Good Health and Wellbeing

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...

Weekend Ideas Weekends are the hard-earned days after five grueling days of work, For some, Sunday is the day to relax after six hard working days. Most of us look optimistically towards the coming weekend all through the week and plan how we are going to relax and enjoy the day. It is the time to recharge our batteries, spend some quality time with the family and figure out what we need to do during the weekend. But we need to plan it during the course of the week so that we don’t end up straining ourselves over multiple tasks and ever-increasing to-do lists. There needs to be a regularity on weekends too similarly to our weekdays, as a working individual we need not and shouldn’t disturb our rhythm as it can affect our productivity and can seep in needless frustration in our mindset. So let’s try out to figure out and churn out a weekend planner for a smooth weekend or holidays. 1.        Get outdoors Start your weekend...

 Digital Detox Methods If you think your life moves around your mobile phone, if you feel restless without checking your WhatsApp messages or you can’t sleep without watching television or if you feel a certain emptiness in your life without your digital devices around you, then you need help. Help, to reduce your dependence on devices like mobile phones, television and tablets, make you feel normal and usually live and maintain a positive and healthy relationship with technology. These devices with which we and our friends and family started as a means to regularly connect with each other have led us to their addiction leading to stress, anxiety and overstimulation of the brain due to their overuse. Common digital stressors observed in people across all age groups area; 1.    Increase in screen time leads to eyesight and concentration problems, especially in young kids. 2.   Too much consumption of online content has changed the equilibrium of life, as a...

Medicinal herbs to grow at home Medicinal herbs or plants refer to a variety of plants used for medicinal purposes, according to WHO there are as many as 21,000 species of plants that have the potential to be used as medicinal plants. the reason to use these medicinal plant remedies is the human urge to remain in sync with nature. there is no huge investment involved to grow these plants at home in comparison to the pharmaceutical medicines we consume. The leaves, bark, seed or any other parts of plants can be consumed by people of any age group. Bringing and growing medicinal plants at home must be accompanied by gathering information about their medicinal use. A few medicinal plants are as follows; 1.      Holy Basil or Tulsi It is an aromatic plant known for its medicinal properties and is called the mother  medicine of nature. It is extensively used in preparing ayurvedic medicines and promotes a healthy body, mind and spirit. The extract obtained from tulsi...