Changing the lifestyle
Now it is clear that our own faulty lifestyle is responsible for unhappiness, stress and diseased condition. The best way is to correct our lifestyle. However, it is not that easy to adapt totally different lifestyle from the next day but once you decide to follow proper lifestyle pattern, the following guidelines will help you to make necessary changes in your present lifestyle.
l. Know your own nature and your ambitions. Assess your both positive and negative qualities. Accept your faults and mistakes you might have done. Work as per your capacity and be aware not to repeat same mistakes again and again.
2. Learn to calm down yourself. Remain peaceful in your mind so that it is easy to control your emotions, thoughts and actions. Learn to gain control on your reactions to any event around you. Slow breathing in pranayama will enable you to control your mind and innermost responses. Analyze your own performance honestly.
3. Be courageous and determined to make positive changes in your overall out look towards others, in your style of communication, home arrangements, clothes, timings for yoga, other exercises and hobbies etc.
4. Organize your work. Plan it properly for the whole year, considering seasonal changes, festivals, holidays and family functions among relatives. Use the planner.
5. The circadian rhythms like dark and light, sunrise and sunset always influence our sleep pattern and arousal, hunger. Setting a body clock is very important. Therefore plan your timings for work, meals, rest, recreation and sleep as they can influence each other. Do not forget the word which means proportionate or moderate quantity as a ‘measure’ for all the activities.
6. Do not forget the comfort and pleasure components in all the activities. Indian classical music, pleasant fragrance, scents would definitely help you to make your moods, temperament and behavior suitable for the environment. Weekend picnic programs with family and friends would bring you more happiness and freshness.
7. Assess your own diet. It should be well balanced from nutrition and quantity point of view. Avoid processed and fast foods. Avoid too much spicy and chilly food. Beware about the fat contents of the food. Eat with pleasant and relaxed mind. A short prayer or a thankful remembrance of the almighty God before taking food is always better to cultivate the devotional attitude.
8. Honesty, mutual trust, loyalty, respect for the elders, affectionate and friendly approach for all, wishing and greeting others on various occasion, are good qualities which would improve your interpersonal relationship with others and would bring you more happiness and contentment. Then there would be no seat for negative emotions like hatred or jealousy. Open your heart to your best friend and elder members of the family such as grand father/mother and seek elderly advice frankly as and when required without hesitation.
9. Daily routine is a major part of our lifestyle. Do not forget the saying -’ early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy and wise’. 30 minutes morning walk would improve your stamina and would keep you cheerful and fresh through the day. It will also regulate the level of cholesterol in the blood.
10. Cultivate a habit of rational thinking from all the angles before arriving at the conclusions of the decisions. Altruism, compassion and forgiveness would empower you for healing yourself against stress and feeling of loneliness.
11. Enjoy the humor and comedy. Share the jokes with your friends and family members. Laughter is the best medicine as it relaxes us quickly and makes us sportive for any kind of situation. It helps our healing process
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