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Practical Strategies to Manage Anxiety in Today’s Fast-Paced World

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Have you ever found yourself suddenly wanting to cry or struggling to catch your breath without any apparent reason? Have you experienced sleepless nights or palpitations even when you’re at rest? If you have, you’re not alone.

Anxiety, depression, and fear are common challenges many of us face in today’s fast-paced world. At some point in our lives, we all encounter these feelings when we’re dealing with anxiety, or depression. Sometimes, these emotions can be triggered by specific events, like workplace difficulties or worries about a loved one’s health. For others, anxiety can become a constant presence, disrupting daily life and becoming what is popularly called an anxiety disorder.

Overcoming Anxiety: A Personal Journey

I’ve personally faced anxiety multiple times in my life, and it’s lasted for days or even months, causing significant discomfort. It’s not just an abstract term to me. I’ve sought help from psychiatrists, taken medications. While these medicines provided temporary relief, they often left me feeling weakened due to their side effects. Overthinking has always been a part of my life, and my mind rarely finds peace. On the positive side, this propensity to think and analyze has helped me express myself through writing, but the negative impact on my personal well-being and social life has been undeniable. Medications offered only short-term relief, leading me to seek ways to tackle overthinking and regain control of my mind.

Before I delve into how I managed my anxiety and stress, let me share some valuable insights I gained from a psychotherapist I was fortunate to meet in my journey.

Understanding anxiety

Anxiety isn’t entirely a bad thing; it serves a purpose. For instance, think of a deer encountering a tiger. The deer’s anxiety kicks in, prompting it to run for its life. This anxiety is what triggers the deer to take action. If anxiety didn’t exist, the deer might not react and could easily become the tiger’s prey.

Anxiety has its merits, up to a point. Let’s say, on a scale of 1 to 10, a level of 5 provides the right amount of awareness. However, if your anxiety level goes beyond 5 on this scale, you’ll find yourself overly aware, overthinking, and becoming fearful of things that don’t warrant excessive attention.

Effective Strategies to Find Inner Peace and Manage Anxiety: Practical Steps for a Balanced Life

Over the years, I have discovered various techniques that have helped me manage my anxiety effectively. Here are some practical strategies to help you find inner peace and combat anxiety in your daily life:

Over the years, I have discovered various techniques that have helped me manage my anxiety effectively. Here are some practical strategies to help you find inner peace and combat anxiety in your daily life:

  1. Take Time to Relax: When anxiety strikes, give yourself some time to relax and regain composure. Sometimes, stepping back and breathing can make a significant difference.
  2. Practice Deep Breathing: Deep breaths can work wonders, especially when you’re feeling extremely nervous. Take slow, deep breaths to calm your mind and body.
  3. Mindful Acceptance: Instead of arguing with your thoughts, acknowledge them without judgment. Let them come and go naturally, without resistance.
  4. Self-Awareness and Positive Mindset: Cultivate self-awareness, which can help rewire your brain and foster a more positive mindset.
  5. Spiritual Guidance: If you’re inclined towards spirituality, consider reading a holy book daily. In my case, I find solace and moral support in texts like the Bhagavad Gita.
  6. Forgiveness: Learn to forgive others and, most importantly, forgive yourself. Forgiveness acts as a detox for your soul, freeing you from unnecessary burdens.
  7. Meditation and Physical Exercise: Embrace meditation to calm your mind and stay focused. Combine it with physical exercises and breathing exercises like Pranayama for a holistic approach.
  8. Stay Engaged: Keep yourself occupied with activities that bring you joy. Engage in hobbies, read books, or help others – distractions can often break the cycle of anxious thoughts.
  9. Acknowledge Your Success: Celebrate your achievements, no matter how small they may seem. Acknowledging your successes boosts your self-esteem and confidence.
  10. Disconnect and Connect: After working hours, disconnect from your work and spend quality time with your family and friends. Meaningful connections can provide emotional support and comfort.
  11. Practice Mindfulness: Stay present in every activity, whether it’s a walk outdoors or a daily task. Mindfulness can ground you in the moment and reduce anxiety.
  12. Challenge Fearful Assumptions: Don’t fear upcoming events based on assumptions. Remember that these fears are often unfounded, and challenging them can break their hold over you.
  13. Self-Compassion: Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a metaphorical hug regularly. Self-compassion can provide the comfort and reassurance you need.
  14. Take Action: Don’t hesitate to step out of your comfort zone and take action. Taking initiative can empower you to overcome challenges.
  15. Prioritize Happiness: Engage in activities that bring you happiness and fulfilment. A positive mental state contributes to your overall well-being and radiates positivity to those around you.
  16. Seek Professional Help: Above all, don’t hesitate to seek support from qualified therapists. Therapy can provide valuable tools and insights to help you manage anxiety effectively.

