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How To Live A Healthy Happy Life: 5 Simple Steps To Take Today
Living your life healthy and happily is not so difficult. We need to change our attitude towards our life and make some rules for it. In a 9 to 6 private job we tend to be in strict discipline and follow our routine. However, when it comes to our personal life, we become a looser and forget all the disciplines. I am unable to understand, why this dual standards?
Today, in 21st century chronic diseases are spreading much faster than number of hospitals and doctors. There are many diseases which are still incurable like heart problem, diabetes, liver problem etc. Medical science has not found any solution yet.
Earlier, persons of elder age and above 50 were prone to these chronic ailments, but now even children and younger persons are falling victim. In today’s world, we are very much money centric and our only goal is to earn more and more money . In this process we ignore our health which is most vital for us. Yes, I also agree that money is very important to make our life comfortable, but it’s not more important than our health.
Ignoring your health may cost you everything that you can never get back. In short term, you will not see any significant difference but, after some years it will start reflecting in your life with lots of bad effects. “Health is Wealth”. This proverb is still relevant. If a person is healthy, he can do anything, achieve anything and keep him and his family happy.
If you want healthy and happy life, you should make a daily routine. You should spare some time for your health and fitness. These are very simple steps following which will give you a healthy body and peaceful mind.
1.Wake up early morning:
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise”. Yes you should follow these lines. Go to the bed early night and leave your bed early in the morning. First time When you wake up early in the morning you may feel lazy, but when it will form a habit, you start feeling very fresh.
Waking up between 5 to 6 A.M in the morning gives you 2 more hours in your schedule. You can follow your hobbies in the morning time, which you couldn’t follow otherwise. Start your day with small prayer, be thankful to your God for whatever he has provided you so far. And then, make a “to do” list for your day’s work.
2.Morning walk:
You should go to morning walk every morning. It balances blood circulation in body and it makes you fit and healthy. You will be less prone to diseases. This habit is a security guard and it protects our body from external threats.
The breeze in the morning is very calm and pure so when you get up early and breathe, you inhale fresh and clean air. It leaves very positive effects on your lungs and your heart. If you have any problem or any disease like, – Heart problem, Diabetes, Body pain and Joint pain etc. and you go for the treatment, the first advise doctor gives you is to do morning walk. If we have to start walking after getting unwell, why not start it today?
3.Drink water with honey:
After morning walk you should drink a glass of warm water with one big tsp. honey. It is very beneficial for your health. It reduces cholesterol and prevents fat to increase.
Benefits of honey are very well known. Even Chinese and Japanese people are now start using honey in their day to day life. Taking water with honey on empty stomach works as a cleanser which cleans our body of harmful toxins. Additionally, It honey gives a small boost of energy to us in morning time. That prevents us from resorting to fries and snacks to feed our hunger. I’ve been taking this since last 10 years and can see its direct benefits.
4.Yoga and Meditation:
I never miss yoga and exercise in my daily routine. Physical and mental both exercises are important for maintaining our health. If you are doing Yoga and meditation, you will never fall sick.
It makes body and mind more active. It improves blood circulation and reduces cholesterol. Meditation controls your mental pressure and your depression. Meditation makes you mentally and physically healthy and fit.
5.Limit the intake of tea and coffee:
Limit your tea, coffee and alcohol consumption. Tea and coffee have caffeine in them. Taking tea/coffee in empty stomach may stimulate acid creation and give you acidity problem.
Along with that tea causes dehydration in your body if you don’t take enough water intake, it will further complicate the issues. In worst case tea or coffee may cause Ulcer too. So, try to avoid tea/coffee as much as possible.
Alcohol affects very negatively on your liver. Although, some researches shows very mild good effects of Alcohol, but bad effects of Alcohol outweigh good effects. It may weaken your liver and digestive system. It affects your reproductive system also. Despite that, if you want to take alcohol occasionally, I would prefer ‘Red wine’.
Do you think, these habits are very hard to follow? No, I don’t think so.
Start following these from today itself, procrastination will make the things much harder. If I can do this, you can also.
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2 Girls can’t be good friends: 5 simple points
BY: RashmiS When we talk about girls, beauty comes in our mind first. On any auspicious or festive occasion, we see girls with their tempting smells, attractive attires, attentive attitudes and sparkling beauties. When many beauties gather at a time, an inside rivalry takes place. Which provoke them giving sarcastic remarks on their peers.
