15 ways to live Happy and Successful Life

15 ways to live Happy and Successful Life

Who does not want to be happy? Everyone is waiting for being content and achieve the utmost happiness in life. However, we hardly find happiness because of our ever increasing demands and of the ones those are around us. We spend our entire wake hours to do things that please us but yet hardly we are fully content.

So today I thought of sharing the basic rules of happiness. Basic things that we ignore actually complicate our life. We have to strive for simplicity to get the happiness. I recollect the famous quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson on happiness that says, "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

                  
 

1) Experience Now: It is important to put all the energy on what you are doing currently. Live in the moment. Experience what you are doing now. Dividing your energy in two or more things leave you tired and you are unable to enjoy it completely. So Rule No. 1 is Be entirely engrossed in what you are currently doing. Life is short. Live every moment completely.

 

2) Be Curious: Getting older does not mean that you should know everything. It is inevitable that at some point of time someone other would know better than you. There is no point of feel sad or defeated because of this. Instead I would say, be like a child. The way child keep on asking questions on whatever he/she encounters new, you should also be in the same way ask questions and learn from your fellow beings. Infact be curious to learn something new everyday.

 

 

3) Explore Love: Love is so pure that it automatically brings happiness. Unfortunately this generation tag love with the love of girl and a boy. At this moment I am talking about loving your parents, children, the love of brother and sister, the love that you have with your friends and that with bestest friend. Explore it and love it more. It is going fill your life with happiness.

 

4) Love Yourself: Apart from loving others, you should by all means love yourself. You are the unique personality in the world. There is no one like you, for that uniqueness love yourself. Look at all the positive points that you have. Grow on the negative points and try to convert it into your strength. Do things that make you happy. Go for shopping or for the long drive. Have ice-cream or that burger that you are craving for. Just do what you wish to do. In simple words just love yourself.

 

5) Do something for others: Live not only for yourselves but for others too. Do something for the ones who are less fortunate than you. Do something for your parents who look after you every moment even by forgetting themselves. Do something for your childhood friends. Plan the get together and buy their gifts for them. You are gonna cherish this for rest of your life.

 

6) Forgiveness: Mistakes do happen. We human beings are bound to make mistakes instead of being cautious and careful. There is nothing wrong in it. Learn from mistakes and forgive. Forgive yourself as well as others. Remember "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" as mentioned by Mahatma Gandhi.

 

 

7) Diet, Meditate & Exercise: Proper diet, meditation and remembering the God, and Exercise is important. Moreover it is important to do that on the daily basis. With regards to diet, I do not mean extreme diet. But the diet that gives your body the essential nutrients as per your body requirement. Click here for Top Healthy Breakfast options, Meditation and its health benefits

 

8) Set Goals: You should set long term, medium and short term goals for yourself. Regular check of where you have reached on that goal list is also essential to let you know the progress you are making. Aim high in life. When you achieve the goals, you will experience that happiness will be all around.

 

9) Think Rationally: It is all good to go to extremes to test yourself. But it is as stupid as anything to break yourself in testing you. Challenge yourself to grow but do not put that much efforts that it breaks you in order to achieve it. Think rationally and grow slowly but steadily.

 

10) Nurture Surroundings: Nurture the greenery around you. That beautiful beach, the sunset and sunrise, the birds singing the songs, the mountains and the hills. God has given us the beautiful and amazing surroundings to us. However in this busy life we hardly admire it. Try, look and admire surroundings. Trust me, you will find yourself so relaxed and content in those moments.

 

11) Rhythm of Life: It is very important to follow the rhythm on life not only for sound mind but also for fit body and inner happiness. Timings should be fixed of getting up, for eating food (breakfast, lunch, mid meals and dinner), for exercise and going to bed at night. You should strictly follow the rhythm to give yourself complete happiness.

 

12) Believe in yourself: At no point you should stop trusting yourself. You should have maximum belief in yourself. No matter if all other fellow being has ditched you on your voice / ideas. You should have faith in your abilities. Follow what you hear from your inner voice and go for it. If you are honestly listening to your inner being you will achieve success today or tomorrow. Just have complete trust on yourself and grow in life.

 

13) Grow & explore & Rise: Once you have achieved your goals, challenge yourself to reach to the next step. Aim high and keep growing, rise upwards and explore new things. If you are an IT professional and you have time, learn music or dancing. If you are in music industry, try and learn something from IT. The world out there is vast. If you want to there are many things in the world to explore. Go for it to achieve happiness of utmost level.