Remember, managing anxiety is a journey, and it’s different for everyone. By incorporating these strategies into your daily life, you can take significant steps toward finding inner peace and living a more balanced, fulfilling life.

Leaving some thoughts at the end.

Look at the endless sky, and try to imagine, our miniscule presence in this vast universe. We are but tiny dots, so why burden ourselves with worries that are mere fractions of a dot in the grand scheme of things?

The current concerns weighing on your mind today, might lose significance after few months or some years, say 5-6 years down the road. Time has its way to heal and resolve everything. Isn’t it?

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Chetak, the Blue horse

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By Kritadhi Chakraborty

“Ho! Rider of the blue horse!” a familiar voice made Maharana Pratap look back. He could see only one horseman amidst the yellow dust… his brother Shakti Singh. But the sound of hoofs against the flinty rocks superseded his emotions as his savior today, none other than his beloved stallion Chetak, blazed through the mountains of Haldighati. Chetak, like his master Rana, was heavily wounded. “Hey Devi Ma!” uttered Maharana when for a few seconds (as though) time came to a standstill… Chetak was about to take a breathtaking leap over a mountain stream. As if the strength of a 100 horses has been bestowed upon him. Nobility unimaginable, will power to rescue his master whom he had borne through the day. Chetak fell along with Rana. Within a few moments Rana was back on his feet to fight back – but was relieved to find that none of his pursuers dared cross the stream.

Pratap rushed to Chetak… quickly unbuckled the harness. “Chetak! Chetak!” Rana’s voice choked in admiration of his valiant stallion as he realized that it was time to part with his guardian angel. Chetak’s expressive eyes, despite the blood dripping over it, was beaming with success and joy.

Rana took Chetak’s long face on his lap and cuddled the peacock shaped neck… far from Rakt Talai (the battlefield), Rana could only hear the breeze over his shoulders… as he recollected the happenings of the day.

The Mughal Sultan Jalal Uddin Muhammad Akbar was on his way to take Udaipur, located at the heart of Mewar. The Mewari army consisting of 20,000 soldiers were up against 80,000 Mughal troops. Maharana Pratap was holding the flower (flag) of Mewar. The Mewari army fought gallantly beside their prince who led the banner into the hottest part of the field. Rana had disguised Chetak as an elephant by putting an armor in the shape of an elephant’s trunk. Chetak charged an elephant by raising one leg upon the elephant’s trunk, giving a chance to Pratap to throw his lance at the enemy. The mahout got killed instead. In the process, the elephant’s tusk tore through Chetak’s leg and crippled him. Rana was wounded too. The battle was slowing turning into the favor of the Mughals as they rallied near Rakt Talai. The Mewari forces, that were left, had to make a tactical fall back. A camouflage had to be created to give Maharana Pratap enough time retreat.

It is said that Chetak, with a mind of his own, only submitted to the Maharana; and that he was the one to choose the king, not the other way around. Critically injured Chetak refused to succumb to the pain and only on three legs helped his master flee from the battlefield, to live to fight back again.

Chetak passed away in the arms of his master Maharana Pratap.

We don’t know how much of this is real. History does not name the horse ridden by Maharana Pratap at the Battle of Haldighati on 18th June 1576, nor do they attribute any unusual feat or achievement to it. The story is recounted in court poems of Mewar from 17th century onwards. Whatever the reality may be, what is important here is that the story inspires millions of Indians over hundreds of years. This story about the nobility and valiance of an animal inspires me.

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Reward

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By Kritadhi Chakraborty

When Tisha’s dad came back home after his post dinner walk, he was a bit unusual that day.