There are five mudslinging points which have been most common among girls.
1. WEIGHT:
Jealousy and envy are two common friends of girls. A girl doesn’t accept easily that her friend is more beautiful. Even if you are good looking, but a bit fatty, jealousy drags others to give a sarcastic comment of you. It shows self obsessed behavior and inferiority complex among girls. If you don’t want to be embarrassed and making your presence more appealing, then put off your weight and follow a strict routine life.
If you compare between a rural and urban girl. Urban girls are more prone to obesity problem rather than rural girls. Lifestyle is the reason behind this, so urban girls need to be more concerned about their diets. Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. I don’t work out because I hate my body, I work out because I love it.
2. AGE:
I never see any moment, when age didn’t come out as an issue of discussion among girls. It’s very pity to downgrade a person on the basis of age, but the same way, I want to say that if anyone feels happy to show herself junior, then let her enjoy rather than get into a scuffle and making yourself embarrassed. Critics are your best friends; take their remarks on a positive note.
Take healthy diets. Do Regular yoga and exercise. Take proper sleep and stay happy. If you follow this, age will never catch you. Let your friends be jealous, your sparkling beauty will be the best answer for them.
“Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul” “Age. is a matter of feelings, not of years”.
3. BOYFRIEND:
I can’t recall a party, where we all girls didn’t discuss about our boyfriends. Your social reputation is directly proportional to your boyfriend’s earnings. Today hubby or boyfriend has become completely a materialistic stuff. It is a kind of your financial status, so girls don’t miss a single chance to show off their superiority and make fun of others.
If you want to enjoy the party and having cheerful equanimity, it’s better to stay away from this garrulous discussion.
“The heart that loves is always young.” “Jealousy is like flames of fire.”
4. MAKE UP:
Girls and makeup go hand in hand. Being a girl, you should know your skin type; whether it is oily, normal or dry. When a girl gets into a party, she grabs an attention, if you don’t keep below mentioned three things in your Mind, You will carry a bad beauty conscious tag with yourself.
First, you should know your skin type.
Second, Choose a makeup as per your skin complexion.
Third, consider the function you are going to attend. When a girl gets into a party, she grabs an attention, if you don’t keep above mentioned three things in Mind, you can’t be a center of attraction. You will carry a bad beauty conscious tag with yourself.
“Make-up is nothing but an art of beauty.” “The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural”.
5. ATTIRE:
Dressing sense is the most frequently used term in the fashion world. Madonna, Sunny Leone, Katrina kaif to Angelina Jolie all have been victim of bad dressing sense at some point of time.
Good dressing sense doesn’t mean, only branded wardrobes. It says, you should choose your attire, keeping in view your body structure and comfort level, rather than just follow the trends. You should not live in a fool’s paradise.
If you see famous personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela or Barak Obama, they wore what they were feeling comfortable in. Today we can easily recognize them by their wardrobes only.
Your dress is your overall persona, you die, but it remains stay in the earthly world. “Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new branded dress”.
How To Keep Yourself Healthy And Fit: Top 5 Websites
Health and fitness are the biggest concern for us. But in today’s materialistic lifestyle, we don’t pay attention to our health. Stressful work schedule, drug addiction and intake of fast food are adversely affecting our immune system with the growing age.
Materialism creates Stress and depression
There are 5 main reasons for growing health problems:
1. Emotional breakdown: love, marriage and breakup
2. Materialism
3. unhealthy diets
4. Old age
5. Insomnia
If you talk to the people, everyone will say that happiness is the treasure of life. Even if you are aware of adverse effects of stress and depression, but you are unable to avoid it because your mind is used to taking stress. No one will help you to get rid of stress, even a psychiatrist. Only you can overcome this by changing your way of thinking.
Never try to get rid of stress, enjoy and play with it. Change your thought process. Just think, wow, what a pleasant moment, financial crisis, no family support, no friends, no life partner. So what, let enjoy yourself with the rhythm of stress. Start jogging, hit the gym, start listening musing, start dancing with the song of your favorite stars. Take good care of your health and fitness, no drinking and smoking; get up and start working hard.
Don’t think about the result; move on. Yes, you are on the right track. Enjoy the recipe of tension and go ahead in the right direction to achieving your goal.
