Meditation is a process in which a person trains his mind to focus on a particular thing or work and prevent it from being distracted by other things in life. Meditation has been scientifically proven to provide various advantages both physically and physiologically.

I personally have been practising meditation for a few months and I can evidently see positive changes in my overall personality. I am listing down a few benefits of meditation:

● Meditation helps you to be more focussed in real life. It brings clarity in your thoughts and helps you to make better decisions in your life. It also keeps you away from all the distractions and helps you to stay motivated towards achieving your goal and be successful. You become more productive in your work due to meditation

● Meditation is powerful in eliminating the stress in your life if practised regularly. It trains your mind to deal with stress efficiently. Your body releases neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins during meditation. These are known to have a calming effect on your mind and body and provide happiness.

● Meditation makes you a confident person. It makes you believe in yourself and increases your self- esteem to make correct choices in your life. It teaches you to control your mind and use it in a way that is the most beneficial for you both professionally and personally.

● Meditation makes you mentally alert. It teaches you the necessary skills to tackle the problems of your life. It makes you smarter and increases your understanding of different things.

● Meditation makes you optimistic in life. You start thinking and focussing on the positivity and neglect the negativity surrounding you. You start feeling happy in your life.

● Meditation is a great way to get away from stress and also it is known to make you cheerful. Because of this, you are able to build stronger and healthier relationships with your family and friends, as you are able to communicate with them properly and be less angry or frustrated.

● Meditation can help you to sleep better. This, in turn, affects your overall health positively as getting good sleep has numerous benefits. It can improve your immune system, protect you from different types of diseases and relax your mind and body.

● Meditation can prove to be very useful in boosting your immunity power. It also lowers the blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart attack, kidney failure or any heart related diseases.

● Meditation makes you brave and fearless. It calms you and makes you strong from within. It gives you the required confidence to face any difficult situation in your life without anyone’s help.

● You get a glowing and a beautiful looking skin once you start practising meditation regularly. This is due to the release of good hormones in your body, reduced levels of stress in your life and your positive approach for life.

So, whenever you are feeling lost in your own busy world and want a break from your chaotic life. Just try to take out some time from your daily regimen and refresh yourself by meditating. Once you are done with it, you will feel energized from within and more joyful.

If you ask me, what I do for a fit and healthy body. Then I would say, I go for running on alternate days, do yoga and eat a balanced diet. Running makes me feel lively and happy. It brings a change in my mood and makes me feel energetic.

We have been hearing about the benefits of running as a great form of exercise. Running is not only good for athletes but it is also good for us, as it offers innumerable benefits both mentally and physically.

● Running helps you to lose your weight. If you run for some time daily you can burn your calories efficiently, as it involves the movement of the entire body. It also enhances your metabolism. But along with running, you also need to look after your diet, if are serious about losing your weight.

● Running is good for your heart. It reduces the risk of many heart-related diseases. It improves your blood flow to heart, reduces blood pressure and the amount of bad cholesterol in your blood.

● Running is an effective way to get stronger bones. It improves the density of the bones of your spine, legs and pelvis and strengthens your muscles as well. Healthy and strong bones help to reduce the possibility of osteoporosis.

● Running is a very cheap and more convenient form of exercise. You neither need to buy any equipment for it nor do you need to find a special place to run. You can go out for running at any place wherever and whoever you want and that too for free!

● You feel more energized and pumped up due to running. Running stimulates the release of the hormones endorphins and dopamine in the body. These hormones are known to reduce your stress and make you feel happy. Since running involves the movement of leg and core muscles, it improves your balance and firmness. It also boosts your stamina and speed.

● Running helps to relieve stress. It helps to uplift your mood. You will see the changes in your thought process once you finish running. You think more clearly and are able to make better life decisions. You are able to eliminate the negativity around you due to running and become cheerful.

● Running boosts your confidence as you feel fit and healthy. You can see positive changes in your body and skin and also on your physiological health. You feel like a better and stronger person.

Along with being beneficial for the good health of your heart, running also helps to protect you from fever, allergies, decrease the possibility of diabetes and helps to fight depression and stress. It improves your immune system and the health of your brain as well. 

It is that form of exercise which doesn’t require many skills. It gives you fun and makes you joyful from within. Once, you get used to it, you will never stop loving it. So, to remain fit and healthy, just wear some comfortable clothes and get a pair of running shoes and start running along with your friends or alone. Either way, you will become happy and hearty.

