Your Daily Lifestyle

Take care of your self so you can take care of others. One of my philosophy in life and I keep of reminding myself to be healthy inside out. We are surrounded with toxic products that many of us are even aware of. We should learn the essence of self-care as this is a good self-investment. According to Melissa Steginus, "Avoid over-scheduling ourselves and have a free time to do creative things or do nothing at all", which I believe that she is right. I think a good daily habit is a good start and help raise such awareness to our friends and loved ones. 

Below are some healthy habits for a healthy lifestyle.

- Put God first in everything you do

- Stop Smoking

- Daily 5 minutes workout, running or yoga

- Include fresh fruits or vegetables in every meal.

- Learn to meditate

- Cut out red and processed food

- Read, write and talk to a friend

- Do an annual physical exam 

- Drink lots of water everyday

-  Spend a quiet time at the beach or mountain.

Writing a Poetry

We are living in a a world where many people are getting more and more busy. They don't why they are so tired at the end of the day and they say they do not have time for this or that. But they can spend 1-2 hours just reading or commenting of what's going in the social media. and now, our beloved country, Philippines is listed in the lowest category in reading comprehension and second lowest in science and mathematics among 79 countries according to survey. 

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tested around 600,000 15-year-old students in 79 countries through the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Many of us were not happy of the result. Philippines got an average of 340 which is also below the average of OECD average of 487. 

See article link here 

Parents should be alarmed with these results and since we always don't get the best education, I think parents has a huge duty to introduce poetry to their children. It only does not calm a mind of a child but it allows us to express our thoughts and heals some emotional pain. Our creativity comes out when we write poems and it opens our mind to understand the language more deeper and helps us appreciate all things around us.   

Please bare in mind that we are not only promoting freedom of expression at home but we are building a young artist. Poetry writing helps us bring out what feel either it is fun, love, excitement or fear. And remember how poems collaborate with music. These two elements create love and peace and so let us spread love and peace in this universe now.  

Easy Yoga Websites for Starters

You don't have to look funny and feel awkward if your aim is about having a good health. If you're a lazy runner, there are some options to relax and loose some weight even when you're just at home. Yoga is tried and tested with its benefits of giving a good health, flexibility and creating mindfulness. It a peaceful a habit with good benefits.

This is something nice to do with friends and family or even alone. Here are some useful websites to help you flex those muscles, stay healthy and to start with.

Do Yoga With Me

Yogaia

Yogaglo

Curvy Yoga Studio

Yoga Studio App

These yoga apps will change your views in your health. These apps are very useful especially you do not have enough budget to go to classes or too busy to travel to a studio. We we spend so much on shopping and expensive phones, then use those phones at least with these useful apps :)

Reach Out to Your Loved Ones

No man is an island. That is a meditative book written by John Donne and I think we should always bring this awareness to our friends and loved ones. We must have seen some news about suicidal issues and people experiencing depression and as a human being, we should help others surpass it and reach to them. 

Some people prefers to be alone and that is fine as long they are happy. But for those whom we see that struggles a bit in facing life challenges and those who are rather be away from people because just simply they do not want to, as their family or close friends, we should do something and help them.  

Reaching out to someone gives us a thought that can help both and support each other on our rightful place. Reaching out to someone when we are confused with many things will help us sort our emotions and thoughts. I think people should unite more in a more physical manner. Real talk and warm hugs is better than sending an "ok" sign or smiley as an answer to text or chat messages. Life should be meaningful and we should treasure every moment with our loved ones.

5 Meditation Apps for Women's Health

Beating our busy day with our busy schedule is not always easy especially for busy women like us. Especially if you're a mom with full time day job, you really need to include meditation to our life and find the right balance. Finding a good balance and include meditation in our habit is really helpful to seize the day. 

Meditation is an ancient practice that helps us control own mind and discover ourselves. As it helps us eliminate negative thoughts and forget about worries. 

For those who are not use to it, check out below some useful apps to help you start. 

Calm.com 

Buddhify 

Insight Timer 

The Breathing App 

Mindwell 

These apps are user-friendly and you can also modify these apps to choose your moods. Remember that as a mom, our family depends on us and as a strong woman, we need to take care of our health. Meditation is practice of a clear mind and clean thoughts. It helps us lower our blood pressure and the best thing is recharge our batteries. Let us love ourselves, if not now, when?

