Wondering about the secret to a Healthy Relationship?
Good communication is an integral part of every relationship and is an essential part of every partnership. In times of distress or ups and downs or a conflict, communication can always be helpful towards building a strong relationship.
We often hear a lot about how good communication is. I think it’s high time we look deeper to understand its meaning and value in our relationships and how we can improve our communication with our partners.
The flow of communication not only is about speaking your thoughts but also about listening to your partners thoughts and being empathetic towards it. We need to talk openly and be good listeners. At times it gets difficult for one to communicate effectively. It could be something that is painful or is hurting us but its often the things that we can’t talk about that hurt the most. There are times when certain topics turn into conflicts but one needs to manage them through the right way of communication.
Conflict Management with Communication
Here are some tips:
Try not giving silent treatments
Do not assume things
Don’t judge
Learn to understand each other and not defeat each other
Stick to the important problem
Be respectful towards each others feelings
When you are more aware of the kind of communication you all have it always makes things easier and to have more control over whatever is happening.
Listening and Communication
Listening is one of the major parts of communication. When you listen with utmost interest and empathy, your partner tends to be honest and open.
Here are some tips to effective listening:
Keep comfortable eye contact
sit or stand at the same level
Avoid distractions
Face the person you are listening to
Do not interrupt while they speak
Be aware of your tone
Be interested and show proper attention
Communication Improvements
There are always ways to communicate appropriately and two people need to rightly figure it out. One may need sometime to communicate and express their views. People who need encouragement in speaking their mind out need people who can be good listeners and who’s actions speak louder than words.
Ways of improving your communication:
Building companionship: When you share your thoughts, ideas, experiences and concerns with your partner it binds you all with companionship which is also very important in every relationship.
Sharing Intimacy: Intimacy is not only a sexual concept, Intimacy is built on the basis of feeling attached to your partner or by having moments which make you feel close. Its a feeling of being comfortable and be comforted where two people can be honest and open.
Find a common ground: Try to reach conclusions which are feasible to both of you all whether in parenting style or how finances are distributed.
Ask questions: Ask questions about your partners happiness and what’s causing them the pain or the disappointment. One should also assess the things which lead to conflict and work on it.
In todays world, people find it quite difficult to communicate their thoughts and feelings which leads to several misunderstandings and assumptions and create cracks in relationship. But the most effective way to keep a relationship healthy is to communicate and listen to your significant other with utmost empathy. Communicating could take a while for some people but that’s the best way out through all your relationships.
American children’s author had rightfully said, “Sometimes you never know the value of the moment until it becomes a memory.” Today my article is going to be all about nostalgia and memories. To all the Indian readers out there, this is going to be a double treat because most of my references of incidents are going to be things that happen in every place in India. Today my article is going to be all about the amazing school memories that we have made for years together and something that we are going to cherish all our life.
The unforgettable memories of school years
I am sure several times during the pandemic, when we see children attending online classes we have a flashback about our precious childhood and school years. Though we know that the safety and health of these children come, first we still at some point in time hope that children get to experience every essence of the school years without any virtual things in it. School years play such an important role in an individual’s growth and development. Schools mold and bring the best out of students through various things that are the basis of schooling for every child.
I am sure even if you ask your parents and grandparents about their school years they remember even the tiniest and simplest moments that they had an experience of during their school time. Though our parents have this habit of exaggerating things, often school memories do not require any kind of exaggeration because every day in school was nothing less than an adventure.
It is around the four walls of the school that the best is out from the child. Even when we grow old, we never tend to forget the faculty of the school. This could be teachers, principals, coordinators, or even bus drivers who always make sure that we reach school on time. It is a constant belief that the first most important individuals in a child’s life are parents and then teachers. This is how teachers and schools play such an important role in every individual’s life.
We can never forget our first day of school even when have so many other things to remember as we keep growing older. Our first experience as a student starts through the kindergarten years. You will always remember whether you cried on your first day or not and nobody can take that away from you. We do not anybody, we stand, and we listen to the school prayer for the first time. The experience does not have any measures. I can never forget my first class teacher and I am hoping all the readers are thinking about their first-class teacher too. We make friends who play an important role in this process. We go back home and make sure to tell everything that happened in school to our parents or grandparents without fail.
