Mindful Meadows

The social media, blogs, magazines and youtube videos are flooded with lot of weight loss and fit body packages. Some are telling stay fit in one week, loss belly fat in just three days, use our supplement to get aesthetic body, admit into our gym, bla bla bla. Most of these are over hyped writings or videos. They work a little bit and involve money too. But Walking the salient habit can give you a healthy body and happy mind.  No monetary issue involved in walking, you can walk anytime anywhere, you can walk solo or with partner or a group, no matter.  Even you can walk inside your room, your stairway or on your rooftop.  Here a blog on easy to do walking as your habit.  Y ou carry your own body weight when you walk. This is known as weight-bearing exercise.   Walking has many more benefits on your body and brain.  Walking is one of the simplest and most effective ways to burn fat and improve your overall health . Walking improve cardiovascular and pulmon...

In my daily routine I walk 1000 meter walking on a treadmill at my gym. It covers about 1500 steps. But scientific study reveals that,  10000 steps is necessary to get proper benefits of walking. That is why I make a plan to cope with this situation. My parents are living  in their house that is 3 kilometers away from my residence. Generally I take my dinner with them at night everyday. I use my motorbike as a commuter. But I leave the motorbike and use my feet to reach my parent's home. Thus I complete the 10000 steps milestone for walking everyday. After a month I found some  specific health benefits physically and mentally. Here my realization is walking is the easiest way to keep fit physically and mentally. One of the best things about walking is that it’s a versatile and convenient activity that you can do almost anywhere, anytime. You don’t need any special equipment, clothing, or membership to walk. You can walk indoors or outdoors, in any weather, and in any sett...

Be Happy and Stay Happy is the Prime expectation in everyone's life. We all do our individual business to earn money, meet up our daily needs, Carry on our lives on the Earth. But our ultimate goal to lead a happy and healthy life. But most of the time we forgot that, happiness is not a goal, it's a journey, like our life. Death is the destination or goal but not life. Practicing happiness in daily life is a full-time job. You have to inspect your daily habits to detect the positive or negative impact on your physical or mental health which directly connected to your happiness. Many habits are pushing negativity in our daily life and make us unhappy silently. Here some of these daily habits which are harming our mind and body too. Scrolling- Today at morning, I picked up my smartphone to call the electrician to troubleshoot one my bedroom switch. After taking the phone on my hands I began to scroll the social media-Facebook unconsciously. About half an hour later I fail to rec...

As an amateur Bird Photographer very often I have to walk in the forests following the trails. My goal is to capture candid bird photos. It’s my passion to freeze various bird moments with my camera and lens. Sometimes I become motionless to get camouflaged from birds. After walking a lot in the forest and get tired, take rest beside forest trail and feel the real forest vibe. Just imagine- you lied on ground, kept your backpack under your head, the sunlight dropped on your face filtered through green leaves. The small birds are chirping and moving restlessly on the tree branches over your head. The gentle breeze sounds coming from the leaves. A narrow water stream flowing very close to you. The flowing waters sound coming to your ear and stimulating your nerves. All these are the components of Forest Bathing. Forest bathing done with your vital five sensory organs. The Ears - Bird singing sound and breeze sound resulting from the tree leaves enter into the ear and stimulate brain. The...

Each year at summer vacation of my school days, I would have been my Grandparent's home for some days. Many of cousin brothers and sisters were lived their. It was a raw village where life was completely differed from city life. Most of the were farmer and they started their duty at early in morning and habituated to go to the bed earlier. The little school going children were played all day long from home to field on bare foot. They play football even without boot or sneakers.  One day one of my cousin brother and me got injured at the time of play. A little wound made on both of our leg, little bit bleeding with bruising of skin. My cousin brother wound became cure within 2 to 3 days but my one took about one week. My old Grandmother told me that, he (my cousin) was used to walk on bare foot but I always used Sandals or Shoes that is why my wound required more time to recovery.  That time I was unable to understand this phenomena. But this is an Interesting term Grounding, ...

At my Highschool days one of my teacher worn White colored shirt everyday. We thought he has only one shirt that's colored. One day we some friends made a plan to put black in on his white shirt. One of my clever friend done this hilarious incident with his fountain pen & pretend to it has done unintentionally! The next day we were eagerly waiting for the teacher what he has worn. But astonishingly we noticed that he worn White shirt again. This one newer than the previous day. Then we confirmed, he has more shirt's of same color, White. Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook wears Grey t-shirt most of the time. This color becomes legendary for him.  My teacher's shirt or Zuckerberg's t-shirt all these reflect the personality of the man inside the dress. The color of one's dress represent the personality of the person. All color doesn't fit everywhere or every person. Each has different choice about his or her dress color. Here we see some color which refle...

My neighborhood uncle Mr. Jillu always wears very colorful Shirt, T-shirt and trousers at his sixty years age. By profession he is a commercial artist. Generally he paints the signage, banner and other commercial painting as per his customer demand. I thought his dress wearing sense may be rooted in his profession. One fine morning of the last July I asked him about his dress sense to fulfill my curiosity. He replied with a giggle on his face, colorful dress give me more energy and I feel more stamina inside me. His such reply stimulates my curiosity more. Then I googled in this topic and found some interesting results on this. Dress color has a significant role on human mood. The brilliant dress color positively uplift your mood but the dull color has negative impact. Here some specific color which impact your mood- Blue - keeps you relaxed and serene Yellow - Brighten your mood & increase energy White - Feels you clean and clear Green - Reduce your anxiety Purple - Boost your pro...

Self Care-  Daily Life Happiness It is 6.30 pm of Mid June. The weather is really hot and humid feels more discomfort. I returned home from my office completing eight hours hectic desk job in busy branch of a commercial bank. After taking shower generally I like to browse television set for todays UpToDate news. Then I open any page of a book and start reading with a cup of tea or evening snack. But one or more day I take my smartphone scrolling social media platform like facebook, x-handle, Instagram bla bla bla. After 60 to 90 minutes I surprisingly found that I am scrolling just with an absent mind. Basically I am not involved what is shown in front my eyes. But still I am scrolling. Totally an unproductive job, pushing the photos, videos, and writings upward with my thumb finger. But other those days I open a book to read, I found some different internal conditions in my body and mind. At the time of reading an image is created in my mind based on the lines and words I read. My...

Daily Life Happiness The Monday Morning schedule is very tight to me. Getting up earlier, going to Gym, comeback about one and half hour later then take shower and breakfast and heading to my workplace. This is repeating routine for five working days each week. Today after taking shower I went to balcony to keep my bathing towel for sundry. The blind man residing at our locality walking on the street towards his home. Though he is totally unable to see, he uses a stick to detect what is in front of him. It takes more time to reach home and has some risk of accident with motorbike or auto rickshaw frequently pass through the street. Flowers from my Balcony Suddenly, I saw a pedestrian who coming back from vegetable market extend his hand to help the blind man. The stroller waking with a vegetable bag in one hand and holding the blind man hand with other. From my balcony I shouted and directed him to identify the blind man house. Thus the pedestrian brought the blind man to his home. My ...