He sat on the sofa with his eyes clothes and head resting on the cushion.

Tisha, an eight-year-old, lived with her parents on the fourteenth floor of a luxury apartment.

Every night, since they had shifted about a year ago, Tisha’s mom packs rice, curry and some extras from the day for the stray dogs.

In their society, stray dogs are not allowed to enter. Feeding stray dogs anywhere near the main gate is a big “No!” from the association as that seem to cause a lot of trouble to the residents.

Tisha’s dad carries the package to a nearby low lit street. There are at least some three to four regulars for the nightly meal.

“Today I was attacked by two bike-men you know?”. Tisha’s dad started saying after having two glasses of water. Tisha’s mom was shocked, “What?? Are you okay?”

“Yes! You won’t believe how I got saved today! I reached for my wallet and was about to give all the money I had to those men. All of a sudden those dogs started barking at the bike-men and many more dogs joined in no time. Couple of them climbed on the bike. Probably thinking that they may get into trouble due to the noise made by the dogs, the bike-men fled” Tisha’s dad took a pause.

“I can’t thank God enough for sending His messengers today to save me”. Tisha could see gratefulness and joy of being rewarded in the eyes of her dad that day.

She felt for the first time what they meant by saying, “Showing kindness to animals is an act of service to God”.

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Don’t ask why, deal with it

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Yet another announcement. Now for the 3rd position. Amy looked up with hope. Awful, this time again the 10-year-old, had to clap for one more fellow competitor. Her face went pale. Her mother looked at her, gently touched her head. The 4th position was announced for a girl of some other school. Amy looked down once again. A soft voice stirred her up. “Clap Amy”. It was her father smiling at her. Amy clapped with disappointed at heart.

“The award for the 5th position goes to Amy.”

Amy’s parents were overjoyed at the announcement. A faint smile on Amy’s face.

The family returned home. It was late evening, they were tired.

Amy could not speak at dinner table. “What happened Amy?”

Gush of warm tears rolled down her cheeks. She could not reply to her mother, wept bitterly.

Her parents were silent, they could probably understand.

Amy spoke almost after 30 minutes.

“I will never participate in any competition again. I worked hard, prepared well, and delivered my best but I stood fifth. You both were wrong. I don’t think hard work is the pillar of success.” Amy burst out in tears and cried out loud in despair.

Absolute silence in the room for almost 5 minutes.

Her father, Rohan, an engineer by profession broke the silence. “Amy my dear, your performance was excellent today. You stood fifth among 200 interschool participants in the story telling competition. You are one of the top 5 participants. We are proud of you. Your hard work and perseverance were rewarded.”

Amy looked at her father, her face looked eager to hear more.

Rohan, continued, “Have you not seen your mother and me working till late hours? You need not top a competition to prove your efforts. Even after hours of hard work, all your efforts might turn futile. We must work hard to give our best to stay in the race.”

Amy’s mother, Sree was listening silently. She has seen uncertainties in her career despite all the hard work and diligence she has put through. Sree has always been strong to handle her emotions and learn through her experiences.

Sree was trying to join the dots.

“Amy dear”, Sree spoke tenderly. “Don’t be upset. There are situations in our life which are beyond our control. The kids who ranked the top four might or might not have done as much as hard work you did. Even the ones who were among the bottom few ranks might have tried harder than you did and might be more capable than the toppers. There are multiple factors that determine success.”

Amy looked at her mother with curiosity.

“Amy, provided you did not work so hard, you would not have presented so well. Even the position you secured would have been far from reach. The performance of other competitors, the experience and understanding of the judges, your delivery on the moment, your content and many more such aspects play deterministic role in a competition. You have successfully performed well.”

Sree paused for a while and looked at her daughter’ glowing face.

“Success is not determined by a rank or by immediate gains. You have successfully gained experiences and have learnt several new concepts. Hard work makes you active at mind and helps you learn better. You must look forward and prepare for upcoming challenges. Life is full of twists and turns, and you must gracefully adapt to every situation in life.”

Sree smiled.

“You should know how to tackle each moment life unfolds to you. Remember Amy don’t just ask why but try to deal with every situation.”

