The Hidden Dimensions of Rest: A Holistic Path to Harmony | Holistic Happiness Club | EP 43

Welcome to another enlightening episode of the 'Holistic Happiness Club' podcast! Today, we delve into the often overlooked but vital aspect of well-being: the hidden dimensions of rest. This episode, 'The Hidden Dimensions of Rest: A Holistic Path to Harmony,' explores beyond the traditional notion of rest as mere physical relaxation. We uncover the multifaceted nature of rest, embracing its mental, emotional, spiritual, and sensory forms.

Join our host, Akshay Tiwari, holistic happiness coach and wellness expert, as he guides you through the various types of rest that are essential for achieving a balanced, harmonious life. Discover how to identify your unique rest needs and learn practical strategies to incorporate comprehensive rest into your daily routine.

In this podcast, we shed light on how effective rest is more than just getting adequate sleep. It's about finding mental clarity, emotional peace, and spiritual alignment. Understand the impact of sensory overload in our tech-driven world and learn how creative and social rest can rejuvenate your mind and enrich your relationships.

Whether you're struggling with stress, seeking to enhance your productivity, or aiming to improve your overall happiness, this episode is a treasure trove of insights and tips. We dive into the science behind rest, backed by holistic health principles, and share relatable examples and powerful anecdotes.

Don't miss this opportunity to transform your approach to rest and discover a holistic path to harmony. Tune in and embark on a journey to a more rested, fulfilled, and harmonious life. Remember to subscribe to the 'Holistic Happiness Club' for more insights into holistic living, and share this episode with those who might benefit from a deeper understanding of true rest. Rest isn't just a pause; it's a pathway to a richer, more vibrant life!"

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Hello and welcome back to Holistic Happiness Club.

And today's episode is a

little different, a little subtle.

It is about rest.

How many types of rests are there and

how you can take each of those rest.

Rest is something that we need on a day to

day basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis,

on a yearly basis, and time to time.

But we have very less

knowledge and understanding about rest.

All we think is turning the television set on

or getting drowned in alcohol or getting out.

That is rest.

No, that is not rest.

That might be entertainment, that might be a break,

and that might be some kind of rest.

But that's not entirely true.

Picture is much bigger than it seems to be. Appear.

So in this episode, we will just touch

the surface, scratch the surface about rest.

How many types of rests are there and how one

can take those rest, and when those rests are needed.

But before we get deeper into this

episode, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for tuning into holistic happiness club.

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All right, so before, without further

delay, let's get into the topic.

Hi, my name is Akshay Tiwari.

I'm a holistic happiness coach, author of the book

named Usher, and the founder of Holistic Happiness Club.

Holistic Happiness Club is a place where we

talk about happiness in a holistic manner.

We understand that happiness is not a

single faceted thing, it's a multifaceted thing.

And that is why it needs to

be looked at from 360 degree perspective.

We need to look at each

sponge that contributes to happiness.

Our relationship, our finances, our

health, our businesses, our career,

everything contribute to our happiness.

And that is why we talk in 360 degree perspective

in all the directions that contributes to our happiness.

And that is what holistic happiness club is for.

More about holistic Happiness club and about

me in the end of this episode.

But for now, let's enjoy this topic of the day.

All right, so let's begin.

The topic of the day rests and how to rest.

It means how many types of rests are there

and how to take each one of them.

And it is also very important to understand when

you need and why you need those rests. Okay?

So we will just touch base and

we will scratch the surface about rest.

So, first of all, I want to say that people

think that coming from office or from work, from anywhere,

any, anyplace else, and if they are feeling exhausted, first

of all, we need to decipher that.

What is it that is making us feel exhausted?

Is it physical tiredness or emotional tiredness?

Or it is stress or it is sensory overload.

What is it?

Or it is combination of more than one thing.

And when we can decipher what is causing

that exhaustness or what is causing that overwhelmingness,

only then we can properly rest.

Getting directly coming to home and getting

that cup of tea, or turning on

that television, or taking a short vacation.

This is not going to help.

This is not true.

Rest is okay.

So we need to understand what we need, what

our body is demanding, what our mind is demanding

for, and we need to provide it accordingly.

Just like, let's say there is a car, okay?

And you are going on a long drive.

So after certain time, there will be

fatigue, which the driver will experience. All right?