Handling Depression

                                                                                                 

Whenever we are confused and feeling lost, reaching out to a friend or family member is really important. Many of us doesn't know that we are under depression. this is something that  we must teach our children and so as in school. 

But there are some possible ways to beat depression and save lives. 

• Having a regular exercise is one of the best way to take care of your mental health. Exercising or doing a simple run increases your body temperature, which can have a calming effect on the central nervous system.
• Cut back on spending time in Social Media -  sometimes things we read on social media doesn't help. Real talk with real people helps more. Social media can be addicting and it eats a lot of our time. 
• Calm your mind -  try to reduce stress. practice some mindfulness or meditation and do not overthink on many things.
• Get plenty of sleep - this is a good habit that you can never go wrong. Our body needs a good sleep. Try to do a little meditation and say your prayers before sleeping as it helps a lot.
• Stay away for toxic people - if you start to feel something negative from someone and if some person tries to make you feel bad. Stay away from him or her. Cut people out of your life who take advantage of you. Simple signs. If someone spreads rumors or talks badly about someone  they’re likely to do the same for you. 
• Eat Healthy - be mindful of what you eat. We are what we eat. Practice to control your mind and eliminate processed foods from your diet as much as possible.

Spreading a Peace of Advice

We sometimes forget to be more humble and be more kind because we live in city full of noise and people are busy. We come home and it is still loud and we always tell people we cannot go on a quiet vacation because we are busy, busy, busy. I think we must ponder on some people's advises on how to find peace within us and have an easier and meaningful life in such situation.

Many people doesn't know what the word busy literally means. Some of us are just busy nibbling on their phones and busy making money, to buy what? How pretty life could be if we spend our precious time in a more valuable manner. But it is not easy to change people's perception nowadays. It may take a while for us to inject those principles that we truly need.

Below are some inspirational quotes and advise to ponder:

 

“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.” —Wayne W. Dyer

“You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.” —Stacy London

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy

“No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” —Louise L. Hay

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." —Albert Einstein

"Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own." —Baba Hari Das

Finding Inner Peace

The world of a young child is mostly calm and easy but the more we distinguish more things as we grow old, we tend to feel apprehension and anxiety. But knowing how to find an inner peace will lessen all these woes and will help us handle any life issues. Being calm and at peace can save us from any harm and making bad decision.

Inner peace is when you're in a state which you are mentally and spiritually at peace. When you find you inner peace, It means truly knowing yourself and what you are capable of. If we have inner peace, we are fully aware of what is happening and what might happen and so we understand every conditions and circumstances and we do not waste our time, energy, and attention on any unimportant and meaningless thoughts and events. Inner peace is the opposite of anxiety, rumination, and worry. 

People who easily finds their inner peace tends to have a more peaceful life. Having our family and loved ones around us is the most wonderful thin in the world, but a few minutes in a day or some moment in our lives, our mind and body needs to reconnect in a peaceful way and recharge so we can do our obligations to others.  Imagine if most of us in this world is calm and kind, and teaching children in finding their inner peace at young age will probably can save the crazy world we live in.

Smile and the World Will Smile at You

We are what we think and we can control ourselves in such hard circumstances. I believe in the power of attraction and if we attract something, why not attract a good one? Smiling is a feel-good power. 

Smile doesn't only flex your muscle but it makes our brain function well. According to Earlexia Norwood M.D, "When we smile we activate neurons in the brain that fire a synchronizing feature. You’ll notice that one smile will lead to additional smiles not just for you, but for those around you".

Our world is already full of difficulties and I think if we make it a habit to share some positive vibes in every hard circumstances, it will help in easing some situations. Sharing a positive feeling or throwing a simple smile towards anyone is harmless and hurtful so let us do so. So keep smiling and the whole world will smile at you.

Benefits of Stretching

Making a habit of stretching your body daily will give you a lot of benefits. It does not only increase your flexibility but also decreases your muscle stiffness. There are few basic stretching we can do daily like slowly rotating our head, stretching our arms and legs. These simple tricks are just to start plus, as we grow older, stretching habit can be a good way to be more healthier.

