Monday, January 24, 2011

Tips to relax your body and your mind

Relaxation is the most and very important activity which should be adapted by everyone. “Very busy no time to relax” is the common statement which can be heard nowadays. Relaxations boosts up your body and rejuvenate your mind and can optimize success.

Implement a passive attitude. Don’t try to make anything happen. Move toward with a “let it be” perspective. Approach every thing in an easy manner. Do not strain yourself.

Choose an environment that is free of distractions. Practice relaxation with various techniques and ad days goes you will be more familiar with it and will learn to relax anywhere you need.

Keep yourself safe: Set up a place and make sure that you are in a setting that does not bother any things other than your relaxation. Position yourself on chair with neck and back support, a firm bed, or a mat, choose a comfortable position that can maintain for at least 10 minutes of relaxation.

Practice often: Relaxation is a skill that must be learned everyday is best . Start with short relaxation sessions. With practice starting from 5 minutes to 20 minutes is quite reasonable.

Set a time: Choose a time to relax either during early morning or while sleeping doesn’t matter. Relaxation can be given to your body and mind also during the high level of stress. When your stress level increased automatically your energy becomes low during such time relaxation is very essential.

There is no specific method to relax, each can choose according to their wish and can try out different strategies to see which one meets their need.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Tips for Mental Health

Mental health is how we maintain our inner strength in healthy way and what all the practices we can do to keep our self and our mind always in relax.

Build confidence by identifying your abilities. Each and every one is blessed with lot of abilities, do the best with what you have. At the same times try to accept and build the weaknesses which is lacking you. Confidence level should be immense to balance the life.

Exercise and balanced diet will definitely reduce your stress level. Life can be made easy and enjoyable with the proper care and attention where you give by yourself. Rest is very essential sound sleep and proper rest taken after every tight schedule work is must.

Spending time with family and friends will help you sharing life’s joy and also sorrows. Relationships need to be nurtured it should not be taken for granted. If it is taken for granted you will be all alone in this world. Give time and spend time for the relationship who loves and take care of you. Friends and family relationships thrive whey are “put to the test”. So always give and accept the support from them.

Budget: Prepare a balance budget reduce or avoid Over spending than our needs. Financial problem is also one of the reasons to cause stress. Saving habit will help to solve the financial problems.

Managing stress is an art learning how to deal with them when they threaten and to overwhelm us will maintain our mental health. Involve and try spending time in helping others those who are in need which will give your more mental satisfaction.

Sharing problems with your near ones may help you find a solution and will make you feel less isolated. Express our feelings of anger sadness, joy and fear in a safe and constructive ways, which will help in reducing stress.

Learn to balance what you can and cannot change about yourself and get to know who you are and what makes you really happy. Learn to be at peace with yourself always.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Easy methods to manage our stress and anxiety levels

Anxiety is the most importance causes fro us to have lot of health problems. Daily stress and anxiety takes us to a series of diseases and will make us very weak both physically and mentally.

Anxiety relief usually comes from our mental constitution that is within us. We should be fixed with the stress free life and avoid tensions to lead an enjoyable life. Yes it is not an easy to avoid tension and stress from our daily busy and mechanical life. We have to practice and get them reduce without bothering our mind and health.

Identify all the triggering factors one by one by yourself that gives you stress and anxiety. Make your mind seek practical solutions to anxiety. Try to find out a solution by yourself without resorting to any medications and ofcourse drugs. Try to solve the problems by analyzing their level of influence. List out those on priority basis and find out, a perfect healing method. Anxiety level can be reduced only by your hard work and perseverance.

Self healing anxiety relief measures are:

  • Have a balanced and proper diet. Avoid high sugar and introduce more liquid into your diet.
  • Meditation and yoga makes your mind relax and stress free.
  • Regular exercises are one of the best ways to relax and to get relief from stress and anxiety.
  • Have a Sound sleep at least 7 hours daily. Sound sleep leads to a sound body.
  • There is nothing great like a good night sleep.
  • Control and reduce your anger level which is a big trigger to increase the anxiety levels. Be patience and try to tolerate.
  • Maintain relationship level with family and at work by developing a give and take attitude to avoid all types of quarrels.