And. And there will be a

fatigue that engine will experience.

So sometime a driver needs a rest.

Sometime engine needs the rest.

Sometime some other thing are there.

And we need the rest to complete that long journey.

Similarly, in our life as well, we need rest.

Rests are the very, very important pillar

that helps us to reach our goal.

Without rest, we are not going to go anywhere

because it will lead to burnout, it will lead

to stress, and it will lead to all sorts

of problem like depression, anxiety and burnouts that will

pull us back instead of taking us further. Right?

We think that if we keep on

working, it will make us more productive.

No, it does not.

It will lead to burnout.

And that also it will lead to all sorts

of health problems and all those health problem, all

those burnouts will pull you ten step back instead

of taking you one step further.

So it is better to rest, rejuvenate.

And you know, in the example of car, you can say

that after a certain time, you need service and maintenance.

So those, these rest provide that opportunity to

rest and maintain and rejuvenate and service yourself

so that you can perform better, perform optimally.

Alright?

So this was the preface about rest.

Now let's understand how many types of rest are there.

So we'll look into each type of rest one by

one and we will understand when one needs it. Alright?

Okay.

So the first type of rest is physical rest.

We all are familiar with this physical rest when

it is needed, when you are physically exhausted.

So let's say that you have worked a long hour,

maybe you have taken, you have done a long workout,

maybe you have walked a lot, maybe you have been

to a trip, vacation, and after that it was, it

was a trekking or hiking sort of vacation.

And after that, when you are coming

back home, you are feeling exhausted.

So that is most likely a physical exhaustness.

The most, most likely it's physical tiredness

and you need the physical rest. Okay?

So how you can take that physical rest, it is

not by turning on that television that most people do

and or also not by drowning yourself into alcoholism.

Right.

You need to prioritize your sleep.

Sleep well, sleep early, sleep early as

soon as possible after the sunset. Okay?

And prioritize napkin during the day.

If, if the tiredness is still there, if it is accumulated

too much that in your one night of sleep, one night

of, one good night of sleep is not able to make

you recover from that tiredness, then go for naps as well.

Okay?

Because that are also needed.

Small, small naps, they will help

you recover much, much faster.

And if you ask any athlete, or if you ask

any trainer who trains athletes or maybe people who are

into bodybuilding or something, they will tell you that rest

is the most important part of the training.

It's not like the training is separate and you

need to rest to recover from that training.

No, it is part of the training.

Just like rest is the part of overall journey.

Without rest, your journey is not complete

because it will lead to burnout.

It will lead to all sorts of problem. Alright?

So rest is part of your journey.

Rest is part of your training.

And because it is part of your training, if

you rest well, it will enhance your physical recovery.

So even if you are coming back from a vacation,

and if you think that, okay, I have already come

from the vacation, now it is time to work more.

It will, it will.

I mean, you will not be that productive

because your physical health, your body is tired.

So to, to recover from it, you

need to prioritize your physical rest.

And the best way, best way

of physically resting is sleep.

It is not by anything else, sleep well

and you will recover much, much, much faster. Alright?

So that was about physical rest.

Next is mental rest.

All right, so when you need mental rest, when you

think, when you feel that you are mentally overwhelmed.

There are too many things running in your hand.

Your, your mind is racing and

you are experiencing brain fog.

You do not have any clarity what you need to do.

What is the next step that you need to take?

That kind of, that kind of clutter is there

in your mind that time you need mental rest.

When you have difficulty in concentrating in one

thing, that time you need mental rest. All right?

So it might be also accompanied with a physical rest.

Sorry, physical tiredness.

So in that case, you need to

have a physical rest as well. All right?

And one thing I would like to mention

here, not necessarily about mental rest, but any

kind of rest, your tiredness, your overwhelmingness, can

be because of more than one factor.

And that's when you need to prioritize more

than one kind of rest as well.

So in case of mental rest, it can

sometimes come from physical tiredness as well.

Because when your body is tired, it will not

be able to handle so much of information and

it will not be, your mind will not be

working optimally because your body is tired. Right?

Because your senses are tired.

It will, it is not able to take the information in

the right way and it is not, it is not able

to process the information in the right way, and that's why

you have difficulty in concentrating and experiencing brain fog.

All right?

