Smile A Rare Commodity in Today’s World

By G. Gayathri

We keep hearing about the scarcity of water, food and other things above all these things there is a severe scarcity of the unseen but most precious and important things in today’s life and world those are, smile, peace of mind and happiness. Most of the times we see only long faces, and rarely a smiling and pleasant and peaceful face.

Yes, every one born as human in this earth thrives only for these things, but today man’s priorities have changed and so these unseen and most valuable and essential things have become a rare commodity. Among all the creatures that God has created only humans can smile. But still we find it hard to do it even once a day.

Marketing people stick smile on their faces because they cannot accomplish anything without that. A child smiles because that is his nature and he needs no reason or need to do that. Most of the times we stick a smile on our face only when we have to or need to, but when was the last time we smiled because we genuinely felt like smiling.

There is definitely one thing that is true that if we need reasons to smile and reasons to feel happy that is a rare thing to happen. Because life is a road with many twists and turns and it is always not possible that you are blessed with that situations and the kind of people that make you happy and make you smile.

But there is definitely one thing we can do that is to genuinely try to be happy and to genuinely try to smile because only fools can wait for the right time and the right reason to smile and to be happy. Even the research has proved that if you practice or keep smiling many times in a day you will naturally feel happy and positive, though it is not natural, what we usually do is we smile when we are happy or very peaceful. But if you want to be happy and peaceful keep smiling, this is what the research says.

So, don’t wait for the right situation or the right time to smile, keep smiling and things will turn out to be right.

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Top 10 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Meditation

Living a modern life style and running along with time there are two valuable things that we have lost one peace of mind and the other happiness. To get back to the normal state and pace and to strike a balance in our life we need meditation. Since ages people in various parts of the world have been practicing meditation to lead a peaceful and smooth life.

Scientists have undertaken research activities to know the benefits of meditation and they have come up with very positive and useful benefits, which are proven as per science. Let us throw some light on those benefits.

1) Those people who mediate are happier and have positive attitude towards life.

2) Practicing meditation decreases anxiety, stress and depression.

3) People who meditate have more self control, as it leads to self introspection and helps one to regulate one’s emotions.

4) People who mediate will have good relations both within the family and socially. Because they find a common connective factor with others and naturally sense of compassion grows in them.

5) People who meditate have better body immune system and experience and decrease in physical pain.

6) Those people who meditate are more attentive and there has been change in their brain functioning for the better.

7) Those who meditate can focus better and their ability in multitasking also increases.

8) People who meditate have been found to have good memory and are more creative.

9) Those people who meditate are wiser.

10) Those people who meditate are more realistic in their approach to life and exercise great degree of control over their life.

What more reasons do you need to start meditating? Go ahead meditate and change the image of your life.

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Top 5 Qualities that Makes a Genius

There have been many point of views about being genius. Some think people are born genius, and many other feel that one can with effort become a genius. Keeping these point of views aside, there are certain qualities and thinking patterns that genius people follow.

And if any common man focuses or shifts his attention to these qualities and works out on improving those qualities and aspects even they can become genius. Let us have a look at them.

1. Genius people have good observation skills they are expert observers and apply the lessons they learn form one situation to another.

2. Genius people go deep or into the root of the problem and ask themselves right kind of questions that lead them to solutions.

3. Genius people don’t stick to routine and same thinking, they think and analyze from various point of views.

4. Genius people live in the very present and in the very moment. They focus all their energies and attention in the present moment and in what they are doing.

5. Genius people never hesitate to have kind of thinking pattern that ordinary people consider crazy or just impossible.

So, these are the factors that make genius a genius and if we intend to become so, we have to focus on improving those qualities and aspects. Go ahead and give it a try.

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Some Myths and Realities about our Outlook towards Life

By our own real life experiences and by hearing from those of others. We come to some conclusions that life is like this, things are like this people are like this. But the actual facts that are proven by science are very different from what we assume as true. Knowing these facts will help us move in a positive direction ad progress in life. Let us throw some light on those facts.