Amy smiled. She was listening carefully until this time. That day indeed changed her life.

Amy is now in her late thirties and works for an MNC. Life has shown her how to stay confident and how to accept the uncertain turns.

Today, when Amy received her promotion letter on email, she was overjoyed. I could see her eyes glittered. She is my roommate; you may also call her my soulmate.

I found her speaking to her parents on a phone call.

In the afternoon we were sitting in the balcony of our hostel room. When I congratulated her, Amy narrated the story of the 10-year-old Amy. She smiled and said, “I have faced wins and failures in multiple competitions, have experienced multiple instabilities in my education and profession, have confronted moments of separations, but have always tried not to just ask why, not to just give up, but deal with the unfavourable situations and to embrace the favourable ones.”

I was thrilled. “Your promotion is just one more experience and life wants you to deal with it.” Amy smiled.

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Devi Bhairavi

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Devi Bhairavi is the fifth great power of Das Mahavidya and is one of the supreme controllers of the eternal cosmic function of this universe.

Devi Bhairavi is a fierce and popular Goddess and is the Goddess of Decay. Bhairavi means ’Terrifying’. Mata Bhairavi is also known as Tripura Bhairavi and her consort is Bhairav the fierce form of Lord Siva. Devi Bhairavi is the supreme terror of the three worlds- Swarga, Martya, Patal. According to Parasurama’s ‘Kalpasutra’, the name Bhairavi is originated from the combination of three root words – ‘bha’,‘ra’ ,‘va’. In this ‘bha’ means preservation, ‘ra’ denotes Ramana means divine activities of creation, ‘va’ derived from Vamana means relaxation in certain activities.

Devi Bhairavi has many qualities like Goddess Kali. She is the Goddess of transformation, and the power connected to destruction of evil forces.

She is the goddess of destruction. Destruction here is not considered a negative force, but essential to maintain continuity in the great cycle of death and birth in the world. Mata Bhairavi is also popularly known as ‘Tripura Bhairavi’ where ‘tri ’means three, ‘pura’ means castles and cities. Hence Tripura Bhairavi indicates three levels of consciousness active-dream-sleep.

Mata Bhairavi in images and idols are found to be seated on a Lotus with four hands- with book in one hand, rosary bead in another, in another one Abhaya mudra and in the other hand displaying Varada mudra. She is wearing red clothes and a garland of severed heads on her neck. She has three eyes (Trinayan) and a crescent moon on her crown. In tantric form of the Devi, we find her sitting on Lord Siva, her one hand with a sword and a cup of blood in another one, her other two hands are with Abhaya and Varada mudras, respectively.

It is stated that Devi Tripura Bhairavi resides in Muladhar Chakra, and her mantra consists of three alphabets (letter) forming an inverted triangle in the centre of Muladhar chakra as ‘kamrupa’, representing the Universe. Devi Bhairavi is the creator of this Muladhar Chakra.

In Tantra, a female adept in Kundalini system is also known as Bhairavi, yogini. Sometimes she prefers to be with her Bhairav, the male partner, at the time of meditation and devotion, called yoga. In Tantra, Bhairavi has been defined as the divine queen closely associated with Devi Rajarajeswari or Tripura Sundari. Hope you loved reading. To share your thoughts, please email at contactareaderscorner@gmail.com

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Devi Bhuvaneshwari

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Devi Bhuvaneshwari Is the fourth Shakti form of the Das Mahavidya after Kali, Tara and Shodashi. She is also known as Adi Shakti Parvati or Parashakti.  Mahadev Tryambak is her consort. The name Bhuvaneshwari is originated of the two words Bhuvana (universe/world) and Ishwari (Goddess/Devi/ protector/Queen) that means Queen of the World or Queen of the Universe. She is the Mother of the Earth, the Atmosphere, and the Heavens.

Based on legend, all the three regions earth, atmosphere, and heavens, are created by Devi Bhuvaneshwari. After creation of world Maa Bhuvaneshwari made all the living creatures. She has given them eternal shape. To maintain and nourish her creations, she created Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra. There after she distributed her energy and supreme power, and as Saraswati joined Brahma, as Laxmi partnered Vishnu, and as Kali partnered Rudra, These three devas were entitled the task to create, to sustain and protect, and to destroy respectively.

