Good Health and Wellbeing

Breathing is the most important body function on which the survival of your life depends. Breathing fresh air is all you need to live, sustain your life and perform all important life functions. But the earth is not the same anymore, for many -many years it is full of pollutants, chemicals and smoke. The atmosphere is filled with a ll these pollutants and irritants   as a result most people are forced to inhale polluted air while they are outdoors. Homes are no better, there is a serious lack of fresh air as indoor air quality suffers from the smoke and heat that comes from our homes. The question is how you can breathe easily, how can you get that fresh air that can help you to breathe freely without the fear of any pollutants. As pollution is everywhere you need to take care of when to venture out and when to stay in according to the weather and temperature.  It is essential to improve your breathing effectively as the air you breathe in can be an important factor in your ...

  The most wonderful meditation, when you want your mind to stop thinking so that you take rest, something that breaks the cycle of the daily hustle and bustle of life, is sleep. It is the best bridge between despair and hope and that takes you to the fantastic world of dreams. It is as essential to your life as food and water. You get relief from day-long tiredness during sleep as it is soothing for both mind and body. Sleep is your temporary stage of rest during which you can be physically inactive and unaware of your surroundings, many body functions become slow and you can be in a state of hibernation. During sleep the eyes usually close, the muscles relax and the response to external stimuli decreases.  Without your realization, the growth and repair of body tissues occur and energy is stored. How much sleep is required Sleep requirements vary for infants, toddlers, teens, and adults, but getting good quality sleep at any age is important. Sleep is essen...

Selfcare Rituals Are you the one who immerses yourself in his professional life neglecting his health and well-being and having no time to even think about it or are you the one who hardly finds time to indulge in activities you love to do as your hands are full due to work and responsibilities or are you the one who wants to enjoy himself, eat, play and merry? Still, pressures created by work, life and people around you have bogged you down. The daily grind, the pressure, the call of duty and responsibility and the result will always be there for you and in today’s world, they are inseparable from your entity. So in between the busy schedule, daily rush and cut-throat world of competition, let us take out some time to take care of ourselves and make it part of our daily life. We can call it self-care or the care of self and it should have some daily rituals to adopt some healthy choices to ease out the pressure created on our body, mind and soul. What is self-care Gi...

  Body Shaming & its Effects Have you ever been body shamed? Have you ever body-shamed someone? Did anyone close to you ever face body shaming? The answers to all the above questions can be yes or no depending upon the people or society you live with, but believe me, as a society we can’t deny that body shaming is one of the ills that is very much part of our life and not many eyebrows are raised when during a conversation with friends or relatives, someone or other is mocked for his or her bodily faults. Sometimes it is sugar-coated with care or concern for the person being body shamed. We have become a society full of adjectives, each one of us has some or other adjective that we associate with any random person whom we start judging because of his or her appearance. Sometimes, we body shame or age shame ourselves and become too critical of our appearance.  Body shaming is the humiliation or criticism of someone’s physical appearance or imperfecti...