• Diet and Nutrition

A healthy diet is the most fundamental thing for maintaining your mental health. Considering that our brain and body function due to the food we ingest, metabolize, and reallocate within ourselves, it makes perfect sense that what we eat also must influence our biochemistry, which is a substantial part of mental health. Well, that doesn’t justify gorging on greasy pizzas because it’s your ‘comfort food’. However, let’s rumble things up in the kitchen. For that continuous, bovine like chewing habits, have dry fruits, oranges, strawberries, grapes and kiwis. Those greens like kale and spinach that makes a retching build up in your gut is rich in Vitamin B6, vital for converting tryptophan into serotonin, a neurotransmitter that plays a primary role in mood, learning, appetite and impulse control. Another way of amping your diet is up is adding a fash of quinoa to that Gram-worthy bowl of salad, as studies have found a flavonoid in quinoa has a significant anti-depressant effect. And probably, indulge in some really tantalizing Dark Chocolate delight for dessert.

• Exercise

‘Exercising and staying fit’ is the most common New Year’s resolution. Surely, how the events that have unfolded were quite unprecedented and there’s much energy spent in gasping at a new development every single day, however maintaining your inner peace and sanity during these tumultuous times is vital. Regular exercise can have a profoundly positive impact on depression, anxiety, ADHD, and more. It also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better, and boosts your overall mood. Exercising also increases the lungs’ vital capacity and releases endorphins, which keeps your mood great and people wonder if it’s humanly possible to stay chipper without the morning cup of coffee.

• Sleep

The relationship between sleep and mood is complex, because disrupted sleep can lead to emotional changes, clinical depression or anxiety (as well as other psychiatric conditions), but these conditions can also compound or further disrupt sleep. In fact, altered sleep patterns are a hallmark of many mental health issues. If you find yourself sleeping too little or too much on a regular basis, it’s important to bring this up with your doctor so the two of you can look at your total physical and mental health picture and decide if further tests or a treatment plan is necessary. Sleep deprivation can leave you feeling irritable and exhausted in the short-term, but it can also have serious long-term health consequences including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and depression. And someday those healthy sleep habits would would be a golden ticket to Spain’s Siesta Championship.

Speaking biologically, our brain contains cerebrum, cerebellum, and the mid brain. But technically speaking then we have two brains conscious and subconscious. Conscious mind plays its role when we are sober and sane. Yes the part of the day when we are awake is done by the conscious mind and rest other part is in the hands of subconscious mind. And let me tell you conscious mind plays only 5% of its part rest part is handled by the subconscious mind ie., 95%. The dreams we see are a part of our subconscious mind, Because consciously we are living the life. Imagination, Visulaization are all the parts of our subconscious mind. You know how saints in ancient times would have survived in the freezing temperature you wouldn’t even imagine going into. These saints have the power of their subconscious minds which literally gives them the strength to survive. We don’t know how powerful our subconscious mind is! In an incident it was found that a mother has tilted a car to save his child before he could run into the accident no wonder how she could perform such activity It is the matter of fact that subconsciously our mind knows many things but it doesn’t allow us to do it consciously. We need to over power our subconscious mind so that we can run our life as we wished.

Our brain gives us both negative and positive vibes, it is we who has to listen to the one. No matter you thinks negatively, and as myself being a pessimist has to suffers. Why people are pessimistic is because they over analyse the situation and thinks practically, and being negative atleast dont let them feel pathetic. We will be satisfied with the end result because if something good happens inspite of thinking it way negatively then it’s a win win situation don’t you think. Ok I think I made this para a bit complicated. Lets analyse it in a simpler way. Take it as exams preparation and then results, optimists will always have positive vibes around them and they will always think to get good scores lets say 95 out of 100 and when they get less than 95 then this is a disappointment for them but its other way round in terms of pessimists, because they will think the minimum score or the average and if they succeed to get to the average score then they are satisfied with that and achieved more than average then again it’s a win win situation for them. This is how a pessimist thinks atleast this is what the case is with me.

Being negative is not always our fault. We may have fallen in such situations that only gave us negative vibes and we ended up being negative. But the case is that nature always listens to our mind and the thing we actually are thinking it will take it as it is!! So, when you think negatively then its obvious for the nature to take it negative and return to you in more negative way. And there we get our life complexed. And in other hand when you are full of positivity and positive thoughts then nature will take it as it is and it returns to you in more positive manner. This is how life treats us, give them more positive vibes it will doubles the positivity around you and vice versa.