After our kindergarten years comes our primary school years. These divisions of schooling and learning act as a medium to show children that they are slowly growing and taking small steps to an individual of character and personality outside the four walls of the school. Primary school is where we learn more than just the basics such as colors, rhymes that children learned in the previous division. It is here that children have an introduction to subjects starting very simple and as years go by slowly broadening out. It is here where children get textbooks and class works as two separate books for their subjects. Friends we make during this time will usually be in connection with similarity and sometimes it is these friends that stay with us for many years to come.
After primary school comes to middle school. This is the time when everything changes. Teachers are incredibly strict. We have fights and arguments with our friends; we get into trouble during this time. It is during this time when we start growing. We even part away from our friends who decide to change their schools for high school. I think all the readers have written in slam books and kept slam books. We even saw it being confiscated by our teachers and scold us for keeping one and getting it to school. It was during this time that we wanted to be like our seniors. The competition level in sports and games was higher in the students than in the competition itself.
The final chapter of our school years in high school. Here is where we cherish every moment and try to prepare ourselves that very soon we will come out of the walls of our schools that have been responsible for our growth development. Our graduation is nothing less than a festival for us. We tend to hate things less than we would in the beginning or during our years in school. It is during our high school years that we take part in every single school activity and give our best in every field before we leave the school.
Beautiful moments
In this paragraph, I am going to speak about certain moments we all have come across at some point in our school years.
Lunchboxes are for everybody: It was not just lunchbox sharing but the exchange of boxes with everybody in the class and during that process we would never know where our box went until it came to us out of nowhere back to us. We as children never had a liking for our food but we would go crazy over the food that our friends got with them. Sharing brought us all together. Someone has not got their food or water bottle everyone would be up for sharing their food whether that student was their friend or not
Standing outside the class: Even if you were a good student, you would have still gone outside the classes as a punishment. Our best friend who is always our partner in crime would join us no matter what. It was never a punishment rather a good laughing session until we were in for another punishment again.
Games Period: Every student during their school years thought that this period is their birthright and anyone taking it from them be it teachers or the weather would have serious consequences. I always remember that it was the math teacher who always was waiting to take this period. The sound of the bell was a tragedy rather than a melody once this period was getting over.
Last Bench Blessing: The joy of sitting in the last row cannot be compared to anything on this planet. It was nothing less than a blessing from God if you have to sit there. It was a completely different world there. This blessing was usually given only to tall people. If your teacher believes in equality and asks for bench rotation then short people will know why tall people do not like coming down.
Sneak Eat: When students sneakily eat during class, it fills their stomachs more than their lunchboxes. Eating during class was nothing less than an impossible mission of life and death. A small biscuit, a fruit, etc eating them during the class gave us peace of mind.
Parent-teacher meetings and result day: The most dreadful, scary, and anxious day of every student’s life unless you were a topper in class. All of the things that we do in class come out on this day. Parents and teachers together will take your class on this day with your behavior, situations, and even with your marks. It is a dreadful day but will become a funny day in a few months until the next exam or next parent-teacher meeting
There are many more moments but if I keep writing then this article will never end. Our school years are like a treasure box and the best part is we can open it whenever we want and experience all the joy and happiness.
To conclude, with a beautiful quote where says, “No matter what is going on in your life right now, school memories will always make you happy.”
In relation to society, media plays an important role in the life of human beings. In the contemporary period, media in form of radio videos, television has become a dependable factor for people in order to get information related to national as well as international interests. Media has also become a source for people to stay connected with their family members, friends and colleagues and assist them to keep themselves updated with the ongoing social trends.
Today, under the basic idea of freedom of speech and expression, media has invaded almost all elements of an individual’s life and thus can be considered universal. In India, there are different categories of media such as mass media which is further of various types like cinema, television, radio, magazines, newspaper and many active sites based on internet. At present, the media power has reached upto such great height that a body of government can be formed or shattered, simply by the positive and negative determination of the people.