So in case of mental rest, how you take that

mental rest, you need to take short break during your

work if you are experiencing that mental overwhelmingness.

So during your work, you need to take short break.

And if you have been working for a long

period of time, maybe you can plan for a

short or maybe long weekend break as well.

So like two or three days or

four days of break from the work.

And what you need to do is you need to meditate,

you need to mind, you need to engage yourself in mindfulness

practices or in some creative things which you like.

Not if you are not a creative person.

If you do not like dancing, art,

music, pottery or something, then you do

not need to engage in those activities.

Only if you like painting or dancing

or pottery, any sort of creative work.

If you like, you can engage in those creative hobbies.

Right?

You can do meditation.

You can sleep as well because, as I said, that

it can be accompanied with the physical tiredness, number one.

Number two, sleep is also mental as much as

it is physical because your mind also gets relaxed.

Now, there might be counter arguments to this, that

our mind is working when we are sleeping. Yes. Yes.

It is all, it is all true.

But when you sleep, your mind gets

relaxed, lot of emotions, lot of information,

lot of feeling gets processed, right?

Which will otherwise be processing in the, in the

physical realm, physical and in the awakening state.

And in the physical body, it will get, it

gets, it gets processed and it releases your body.

That, that reduces the mental overload on your mind.

So sleep is also very, very

important tool for mental rest.

And also you can take sensory rest.

So what is sensory rest?

We will cover that sensory rest in

later phase in this episode as well.

Okay, so this is how you take a mental

rest, by taking short break, engaging yourself in the

mindfulness activities, engaging yourself in the meditation, engaging yourself

in the creative hobbies, if you have any, or

by sleeping or by taking sensory rest.

So what is the benefit that you get?

You avoid the risk of burnout.

The number one, of course, when you

take mental rest because you are feeling

mentally overweight, overwhelmed, you experience brain fog.

And in, if, in that situation, if you are

continuing, you are at the high risk of burnout.

So when you take mental rest,

you reduces the risk of burnout.

It will improve your concentration because it

will, it will reduce that brain fog.

It will process so much of information and it will

allow you, and if you are sleeping as well, if

you, if you, if it, it will, it will allow

your body, it will make your body more equipped to

handle more information and process it in the right direction

so that you can take better decision as well.

Okay, so that was all about mental rest.

So let's go to the next one.

That is emotional rest.

What is emotional rest and when do you need it?

So when you are emotionally drained or overwhelmed.

So what do I mean by that?

When you are feeling different kind of emotions

or you, or the same kind of emotion,

but with a very much high intensity.

Usually it happens when, at the time of breakup, at

the time of loss, at the time of when there

are series of event which are not pleasant to you.

Alright, so when that happens, one after the other,

one after the other events are happening and they

are not present to you, they somehow starts creating

the void inside you, the sadness inside you.

And when you feel a sudden loss, when there

is a breakup, in the, in the language of

ayurveda, any kind of loss, any kind of detachment,

um, it creates the vata energy.

And then when, when there is vata energy, there is

more chances of feeling stressed or overwhelmed or anxious.

All sorts of things, right?

Or all kind of things that

are related to movement, right?

Because vata energy is more of movement energy.

Anyways, I'm not talking about physical

movement, mental movement as well.

Anyways, so what I'm trying to say

is ayurveda boils it down to that.

It, because it is vata.

So it will create all sorts of vata issues as well.

And if you are not a big fan

of ayurveda, you can leave this part aside.

But what I am trying to say that when

you feel emotional loss or loss and the series

of events which are not pleasant to you, it

creates some kind of void inside you.

And that's when you need emotional rest.

So find a time for yourself when

you can take that emotional rest.

How you take that emotional rest is you can engage

in your hobbies, any kind of hobby, it can be

sport, it can be creative hobbies, or it can be

anything like painting, creating something or contributing to something.

Maybe volunteering. Right.

Journal is a very, journaling is also a

very, very good way to take emotional rest.

Whatever you are feeling, good, bad or overwhelmed,

not able to find where you are going

right now, all those things, you can write

it down in a piece of paper, right?

And if it is too negative, you can take, I mean

you can burn that paper out, you can flush that paper

out, you can tear it, you can scribble it so it

will create a metaphor inside your head that it is all

over, it is all done and dusted. Alright?

So that, that will give you a feeling

that you have all let it out.