Keeping your health and fitness in mind, I am giving you a brief information about top 5 fitness websites always stand by you.
Top 5 Websites keeping you healthy and fit
2. WebMD.com
“HEALTH IS YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY, TRESPASSERS ARE NOT ALLOWED”
3. MSN Health
“Stress is the spark of life, get and go ahead”
“Don’t run behind stress let the stress run behind you”
5. Yahoo Health
Stress is the god’s greatest gift, it says stop thinking, channelize your energy. God hates sedentary living, so gives depression and stress for motivating you. Try to understand the god’s message behind stress: get up and go.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
“ENJOY THE ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF LIFE”
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HOMEMADE SKIN CARE TIPS FOR WINTER
Winter is the coldest and yet the most beautiful season of the year. Winter is the time, when most of us enjoy a holiday traveling with family and friends. But, the cold winter season can be harmful to your skin because, It makes your skin dry, dull and dehydrated.
To get the spark on your face back, follow these simple natural beauty tips:
Skin care in winter season
Cleansing is essential in all seasons, not only in winter. Chilly weather makes your skin dry; creates dead cells and black patches on your face. When the temperature starts going down, you need to start caring your skin up.
1. Natural cleansing:
Take 1 tbsp. of tomato juice and 1tbsp lemon juice. Mix it, put all around your face for 15 minutes and wash it off with lukewarm water. You will get back refreshing and flawless skin. It is far better than any branded cosmetic face wash.
2. Natural Scrubbing:
Scrubbing is also equally important, but in winters you need to avoid daily scrubbing.
1) Take 1/4 ripe banana and 1/4 Apple. Mash it in a blender, take 1 tsp. of honey and make a paste. Massage smoothly for 10 minutes on your face then rinse off.
2) If you are exhausted and don’t want to use mixture, then the best way to is to Mix honey with coffee; massage lightly for 10 minutes. You will get a sparkling beauty after that.
3) Grapes are natural scrub. You can directly use the grapes on your face and rub it all around your face lightly. This will make your skin soft and bright.
3. Natural winter face pack:
1) Mix yolk of an egg, 1 tbsp. of honey and 1 tbsp. of almond oil. Apply this mixture on the face for 20 minutes, then wash it off with lukewarm water. You can use only yolk on your face for 15 minutes and rinse it off with warm water. It will bring your complexion back.
2) Take two tbsp. of oats and 2 tbsp. honey. Mix it properly and apply on your face for 10 minutes. Splash with lukewarm water. You will get a soft, smooth and glowing face.
3) Mix half messed banana with half cup of butter or skimmed milk cream. Put this mixture all over the face for 10 to 20 minutes and rinse with Luke warm water. It is a natural face mask and a healthier moisturizer for winter season.
4) Take 1 tbsp. of honey, 2 tbsp. yogurt and 1 tbsp. rose water. Mix all of the ingredients properly. Now apply this paste smoothly all over the face for 20 minutes. Rinse it off with warm water.
4. Natural moisturizer:
Moisturizer is the most essential to keep your skin flawless in winters. Moisturize your skin several times in a day to reduce the dryness on your skin. There are many brands available in the market, which is very costly and not affordable for everybody.
Even artificial moisturizer has side effects. Olive oil, almond oil, mineral oil, avocado oil, primrose oil, sesame or jojoba is the best natural moisturizer. It pampers hydrates and protects the skin. Personally, I use jojoba oil. It stops scars, dryness and adverse effects of cold winds. You can also mix two and three oils, use it as a night massage routine.
Skin care in winter season is not a difficult task. If you follow above mentioned natural beauty ingredients; it will slough off your dry and dead skin. You will be a classic and a fabulous example of beauty.
PS: Any well known brand can’t compete with natural beauty therapy
HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF HAPPY: 6 SIMPLE WAYS
6 ways to be happy
1. Understand your dreams
It is most important to recognize yourself, your potential and your dreams. You have to think what you want to become and what you enjoy doing the most. There may be huge pressure on you from your parents and peers, but you need to overcome that pressure. Choose your desired path and channelize your energy in the right direction.
Don’t start doing anything for the sake of others. It’s your life and you have to be in commanding position all the time.
You have to be strict and communicative while convincing others about your decisions.
Last word – Make a goal keeping in view your interest, competency and potential.