In the public domain, the Indian media functions as a mediator between the citizens and the government, bringing up problems of serious concern and also acts as an agenda setter. The citizens must be protected by media in the first place in order to preserve the democratic values of the nation. This role is rightly acted by the media socially by aiding governmental programs such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Swach Bharat Abhiyan, water and fuel saving initiatives etc. The media also helps the underprivileged people. The crimes related to women such as violence and gender discrimination and the practice of considering women weaker both physically and mentally prevailing in Indian society has been brought into light by the media. The people of the society are communicated and made aware of various other gruesome crimes via television, effective films, influential radio documentary, drama and animation. The social evils are terminated by bringing about positive change by the government by the help of the media. Therefore, free participation of people is involved in media and it acts as an unbiased mentor, this aids in encouraging the state of being equal in status, opportunities or rights which fortify the democracy. The country is also shaped economically and politically by the media apart from the social change. The media at times derive secret information related to corruption and make is accessible to the public making the life of officials and corrupt bodies of government difficult. In the nation, a great number of people are not aware of the political parties or the political activities. As a result of which many do not vote or vote in darkness. The media helps in making the public aware of the clear picture of the political parties, leaders and their agenda. Therefore, it plays a significant role in the turnout of a voter which is beneficial for the democracy’s strengthening. The media contributes greatly by providing accountability, publicity and transparency.
The current role of the media in the system of Parliament is a matter of debate along with criticism for ignoring its responsibilities towards the society. Certain practices of the media commercially has affected the Indian democracy recently. In the Indian market, truth and the quality or state of being correct is almost lost at the expense of interest of the world in media. In the recent years, the media somewhat seem to be navigated towards the dark. Today, the media acts as mouthpiece of the political parties and the agencies are under the control of some political leader. The rising communal riots due to coverage of sensitive propaganda news might prove threat to the democracy.
Thus, it is the duty of the media to act in a more responsible way and be accountable for presenting any information or news to the public. There is lot of scope for media to rise up to the people’s expectations and refine its standard. Freedom of press is a blessing in India but at times it may turn out to be alarming.
The Book Thief is a historical novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and it is one of his most popular works. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 million copies. It was adapted into the 2013 feature film, The Book Thief.
SUMMARY
The majority of the novel takes place in the fictional town of Molching, Germany, near Munich, between 1939 and 1943. Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, beginning when she is nine years old and suffering from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. Liesel goes to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann at 33 Himmel Street in Molching. When Liesel arrives, she can’t read and is made fun of in school. She realizes how powerless she is without words, and so Hans, a painter and accordion player, teaches her how to read during midnight lessons in the basement, reading from the book Liesel took from her brother’s burial: The Grave Digger’s Handbook. During Liesel’s early days with the Hubermanns, she has nightmares and Hans sits with her through the night. With his gentle demeanor and his accordion playing, Hans gains Liesel’s trust as she grows close to him and comes to associate his presence with safety. She becomes very good friends with Rudy Steiner, the Hubermanns’ neighbor. Rudy is constantly trying to get Liesel to kiss him, but she always refuses.
For a while, Himmel Street is a happy place for Liesel. She helps Rosa collect the washing from different wealthy inhabitants of Molching. One house, in particular, catches her attention: 8 Grande Strasse, the home of the mayor and his wife, Ilsa Hermann.
The Nazi Party’s presence becomes increasingly apparent in Molching. In addition to the destruction of Jewish shops and yellow stars that have already been painted on door fronts and windows, Liesel and Rudy are required to join the Band of German Girls and Hitler Youth, respectively. To celebrate the Führer‘s birthday, the people of Molching gather for a bonfire during which they burn enemy propaganda, including books. Liesel sees one book that survives the fire and hides it under her shirt. She’s beginning to realize that Hitler is responsible for her brother’s death and her mother’s absence, and she hates him for it. Ilsa Hermann sees Liesel take the book and decides to share her own love of books with Liesel by inviting her into her library. To Liesel, the library is the most beautiful sight she’s ever seen.
