MEDITATION 101: TECHNIQUES, BENEFITS

HOW TO MEDITATE EFFECTIVELY  Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. But many meditation techniques exist — so how do you learn how to meditate? It’s extremely difficult for a beginner to sit for hours and think of nothing or have…

Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic medical condition in which sugar, or glucose, levels build up in your bloodstream. The hormone insulin helps move the sugar from your blood into your cells, which are where the sugar is used for energy. In type 2 diabetes, your body’s cells aren’t able to respond to insulin as well as…

Sleeping Well

How to Create Habits that Help You Sleep Better How you feel during your waking hours often hinges on how well you sleep. Similarly, the cure for daytime fatigue and sleep difficulties can often be found in your daily routine and lifestyle choices. Experiment with the following tips to find the ones that work best…

Yoga for Eyes: Improve Eyesight Naturally

Many of the yogic exercises are aimed at improving the functioning of specific organs of the body. Yoga provides a series of eye exercises that improves the functioning of the eyes and helps to overcome various eye-related problems such as short sightedness and long sightedness. Did you know? Therapeutic yoga techniques include exercises such as…

Start your summer prep

Start your summer prep (Picture Credit: Pixabay) 1. Get a summer-friendly scent: Scents need to change depending on the season. Go for fresher and lighter scents now. 2. Don’t skip the SPF: Sun rays not only mess up your skin, but also increase your chances of getting skin cancer. Put on some sunscreen. 3. Get…

Yoga Asanas For Pregnant Women

1. Tadasana – Mountain Pose: Tadasana is a great yoga pose for pregnant women. It helps to strengthen your spine and eases your back pain too. How To Do: Stand with feet spread out at hips width. Keep your spine erect, with hands resting on either side of the body and palms facing the thighs….

Yoga of the day

Mountain Pose Stand tall with feet together. Relax shoulders and distribute weight evenly through soles of feet. Arms at sides. Inhale slowly while lifting arms laterally overhead, turning palms to face inward. Transition to Forward Fold (next pose) or exhale slowly and return arms to sides. Forward Fold Begin in Mountain Pose. Exhale while bending…

3 Breathing Techniques That Will Help You Feel Less Stressed ASAP

Deeper belly-breathing will make you calmer and happier. “When you breathe horizontally, your vagus nerve — it starts at the back of your head and runs all the way through your body — tells your brain to get into rest-and-digest mode,” says Vranich. Meaning, you’ll feel less tense, sleep better, have less stomach drama, and…

Fitness is the only religion I know.- John Abraham

I am pretty much an agnostic so my only religion is my body. I think there is nothing more important than health and workout and my aim is to live and die with a six-pack. Most of you will have heard my fitness mantra – “healthy life is like a tripod – good food, good…

5 exercises to work your abs to exhaustion

Ready to really sculpt your six-pack? Skip the crunches and challenge your core with these ultra-tough moves It’s time to push your abs to exhaustion—and fight the flab—with new ab exercises that are anything but routine. And it’s not just a six-pack you’ll get: Maintain strong abs, and you’ll help prevent back pain, boost your…