1. Many of us feel that life is tough and a hard path to take, but in reality life has more positive events in store for us than the negative ones. But why it does not manifest so is because our brain most of the time tends to focus on negativity rather than positive events. So we need to see the other side the positive side to prosper.

2. We think that if we need to be successful we need to be serious about the thing, but in reality the more relaxed and sportive attitude you have towards life, the more you will be successful.

3. We believe that remembering our weaknesses and minuses will help us to grow. But in fact if we ponder over a long time on our negatives they will pull us down. Instead we should try to accept them as a part and go in increasing or building our positive traits.

4. It is another illusion that to succeed in this modern and competitive age we need to think about ourselves. On the contrary the more we develop understanding and compassion the more we prosper in our ways. The more we give to others the more we get.

5. To be more productive we think we need to devote each and every minute of our time to work, but the reality is that the more time you give yourself to relax and recharge the better you will be able to perform.

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10 Best Ways to Live a Full Life

Every human born on this earth wants to live a full and complete life, he wants to be happy and at peace. But rarely there are few people who live a life like that. Most of the time most of the people experience grief and pain, we think other people and circumstances are responsible for our fate and our life.

We find it easy to give up our life’s reins to someone else and accept life as it is. But we find it hard to take life our own life into our own hands and mould it the way we want it.

The day, we start taking this responsibility of our self on our self our life will take a turn for betterment. Let us study some of the ways that will help us lead a full and complete life.

1. Life is a present to those learn to live in the ‘Present’. Because the two things past and future are out of your hands and it is only in the present that you can lead a happy and peaceful life and give shape to a better tomorrow if it exists.

2. Accepting life as it is, the people, circumstances everything about your life. This does not mean that you should not try to change for better, accept the present as it is and then instead of resisting and regretting try to correct yourself and change yourself.

3. No human in this world is perfect everyone has a weakness and a strength. So stop blaming yourself and accept yourself as you are with all your plus and minus points and then try to overcome them and correct them.

4. Don’t confine yourself to the routine road try and explore unknown ways and be sportive and adventurous. Stop living and thinking like a preprogrammed machine, doing the same things, living life the same way.

5. Most of the people spend life criticizing others and blaming others for each and every thing. But when the same people leave or depart from them they realize, may be they were not that bad maybe I should have behaved better with them, shown love to them. So, lead life with this understanding each and every moment.

6. Find out the prime reason or purpose of life because that is what makes your life, life in a real sense.

7. Many people fail in life because they cannot strike a balance in life, balancing of emotions, exercising self control and will. All these things help you in leading a balanced life which in turn leads to a full life.

8. Practice giving and sharing. Sharing your skills and knowledge giving your time, or services or money to someone in need.

9. Focus your energies on the positive aspects of life. Think, read, hear and do good positive and good things.

10. Whole of the life we spend listening to others, make it a habit to listen to the whispers of your heart and soul and try to follow them, only then your life will be ‘full’ and complete.

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Way to Ever Lasting Happiness

If there is one thing that the entire humanity would agree on it would be that every human born in this earth has only one desire and that is to be happy always and to lead a happy life. Many people run after material things and persons thinking that happiness lies there in those things or with those persons.

But all these things, persons, or situations give temporary happiness, happy only for that moment when we achieve or have those things or persons with us. The moment they depart from us we become unhappy again, our happiness becomes conditional. Conditioned by persons, things, and places.

Well, in such a case is it ever possible to be happy always, under all circumstances, where ever we are and however we are. Yes, if we take a step towards materiality to spirituality. Because this is where we know our real self, coming out of this false I and mine. And when this happens we find that what we think as I does not exist and all that exists is one consciousness.

If you think, oh! This is not possible this is some high level stuff, not for us; even then there is another way. That is to live a life where in you don’t expect anything from anyone, yes because only when you expect anything from anyone will you be disappointed or unhappy. Another way is to cut down on desires, the less desires you have the more peaceful and happy life you will lead.

But the most and the easiest way to lead a happy life is to treat others as you wish to be treated and to show love towards all life, not limiting your love only to humans. Because this is the real way to everlasting happiness.

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