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How often do you laugh in each day? As you are beginning to see a few wrinkles appearing on your face, are they laugh lines or scowl creases? Laughter is good for us, according to several medical studies. Laughter has been demonstrated to reduce pain, relieve stress, restores hope, lowers blood pressure and is . . . → Read More: Overcome with Laughter
Creative Hands ‘Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self,’ says the social psychologist Erich Fromm. ‘To be born every day’ means to be constantly amazed by the things life has to offer, to not tire of . . . → Read More: Try Your Hand at Creativity For every new day, nutritionists and exercise gurus can suggest several things for your health: eating a hearty, balanced breakfast and doing stretches, cardio exercises and strengthening routines. But what about your soul? Early morning must be a treat not only to the person’s ‘corpus’ but also to his ‘anima’ (call it inner self . . . → Read More: The Morning Shower Meditation ‘Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive.’ – Gautama Buddha If ordinarily mortals like us saw life the way the Enlightened One did, . . . → Read More: Find Wonder in Little Things Long time ago, the water is considered a perfect source of life-giving energy. Travelers kneel down before the creek or any stream they would come across and help themselves with the cool and healing wonders of the water. And many young people bathe on the flowing water because of the thought that it has . . . → Read More: Restorative Bath Rituals
Take a Stroll Boredom is a state of mind that sets in when you’ve forgotten simple pleasures or when you allow a sense of emptiness to dwell in your heart. It’s not something you can just ignore, considering how it can affect a person’s work, relationships and perception of life in general. It seems . . . → Read More: Take a Stroll
Finding Serenity City Life can be tormenting in so many ways. It could be the loud music from your the next-door neighbor or the general din of the busy streets. It could be the motorists that cut you in traffic or people who shove you in the subway station at rush hour. The blurry . . . → Read More: Find Serenity in Nature Our mind can hold a lot of different thoughts in a day. In fact, these ‘noisy thoughts’ are what keep us busy day in and day out. We are driven by our thoughts and often they seem too big, too heavy for comfort. Whatever we have today, pleasant or not, is the end result . . . → Read More: A Quiet Mind in a Busy World
One Minute Retreat Did you know, stress causes you to age faster? You may not know it but it even adds up to that tummy bulge we often call “middle aged spread.” Blame it on leptin, the protein that’s depleted when you’re always beating deadlines and chasing after the subway train every day but, . . . → Read More: 1 Minute Stress Buster |
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