Be positive! ; )

Patna (Pataliputra), the capital of Bihar state, is a historic city located at the confluence of three rivers, the Ganga, the Gandak, and the Sone. The Ganga flows all along its northern boundary. The area in the south is generally low-lying and as such is prone to floods from the rivers Punpun and Sone. The city has a mean elevation of 173 feet (53 m) above sea level and is situated at 28°37′ north latitude and 85°10′ east longitude. It has been a center of learning, religion, and art since time immemorial. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are deeply connected to this city. It is one of the longest and the narrowest among the largest cities of the country, with a population of over a million and a half spread over an area of about 30 square miles (77.7 sq. km).

The ancient city of Pataliputra was a mere village—Pataligram—in the time of the Buddha in the sixth century b.c. However, Ajatasatru realized its great strategic value for the growing kingdom of Magadha, facing the rival Licchavis republic of Vaisali on the northern bank (other side) of the Ganga, and erected a military outpost there. The natural advantage of the site made it commercially important and also helped its growth. The Magadhan king Udai transferred his capital from Rajgriha to Pataliputra. It remained the imperial capital under the Nandas, the Mauryas, and the Guptas. It was a prosperous and populous city when Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya, visited it twice.

Pataliputra acquired the status of a capital city during the reign of Emperor Ashoka (ruled c. 268–231 b.c.). However, it later faced Indo-Greek invasion, and the city was sacked in a.d. 185. But its glory again revived under the Guptas. Fahsien, the Chinese pilgrim who studied there for three years during the reign of Chandragupta I in the early fifth century a.d., not only considered it a famous center of learning but also the most beautiful and largest city of the world. The city again suffered destruction, and when Hsieun Tsang visited the city in a.d. 637, it had become desolate and deserted.

Pataliputra emerged from its political obscurity when Sher Shah, the great Pathan ruler, built a fort there in 1541, transferred the provincial capital from Bihar Sharif, and gave it the new name of Patna. It became an important commercial center during the seventeenth century. Mughal emperors further extended the city in 1704. Prince Azimusshan, the grandson of Aurangzeb, the new governor (subedar) of Bihar, renamed Patna as Azimabad. With the coming of the Europeans, the city had expanded beyond its fortified walls and became famous in Southeast Asia as a source of sugar and salt-peter. The importance of Patna was further enhanced when it was made the capital of the newly created province of Bihar in 1912. It also contributed significantly to India’s freedom struggle against British imperial rule. More recently, Jaya Prakash ( J. P) Narayan launched his “Total Revolution” against corruption from Patna in 1974.

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Everyone is aware about how greenery contributes in the betterment of the environment by decreasing pollution. But it is not just limited to that.

When human body is surrounded with greenery, it improvises many functions.

• Recovery Booster

Ever wondered why do we give flowers to a sick person admitted in the hospital?
It is because plants help us feel calm.
That is why most of the hospitals are surrounded with trees to increase the patient’s recovery.

• Stress reducer

Places with a lot of plants and trees help reduce mental stress and increases your energy. If you ever feel sad or depressed head out and take a walk in the garden, maybe barefoot, and you’ll notice that your mood got a lot better than it was before. Also, it has no side effects.

• Soothing to the eyes

Whenever you feel a sense of stress due to looking at a screen for a long time, look at the trees outside your window. The greenery is soothing to the eyes and helps to relax the eye muscle. It is also because the trees are at a distance from the viewer that helps to focus on the target.

• Increase in lifespan

As the green spaces reduce problems like stress, depression and anxiety, which are often the reasons which lead to heart stroke or cardiac arrest.
Thereby increasing the lifespan of an individual and staying healthy.

• Healthy sleep

When you go out for camping or to a village, a place surrounded by trees, you start to feel sleepy before midnight instead of staying up late. It is due to the effect of nature and unavailability of artificial lights that results in better sleep making you feel fresh when you wake up in the morning.

• Increased focus on work

When we work in a place surrounded with greenery you will observe that your focus on your work increases. It is because our involuntary attention gets engaged in seeing, hearing and smelling without utilising huge brain power. Hence, the voluntary attention is focused on the work without much effort.

• Forest Bathing

There is a Japanese therepy called Forest Bathing where people can jog, meditate, etc., in a forest.
As forests are filled with trees all our five senses are relaxed. The sound of the birds and the leaves of the trees rustling against each other, the fragrance of the forest, the greenery that soothes the eyesight and the warmness of the sunlight peaking through the branched and falling in our skin. Breathing in the clean and fresh air along with the forest fragrance is called aromatherapy of phytoncides. 
All of these things together activate the sixth sense that is the state of mind. You will feel happy, calm and relaxed. Along with all these things you can also do activities like yoga, jogging, meditation, breathing exercises, plant observation, etc.

Forest bathing can be done anywhere, the only requirement is trees.

Hence, greenery not only cleanses the environment but it also cleanses your body to some extent.