Anxiety relief is possible only with your active cooperation and involvement. Livings in favorable and unfavourable conditions are part of living; living happily in all those conditions is art of living.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Tips for a healthy relationship

Maintaining a healthy relationship requires lot of love, faith, understanding and definitely blessings. True love and faith will make the relationship very stronger. Understanding and forgiveness between each will lead the relationship to sail in a better way.

Love and take care of yourself: We need to be strong, flexible and make our hearts strong. So do exercise to stay healthy. Move your body in ways that are fun for you like listening music, playing with pets, swimming etc. Eat balanced diet with fresh vegetables, fruits and healthy foods.

Take time to express the love: Try and do express love in many ways through loving touch, kind touch, spending time together, by appreciation, by giving surprise gifts and by nurturing each other. This will help to explore your affection. Discover and bring new and fresh ideas and share it with your partner.

Understand yourself: Without blaming or judgment meet each other and share what is true for you. Be compassionate within yourself and with your partner. Analysis the problems and give importance to the feelings.

Sex: There should not be any boundaries which will bring you together with fire of passion. Sexual intimacy is a way to enhance connection between you two.

Clear communication: Communications plays an important role in the healthy relationship, avoid argument, listen to each other, look at each other, give respect, do not use harsh words and don’t abuse. Try to find a solution in an amicable ways instead of hurting individual views. An argument will never be a salvation instead it will break the relationship without understanding. Stay calm and relax.

Sharing: Be positive as much as possible. Pray and meditate for all your dreams to fulfill and to lead a healthy, loveable and happy life. Share your dreams and vision and move toward it with courage. Do any favor with whole heartedly and happy for your partner if it can be done.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Few herbal remedies for diabetes

For effective management of diabetes correct nutritional food choices play a vital role. Carbohydrates should be consumed less and intake should be increased with the fiber content. Green vegetable and sprouted beans fresh fruits and whole grains should be consumed sufficiently.

Eating lightly spiced and freshly cooked foods are advised but intake of starchy vegetables such as yam beetroot and potatoes should be avoided. Drinking plenty of water and regular exercise will help to keep the diabetes level stable.

Herbal remedies for diabetes like fenugreek, amla, curry leaves and bitter gourd can be used in such a way to control the sugar level.

Fenugreek: Methi seeds can be powdered or whole methi seeds can also be chewed and swallowed daily. The seeds can be soaked overnight and then drink the water next morning is also good for diabetes patient.

Amla: Vitamin C content is high in amla and it work along with its stimulating action on the pancreas to reduce blood sugar levels. A tablespoon of amla juice mixed with a cup of bitter gourd juice helps to secrete insulin.

Curry leaves: They possess the qualities of herbal tonic which improve the digestive functions. Fresh leaves can also be chewed whole in the morning or curry leaves juice can be consumed with buttermilk.

Bitter gourd: This has a capacity of lowering the blood sugar level. It is also rich in calcium, dietary fiber, iron, and immunity boosting.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Health supplements for children

Nowadays parents want to provide the best of nutrition to their children so that they can excel in all domains of school life and beyond. In earlier days kids use to have whatever was cooked or available. But it is not the thing now. Parents are often confused about whether their child needs anything other than a healthy balanced diet.

The best nutrition for a newborn baby is breast milk. Breast milk will increase the resistance power in child. Infant which is on breast feeding does not need any calcium supplementation. Breast milk is the complete food for the child before six months.
If the baby is getting cow milk who is not breastfed for any reason, it will need supplementation with calcium vitamin and iron.

For children between six months to one year of age, iron supplementation is recommended. Dosage of iron will prevent iron deficiency which can then cause low hemoglobin.

Vitamin supplementation is essential for the children to compensate the eating habits as most of the food is cooked and cooking destroys most of the water soluble vitamins. If the child is getting breast milk for six times a day no supplementation is required. Two cups of milk a day is sufficient to meet the calcium requirement. Till one year iron and multivitamin supplementation is also needed apart from the breast milk.

Between the age of one and two the only supplementation that is required is iron. Between one to two years supplement of iron is required.

Consuming non vegetation food more than twice a week is usually sufficient to prevent iron deficiency. Other than milk calcium food like fish beans tomatoes can also be added.

After two years a good balanced diet with adequate dairy products, fruits and vegetable is sufficient to provide for the nutritional requirements for the child.