Gardening is something which I loved to do as a child and still I do it during my free time. The reason behind my love for gardening is my grandma. She taught me how to do it and we have a beautiful garden in front of our home and all my family members take care of it. We love to eat the fresh and tasty veggies and fruits of our garden.

I feel gardening is one of the productive hobbies. It offers various mental and physical benefits. This activity can be enjoyed and performed by people of all ages. It is a fun-filled activity and you can enjoy to the fullest while doing it.

I am mentioning below a few advantages that all of us can get from gardening.

● Gardening helps to connect you with your family when you involve them in the process. You can learn from them and can also teach them many new as well as old techniques involved in gardening. It gives you the time to interact with them and create some good memories.

● Gardening refreshes your mind, uplifts your mood and also gives you a relief from stress or tension. It will make you happy and distract your mind from your busy and hectic life and fill your thoughts with positivity.

● Gardening can prove to be a good exercise, since there are processes involved in it which require physical work such as tilling, spading, trimming, raking, weeding. Such activities help to burn your calories. It is thus a good workout for your overall body.

● Gardening makes you more responsible. You feel a sense of accomplishment once you see fresh fruits and different vegetables growing in your garden. It makes you feel proud and cheerful. You get motivated by seeing your produce.

● Gardening makes you more joyful. This is because you get a chance to stay close to greenery and breathe fresh air. It brings an interest in your everyday routine. Spending time with nature definitely makes you happier from within.

● You become more healthy when you do gardening. This happens due to the consumption of fresh produce in your garden. The healthy and slightly processed fruits and vegetables that you grow are very fresh and free from pesticides and chemicals.

● Gardening can help to improve your immune system. While gardening, you have to work in sunlight which exposes you to vitamin D. This vitamin has many benefits for your health. It increases your calcium level which boosts immunity and makes your bones stronger.

Thus, we can say that we get many gains from gardening. So, whenever you want a break from your daily regimen and want to have fun by being close to plants and greenery, then you should definitely give gardening a try. You will surely not regret it and also become happy.

Involve your friends and family members in this enjoyable activity and have a great time. This is such an activity that does not have any side effects and gives you immense pleasure from within.

Who doesn’t like to live in a clean and neat home? We all regularly clean our house to keep it free from the dirt. We keep ourselves clean and follow good hygiene practices as well.

Just like we think about cleaning our home and body, the same way we should think of cleaning our environment. This is equally important because keeping cleanliness around you has many benefits.
Here are some benefits of cleaning:

● Cleaning is a great stress buster. Transforming a dirty place to a cleaner one can change your mood and also give you relief from your tension or stress. Once you have finished cleaning, you feel better, happy and relaxed.

● Living in clean surroundings can keep you away from different types of diseases and infections. This is because, cleaning kills majority of the bacteria, germs, viruses residing in the environment which are the main reason for spreading various kinds of illnesses. Personal hygiene is equally important to protect yourself from diseases.

● When you work in a cleaner environment, you become more productive. You can be more focussed towards your work and come up with new and innovative ideas for your work while sitting in a cleaner room. If your room is cluttered and messy, you can’t concentrate on your job properly.

● Residing in a clean place can make your thoughts positive and keep you away from the negativity. Clearing the dirt around you also cleans all the dirty ideas in your mind and helps you to have a positive approach for life.

● Cleaning can also prove to be good exercise. There is a lot of physical work involved in cleaning that can help you to burn your calories, as it involves the use of the entire body for removing the dirt from different places.

● Living in a clean and tidy place will calm your body and soul. You feel like living and resting in that place and relax for some time. It will give you a break from your busy life and also take you away from the chaotic world.

● If you keep your surroundings and home clean, you can reduce the workload of the cleaners and servants. You can help them by making their work easier. Keeping your city or state clean can affect tourism and employment positively.

● When you live in a tidy and organized home, you know where your things are kept. You can find them quickly and without getting tensed whenever you want them urgently. This helps to save your time.

Hence we can conclude that cleanliness has got many advantages. You get various physical, economical and mental benefits from it. Practising cleanliness around you will not only benefit you but also the surrounding people. It is a habit that has no side effects.

So, all of us should keep our home, city, state, country and the entire world clean and tidy. We shall contribute in our own way to maintain cleanliness. Our small contribution can be beneficial for all.

Nobody likes to fail in their life in any task or work. Everyone likes the taste of success. Success gives you pride, popularity, money, and happiness. But it is not possible to be successful every time in your life.