Brahma with the help of Devi Saraswati has created all living beings. Vishnu with Laxmi is engaged to sustain a portion of the creation and Rudra with Kali is in a process to annihilate other portion of the creation to maintain balance in the universe. Thus, there is a continuous cycle of birth and death.

Devi Bhuvaneshwari and Mahadev Bhuvaneshwar in images and idols are found seated on Panchapretashana where Sadashiva, Ishwar, Vishnu, Rudra, and Brahma are shown as five legs and several yoginis are seen busy in serving them.

Goddess Bhuvaneshwari controls this universe. She is the Almighty. She considers all the living beings as her children and protects them always. She loves each of her creation and is a part of every creature. She fulfils the desire of every individual coming to her refuge.

Devi Bhuvaneshwari is red complexioned and three eyed (Trinayan). She has four hands, has braided hair, and found wearing red ornaments. As weapon she holds a goad and a noose in left hands, in right hands she is with Abhaya and Baroda. She is ornamented with crescent moon on her head.

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Devi Shodashi

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In Hinduism, Devi Shodashi, also known as Tripura Sundari, is the third form of power among the Das Mahavidya after Goddess Kali and Goddess Tara. The word ‘Tripura’ in Sanskrit is combination of two words ‘tri’ or traya meaning three and ‘pura’ means city. Tripura thus refers to three cities built of gold, silver, and iron in the sky, air and earth by Maya and burnt by Shiva. Goddess Shodashi is also popularly known as Lalita (‘she who plays) and Rajarajeswari (‘Queen of the Queens’). She is also worshipped as Shri Yantra.

Goddess Shodashi is the most beautiful form in the three worlds (swargaloka, bhuloka and patalaloka). In Mahavidya she is defined as Goddess Parvati and as Tantric Parvati. Mata Shodashi is worshipped in the form of a sixteen-year-old girl and is believed that she fulfils sixteen types of desire of her devotees. She is worshiped by chanting a mantra of sixteen syllables. It is said that she has the collective powers of Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra expressed as Brahmani, Vaishnabi And Rudrani. She has the charm of Goddess Durga and determination of Goddess Kali.

A devotee who completely surrenders to mother Shodashi is always blessed beyond expectation by the mother. The divine Mother appears calm and looks bold and charming as an innocent and a sweet sixteen-year-old girl and she is dressed in bright red costume and ornaments. Goddess Shodashi is the Goddess of love and family welfare.

Goddess Shodashi is red or golden complexioned and seated on a lotus placed on a golden throne. The idols and images of Maa Shodashi, is found to appear on a lotus on supine body of Lord Shiva lying in a peaceful position on a plank which is upheld by Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Ishana and Sadashiva. Goddess Shodashi has a third eye on her forehead. Her four hands carry a noose, a goad, a sugarcane as a bow, and five arrows in each, respectively. Here, noose represents attachment or to bind, goad represents repulsion or to drive away, bow indicates mind and desires, and arrows indicates five senses.

In connection to Goddess Shodashi there is a beautiful story. Once Lord Shiva referred his consort as Kali by name, in the presence of some beautiful and fair complexioned Apsaras of Heaven. Kali means black and unattractive. Goddess Kali was shocked and angered at Lord Shiva’s behaviour and felt disappointed with her own dark complexion. Feeling insulted she left Shiva and started meditation to get rid of her black complexion at an unknown place. When Devarshi Narad visited Lord Shiva he found the Lord alone. When he got to know from Lord Shiva about Goddess Kali’s exit, then Narad being a great sage could locate the Devi through meditation. Lord Brahma, by that time, being pleased with her meditation granted Lord Kali a boon to be fair complexioned. Devarshi Narad met Goddess Kali in the north of Sumeru Parvat and requested her to go back home. He played a trick and told her that Lord Siva had decided to marry someone else. Goddess Kali, however, was not aware that her complexion was changed.

Goddess Kali returned Kailash, the abode of Lord Siva. She could see the image of a fair complexioned beautiful young girl in his heart. The Devi did not realize that it was the reflexion of the Devi herself and this enraged her.

