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10 Smart Steps to Avoid the Office Bug
We are office denizens, spending most of our waking hours in the hustle and bustle of a cubicle existence. In the microsm of the office environment is decided the course of the day and our lives. Office walls are not a sanitary bubble protecting our bodies from the attack of the germs, but it is [...]
Have You Gauged Your Blood Pressure?
Are headaches, dizziness, nausea or chest pain becoming your pet peeves? Stop blaming work pressure and quickly check your blood pressure! Your blood may be baying for you.
Blood pressure (BP) disorder is generally of two types.
Primary BP, also known as primary/essential hypertension, is hereditary. About 89 per cent of BP patients fall under this category.
Secondary [...]
Don’t Space Out With Claustrophobia
Chris still remembers the first time he was trapped inside an elevator. The distinct sensation he remembers was that the world was closing in around him and he had nowhere to run. He was rescued…and he came out of it breathless and scared but permanently berthed with a fear of elevators. This was his first [...]
Watch Your Weight As You Watch Your Age
One of the gifts of growing old is wisdom. The other of course is an expanding waistline. The former is welcome, the latter one hopes not. But it is a body truth that with age comes a propensity to pack in the bulge. Muscles start to gradually atrophy and fat starts to take its place. [...]
15 Tips to Put Us on the Path of a Better Life
Whether it may be by a better pill or a better diet, the elixir of life is our ultimate desire. Advanced genetics may give us that magic potion soon enough but their are simple things we can do even today to live a long life. A life not only of longevity but also of activity. [...]
Striking Out RSI Before It Strikes You
You may be blue collared or white collared, if you are a 21st century worker you would have heard about RSI or in its expanded avatar - Repetitive Stress Injury. Wikipedia also mentions it as cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), occupational overuse syndrome, or work related upper limb disorder (WRULD). All these subscribe to one singular [...]
8 Positive Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Perhaps, it is the best lesson children can teach us. A child is never anxious. He has no work related deadlines to fuss over, he has no disgruntled boss hovering over every act of his (i.e. if you disregard ‘parents’) and he has no fear of tomorrow. What a lovely situation to be in. But [...]
Have A Lungful of Life - How to Breathe Right
“Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.”
- Chuang Tzu
Have you ever looked at a diagrammatic cross-section of a lung?
I bet you have wondered that it looks like an upside down leafless ‘autumn’ tree. Well, that’s how our respiratory system is. From the nasal cavity, the air travels down the trachea (the breathing [...]
10 Exercises for Choosing a Good Gym
If Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t enough when I was growing up, now I have Page 3 models to gawk at and feel a bit woebegone about the muscular state of my appendages. Agreed that the gym has become a temple for many, but I hadn’t ever managed to really put myself through the grind. But looking [...]
Towards Purpose and Productivity with Motivation
Have you reached a dead end? Has the fire in the belly been doused out? Just a few days back you were all gung-ho about the project, about cleaning your garage, about taking that course and it all seems to have fizzled out now. Motivation quite simply is the sum total of our feelings when [...]
A Guide to Graduating Without College Depression
‘It’s time to let you go, in the farthest sense we know’, went the lilting refrain of a gospel song. But this song could be a parent anthem on the verge of sending their kids off to college. After a decade and a half of nurturing, the children head off for an unfamiliar world. In [...]
10 Tips for Shaking Away Leg Cramps
Sometimes we get it as over enthusiastic exercisers, sometimes we get it at the end of a hard day. When the cramps strike, I can’t help but remember the exclamation - ‘These legs are killing me!’
Leg cramps are the sudden painful involuntary spasms of the muscles. The sudden contractions are brought about by a plethora [...]
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