2. Stop over thinking
When you think about starting anything new and unconventional, your mind starts processing as a whirlwind. Many questions arise in your mind and start puzzling you. You think about your friends and family members reactions. What if you don’t succeed in your new venture? What will you answer to the people? It is called over thinking syndrome; and it’s a big hindrance in the way of fulfilling your dream.
If you are not confident of your success then what about others. When you see the background of Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, Aishwarya Rai and Nelson Mandela, these personalities never looked behind, once they decided to go ahead.
Go ahead with strong determination and enthusiasm in your life. Don’t bother about others
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3. Let bygones be bygones
Many opportunities and breaks might have come in your earlier life, but you had not grabbed it. You are not the first person who missed the chance, just read the biography of well-known personalities. All have mentioned their past failures. You have to learn from them, how they made a comeback with strong impacts. Failure is the beginning of any success.
So, get over your past failures and move ahead with a new beginning.
4. Education is not an excuse
You may not have excellent academic records. There might be several reasons behind this, ranging from your lack of interest in studying to your poor financial background.
Undoubtedly, education is the most important part of your life, however; it can’t be an excuse for you, not being successful in life.
Mark Zuckerberg to Sachin Tendulkar to Oprah Winfrey, all was school dropouts, but they were very practical, focused and determined towards their goal. If you have skills and proper strategy, education can’t come as a big barricade in your way to success. There are many professional and academic courses where age is not a concern. So, if you think you need some higher studies, you can start today itself.
As someone says” where there is a will there is away”.
5. Stop blaming
Maximum people think that they didn’t get support from family or friends. I firmly believe, everyone gets equal opportunities in their life to become successful. It is true that everyone has a different family background and financial situation. If you accept this reality and move on to fulfill your dreams with a killer instinct, you will get over this easily.
When you see the successful people like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, they all had the zeal to prove themselves. They all fought against the adverse situation and won. They accepted the harsh reality of life as a challenge and changed the adverse situation in a favorable environment.
It takes time to get recognition but your strong believe in your skills and knowledge will make your presence felt in this world.
6) Avoid comparing:-
World is diversified. Every country has different races, languages, religions and cultures. Besides this, every one has different mind and different physical abilities. No human being is like the other. So it is completely irrational to compare yourself with others and having an inferiority complex. It affects your way to approach with others and your happiness. It only weakens your confidence and hampers your success.
No can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You too can make your presence felt all around the world, if you follow these 6 ways to be happy in life. All successful personalities who crossed these 6 barriers in their lives become path makers for us.
TV serials are a waste of time
TV soaps are a very cheap source of entertainment for all of us. However, It impacts very negatively our lives. Let’s see how it affects our lifestyle and our thoughts…..
1. Waste of time — We watch TV serials which consume lots of time. In that time we don’t want to do anything else. We can utilize that precious time in other important works.
I will tell you a simple mathematics; suppose you watch only 2 serials per day; that counts to 365*2 = 730 episodes in one year Assume, one episode lasts for 30 minutes, it will be a whopping 730 hours of your precious time get wasted in serials. These 730 hours can be utilized in other ways, like learning some new hobbies, learning some foreign languages, doing computer classes, teaching your kids and loving your spouse (Kidding, haha)
2. Change of temperament — TV soaps are nothing but a bunch of villains and vamps conspiring against each other. Mother plotting against son, son plotting against his wife, mother-in-law making conspiracy against her daughter-in-law. What else! Remember Ramola Sikand, Mandira, Pallavi, Sindoora and kumolika to name afew. Even Hollywood is not far behind – Pete Callan, Blair Waldorf, Ed Norton etc
Is that comes under healthy entertainment? Evil brains always teach evil things, that is what TV serials are doing. Take the example of “Two and a half men“
It is proved from scientific research that what we see and listen continuously affect our subconscious mind. We start following them unintentionally. We identify them kind of a role model. In actuality, there is nothing like role model. It all depends on situation and scenario.
Soaps affect our thought and temperament. This brings bitterness in the relationships. So, investing thousands of hours in a business and getting only bitterness in your life.
What kind of rational decision is it?
3. Addicted to TV — When unfortunately (say fortunately) we can’t watch our favorite TV soap, we become impatient. If someone calls us while we are watching serial, we don’t even bother to receive the call and gets irritated. We cannot concentrate on any other work; this is called TV addiction, a kind of obsession. I call it “SOAPOHOLISM”. TV serials are not one hour story that you watch and finish in one day. It keeps you glued to the TV for years. And, today’s serial makers are so clever (we should call them serial killer); their episodes end very abruptly and at very unpredicted twist. You always keep on guessing about next plot.