Lord Siva smiled and told her to look back at the image. At this she could realize that it was the reflection of herself. Her happiness knew no bound. She felt overjoyed to see her new look. Lord Siva named her ‘Shodashi’ respecting her new appearance and announced that Goddess Shodashi would be worshipped by all the three worlds with devotion.

Hope you loved the story. This is just a narration based on legend and I would prefer to derive from the story that outward appearance has nothing to do in our life. When through meditation and through spiritual practices, our mind comes to control, we get rid of all the disappointments and anger and we calm down, get determined, become strong internally and feel uplifted. This however reflects on our face and gives a positive appearance.

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How can you make your children concentrate in their studies?

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Concentration is something that requires regular exercise. Some children are self-motivated and fond of learning since their childhood and some others, require strategizing, following a routine and need to get motivation from others including their family, friends, and teachers.

Every child needs a practice of the lessons regularly.

Long hours of study make the children stressed and as they grow old, other activities like some sports, dance, music, or occasionally social media engagement attract them more and they prefer to get more engaged in them. However, to get ideas on different disciplines and to understand life more, experts still feel that there is no alternative to books and disciplined life. Some process to make the children concentrate more on studies can be summed up as under.

Split the big task

It is very normal for your child, especially if your little one is very young of 3-8 years of age, you may find it really very difficult to make the child sit at a place and study. They would not like to study continuously for at least an hour. So, a distribution of the task at different time of the day would help. Let the child study for 5-15 minutes each time.

Reduce distraction

Suitable room, space shall be arranged for children for their study. The place must be free from distraction, better not to have TV, music system, video games and so on. The room should be nicely ventilated with enough of daylight coming in and is not disturbed due to crowd, and noise. These arrangements help to make children more attentive.  

Avoid watching TV during kids’ study

Parents should avoid watching TV at the time of kids’ study to make the children remain motivated in their studies.

Study time to keep uniform

Study time in a day shall be constant, to make them alert of their study time. Habit must be built up.

Allow them enough physical activity

Children shall be engaged in some physical activities, like cycling, running, other exercises, to increase their strength and energy.

Allow to play fun games

Children shall be allowed to play and enjoy fun, to make them mentally and physical stable and help them overcome their restlessness. Engaging the kids in fun games also keep the children motivated and happy.

Accompany them well

Parents shall devote enough time to their children so that they may not suffer from loneliness and get strong family support for a healthy upbringing.

Be serious and attentive to their need

Parents shall be alert about the need of their children and try to satisfy their needs though should keep in mind that it is the parents’ responsibility to make children understand how difficult was it to satisfy their requirement. This will help the children be more caring and less demanding. Being overprotective is unhealthy. There should be a balance between boosting your ego and over pampering the children. So, this is a serious point in the process of parenting. The sense of responsibility to grow up and care for oneself and others if passed on to children at a very young stage will naturally inspire them to study well.

I understand that parenting is not an easy task and needs a lot of hard work, selflessness, care, and love. This article is probably highlighting what you are already doing as a parent.

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Benefits of Pranayama

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What is Pranayama?

Pranayama may be simply defined as breathing exercise. It includes three prominent steps- inhalation, retention, and exhalation.

Types of Pranayama

There are several types of Pranayama. Today I have planned not to go deep into explaining each one of them but to just name a few of them for reference and to give you an overall idea of the importance of Pranayama. I have a plan to focus more on each of the Pranayama processes and their individual benefits in my future blog.

Let me mention the names of some common types of Pranayama.

  • Bhastrica
  • Kapalbhati
  • Nadi shodhana
  • Bhramari
  • Sheetali
  • Ujjayi

Why is doing pranayama so important?

Pranayama helps regulate the breathing process methodically. Pranayama is as important as doing Asana and Meditations in yoga. Let me sum up a few points by which Pranayama can help you.