Sometimes, you fail in your work. Failure is not liked by anyone. It makes you feel that you are not worthy enough of anything. It makes you weak emotionally. But there are many things that can be learnt from failure. I have listed down a few below:

● Failure motivates us to keep trying and not losing hope until we achieve our goal. It teaches us the importance of hard work. It teaches us to not take things for granted and become more serious about our work.

● Failure helps to boost our imagination skills and makes us innovative in life. Because when you fail in your work once, you try to attempt so many different and new ways and create your own methods to gain success in your work. In this process, your mind works in a way to keep improving your thought process.

● Failure gives you some valuable life lessons. It shows you, who is with you during your tough times because people always stand by you when you are successful. But they do not always support you in your failure. Failure thus displays the real side of your dear ones.

● When you fail in a particular task, you do feel bad about it. No one likes to lose and you are always scared to accept your defeat. But, failure will mentor you to face your fear of not winning a task. Once you face it, you become familiar with it and this removes the fear of losing out from your mind. It boosts your confidence and you take more efforts to win your task.

●  When you don’t succeed in your work, you feel depressed. But, you also start finding out ways to get out of your depression. You begin to work on yourself. You train yourself to focus on all the good and positive things and stay away from the negativity. Failure thus helps you to become emotionally strong.

●  Everyone has failed in some or the other phases of their life. Failure teaches you to be inspired by others. It teaches you to be happy with your struggle rather than success. It teaches you to learn from other’s life struggles and get inspired from them, how they faced failure in their work and overcame it successfully.

● Failure helps you to experience more. You get a better and deep understanding of your work and how things work. Through this experience, you bring some changes in your strategies and develop new ones to become successful.

So, whenever you feel low or insulted because of failure and want to give up on your work. Just remember, that everything in this world has a positive side too and teaches us a lot, so never miss an opportunity to learn from it.

Likewise, failure can also be a good tutor and you can become a better person once you start accepting it. Learn to never give up on things easily, keep trying for it and also accept your defeat with gratitude.

Drawing is one of my favourite pastimes. I have loved drawing since I was a child and it still remains my favourite thing to do whenever I am bored and want to be entertained.

Drawing is actually not that easy as it looks. It involves immense efforts of an artist to bring a picture to perfection. But, if we exclude all the difficulties involved in the process of drawing, then it can be a real pleasure. It offers various benefits.

● Drawing improves your creativity skills. This is because you think of different ideas and ways to make your drawing more attractive and effective. It is a kind of exercise to your brain, wherein your mind is stimulated to think of innovative ways to present your thoughts artistically.

● Drawing is a great way to show your concepts to the world in your way. It gives a chance to show your talent to others and impress them with your innovative skills. You get to show your perspective of life through your art.

● Drawing is real entertainment. You just enjoy yourself thoroughly while doing this activity. You get to play with different types of colours. You just focus on completing your artwork without worrying about anybody’s opinions or judgements.

● Drawing can be an inspiration for people. You can use your art to spread a significant social message and motivate others to get involved in it as well. Your drawing can help to bring a change in people’s attitude and way of thinking.

● Drawing is a great way to preserve the culture and tradition of a country or religion. Through drawing, an artist can conserve the heritage and show it to the future generations and the entire world.

● Drawing can bring you closer to your family and friends. When you involve them while painting, you get a chance to have fun with them, create some good memories and connect with them.
 
● Drawing is also an alternative career option. If you know this art really well and love to do it truly then you can consider making it a source of income. You can become a drawing teacher at educational institutions, take online classes or conduct art exhibitions.

● Drawing proves to be helpful to improve your motor skills. The way you hold your painting brush or a pencil or other colours is a good exercise for the muscles of your fingers and hands.

● Through drawing you can express your ideas. You can paint out all your emotions on a paper and get relief from stress. Drawing makes you optimistic and keeps you away from all the negativity happening around you.

● Drawing helps to improve your concentration and makes you more focussed in real life. While drawing, you get so involved in your work that nothing seems to be more important to you. You simply keep focussing on each and every minute detail of your artwork to make it perfect.

So, whenever you are running out of ideas to entertain you when you are exhausted and want to have fun then, drawing can be a considerable option. Along with entertaining you, it also will benefit you in numerous ways. All you need to have is just a piece of paper and some colours and a pencil. Just grab all these things and get started with your artwork.