All the things that were going on, going

inside you, you have given them an outlet

to come out to exit from your system. All right?

So journaling is a very, very, very powerful exercise.

If you have a friend to whom you

can talk to, that also is very good.

So you can talk to that friend and you

can express your feeling, how you are feeling.

But the difference between journaling and talking to a

friend is journaling is much more slower than talking.

So when you are journaling, your, you hardens your

thought, you concentrate much more on your thought and

that's how that, that's when you are able to

release it in a much, much better way. Alright?

So journaling and talking to a friend to whom

you trust, those, those two are very, very powerful.

But I would say journaling is much more powerful in

my personal experience in someone else's experience in talking to

a friend is, can, can be much more powerful.

That's completely alright.

It's person to, it will differ person to person, right.

And engage in some kind of activities that are

self compassionate and self activities of self care.

Meaning that you need not to be blaming yourself.

That why it is happening to me all the time.

And I am responsible.

Am I responsible for these kind of events?

So you need to treat yourself with a much more

compassion and you need to engage in the activities that

you can call for yourself, like self care.

And the biggest form of self

care activities are getting disciplined, okay?

Getting up early in the morning, working out and

all sorts of things, eating healthy and all right.

So that is, that is how you take emotional rest.

To summarize it, when you are feeling emotionally

drained or overwhelmed, then you take emotional rest.

And how you take emotional rest is by

engaging in the hobbies, by journaling, by talking

to a friend, by being compassionate to yourself

and engaging in the activities of self care. Right?

What is the benefit that you get from emotional rest?

It is.

It makes you more emotionally intelligent.

It enhances the quality of your relationship.

Because if you are emotionally drained or

overwhelmed, it will show up in your,

in your relationship, in your interpersonal communication.

When you will communicate to other person, that energy

will come out and it will, it will ruin

the kind of relationship that you are enjoying with

the other person because that negative energy will hamper

that, that kind of bond, right?

So when you take rest, emotional rest, it will

diminish that kind of energy, that negative energy.

And when you will talk to that other person,

that time, you will be able to process the

dialogues in a much, much better way.

So your relationships will be better if you take

time to time, if you will take emotional rest.

And also it helps to manage stress, because

if you are emotionally drained or overwhelmed and

if still you are continuing, it will build

stress and that will lead to burnout.

So this emotional rest also manages the stress.

All right, let's go to the next one.

This was emotional rest. Okay.

Next one is social rest.

What is social rest?

So there are people whose job requires to meet a

lot of people, to always be surrounded by people.

And there are people also who

likes to be surrounded by people.

But too much of anything is bad.

Excess of anything is bad even if

you are drinking too much water.

So something as harmless and as plain as water, if you

are taking too much of it, that can also be harmful.

So excess of anything is bad.

And so if you are out in the field for so

much of time, if you are talking to so many people

for a long, long period of time and you are always

engaging in your social circle, that is also not good.

That will create a kind of social exhaustion.

And when you are not getting time for your self

care, when you are not getting time to engage in

the activities that you like, or when you are not

getting time to process your own emotions and feeling because

of too much of social interaction, that's when it becomes

too much and that's when you need social rest.

All right, so how do you, how

do you take that social rest?

You need to spend some time alone or

with very few people to whom you trust.

Take a break, go out on a picnic, go out

on a mini vacation or whatever you can afford, okay?

Or maybe stay at home and spend some quality time with

just the person, with, just with the person to whom you

trust or maybe with two or three people with whom you,

to whom you trust, but not with the group.

I'm saying person, but I'm not saying group

because group involves a lot of people.

So I, and when you are taking social

rest, you are avoiding your social interaction with

as much as many people as you can.

Okay, so what's the benefit of social rest?

It helps in maintaining the healthy social relationship because

when you are socially exhausted, some, at some point

in time, it will start showing up in your

attitude, in your behavior, in the way you talk

with people to whom you are interacting.

So you do not want that negative energy to

come out in your interaction, in your dialogues.

So that's why you need social rest

to maintain your healthy social circle. Okay?

So now let's move to the next one.

It is sensory rest.

So when we are constantly stimulated and it is

very, very easy in today's environment, right, because we

are constantly in touch with some or the other

screen, either its tv, smartphone or our laptop, whether

we are working, whether we are in our personal

time, whether we are in our vacation or something,

we are constantly surrounded by screens.