You can make yourself free of this addiction only by applying your will power. Just ignore few episodes and your curiosity to watch that soap will automatically cease.
4. Neglecting other works — Watching soaps means, investing hours of your valuable time in front of TV. That means, you will not be helping your kids in his homework, your will not be reading newspapers, you will not be doing any other social work that might help society.
Why on earth, do people watch these stupid shows, where “Saas and Bahus” are always fighting with each other and making cunning strategy against each other.
I am not lecturing you about anything, it was just the the fact I stated frankly. I think many of you might be agreed with my view.
If you don’t agree, please share your feeling…
How I celebrated my Diwali
Diwali, the festival of light passes as fast as it comes. This year also, Diwali passed very quickly. Again, that boring 9 to 6 schedule will start and we will be busy in our daily life like a mechanical robot. I am unable to understand, why these festivals come to an end so quickly and why not we celebrate these every day?
This Diwali too, left us with a mixture of good and unpleasant memories. We have been waiting for the festival of light very patiently since last one year. Being a fan of Diwali, I was also waiting for the festival very desperately. Since, I am not staying with my parents; I was dying to meet them on this Diwali. Diwali gives us a chance of a sort of family reunion, when we celebrate together with our near and dear ones with lots of candles, sweets and off course crackers.
Now, The Diwali festival ends; I want to share with you some of my pleasant and not so pleasant memories. This Diwali marked a new beginning for me on several issues, I will explain later.
My Home
I travelled back to my mom’s home 500 km far away from here. I couldn’t stop my tears rolling down my checks, when I see my mom. Anyways, after the nostalgic Bollywood type “Milan”, I was ready for my next move. I reached my home 2 days before Diwali. 
Everyone else in my home was busy in cleaning and decoration work. I too provided a helping hand in those activities. Although very tiring, I enjoyed it a lot.
The Beginning
On the day of Dipawali, Mom prepared her signature dish “Gajar ka Halwa” and veg biryani. I can’t explain in words its divine and exquisite taste. Soooo yummy
After such a long time, we had a lunch without whole family. At the dining table, i was continuously thinking about how money centric our life has become now. We can’t even spare some moments with our family 😦
Diwali Shopping
Anyways, our next plan was to go on for a shopping spree. We bought enough crackers, clothes for all family members and other useful stuffs.
In the evening, we were up for the traditional “Laxmi Puja” with all the rituals. How can we forget Goddess Laxmi Hmmm? i was draped in a glamorous red Georgette Sari. Other members were also attired in traditional dresses. After Puja and Aarti,, we lit the candles all around our house. It was such an awesome glittering scenery, really mindboggling for me.
The Firecrackers
Now, the time for firecrackers. Big shot, Atom bomb, Chocolate bomb, sparklers, rockets and many more. I hate crackers, filled with toxin and poisonous gases. Every year the quantum of air and noise pollution caused by the crackers increases by many fold. Firecrackers release gases such as sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide etc. in the air, which may cause problems like asthma and bronchitis. Despite numerous efforts by govt and NGOs, large number of population is still using firecrackers.
I was just a mute spectator of this light and smoke show, However, kids of our family were really enjoying this moment
The accident
One of my friends challenged me and said that I am too weak heart to fire a cracker (say Bomb). At his provocation, i challenged his offer to fire a bomb. Although, I was wearing a Sari which is not deemed suitable for this occasion, i got ready to accept the challenge. I took the bomb in my hand, put it at a distant place and start lighting it. Suddenly, someone played a prank and shouted from behind ”Run Khushbu run, Bomb is going to explode”. Listening this, I started running hastily without thinking anything.
As expected, I bumped into a wall and fell down almost breaking my hand. My head was about to crash into the wall. Ironically, I became a butt of jokes that evening. I learnt a lesson that day-
Never get provoked by someone’s words, always take wise decision, weighing first the pros and cons of the possible outcome.
The Closing
All’s Well That Ends Well. Good saying. My leaves are over now, packing by bags for the journey back to Pune. This Diwali was indeed very memorable, memory of that will be forever etched upon my heart.
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Happy Life Hacks 