live very conscious. I mean, I'll put out the garbage, I'll do this and I'll do that. And after 3, 4 months, what happens? They say, hey, would you put out the garbage? And they say, hey, do I look like the garbage man? And because you, you go from conscious to subconscious, you don't think about it anymore because you're in love and it's like, oh my God, roses and moonshine. And, but then after 3, 4 months, reality kicks in, right? And then you forget about all these things. And I think what you were mentioning here is the same thing. You have to be conscious of what's happening, right?
Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Because the subconscious mind is what takes over the majority of the time. It's over 80% of the time, nearer 90% of the time. And I mean, I use sport a lot, you know, both online as well as at the outdoor centre. And if you think about a tennis player learning a serve, in order for that to become subconsciously a really good serve, they practice 100,000 times. To get the subconscious to kick in the correct way for them to be able to nail it when they serve. If for whatever reason that serve then starts going wrong, they have got to correct it 2,000 times. So they've got to do 2,000 times to break that cycle of the mind and the subconscious of how it's working in order to get the physical side to do it correctly. And then once you've corrected it, in order for it to then go back to the subconscious in the correct way, the new corrected serve, you've got to do it another 100,000 times. And that's what people don't realize about mental strength and mental health. And this is why people are now and have been really, really suffering throughout this pandemic through no fault of their own. But if these skills aren't taught, people don't know about it. You don't— you quite literally— the phrase is You don't know what you don't know. And the problem is these skills haven't been out there available to the masses, which is such a shame.
Yeah. I mean, you do know that I collaborate 10% of my time, I collaborate with Tony Robbins, with Robbins Research International. And the thing is that what I learned as well is that he says, people come to my seminars and some of them, they say, hey, I've been to Tony Robbins and it's amazing and I'm pumped up. And after 3 months, it goes down. Yeah, which is completely normal. I mean, what the heck? If you go to a gym and you want to grow muscle, you have to go every week. I mean, at least 2-3 times a week. Yeah, and keep doing it. I mean, if I would show you my phone, what kind of seminars I have on my phone is I'm listening to seminars when I'm driving my car, I'm listening to podcasts when I'm driving my car, when I'm walking, when I'm— I mean, and this is a mental health strength that you build up, right? Does that make sense?
Yes.
And that's what I learned about, uh, I mean, now after so many years collaborating with Tony is that, hey, you have to keep listening to these things. You have to— you don't have to go from seminar to seminar, but hey, make sure you download some stuff and, and keep putting it into practice, right?
Yeah, definitely, definitely put it into practice.
Now I have a question from Roxani, uh, in the chat box. What is the relevance with growth mindset?
Well, I think growth mindset comes from strong mental health because everyone talks about wanting to grow as a person individually, within business, within relationships, families, whatever, and in order to get the best out of yourself everyone talks about mindset, but you can't get any of it unless you actually have the skills for mental strength. So I think growth mindset comes from what I teach, quite literally teaching people the skills to be mentally strong that work for themselves. And from that, you then get the growth mindset, because as I said at the beginning, you know, productivity increases by up to 12%, and people are healthier because you're in a better place, you are doing the right thing for you. So I think the growth mindset, which everybody aims for in a personal life and a business life, is from learning the skills to be mentally strong that work for you specifically. Does that answer your question, Roxane?
Does that answer your question? You can unmute yourself. We're a small group, don't worry about it.
Yes, we're a small group. I also wanted to ask you also something else, because then, because when I make the question, then more questions.
Yeah, go for it.
My mind, what question to cut? Let's cut this question. And the question is that I totally agree. I like this that you say you recognize the emotion and then you accept the emotion, because the emotion we are, we are not them. Okay, we realize the emotion. And then concerning the thought, concerning the thought, it is that like, um, I have this emotion, accepted it, and then it's the emotion, we release the emotion. Or it is like, I have the thought, I have this emotion, I'm writing down, I'm writing down the word or the incident, what happened. What is practical, a technique at this point between recognizing the thought? I need some technique in order, more practical, something.