Meanwhile, Max Vandenburg, a Jew, is hiding in a storage closet in Stuttgart and receiving help from his friend Walter Kugler. Walter has been in touch with Hans and asks if Hans is willing to keep the promise he made to Max’s mother after World War I. It was Erik Vandenburg, Max’s father, who saved Hans’s life during World War I and taught Hans to play the accordion. Hans promised Frau Vandenburg that if she ever needed something, she could contact him. Hans agrees to hide Max in his basement and sends the key to his house inside the front cover of Mein Kampf, a book written by Hitler. In an ironic twist, it is this book that holds the key to Max’s life.
After Max arrives at 33 Himmel Street, Liesel is curious about the man in her basement but also somewhat afraid of him. She begins to realize that they have much in common. They both have nightmares, they both are fist-fighters, and they both have lost their families. They also share the same view of Hans Hubermann, namely that he and his accordion are sources of safety. Liesel does the best she can to bring the outside world to Max, describing the weather to him, bringing him snow, and delivering presents to the foot of his bed when he falls ill. She continues to play with Rudy and go to school, all while keeping Max a secret and listening to his stories about his past at night. Max, too, loves stories and shares these with Liesel.
Max also understands the power of words. For Liesel’s birthday, he paints over the pages of Mein Kampf and makes a book for Liesel called The Standover Man. It is the story of his life, how he had to leave his family, about his journey to the Hubermanns, and about Liesel, who has become his friend and watches over him. In addition to his nightmares, Max also starts having daydreams about boxing the Führer, but Hitler always uses his words to incite the crowd and turn the people against Max.
Because most of the people on Himmel Street are struggling for money, Rosa Hubermann loses her washing jobs, including the one for Ilsa Hermann. Meanwhile, Liesel and Rudy join a gang of youths who steal apples and potatoes from farmers. One night, Liesel takes Rudy to the mayor’s house and earns her title of book thief when she sneaks in through the window and takes The Whistler from Ilsa Hermann’s library.
The summer of 1942 is primarily a happy time for Liesel. She spends it mostly with Hans as he blackens the windows for homes and shops in Molching in preparation for air raids. He tells her stories and plays his accordion, and at one home they even share a glass of champagne with the residents. Rudy continues training for the Hitler Youth carnival where he hopes to win four gold medals like Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. He wins three, but he gets disqualified from the fourth race, which, he says, he does on purpose.
On another late-night visit to Ilsa Hermann’s house, Liesel and Rudy take the Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus, which appears to have been placed by the window as a gift. Liesel finds a letter inside from Frau Hermann, saying that Liesel is welcome to come in the front door, too.
Shortly after these somewhat lighthearted days, the air raids begin. Liesel and her family, along with Rudy and his family, take shelter in the Fiedlers’ basement because they’ve been told their basement is not deep enough to protect them from the bombings. They must leave Max behind. On one occasion in the Fiedlers’ basement, Liesel begins to read from The Whistler. Everyone gathers around her and the words calm them as they calm Liesel. Those in the basement stay even after the all-clear signal has been given to hear the end of the chapter. Liesel realizes that books are her accordion.
Parades of Jews come through Molching on their way to Dachau. Liesel sees their suffering, and Hans tries to help one of them. Because of Hans’s actions, they must send Max away because Hans is afraid the Gestapo will come to search their house. The Gestapo never comes for him, though; instead, they come for Rudy to offer him a place in a special school. The Steiners refuse. Eventually, both Hans and Alex Steiner are punished for their actions. Hans is sent to serve with the LSE, an air raid unit, in Stuttgart, and Alex goes to Vienna, Austria, to serve at an army hospital. Himmel Street becomes a very forlorn place.
Rosa gives Liesel a book called The Word Shaker, which Max made for her. It contains many of Max’s stories, thoughts, and sketches. The fable about the word shaker catches Liesel’s attention. In it, Max describes a girl who is able to use words like some of Hitler’s most skilled word shakers, but she uses her words to help her friend and remove small bits of hate from a forest dominated by cruelty. Her words are for good, not for evil.