 

14) Stop Hiding: Accept your insecurities, your negative points and your weaknesses. Every human being has certain kind of insecurities in life. First step is to accept it. Once you have crossed that stage, try to overcome it with improving on them. Learn from others who have overcome it. Nothing is impossible as it is said famously and even your insecurities can go with your persistent dedication to work against it. Go for it and live the happy life.

 

15) Be grateful: Be thankful and grateful for all you have. Thank God for all the things that He has given it to you in this life. There are the ones that are not as fortunate as you are. Be down to earth and thank for everything good happening in your life and have patience for the things are going not too great. Believe in God, he will get you out of mess very soon.

 
Follow these basic rules in your life and find yourself more happier and content in your day to day life.
 
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Health Benefits Of Eggs

Health Benefits Of Eggs

We all come across this phrase every now and then

"Sunday Ho Ya Monday Roz Khao Ande" - It means, you must have eggs everyday. Egg is a natural source of protein that helps in muscle building. If you are a exercise freak and follow hard muscular exercises, then you must be consuming 4-8 eggs a day.

It is found that each boiled egg contains 3-6 gms of proteins. Hence it is useful for the body to consume atleast 2 boiled eggs after hard work out since the muscle wear and tear requires the protein intake in order to repair them and build new muscles.

                  
 
Many a times work out is followed by consumtion of raw egg whites only since the yellow yolk part contains fats and calories.

Egg is considered as the most important part of breakfast in a healthy lifestyle because a morning must start with a consumption of good amount of protein and less amount of fats. Click here for Top Healthy Breakfast options

Health Benefits of Egg Whites:

1) Muscles - Since white part contains high amount of protien, it helps in building up of muscles. They are the most important part of the meal after a workout as the protein content helps in re building of broken muscles.

 

2) Eye Vision - Yellow Yolk part contains natural fats which are beneficial for the body. It contains vitamin A, D and E. So it is good for eye vision.

 

 

3) Good for Heart - The cholesterol content of a single egg is quiet low and is considered as a "good" cholesterol for heart. So it can be consumed by heart patients also. Indeed it is considered a good breakfast option due to this benefit. One reason for this is because most of the fats in the yolk are unsaturated and are good for your health. These fatty acids also have antioxidant properties which protect your blood vessels from breaking under pressure.

 

4) Skin - Egg white is also considered as good for skin. Regular intake of eggs prevents the skin from harmful ultraviolet rays that causes cancer. Click to know How to take care of your skin

 

5) Hairs - Since it contains proteins it is beneficial for hairs. Hairs are made of keratin a type of protein and thus the protein content in eggs helps in overall look of hairs. If raw egg white applied on hairs twice a month hairs gets the natural protein which makes them thick and soft.

 

 

6) Hairs & Nails - Eggs promote healthy hair and nails because of their high sulphur content and wide array of vitamins and minerals.

 
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Practical ways to avoid weight gain during Holi Festival

 
Festival of colours is fast approaching. Everything around becomes so colourful in the month of March on the occasion of Holi. Holi is celebrated in India with great enthusiasm. People get together with family and along with the close friends to celebrate the unique and special festival all over India. Playing with water and colours is the real fun. People get together to enjoy this festive season leaving behind the day to day stress and tensions. For couple of days it seems we all are just surrounded with high spirits and happiness.
 
With festive season comes the indulgence on food, especially the food that are high in sugar content and fried items as snacks. So, here I am compiling the list of practical ways to keep weight in check during the festive season of Holi.
 
                  
 

Keep the check on drinks: First step to keep the check on weight during festive season is to keep the check on drinks that you are planning to have with your friends and family. Do not stock cold drinks or packaged juices. Instead go for fresh juices, buttermilk, etc.

 

Change gifting options: Instead of buying the chocolates and sweets to gift to your family during Holi, plan for other options. Before buying the gifts check what they must be wanting at the moment. Buy that. If that is not possible you can opt for dry fruits or some decorative items for house

 

 

Learn to say no: Yes. Learn to say no. I understand it is difficult to say no. But at the same time who wants to indulge into the pile of sweets that you get from your family and friends. Politely but firmly before the festive season start, communicate in some or the other way to them, that you are not interested in sweets or similar items as gifts during Holi.