Yeah, it's a very, very good question, and this is where it becomes specific to you. Because some people, for example, love writing down notes and things like that. And actually, for them to write down, because they're sitting at their desk at work or something like that, then they actually will write a note down and just say one word, you know, happiness, sadness, whatever it is. But other people actually like to take a step back. And you've heard the phrase used quite a lot, sit with the emotion. And sitting with the emotion actually is quite a tough thing to learn. It's easier if it's a happier, more positive emotion, but if it's a, you know, more challenging emotion and it's a tougher feeling to manage, that is quite a difficult thing. So it's acknowledging it in the way you want to, whether it is physically writing it down, whether it's actually just sitting with the emotion, or actually the other thing that people do is often going, because I feel this, I'm going to do X, Y, and Z as a result. Does that make sense?
Yes, yes, yes.
Wow. So in terms of preventing, would you agree, Ari? Um, and if you can add some, some, some, uh, value to it, uh, for example, we were raised with herbs and oils and, and homeopathic stuff. Um, I'm so grateful for my— I didn't like it at all when I was a kid. I mean, I hated it. We had to eat this and we eat that and take this and take that. And now I'm super, super, super happy that my mom and dad, they live like this. Um, but is there anything people can do right now on the spot that you say, hey, start changing your diet, start changing your friends, start changing— I mean, is there anything that you can give as an advice to people like, hey, that would be amazing if you would do this already? Um, and, and, and of course contacting you, I will share your details in, in, in the end of the, the our Zoom meeting here, but is there anything like that you say, hey, besides this and this and this, there's still this and this you can add to your lifestyle?
Yes, I think one of the key things is actually think about the language that you put when you recognize the emotion that you have. For example, if it's— I don't know if you've noticed, I've spoken about positives and challenges. I don't talk about negatives. You might be in a negative situation, But actually, if you speak about it in a negative situation, you're already putting a bit of a dead end on it. If you think about it like a challenge, it's more of a solution, and there's a way forward through solution. So I think the language is really important because we were talking earlier about the number of times with a tennis serve and a tennis player for them having to correct something. So if you're not— if you're saying over and over again it's negative, negative, negative, your mind is going to tell you it's negative and that you can't get out of that because you're feeding it the wrong way. But if you actually are saying, okay, this is a challenge, it might be really rubbish challenge or it might be an easy challenge, but at least you're thinking of it in a way forward and that there's a solution. So I think the language is really key. And then jumping on the back of that to make the positive side come out, and this goes right back to when I was first a sports coach in both rugby and as a riding instructor, if I went to correct somebody's position, whether it was in a tackle or, you know, going over a jump, if I went in there straight away and said, 'That's rubbish,' they're going to shut down. It's— and the mind is going to focus on the fact that they are doing something wrong. So I always, always, from my sports coaching days, and still do it now, 3 positives to 1 challenge. And it doesn't matter how small the positive is. So you could get up in the morning and you can just feel a bit groggily, a bit not great that day, you haven't fired yourself up, but you can give positives, whether it's, I've woken up this morning, I've got electricity in the house so I can turn the lights on and I've got food in the fridge. Even if it is as mundane and everyday as that, rather than, you know, I've had a really successful, you know, day yesterday and I've had an amazing night's sleep, you know, even if it's not as good as that, it doesn't matter. But always do the ratio of 3 positives to 1 challenge.
Being grateful, right?
Yes, yeah, yeah. And it is, it is feeding me. We're going back to the fact that the mind is something that needs to be trained like any muscle in your body. And if you don't train it, it's not going to work in your favor. Um, and again, going back to the weather descriptions that we were talking about earlier, you know, it is going to be calm, it's going to be stormy, it's going to be tornadoes, but you're not going to be able to look at it and imagine those clouds coming and going on a sunny day, you know, literally really smoothly and beautifully in the sky. You can train your mind to work like that even with the other weather scenarios happening, and it makes you feel a bit rubbish.
I mean, you can set the day in the morning if you open up the window and it's raining and you go, it's raining, and then you go to the bathroom and you look in the mirror, it's too early, it's Monday, it's not another Monday. You go downstairs, the coffee is not ready, your shirt is not ironed. You get in your car, you get in a traffic jam, you go, ah, nobody lets you through. You go in the office and somebody says, hey John, how are you doing? Not now. I'm not in the mood. Right? The same scenarios as you open up the window and it's raining. And so, yes, it's raining. I have to go to my office anyway. You close the window, you go in the bathroom, you look at yourself like, hey Tiger, how you doing, man? You put some music on, you go downstairs, the coffee is ready, ironed, your shirt is ironed the night before. You get in traffic jam, quality time. Right?