We are constantly using screens.

So screen is a big,

big contributor to sensory stimulation.

And also when, if you are living in a noisy

environment, if you are, again, if you are interacting with

a lot of people, so that also stimulates your senses.

And when I'm saying senses, it's pretty basic.

Your listening means your ears, your nose, your

skin, and ultimately I'm also including your mind.

So if you are getting a lot of information all

the time, that means you are getting stimulated sensorily.

So you need to have that rest, sensory rest, so

that your senses can rest, they can rejuvenate, they can

re energize themselves so that you can receive information in

a much better or optimal way and you can process

them in a much optimal way.

So how do you take that sensory rest?

It's very easy.

Switch off all your gadgets and spend time in silence.

And if you can't spend time in silence.

If you are a nature lover, then you

can go out in a peaceful natural environment. All right?

And the biggest ask, or the smallest ask here is do

not take your phone with you or keep it on.

Switch it off. Switch it. Switch off your phone.

Switch off all the screens that you have,

switch off all the gadgets that you have.

Switch off all the electronics that you have.

Because even if the electronics are there,

that they also create that kind of

electromagnetic pollution that silently stimulate your senses.

So you do not want to be in

touch with any kind of gadgets there.

So all the gadgets you need to switch it off

and if not possible at home, that you go out

in a garden or in a peaceful natural environment, spend

some time there, reflect on your thoughts, be there, just

observe what you are feeling for some time and that

will help you reset, that will help you get the

rest that you, that your senses need.

Alright, so what, how, how does it benefit you?

What is the benefit of taking a sensory rest?

It reduces your sensory overload.

As simple as it sounds, right?

Because when we are sensory sensorily overly stimulated

or overwhelmed, and when we are taking this

rest, so it will reduce that sensory overload.

What it will do, it will lead

to improved focus and reduced anxiety, right?

Because when our senses are overly stimulated, sooner or

later they will take us to the stress, they

will take us to more anxious state.

And if we constantly be in that state, it will

lead to a lot of health problems as well.

So you need sensory rest more than

ever now in this gadget full world.

Okay, that was sensory rest.

Next is creative rest. Okay?

That this might be something which not

so many people might relate to.

But, but if you, if you, if you are someone

who has been working for a long, long time, that

then you can relate to it very well.

When you are feeling inspired, when you are feeling blocked,

when you do not know how to take the next,

next step, you know that what is the next step,

but you are not able to take that.

It's not procrastination, but it is something similar.

But, and it is like you are not getting the motivation

to take the next step and you are not getting to

know the know how of to take the next step.

So that's when you need creative rest.

Because your creative instinct, your ability to

figure out things, that has diminished.

And that has diminished because you have

been working for a long, long time.

And all other problems, all other kinds

of over stimulation like sensory, like emotional,

like mental, like physical tiredness, all these

can contribute to creative rest.

So if you have been working or if you

have been taking care of multiple things for a

long time or maybe a short period of time.

See, short and long is a very subjective thing.

So maybe two days or three days

or seven days in a row, maybe.

It may be a long time for

you or for some, someone else.

It might be one month, two

months, seven months, eight months.

That can be a long time.

So anyways, whatever is your long time, if you

have been taking care of multiple things for a

long time, which you are not very accustomed to,

then you need creative rest because your creative instinct,

your problem solving ability gets diminished.

So when you take this creative rest,

how do you take this creative rest?

You need to take the break from the

activities that you have been doing, right?

So let's say that you have been

working for a very, very long time.

You need to stop working.

And if you are taking, if you are

taking a vacation, you do not need to

take your work in your vacation completely.

Stop what you are working.

And whenever you can do, only then you can do that.

What do I mean by that?

So let's say that you have decided to take

a creative rest and you have stopped working.

But if you are constantly thinking about

the work, then there is no point

of taking that rest, taking that break.

So choose a time when you can say that, okay,

this is the time when I can be stay.

I can stay away from this work or from

the activity that I have been doing, right?

So choose the time for that rest.

And also you need to engage in some other hobbies.

So you need to take a break from the,

from the activities that you have been doing and

engage in the hobbies that you like or enjoy

nature, or enjoy different kind of arts.

So let's say you are writer and you have

been writing for a long, very long time.

