So you want to make a change and you're wondering how to find inner peace? We have five easy DIY steps for enriching your body, refreshing your mind and nourishing your spirit. 1. Loving-Kindness Meditation Metta bhavana, or the cultivation of loving-kindness, is one of the ways that you can use to practice giving unlimited love to others, and most importantly to yourself. This love is pure and doesn’t have any conditions or expectations of anything in return. Consider the calmness and peace of self-acceptance as you meditate. Think of yourself first, then your close family and friends, even your enemies, and ultimately all living things. But with the same love. Open your heart in the final stage in order to spread a peaceful and generous love to all of them equally. Benefits: When you focus on loving-kindness, it allows for acceptance and personal forgiveness, along with letting go off irritation and judgment of others. Practice: Follow these simple traditional phrases … [Read more...]
How To Stay True to Yourself While Walking Your Path of Life
It may be possible that you feel trapped right now, so how do you remain true to yourself in moments like this? The most important thing I can tell you is not to give up: positive changes begin with one small step, a step into the life you genuinely seek. ‘’You start by starting’’. I saw this quote somewhere, and it made total sense. But I prefer to think of all the excuses NOT to start, not to take that risk, not to follow that huge, brave dream. Does this sound familiar? I would like to tell my story, but there are a lot of reasons why not to: What if nobody cares about what I have to say?I am not confident that this is the right choice for meI am concerned that my website is not done The list continues… and that is just the basic stuff. But if I dig deeper, harder questions come to my mind: Who the hell do I believe I am, saying that I am a life expert that has all the world’s answers? There are a lot of people that are already doing the same thing I do, people who … [Read more...]
Benefits of Surya Namaskar (Sun Greeting) and 12 Poses
We are sure that there is not a single person that has not heard of the benefits of Surya Namaskar or the sequence of Sun Salutations. It is a series of 12 yoga poses that have the ability to affect your life so positively that you may not even believe it in one go. If you're looking to fit up and get the perfect figure for next summer, but you cannot find enough time to invest in it, then don’t worry. Surya Namaskar will be here to help you. This is a fairly brief routine of 12 complex yoga asanas performed as a devotion or tribute to the sun which is believed to be the origin of life on Earth, according to the Yogic philosophy. It's recommended that you do this early in the morning, on an empty stomach during the sunrise period. One round of the greetings is composed of two sets, each of which has the 12 yoga poses. However, there can be different versions of it, so you should try to pick one and practice it religiously in order to achieve good results. Below, you can … [Read more...]
Let Go Of Toxic People, What Is Making You Attract Toxic People
Even if we try, we can't stay away from every toxic, negative person around us. But we should try not to interact with them when it is unnecessary. If we give them too much control over us, toxic people may get into our life. However, the other explanation of why a toxic person may tend to be drawn towards us is our own toxicity. We allure the energy that we reflect and we will continue to attract bad vibes unless our own energy is positive and pure. If you want to put an end to your own toxicity and eliminate any other toxic people around you, here are a few tips you can try: Be Content With Your Life You are never going to be pleased with your life if you are a toxic person, even if you've got everything you want. You move to the next one as soon as you finish one goal. Instead, you should learn to be more grateful for the things you have and be content for them. Achieving new goals is good but remember to be happy with what you already have. Overcome Your … [Read more...]
Unexplained loss of weight: Symptoms and Causes
If in 6 to 12 months you lose more than 5% of your weight, you should talk to your doctor, particularly if you are an older person. If you weigh 150 pounds that will be around 8, or 10 pounds if you exceed 200. Unexplained loss of weight may be a symptom of a health condition if it happens without a reason. Hyperthyroidism If your thyroid gland releases a lot of thyroid hormone, it boosts your metabolism so that you can lose weight and burn more fat. You may also get more bowel movements and a rapid heartbeat, and you can feel nervous. Your doctor should prescribe medication to help you regulate it. Also, she might recommend surgery to remove all or part of your thyroid. Diabetes Insulin is a hormone that your body produces to transform blood sugar into energy. If you have diabetes, you cannot either produce insulin, or you cannot use it the way you need it. Your body feels like it's starving when your cells run out of energy and starts melting fat and muscle. This leads to … [Read more...]
High Functioning Anxiety People Share These 11 Habits
High functioning anxiety is known as the “21st-century disease”. Anxious people wage wars against themselves – combat after combat, and in order to understand this disorder you need to be familiar with the modern way of life. The rapid changes, the new way of communication, the media and technology, and many other issues make the children of these modern times suffer from anxiety once they reach adolescence. As claimed by many scientists, children born in the ’90s, for example, are the “generation of anxiety”. The digital revolution and humanity’s development in the last two decades has had an enormous impact on these generations ‘ personality-building. High functioning anxiety, however, can be manifested both physically and emotionally and is described as a state of mind and body. In this article, we are going to share some of the most common things that people with highly functioning anxiety do. Anxiety can be expressed physically and emotionally – it’s … [Read more...]