For me, traffic jam is a quality time.
I put on a seminar or good music, some opera music, classic music. And I drive to the office and go, hey, John, how you doing? Hey, come here, you.
Mwah.
I love you. And the day is set. And that's how you attract the people. They go, wow, what an amazing person. I mean, but therefore, you need that mental health, I guess. Right?
Yeah, it is. And you know, we've spoken, we both speak at seminars. And how many times have you actually been to a seminar where you come out actually more drained and more switched off than you were when you went in. And the whole idea was you were supposed to be learning something and inspired by it. And, you know, we— you know, both you and I have spoken about the fact you've got to energize people. And if you energize people, that actually also helps the mental strength. But the mental strength comes from being energized and the energy comes from the mental strength. So it's that sort of chicken and egg scenario. Definitely. Yeah.
But that's what I do as a technique backstage. What I do all the time is that I ask the universe, please use me as the messenger. I'm just a delivery boy. Use me to give these people the energy, to give this, da da da. I went to Bangkok in Thailand and had a couple thousand people in the room. Was a National Achievers Congress, and we were there, and people said, Rene, you're not going to energize these people. These are Thai people, they're very conservative. I said, watch me, I'll show you. Within 5 minutes, they were dancing and singing. And yeah, it's all a mindset, isn't it?
It is. And that is all to do with your mental, your mental strength.
Yeah, I mean, the story about the, the, the Indian, the native, the native Indians in America. There was a— he said to one of the younger people, hey, there's a person, they have two wolves in them, a negative one and a positive one, and they're fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting. And the little kid says, who is winning?
The one you feed.
Exactly.
Yes, the one you feed. Definitely.
I mean, yeah, you surround yourself with, with a lot of negative people and, and, and or you can surround yourself with a lot of positive people. It's up to you. It's your choice. I mean, I lost so many friends in my life, and I'm so glad I did because it made space for different people, for positive people, for, you know, fellow speakers, fellow— I mean, I mean, and it's all about here and here. What you put in will come out, right?
And what is fantastic, you can learn it, and your whole— your business team can learn it, your family can, can learn it, you know, yourselves as couples can learn it. It's across the board. It's there for the taking. It's fantastic.
And I do have to admit, I was at your place, uh, Harry. I do admit it's amazing what you're doing, what you're having there. It's, uh, I look forward to be back pretty soon and, and maybe join a group of people and then see, uh, and, and learn as well, because I still learn today. Um, I was in Bangladesh and they said, hey, this is very offensive in body language in Bangladesh. And I told that in Iran and somebody said, yeah, but in Iran too. So I'm, I'm still learning myself.
Yeah.
So yeah. So what would I say? Is there any advice that you can give away that you say, hey, for strengthening your mental health? What would that be, Harry? Like a final thought?
Because I would actually say don't get fazed by it. Because if you think about physical fitness, you have to keep training, keep learning, keep learning all the time because otherwise, you're not going to be able to, I don't know, be fit enough to play the match or run the marathon or whatever it is you want to do. Mental strength actually isn't like that. You don't have to spend days and days and months and months on end learning the skills. So I've got a 10-day boot camp which you do sessions, live sessions with me a couple of times a day, just short and sweet. I've got, um, 3 power hour sessions online. Obviously people that are close to me in Sussex, um, in the South Downs National Park can come to me, but they're not coming to me day in, day out. The whole idea is that I give them the skills and then they can go off and fly. And to inspire them to actually put them into practice every day. As with anything, you know, you can get taught how to eat well, you can get taught maths, you can get taught a language, but unless you practice it, it's not going to be as effective. So with anything in life, obviously you've got to put it into place, but actually the physical learning of it is not something that, um, you know, is going to take days and days on end. You can come back for refreshers and things and have fun and, you know, learn, learn things further on down the line, but it is something that, that, uh, It's quite easy to teach, which is fantastic.
