The way you feel about your life is directly linked to the kind of habits your form. Do you want to change your life? If yes, cultivate these 5 powerful habits immediately and see the amazing change in your life!
1. Be close to nature
Make it a point to go out into nature at least twice in a week. Also, try to look at stars every night for 2 minutes. Try to be by yourself when you are trying to connect with nature. There is a lot of philosophy and research that back the below benefits of being close to the nature:
1. Reduces stress – The benefits of being out in the nature are realized by the way of visual stimuli, smell, sound and feel. It reduces the level of cortisol, heart rate, blood pressure and muscle tension.
2. Puts life into perspective – When you look at nature, you realize how big the world or universe is. There is so much of variety and diversity in the nature. And it puts things in perspective – nothing is new and there is place for everything!
2. Work out often
Benefits of working out regularly cannot be over-stated. However, before we get into the benefits, let me highlight an important point here. Workout is meant for de-stressing and positive impact, so make sure not to make workout to be a dreadful part of your life. Keep it simple, easy, and happy part of the routine.
1. Brings discipline – Working out regularly bring a certain level of discipline in your life. It resolves a lot of commitment issues and makes you less lazy. It also helps you build a routine in your life and having a good routine can be life changing.
2. Lifts your mood – A Harvard research indicates that working our regularly reduces your odds of being depressed. Working out releases’ dopamine (keeps your motivated), norepinephrine (manages fight-or-flight response) and serotonin (responsible for memory, cognition and mood modulation). A cocktail of feel-good hormones is released post as little as 15-20 mins of movement.
3. Improves general health – Exercising improves your heart health, reduces risk of a stroke and increases body’s immunity to fight against infections. Along with these obvious benefits, working out has shown reduction in chronic inflammation with the body. Also, risk of some cancers is greatly reduced. Life expectancy is widely believed to increase with just a few minutes of exercise per day.
3. Meditation
Need for meditation is far more than ever. Our lives have become extremely fast with little time to introspect. The short and engaging content format today has led to a decreased attention span and over-dose of quick dopamine doses. Only a few minutes of meditation everyday can bring some life changing benefits as well as lot of calmness and balance in our lives.
1. Improves mental health – Meditation improves your ability to focus, self-awareness, self-esteem and lowers the level of stress, anxiety, and depression. It brings a flavor of empathy and kindness within you. Meditation also helps fighting additions as well as tolerance for pain in some of the neurological conditions. Meditation also improves sleep disorders which greatly improves quality of life.
2. Improves problem solving – Mediation has been linked to increased creativity and out of the box thinking. A few minutes or meditation each day for a prolonged period of months to years have shown an increased ability to solve problems and propose solutions clearly.
3. Better decision making – Mediation clears your head and naturally bring more structure and clarity to thoughts. It improves your memory and pattern recognition. This clarify of thoughts lead to quick, informed, and better decision making. Increased mental stamina also reduces mental fatigue leading to fewer or no bad decisions.
4. Reading good books
Benefits of reading books are immense. It improves your vocabulary, communication skills, general knowledge and navigating through social relationships. But on top of these, reading good books improves your life as below:
1. Gives new perspective in life – Reading a good book gives you an opportunity to look at things from the perspective of the author. Having new and diverse perspectives on various topics makes you more aware, expands your worldview as well as brings in empathy for others.
2. Life learning condensed into 300 pages – When you read a book, the author condenses his entire life’s work, knowledge, and experience into a single book. An average book is 300 pages long and average reading speed is about 20 pages an hour. This translates into getting someone’s life or decades of knowledge and experience within about 15 hours. Isn’t it powerful? Read and absorb at least 1 book a month, which is roughly 30 minutes of ready per day. Do it, starting TODAY!
3. Transcends you to a new world – A good book is not the only one which gives you knowledge or new perspective. A book that stimulates your senses, makes you imagine or brings a new experience is also a great book and worth reading. Such a book gives you an opportunity to step into a new world altogether and takes you away from your own struggles, pain, and miseries.
5. Learning a new skill
Learning helps to keep your mind healthy and young no matter your age or what you are learning. Research has shown that learning new skills continuously helps in reduce the risk of dementia. A couple of obvious outcomes of learning a new skill are as below:
1. Makes you more employable – When you learn a new skill, you have broader career options and helps in advancing in your career. Also, ability to learn a new skill boosts your confidence and makes you more flexible to changing scenario or change of career (which is more lucrative). Also, upskilling and updating keeps you relevant and ahead of the curve.
2. Gives more power to create – When you learn a new skill, the next logical step is to start applying this skill in your daily life. That ways you master the skill over time. The application of a skill is what brings out the creator in you. If you learn programming, it can lead to creating a new piece of software. If you learn to play a musical instrument, it can lead to creation of a new melody or sound. The possibilities are immense. An creation is the ultimate first step to health and wealth. It is truly life changing and empowering. And you are also one step closer to leaving your mark on earth or impact the entire mankind positively!
Incorporating the above-mentioned habits in your life and cultivating them will lead to an extremely satisfied and happy life.
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