
ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်
A WARM WELCOME!
Minglaba! Welcome to our website “Wellness In Worrying Times”. Today, we face a situation which heavily impacts our daily lives. Covid-19 and the current political situation have drastically altered what we consider to be normal life. Now, we must adapt to the changed world we live in and try to live our daily lives as best we can even in these troublesome circumstances. Physical and Mental Wellness are extremely important for our well-being. Though our country faces many obstacles, we cannot allow ourselves to sacrifice our wellness at any cost. This is especially important for children: We must encourage regular physical activity as well as practices to keep our mental health in check. It is unfortunate that we cannot meet each other, or play sports, or engage in other activities. Nevertheless, we must continue to keep ourselves physically and mentally healthy so that we stay happy. I would like to introduce my friend Maher, who has created a free resource that he hopes can help us keep ourselves physically and mentally healthy during these times of worry.
This website has 4 sections. First, you can find follow-along workout videos for all levels of fitness (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). These workouts do not require any equipment, and can be done from the comfort of your own home. Secondly, you can find 2-month-long fitness programs that you can follow over an extended period of time to help improve your physical fitness. Thirdly, you will be able to view examples of what are considered balanced meals, so you can help your body grow and mature to its full potential. Fourth, you will find guided meditation videos which help address our mental health. Lastly, you will find a selection of external resources –like follow-along dance videos for little children, fun family routines, and health information– that are very helpful: some of them are informative, some are surprising, and some are plain fun!
I hope that you will find this website helpful and hope that you learn a lot over your time on it.

INTRODUCING WELLNESS IN WORRYING TIMES
(အောက်တွင်ဖော်ပြထားသောမြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့်)
Today, we find ourselves right in the middle of arguably one of the biggest crises of the 21st century. We have been forced to radically change the way we live our day-to-day lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our ability to keep ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy to the point that it seems we may never go back to the way things were before. How can we continue to maintain our wellbeing during these times of worry?
TO THE YOUTH OF MYANMAR:
Hello everyone,
It would be an understatement to say that what you are experiencing right now in your home country is severe. Not only are you fighting a global pandemic, but you are also in the midst of political turmoil. I have created this resource for you all in the hopes that you can use it as a tool to keep yourselves physically and mentally strong and healthy. I hope that it helps you, even if it just is a little bit.
-Maher
ယနေ့ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် ၂၁ ရာစု၏အကြီးမားဆုံးအကျပ်အတည်းများအနက်မှတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏နေ့စဉ်ဘဝအသက်တာကိုအခြေခံကျကျပြောင်းလဲရန်အတင်းအကျပ်ဖိအားပေးခံရသည်။ COVID-19 ကူးစက်ရောဂါသည်ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ၊ စိတ်ပိုင်း၊ စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားမှုပိုင်းနှင့်ဝိညာဉ်ရေးအရကျန်းမာသန်စွမ်းစေရန်ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏စွမ်းရည်ကိုအကျိုးသက်ရောက်စေခဲ့သည်။ ဒီစိုးရိမ်ပူပန်မှုတွေကြားမှာငါတို့ဘယ်လိုကောင်းကျိုးချမ်းသာကိုဆက်ထိန်းထားနိုင်မလဲ။
မြန်မာလူငယ်များဆီသို့:
အားလုံးမင်္ဂလာပါ,
သင့်နေရင်းတိုင်းပြည်တွင်သင်ယခုကြုံတွေ့နေရသောအရာသည်အလွန်ပြင်းထန်သည်ဟုဆိုခြင်းသည်လျှော့တွက်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ သင်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာကပ်ရောဂါကိုတိုက်ဖျက်ရုံသာမကဘဲအရှိန်အဟုန်ပြင်းထန်တဲ့နိုင်ငံရေးအခြေအနေလည်းရောက်နေပြီ။ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုကာယရေး၊ စိတ်ဓာတ်ကြံ့ခိုင်မှုရှိဖို့နဲ့ကျန်းမာစေဖို့ဒီကိရိယာကိုအသုံးချနိုင်ဖို့မျှော်လင့်ချက်နဲ့ဒီအရင်းအမြစ်ကိုကျွန်တော်ဖန်တီးလိုက်တာပါ။ ဒါကနည်းနည်းလေးတောင်မှသင့်ကိုကူညီပါလိမ့်မယ်။
-Maher