Now, what, what, what Ros does know, but that what Roxane doesn't know, is that you're a bit of a peaceful warrior as well. And why do I say that is because you have a petition at this very moment to make the government aware of it, right? Could you say something about this?
Yes. So, um, as I said at the beginning, that mental strength has not been something that has been thought about, and therefore it hasn't been taught. And as a result of that, we've now got all these problems and horrible figures out there with with regards to people becoming mentally ill. So what we finally got in place is a petition for the government to fund mental strength sessions in schools and workplaces. And if we can get those skills taught, we're going to keep people away from the suicide, from the self-harm, and all the things that are associated with mental health when it goes wrong.
Yeah, yeah. So I will share that as well in the YouTube link, in the— how do you call that? In the comments?
Yes.
YouTube, right? Where I can share your website and share you the link as well for the petition. For people who are watching this, uh, right now, uh, Ross, Roxani, please— but I think Ross, you already did that. Yes, no doubt about it.
Fantastic advocate for it. Thank you.
But for people who are watching this YouTube, uh, uh, recording, please, please go to the petition and sign because it's such an amazing, um, um, how should I say, an amazing action that you took to go to the government and say, wake up guys, it's going completely wrong in this country. And not only in the UK, I mean, in the whole of Europe. When I listen to people who are in the mental health industry, it is going crazy. Yeah, right. Maybe Roxani or Ross, do you have a question for Harry?
Yes, I have one. Ross? Okay, Ross.
Okay, go ahead, Roxani. Ross has no questions.
Ah, okay. My question is, so there is a tool that we say there is a bucket list where I put what things I love. This is one that we can use it to have, to have a paper and okay, have a jar and in the inside that I love. So it's something like this, this mentality, this way of treatment, let's say treatment, yes, approach, uh, like ways to release you and to— while you are facing it.
Yes, you broke up a little bit there, but I think I've got the gist of it. So yeah, so yes, it is a case of always trying to break the cycle, because breaking the cycle will get you to where you need to be. And However you are thinking about the gratitude, the positives, the things that are inspiring you, that energise you, it doesn't matter how you record it, whether it is actually, you know, pieces of paper in a jar, whether it's actually— I've got an exercise which is called anchors, and actually you're drawing or writing the things that make you feel safe and make you feel happy. It doesn't matter, but all that is part of a really important process to break a cycle, to get yourself to be mentally strong. Yes.
Yeah, I've got one more. I mean, thank you, Harry, for, for asking, answering that question. I've got one more. What I do, for example, when I have a— because I'm not Mr. Positive 100% all the time— when I got like a day like this, what I do, I put on some stand-up comedians. I mean, McIntyre, I don't have to mention all their names, but they're amazing. And when you watch a stand-up comedian for 15 minutes, I mean, the energy goes up again. And then that's one of my remedies I use. Yeah, there's the fact that mental health is, is, uh, and strengthening your mental health is, is something to do to prevent yourself from going through the process of having or watching or searching for a cure, right?
Yeah, definitely, definitely. Thank you.
So the Awareness Key, for people who are watching, uh, on YouTube, the Awareness Key with Harry, please, if you have any questions, um, contact Harry.
Yeah, get in touch because we do a free discovery call for half an hour. So even if you just— you're curious and you don't know how it works and you want to know more, or you want to know whether this would work for you, whether it's online because you're somewhere around the world, or whether you're local because you're near me in Sussex, doesn't matter at all. We always make sure that what we do is specific to you, whether it's a school we're working with. We're putting specific programs together ready for next term now that the schools are back, or whether it's an individual or a family, just get in touch. It's a free half an hour and be more than happy to speak to you.
Plus you're also, how shall I say, you have things in place for the COVID If people say, is this COVID safe?
Yes, when you came here, I was telling you to wash your hands and do a one-way system and all that kind of stuff. It's fun, isn't it?
Love it.
It was so good when we came because we were just wandering around in the field Yes, we had the weather.
Yes, it was all outside, which is fantastic.
Just for the people who say, is this COVID safe? Is this— yes, I mean, um, and then it is, right? So hey, thank you so much, Harry, for your time. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you, Ross.
Thank you for joining. Roxani, thank you for joining.
Thanks for having us. Thank you.
Thanks. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Bye, Roxani.
See you soon.
You all take care.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
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