My Thoughts, Observations and Readings

  Now, we are talking about various ways of keeping ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy! We are prioritizing our daily workouts and spending a good amount of time on that, right? Starting from walking, exercises, yoga, workouts at gym, and in the process of making this workout interesting we have found zumba…  Recently, I read an article on Supernatural Virtual Reality workout . Someone's feedback on that is ‘ The virtual reality workout not only had me working up a serious sweat, but it was also a game-changer for my mental health’. Another one  ‘Beautiful scenery and a huge variety of great music, along with encouragement from fitness experts, added all of the elements needed for a fun, rhythm-based, gamification of exercise’. There are many articles about exercise: how to make exercise enjoyable, tips for making exercise easy, alternatives for the routine exercise, and the list goes on… This made me to think, what the people might have done to keep...

  Despite knowing the life-changing benefits of doing exercise regularly, I had some difficulty in pursuing my daily routine and one of the few obstacles to exercise was “I don’t have enough time to exercise”. As I shared in my earlier blog, I was exploring the ways to be consistent in going for my morning walk and doing yoga. I found a few interesting suggestions to make exercise easy and keep my daily workout program going.   First and foremost: Start slowly, Do not rush. We can start with an activity we feel comfortable doing, go at our own pace, in other words, we shall keep our expectations realistic. We can choose the activities we like to get started. My friend, who is a trainer at a gym said ‘focusing on activities you enjoy will help you to start your exercise program and also to move to the next level, for example, if you love to swim, dance, or play tennis you’ll find it easier to stick with an exercise program that’s built around those activities’. At the sa...

  I wish to start my morning walk again(!). How many times have I started my walking and yoga practice, but somehow due to some reason or the other, I am not able to continue my exercise routine without a break! When I wrote the blog ‘ Ageing gracefully - Children holding our hands to we holding their hands, is this ageing? Trying to find ways to make the process of ageing enjoyable!’ ( https://pavaiarun.blogspot.com/2024/07/ageing-gracefully-children-holding-our.html ) it dawned on me that I needed to take care of my health. So, I was exploring some of the possible ways for that: correcting my food habits, going for a morning walk, and doing some yoga stretches or exercises. Actually, very sincerely I was going for my morning walk and doing the yoga practices daily till last month.  I understand that exercise is one of the easiest and most effective ways of improving both our physical and mental health. It reduces the possibility of serious health problems. If we do a little ...

  In the earlier blogs, we tried to get clarity: Physical facilities are required, but they alone can not ensure happiness. We can not live happily just with all the required physical facilities, possessing all that we need and want!  We need Relationships with other human beings to ensure happiness in our lives. Why are we getting into opposition, arguments and fights, knowing that we need relationship if we want to be happy? How many best friends are getting into fights? How many breakups in the so-called pure love? How many brothers and sisters have become enemies(!)? How many divorce cases, whether it is a love marriage or an arranged marriage? Have you ever thought of this? What could be the possible reason for friends not talking to each other for so long, for, they had some petty quarrels, brothers not talking to each other for years for want of a piece of land, husband and wife going on arguing on an everyday basis, if at all not going for a divorce, … Yes, you are ri...

  Children holding our hands to we holding their hands, in other words, Children depending on us to we depending on our children - Is it ageing?   Nowadays, we are getting a lot of advice on ageing. How we have to behave with our children, grandchildren, what to do and what not to do, etc. I am not going to give any to do & not to do list or any formula for ageing gracefully. Just wish to share my experience with the elderly people whom I know, I can say the lessons I am learning from them for me, for me to make my ageing process enjoyable!  First, let me start with my mother! Such a wonderful lady. She is 82 now. She is doing all her work on her own. She will not get help from anyone, including me! She is taking good  care of her health. She usually goes for a walk and goes to the nearby temple daily where she will meet her friends. Actually, she is  diabetic and has heart problems also. Not out of the age related issues like leg pain, shoulder pain, knee p...