Tag: Depression

World Mental Health Day 2018: Shatter these myths and learn these 5 facts about mental illness

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World Mental Health Day 2018 is observed on October 10 across the world. The goal of World Mental Health Day is to increase awareness about mental health and the importance of mental health in overall health of a person. On this day, the idea is to empower people suffering from mental health problems and encourage them to open up about it. This year, the theme of World Mental Health Day is “Young people and mental health in a changing world.” World Mental Health Day 2018 theme focuses on the adolescents and the…

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Killer in your Fridge

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SWEET POISON..A MUST READ !!! In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew…

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Why do Mistakes Recur?

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By Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai In the journey towards the experience of absolute purity, seekers face many challenges from their inner world. Pujya Gurudevshri exhorts to identify the mistakes and understand the know-how to remove them. It is difficult to overcome passions. They are deeply rooted in you since time immemorial. When desire for sense pleasure, ego, anger, deceit, greed etc. create turbulence within, you get dejected. Seeing your mistakes, a kind of helplessness, depression, or frustration arises. The Enlightened Ones say that if you perceive your mistake in the right way,…

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Creating distance between you and your problems

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By P Vaidyanathan When we are faced with problems, our normal human tendency is to get seriously focussed and involved with the problem. We tend to continuously keep thinking about the problem and we cannot seem to get our mind away from the problem even for a short time. This, in turn, often triggers a whole lot of negative emotions in us, like anger, fear, grief, sorrow, irritation, frustration, helplessness, angst, and depression. And with these thoughts and emotions, we try to solve our problems, with varying effects. If someone is…

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10 Problems Root (Basic) Chakra Healing Can Help with (and How to Perform It)

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If you are feeling anxious or depressed, it could be that your root chakra is blocked. Follow these root chakra healing practices to transform your life. Chakras are energy centres within the body. When they get blocked, energy cannot flow through them and this can cause physical and emotional symptoms. When our root chakra becomes blocked, we can experience a range of physical and mental problems. Read on to find out some of the symptoms of a blocked root chakra and discover some practices that can provide root chakra healing. 10 Symptoms of a blocked…

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How to Exercise

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Bending upto a certain point is easy, beyond this point you feel tension in your muscles and if you still go further you will feel pain. Do you exercises upto the point of tension. If you keep on doing exercises the mobility of the joints goes on increasing. The point of pain becomes the point of tension in a few days and gradually you can still go beyond this point without pain. This principle has been used in exercising the patients with stiff joints passively. Movement and pain are indirectly…

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Selected Exercises that Can Be Done in Twenty Minutes

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Selected exercises which could be done in twenty minutes with small rest periods are listed: Toe Touching Stand erect, feet together arm at side. Take a deep breathe. Raise head, breathe in deeply breathe out slowly as you go down. Touch the floor out side left foot, come up little and down again to touch floor between feet, and touch between feet once more. Come up and touch out side right foot. If you can not touch just move in that direction. Hold your breathe when you come up to…

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International Yoga Day 2018: Tips to stay healthy and top yoga for daily life

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International Yoga day is celebrated on June 21 every year. Started in 2015, this year it will be the 4th edition of the International Yoga Day. The Yoga day was first proposed by prime minister Narendra Modi on September 27, 2014 during his speech at UNGA. PM Modi had stated yoga as a valuable gift with lots of health benefits. Yoga is being promoted by many celebrities like Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Malaika Arora and Bipasha Basu, among others. Since 2015, the International Yoga Day is celebrated every year across the globe in…

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Researchers have shown how yoga and meditation can have positive effects on stress resilience

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They also observed increases in the magnitude of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) which is part of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA). Stress affects us all and it isn’t something we can entirely avoid. Researchers have shown how yoga and meditation can have positive effects on stress resilience. A research article investigates the effects of yoga and meditation on brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), the activity on the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) effects and inflammatory markers. By studying the participants of an intensive 3-month yoga and meditation retreat, the…

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World Laughter Day 2018: Date, History, Celebrations & Benefits of Laughter Yoga

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‘Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.’ – Lord Byron. Laughter is the best medicine and we all have heard it. It might not be able to solve a difficult situation but laughing over a matter will surely bring some relief and will dissolve the stress. If you are among people who do not laugh often, then today is your day. First Sunday in the month of May is celebrated as the World Laughter Day. This year the World Laughter Day is being celebrated on May 6,…

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