 

Do not skip the workout: You should take the workout sessions seriously during festive season. Never miss it. Being around the family and everyone is just enjoying and you want to be the part of it. But then think of the efforts you have put in to be in that shape. Months and Months of hard work and labour you will not want to go in vain for just a couple of hours pleasure. Choice is yours.

 

 

Distribute the sweets: No matter how much you say no or avoid getting the sweets, yo u are bound to get some from the reluctant members of your family and friends. In the name of tradition they would ask you to keep the sweets. You tried every trick to avoid but that didn't work. In that case, distribute the sweets that you have got to maids, watchman, cleaners, etc. They would be happy and bless you for your kind gesture and your body will also be happy and bless you for not filling it with not so good foods.

 
These are the tricks that I am going to follow this Holi festival. Do share your ways of how you celebrate holi.

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How to take care of eyes

We all know how precious our eyes are. Moreover our eyes work round the clock. Without eyes the life really would have been colourless. We would have spent our life without any fun and activity. Hence it is very important to take care of our eyes on the daily basis.
 

1)Wash Eyes:First step in taking care of eyes is to keep it clean from dirt and bacteria. Read this article to know more on how to wash eyes and precautions to keep in mind while washing the eyes.

 

2)Wear Sunglasses: We should always wear sunglasses to prevent eyes from the harmful ultra-violet rays of sun. Do wear the sunglasses even on the breezy days to prevent the dust entering into your eyes.

 

3)Walking barefoot on wet green grass: This is the ritual at our place. Every morning we go to the garden and walk barefoot for at least 20 minutes. It is said that walking barefoot on wet green grass is good for our eyes. We have been following this since years.

 
                  
 

4)Look at the distance: Follow the 20-2 rule. After every twenty minutes of staring something give the two minute break to the eyes. Be it reading or working on the computer or watching your favourite movie on the television. After every 20 minutes take the break of 2 minutes to relieve your eyes. At this time look as far as you can. This will help in reducing the strain on your eyes and give the relief.

 

5)Blink: Various researches have proved that blinking eyes is good for the eyes health. Blink as fast as you can for a minute after ten minutes of continuous staring. You will get the relief instantly. Click here to read more on various exercise for eyes to strengthen eyes muscles.

 

 

6)Make-up: Make use of good eye products that suits your eyes. Do not forget the remove the make-up before going to bed no matter how tired you are. Eye make-up when not removed on the regular basis will spoil the health of the eyes and can result in the infection into the eyes.

 

7)Do not scratch or rub eyes harshly: Wash your eyes immediately if you feel irritation or burning sensation in your eyes. Though tempting, you should never rub your eyes harshly. It will give you the temporary relief but in the long run it is going to harm your eyes health.

 

 

8)Cry: Yes you read it right. Crying helps in washing the eyes and removing the bad particles when tears roll down from your eyes. So next time when you are upset do not forget to cry your heart out. This has twin benefit of relieving yourself from the pain and cleaning your eyes.

 
These are the different ways I follow to take care of my eyes. Do share with us how else you take care of your eyes.
 
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How to take care of your skin

Skin, a largest body organ, is not only for wrapping the other sensitive body organs (heart, liver, etc) but also for playing the role in biological life process. Epidermis which is the outmost layer of skin constantly renews itself with new cells. Formation of new cells and its quality depends on both what we feed ourselves as well as what touches our skin. Skin unlike other organs is exposed to the outer world and so we should take extra care to keep it fresh and active all the time. Effects of our mood can be quickly seen on the skin as it is closely connected with our nervous system. Hence our skin glows when we are happy and turns pale because of depression. Exam tension or interview anxiety or fear about how the conference meeting would end shows clearly on the skin.

                  
 
Actually it is a vicious circle. Our emotions, beliefs, thoughts and life style can either make or break our skin. Skin problems like acne, psoriasis, eczema or dermatitis cause the emotional disturbance further affecting the skin. It goes round and round. Skin problems do irritate us and is the major cause of inconvenience. However don’t allow your physical visible problems affect psychological terms. Instead try to find out the problems and resolve them.

To tackle it we need to understand and try to resolve the conflicts, fears and depression in life in the positive way.

Take care of biological needs - eat the balanced diet, keep your body hydrated, exercise, treat yourself with new clothes once in a while, take a break from work and go for the picnic.


 
Build your emotional health – nourish your family and friends with love, respect the elders, protect the young ones, socialize with positive minded people. Discuss the problems faced with the knowledgeable person and strive for the solutions.