I never actually liked to cook for me and my family. Cooking is something which I always found to be very complicated and difficult. I felt that it was not my cup of tea. But, the lockdown that was implemented due to COVID-19 inspired and gave me the time to learn cooking. I feel that this lockdown is responsible for bringing out the cook in each and every one of us.

Cooking doesn’t only serve the purpose of feeding people. But, it also has many benefits. Today, I am going to discuss with you a few of them.

◆ Cooking makes you creative. When you like cooking, you always feel like preparing new dishes every day. In this process, you experiment with innovative recipes. This helps to boost your imagination and creativity skills.

◆ Cooking helps to relieve your stress. While cooking you get involved in the dish so much that you completely focus on it, thus forgetting your tension or stress. It thus brings positivity in your thoughts and keeps you away from the pessimism.

◆ Cooking keeps you fit and healthy. If you cook for yourself, you know better what is good for you and your health and you cook accordingly. You choose your ingredients wisely and avoid junk food, thus becoming more fit.

◆ Cooking brings you close to your family as through cooking, you can express your love towards them. It is a way of showing your support and care. When your family helps you in cooking, you create some good memories with them and you communicate well with them.

◆ When you get your recipe tasted by someone and receive appreciation for it, you feel very happy. You feel like you have accomplished something and this sense of achievement makes you proud. It also makes you more confident and focussed in life.

◆Cooking teaches you to be patient and the importance of hard work. To prepare a good dish you need to be calm until it gets cooked perfectly. You can’t just add all the ingredients at once. Also, you might not be able to prepare the perfect recipe in the first attempt. You have to keep trying until you get success.

◆ Food cooked in restaurants is quite tasty and buying such food saves your time. But, it is expensive as compared to home-cooked food. Cooking on your own can save a lot of your money.

◆ Cooking can be a great profession. If you can cook well you can become a chef or start up your own business of home cooking or own a restaurant. You can take classes for cooking both virtually and physically.

Thus, we can conclude that cooking has many physical and mental benefits. It is a productive hobby which does not have any side effects. It can take you away from the stress of your daily routine and make you feel cheerful.

Hence, you shall try to take out some time from your daily regimen and try to cook something for yourself and your family. This will just change your mood and make you feel much better.

Writing is my favourite pastime. I have a habit of writing daily. It is that time of the day which I like the most. This is because I get a chance during this time to write down what is going in my mind freely without any interference.

As time is progressing, people are forgetting the traditional art of writing which involves a paper and a pen and are shifting towards digital writing which is achieved by means of some kind of device. But this form of writing can never replace the conventional method.

There are many benefits that you can get from writing, such as:

● You can express the thoughts that are hurting you emotionally through writing in a better way. You might not feel comfortable to speak to someone about your stress, but writing it down could be an effective way to get rid of it. Once, you finish writing you feel free from tension.

● Writing definitely improves your writing skills. But, along with that, it also boosts your imagination and creativity skills, as you think of new ways to present your ideas on a paper. Your vocabulary improves as you learn new words while writing.

● You can relive any moment of your life at any time if you have a habit of writing about your daily routine. You make many memories in your lifetime and can live them whenever you want to simply by turning back the pages and reading about your old memories.

● Writing brings clarity to your ideas. It helps you to communicate effectively. Your thought process becomes more clear and direct due to writing. This helps you to make better life decisions.

● Writing teaches you to be more determined and confident in your life. While writing, you get involved in a completely different world wherein you are the boss of your thoughts. You just focus on your writing and are least affected by other people or what’s happening around you.

● You feel so calm and peaceful once you finish writing. This is because you get a sense of accomplishment after writing and you are able to completely drain out all your thoughts onto a paper.

● Writing is a great exercise for your brain. It is the easiest workout through which brain cells are stimulated to think creatively. It also proves very useful to enhance your memory.

● Writing can also be a good career option. If you can present your ideas in a proper format and be innovative with them then you can become a successful writer, poet or author. This can be a good job since you are getting paid and gaining recognition by doing what you like the most i.e. writing.

Thus, writing has many advantages to offer. Even if you don’t actually like to write, then too you should try to take some time from your daily routine and invest it in writing. This will gradually evolve the interest for writing in you and you will start liking it.

So whenever, you are tired of using the digital devices and thinking of doing something new without any investment. The best thing that could be done is to take a piece of paper and a pen or pencil and start writing. Just keep writing without any fear of being judged by anyone.

Being a green panther, I feel that nature can heal all your pains and so I am always in search of a place that is the closest to nature. Living in close proximity to nature offers so many advantages.