  • Reduces high blood pressure
  • Reduces Cardiological problems
  • Maintains body temperature
  • Treats depression
  • Helps detoxification and help fight pollutions and germs
  • Helps to lose weight
  • Clears nasal passage and helps fight sinusitis
  • Improves mental conditions
  • Good for skin
  • Helps to sleep better
  • Improves Lungs function
  • Improves digestive system
  • Helps reduce bad cholesterol in blood
  • Controls mind and takes care of mental health
  • Helps you to remain alert and focus better in work
  • Boosts your immune system

In some research work it revealed that pranayama is a very effective way to improve physical as well mental health and promotes a better life. It helps to achieve result within a short period. Now a days it is very essential to do pranayama, as physical and mental stress is very common among all irrespective of their status in the society.  

Understanding the benefits of Pranayama is very important to get motivated and to seriously start practicing it to enjoy the wide range of benefits you get.

If you feel practicing Pranayama has helped you or might help you in future, do share your thoughts. Our future blog will have each of the types of Pranayama explained in detail.

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How to overcome problems in life?

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There are ups and downs in our life. Sometimes we go through troubles and sometimes we find our life little smoother. There is no one who is out of this rule. Suffering from problems is very natural in our life and is common to every life on earth. It is also not unusual to say “I am the only one who is suffering with such serious problem.” Do we bother to understand what others are going through? Is it not good to make enquiry to know what others are into? If we do so we may find how we are not in some exceptional condition.

In this context, let me narrate the story of a farmer who visited Buddha to find a solution to his problems. One day a farmer visited Lord Buddha to tell all about his sufferings and to have the Lord’s to overcome those problems. When the farmer was asked to explain the types of problem he was suffering from, he informed that he was a farmer, and his family depended on cultivation. Due to natural disasters like scarcity of rain or heavy rain, he could not grow enough crops to sell or to feed his family. They had to regularly deal with acute poverty. His family was very unhappy with him and disobeyed and disrespected him. Besides, there were other problems in his life. The farmer explained about his other problems as well. After listening to him carefully, Lord Buddha said that he counted the numbers of problem and it was eighty-three in total. Farmer confirmed that he had no other problem. Lord said that he was unable to solve those eighty-three problems. Farmer was very shocked at this and told “you are the Lord, and if you cannot resolve my difficulties, why do others say that you solve every one’s problems”. Lord replied, “yes, though I cannot help you in solving these eighty-three problems, but I can solve your eighty fourth problem. Your eighty fourth problem is to worry about those eighty-three problems.  If you stop thinking about the problems you have, you will find that your life has become smoother and happier.”

If we take our personal problems as a part of life and accept and move ahead, then we get better life experiences and a confident nature. Let us now try to deal with our problems through the following few great ways:

  • Take Doctor’s advice if you have health problem or mental anxiety which is difficult to manage yourself.
  • Take help from others including your loved ones, friends, relatives, or neighbors if you cannot deal with the problem alone. Do not hide the problem, discuss with others. Take suggestions. Hiding may increase the problem.   
  • Express your thoughts and share your ideas
  • Take responsibility of self and others- Once you proactively start taking responsibility, you will realize that there are many issues in addition to your own that need a care.
  • Make a daily plan-Once you realize what your problem is and how is it disturbing your life, act on chalking out a daily plan to methodically deal with the problem.
  • Try to express gratitude to everyone around for every little support you get. Thank the Almighty God for his kindness and support.
  • Think positively and never let yourself down.
  • Face fear and remember there is no way to escape.
  • Accept problems- Accept the problem you are going through and face it yourself, without depending on others.
  • Try to understand others problem and help them
  • Learn from the problem and guide others in future. Reframe the problem to try and enjoy a better life.
  • Share your experiences with others when they are finding difficulty facing their personal struggle.
  • Remain engaged in multiple work throughout the day unless you get tired to get a good night’s sleep.
  • Engage more with your work of interest and do not sit idle and kill time.
  • Practice more patience
  • Always keep a smile on your face
  • Be confident and deal with the problem. Remember this will give you more confidence and mental strength.
  • Increase your energy level through fitness exercises. Read books and find out a hobby that you can enjoy daily.
  • Be more attentive to others
  • Be bold in thinking, firm in expressing, and ensure that you move steadily.

Hope you will get benefitted. Remain motivated and try and help yourself and others. I can assure that your life will be full of charm and the lessons of life will help you to deal with more difficult problems more efficiently.

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