Now you are feeling that that is something

called in the writing world, writer's block, okay?

Now you are not able to write.

Now you are not getting that inspiration and ideas that

what to write next and how to write next, right?

So that's when.

And I am when I'm saying that enjoy

nature and enjoy different kind of art.

So you can take a break from writing.

You can engage yourself in some other hobbies.

You can go out in nature and enjoy nature.

And you can also engage in some other kind of

art, which means you can enjoy music, you can enjoy

dancing, you can enjoy painting, just not writing.

So when you engage your senses in different kind

of arts, it gives you new perspective, it gives

you new ideas, it gives you new motivation.

And that's when you can revive

or rejuvenate your creative skills.

So what's the benefit of taking a creative rest?

Of course it rekindles your creativity.

It helps you in finding new perspective.

Also it boosts your problem solving skills.

It is not only for the problem, for

the people who are doing some creative work.

So let's say if you are in a

crop corporate world, you need some kind of

creativity to solve a particular problem.

We all are having that creative skill.

We all are applying that creative skill somewhere

or the other, someday or the other.

So if you have been working for a very long

time, and if you are feeling that exhaustion and you

are not able to understand what that exhaustion is, whether

it's mental, whether it's physical, whether it's sensory, it might

be combination of multiple things, it can be.

Also you need a creative rest, right?

So this is very much needed for anyone.

And if you are someone who have been engaged in

multiple activities for a long time, you need this, right?

So that was creative rest.

And last but not the least, is spiritual rest.

So what is spiritual rest?

On the contrary to any other kind of rest which

we have just talked about, it is you do not

take this rest when you are overwhelmed with spirituality.

Instead, you need this rest when you have

very less of a spirituality in your life.

So how do you recognize this?

What is the symptoms?

So when you feel lack of purpose, when you

feel disconnected, when, when things does not make sense,

when the world does not make sense, it, it

seems like it's a hollow place.

When you are perplexed with a lot

of emotions, perplexed with a lot of

questions, that's when you need spiritual rest.

So how do you take spiritual rest?

You need to engage in your favorite spiritual practice

or religious practice also, because for many people, spirituality

and religion overlaps a lot of things. All right?

So whatever your favorite spiritual practices

are, favorite religious practices are, you

need to engage in them.

You need to meditate in that break,

in that, in that rest period.

You need to read. Read what?

You do not have to read

the motivational books or something.

What I'm asking you to read is, is

your spiritual literature or your religious literature that

you refer as good one, right?

So you need to read in that rest time.

Also spend time in nature,

because ultimately everything is connected.

So when you spend time in nature, we all are

the product of nature that helps us resetting or reconnecting

with this whole cosmos, with the whole universe, that, that

gives you the rest that you need.

And what it does what, what are the benefits of it?

So, as I said, because when, when you feel,

when you spend time in nature, when you feel

connected, similarly, when you meditate, when you engage in

spiritual practices, you feel a sense of belonging.

You feel that you belong to this place

called universe or nature, or this, whatever you

want to call it, this world.

You feel a sense of direction, you feel a sense

of purpose in life, that there is a reason that

you are here on this planet, on this world, doing

some particular, particular role that you are assigned to.

You have a direction to go.

You belong to this place, right?

All these, this feeling that you get,

it's a very, very strong feeling.

I mean, until you experience it, you

will not know the depth of it.

In simple words, I can say that when you are

directionless, when you are disconnected, so let's say there is

a vehicle or there is a boat and you do

not know the destination, where you need to go.

So where that boat will go, it will go in all

sorts of direction, wherever the wind is taking to it, right?

But when you have a direction,

then only you will be reached.

You will be able to reach to a

destination without direction, without destination, without the sense

of going somewhere, it will be directionless.

And for the whole life it will keep

on wandering without any purpose, without doing anything

productive, without leaving its own mark, right?

So it's a very subtle thing, but it's a

very powerful thing, which is sense of belonging, sense

of direction, sense of deeper purpose in our life.

So that this is what you get when you spiritually rest.

All right, so this was the end of the topic.

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With that we have reached to the end of the episode.

So till the time we are meeting,

we are seeing each other again.

Take care of yourself, take care of your loved one.

Take care of the people around you.

God bless you and always

remember, happiness is a lifestyle.

Bye.