Whenever you are feeling like doing nothing and frustrated about your life or you don’t feel like meeting anyone virtually or physically, then the first thing you should do is to get out of your home and spend some time in nature.

Just plan for a picnic with your family or friends to a park or a beach or mountain side or let the nature lover in you take a solo trip to the forest and see the changes that happen in your behaviour. You instantly feel so joyful and calm. The time that you spend at these places will restore back your interest in life.

● Nature teaches you so many things:
Every element of nature is our teacher in some or the other way. We can learn from the river to keep going ahead in life and find our own way during tough times. The tree teaches us to be of giving nature without expecting much from others. The sun teaches us to be polite and stay down to earth even when you are the most powerful. We get to learn from the moon to remain peaceful during hard times in our life.

● Nature inspires us:
Nature motivates us in our lives and encourages us to have a positive outlook for life. Nature heals on its own without any human help. Likewise, it teaches us to be strong in every situation and try again even if you fail once in your work. It boosts your confidence and belief.

● Nature surprises you every time:
Spending time on a beach, trekking on a mountain or walking through a forest will mesmerize you with its beauty. Everything included in nature is so beautiful and attractive. The gorgeousness of nature just blows your mind and surprises your every moment with its charm.

● Nature heals you :
Whenever you are unhappy about something, spending time in nature will definitely improve your mood. It will relieve your stress and sorrows. By looking at the colourful and beautiful nature, you feel so relaxed and become happy. It calms your mind and makes you feel refreshed.

● Nature revitalizes you:
When you get bored and tired of your daily routine, spending some time in nature always proves to be beneficial. Nature helps to boost your imagination and creativity skills. It brings back your lost energy and enthusiasm.

● Nature never leaves you alone:
Whenever you feel betrayed in life and disappointed about people’s behaviour, then the best thing to do is get in the arms of mother nature. Nature always accepts you and nurtures you. It acts as a teacher and also helps you as a friend by providing many valuable resources.

Mother nature has always helped humans since ancient times. We get many physical and mental benefits by staying close to nature. Despite the innumerable gains that we get from it, humans behave ruthlessly with it by causing its destruction. We are already facing difficulties due to the imbalances that we have created in nature. But, it is our responsibility to preserve everything related to nature and live with it happily.

I consider music as my best partner. It has always been and will continue to be my first preference to do whenever I feel low. Music has many benefits for your psychological health.

While working out in the gym you put some good loud music to keep you going, be it a birthday party, wedding or any other occasion, music is played to make you dance and express your happiness. When you are alone, music accompanies you and enlightens your spirit. People listen to music while driving because it makes them more focussed and energized.

Music is played at several places for different reasons. Whatever the reason might be, one thing that should not be missed is the several gains that we get by listening to music. I have listed down a few:

◆ Listening to music can help to relieve stress. Music helps to reduce the level of stress hormones released in the body. It stimulates the release of dopamine hormone also called as the ‘happy hormone.’ This hormone uplifts your mood and keeps you away from depression. It makes you feel happy about yourself.

◆ Listening to music while you are sad will make you feel better and cheerful. Music instantly enlightens your mood and helps to forget your pain. It effortlessly refreshes your mind.

◆ Music never leaves you alone. It accompanies you like a real friend. When you hear some kind of music, you get completely involved in it. The world of music makes you forget about all the negativity and fills your mind with positive thoughts.

◆ Music motivates us. Any kind of music will help to boost your confidence and give you the motivation to do your work sincerely and wholeheartedly. There is something in music that makes you believe in yourself and stops you from giving up on things.

◆ Music heals you. It makes you feel calm and soothes your mind. It reduces your anxiety. It is because of this reason that music therapy has been widely used to relax the patients undergoing treatment or chemotherapy in the hospitals and to reduce their chronic pain.

◆ Music can help you to get a peaceful and good sleep. This is because music relaxes your mind as well as body. It also decreases your tension and keeps you away from all the disturbing thoughts that prevent you from sleeping well.

◆ Music entertains you. It is the best and easiest way to remain amused. Whenever you listen to good music, you feel so better. You feel like dancing to the music or get involved in it so deeply that you enjoy to the fullest. That is why songs and different types of music are played during celebrations to enhance the excitement and joy of people.

Music has got innumerable benefits. We just listen to it but never realize that it could be so useful for our overall health. Hence, whenever you feel depressed, just put on some good music and get involved it and let other people to get involved in it as well.