Surpassing the ill-feeling’s like anger, revenge, etc is another cause of depression which ultimately speaks out loudly to the world in the form of pale skin tone. On the other hand, choosing to shout and throw all the reactions like slapping etc, would lead to red angry puffy face. Both outward and inward anger are harmful. Fulfilling the fundamental emotional needs helps in the long way to deal with anger and anxiety in life.

There is a thin line between what we need and what we want. To live the stress free life, identify this line. Set up the boundary and limits. Follow them religiously.

Understand the purpose of life with yoga and meditation. It helps in reaching the inner you and will make you aware of your deepest needs.


 
Taking proper rest in this hectic life cannot be ruled out to maintain the youthful skin. Sleep for 8 hours a day. Take a power naps as and when you require.

Choose the products that touch your skin carefully and the ones that suit your skin tone – Make Up, Body Lotions, Skin Creams, Moisturizer, Sun-screen, etc.

Be healthy and develop self esteem. Hear what your skin tells you, concentrate on the needs, provide them what is required and see with the smiling skin how all the problems run away.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

This is the most common phrase that we hear most of the times on health forums, health discussions, health debates, on television at almost all the places but still it gets difficult to follow in our day to day life.

We always do this similar practice, we start following this for a week or two and then we stop due to other daily routines or pressure in our life.

                  
 
We all know and we all read anywhere and everywhere apple contains Vitamin C, Pectin, Boron, etc. But what is the importance of all this in a common layman's life. Trust me so many people especially who do not have any interest in these names fall ill after going through these names. Some of them stop eating apple. :):)

So, I will share the most important thing:

Best timing to eat an apple and the way to eat it


 
We all, whenever follows this, eats complete apple at one go. Rather, we should make it a practice to eat the fruit in chunks. Half an apple twice a day.

Also, now a days, due to lot of chemical usage ths skin of the apple is quiet harmful for us. So remove the skin and then consume.

If you are an exercise freak, you must consume half an apple 15 minutes before your workout. For others, during the morning on empty stomach drink a glass of water and consume half apple.

Half an apple during the morning keep the doctor away plus save your penny also :)

Now you would be thinking, what about the other part of an apple. Share it with other family member. Not only your body will thank you but also that family member's body as well.

If you follow this practice, I am sure doctor will have to work hard to find patients.


 
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Meditation and its health benefits - Part I

Meditation and its health benefits - Part I

Meditation in general is a very huge topic to learn and understand. Meditation is an art of training the mind and body to concentrate in order to relax the whole body and make free from the stress, pollution, etc.

Meditation is done to improve the overall body stamina and it helps the body to connect to divine which provides real inner peace to a human body.

Meditation helps the human body to fight against stress, health disorders like high blood pressure, depression.

Revealed the answer of "Why we should Meditate?"
 
                  
 

Meditation allows the human body to enter a state where the inner soul connects to divine by allowing the body to concentrate on god.

Meditation helps the human body in improving the concentration and relax the body from stress.

 

When to meditate:
1) There is no such requirement to perform meditation exercises, but we consider to do it during the early morning time in between 5-6.
2) This is the most suitable time, since there is silence around the world which easily allows the human body to concentrate on their mind and body for relaxation.

 

What to avoid during meditation:
 

 
1) Turn off your mobile phones, TV sets
2) Do not meditate in front of huge crowd
3) Do not meditate with an empty stomach
4) While meditation do not speak or think of personal or professional issues. This will not allow you to concentrate and you will never achieve the benefits of meditation

 
Environment for Meditation:

1) Choose a peaceful and happy environment - The place where the meditation is getting performed should be full of peace. Avoid meditation in large groups. Also, the room should be free of dust and must be hygienic and clean. Try to have a white background because the color in bringing the inner peace more as compared to other colors. Wear pure white clothes.

 

2) Duration - Meditation should be between 15 - 25 minutes. There should not be variations in the duration on an everyday basis. Try to stick to it at the same time on priority

 

 

3) Clothes - Wear white clothes since it has a cooling effect on the mind and body and easily allows the body to help enter into the state of meditation.

 

4) Om Mantra - Try to sound Ommmmm........mmmm as long as possible. Do not breath in and breath out. Perform this for 5 consecutive times and note down if your time duration is improving for this exercise. The longer the duration, better are the chances to connect to divine

 
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