Below are 6 Benefits of Stretching 

Relieves stress. 

Improves digestion.

Reduces anxiety. 

Soothes headache

Decreases the risk of low-back pain

Improves posture

  Having a regular stretching is like having a regular exercise. Try to spend 5-10 minutes daily and it will give you a huge difference. You can do it while still in bed before totally getting up, watching t.v or before you go to bed. Also, you really need to to some stretching after you exercise to help increase your blood circulation and helps muscles recover from your workout and it will avoid any muscle soreness. 

Healthy Mind, Healthy Life

Many of us are busy joggling our life with family, job, hobbies and many other tasks. Here in our country, some of us joggles their lives in traffic. Living in this society is important to have a calm mind. Why? some might ask, but when we are sleeping, we are already at peace. 

To find some hint for a healthy living today, we must look to our past. The history of human evolution shows a definitive link between our physical health and psychological well-being. 

Balancing our lives can be much easier if we practice some simple daily lifestyle and promote a healthy mind. Some simple strategic ways and practice for a healthy mind is a big help for a healthy life. It doesn't hurt and it can help getting away from any headache. Digital advances have improved our lives in so many ways, but we need to disconnect from it to take care of our mind and body. 

Let us try some of these simple things in life and connect more deeply with the present moment and separate ourselves from the worries of our mind. 

* Choose a time daily  and close your eyes and breathe for 5 mins

* Smile at stranger or lonely people

* Thanks someone

* Go for a nature walk

* Leave your phone on silent all day

* Eat slowly

* Drink Tea

* Listen to instrumental music to avoid singing with it

* Have a deep conversation with someone you know 

* Write a poem or a good memory

* Pet an animal

* Do some chores

* Be Mindful :)

Finding Balance

Life is balance. We often so busy that we no longer  find time to ponder to life and tell ourselves, "Hey! i forgot to breath and calm my mind today!" Many of us, nibbles on our phone and read other people's stories and watch irrelevant information to pass our time. And there is one thing we forgot to do, nurture our body, close our eyes and find some balance. Now, we complain to ourselves why we often have headache, why we can sleep peacefully or why we are always stress.

Here are some reasons why we must find balance to have a more healthy lifestyle.

- ensures good health  

- keeps your mind alert and in good shape

- making time for yourself

- a calm mental, emotional, spiritual and physical system

We should disconnect ourselves from the busy society and start each evening to take time to unwind. If that means leaving the dishes overnight or laundry, so be it. Take a nice bath, read from the book you started, or listen to some soothing music. 

Healthy Tea Time with Honey

You can't go wrong with sipping your sweet morning tea before sunrise with the droplets of delicious honey. 

Honey contains antioxidants which can help fight cell damage that may increase the risk for diseases like cancer or heart disease.

You may set aside the sugar as honey as sweeter. Research says that per teaspoon of honey contains 20 calories, 5 grams of sugar and no fat. So why go the other way if honey is sweeter and healthier? 

Each morning, living in this lovely country side house is always the best. Spending time with loved ones and good friends, accompanied with good talk over a healthy tea time :) 

Sleep Your Mind, Sleep Your Soul

As we rest our mind at night, our soul also rests. Our body and soul unites peacefully and create great dreams and produces a healthy body.

According to an Irish proverb, a long good sleep is cure of the best cure for anything. Just imagine of having a bad day and then, rest it and let your thoughts carry it away to dreamland. I'm pretty sure, you will wake up with great plans and a smile in your heart.

Forget about your worries and cuddle with your happy thoughts and sleep your mind as your soul sleeps in tranquility.

Loving Your Self

For us to be healthy inside out, we must learn to love ourselves.

I believe that the beauty is within us. If we feel good inside then, it might lessen our worries about many things instead it will boost our confidence. Enjoying life is real important. Embracing the life the we have at present, value the past and keep walking to the future. 

Loving ourselves, treating our body with kindness and love brings out a good aura as well as our relationship with others.. 

Confidence and a great self-love leaves all worries behind and not being afraid of what we might face, because we are aware of what we are doing and our self assurance guides us. 

If you love yourself and love the life you have, I am pretty sure, the rest wont be too hard for you.