Meanwhile, Hans Hubermann avoids a fatal accident while on an LSE truck. Reinhold Zucker, who holds a grudge against Hans because of a card game loss, takes Hans’s usual seat on the truck and dies in the accident. Hans gets a broken leg and is sent home.
In 1943, the Jews continue to march through Molching, and Liesel always looks for Max. One day, she sees him and runs to him, but a Nazi soldier tosses her from the parade. She gets up and enters the parade again, reciting words from The Word Shaker. She is whipped, and Rudy has to hold her down to keep her from going back for more punishment. Afterward, Liesel finally tells Rudy about Max Vandenburg.
Liesel returns to Frau Hermann’s library and becomes angry with the words, how they can fill her up, but can also bring so much hate to so many people. She tears the pages from a book and then writes a note to Frau Hermann to apologize and say that she won’t come back. Three days later, Ilsa Hermann shows up at Liesel’s front door and gives her a black journal so that she can write the words of her own story.
Then, in October 1943, bombs fall on Himmel Street while everyone sleeps. Liesel, though, sits in the basement writing her story in her journal. She survives. When she emerges from the basement, she finds the bodies of those she loves — her Mama and Papa, as well as Rudy, whom she kisses on the lips. She is taken away by air raid officers, and it is at this moment that Death finds and takes her book, The Book Thief. This is how he knows her story.
Ilsa Hermann and the mayor collect Liesel from the police station and take her home with them. Alex Steiner is relieved of duty after he hears about the bombings and finds Liesel. She tells him about Rudy, about kissing him. They spend a lot of time together, going for walks and hiking to Dachau after its liberation. She spends a lot of time with Alex in his shop, and one day, in 1945, Max Vandenburg shows up. They have a reunion mixed with much happiness and great sadness.
Death ends the story by telling us about Liesel Meminger’s death, how she lived a long life in Sydney with her husband, three children, and many grandchildren. When Death goes to collect her, he sets her down so they can walk together for a while. He shows her The Book Thief and wants to ask her so many questions about humans. He cannot understand them, how they can contain so much lightness and darkness. He doesn’t ask these things, though. All he can tell her is that humans haunt him.
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save the girl child, educate the girl child) is a campaign of the Government of India that aims to generate awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare services intended for girls in India. The scheme was launched in 2015 at Panipat,Haryana with an initial funding of ₹100 crore. It mainly targets the clusters in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Bihar and Delhi.
Country-India
Prime Minister(s)Narendra Modi
Ministry-A joint initiative of MoWCD, MoHFW and MoE
Launched22 January 2015; 6 years agoStatusActive
⭕Reasons For This Initiative ⭕
Sex selective abortion or female foeticide has led to a sharp drop in the ratio of girls born in contrast to boy infants in some states in India. Ultrasound technology has made it possible for pregnant women and their families to learn the sex of a foetus early in a pregnancy. Discrimination against girl infants, for several reasons, has combined with the technology to result in a rise in abortions of foetuses identified as female during ultrasonic testing.
The trend was first noticed when results of the 1991 national census were released, and was confirmed to be a worsening problem when results of the 2001 national census were released. The reduction in the female population of certain Indian states continues to worsen, as results of the 2011 national census have shown. It has been observed that the trend is most pronounced in relatively prosperous regions of India.The dowry system in India is often blamed; the expectation that a large dowry must be provided for daughters in order for them to marry is frequently cited as a major cause for the problem.] Pressure for parents to provide large dowries for their daughters is most intense in prosperous states where high standards of living, and modern consumerism, are more prevalent in Indian society.
Rates of female foeticide in Madhya Pradesh are increasing; the rate of live births was 932 girls per 1000 boys in 2001, which dropped to 918 by 2011. It is expected that if this trend continues, by 2021 the number of girls will drop below 900 per 1000 boys.
The Govt of India has formed a National Executive Committee to promote Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) across the country. The committee is organising a number of programs to promote “Save Girl Child” and “to Educate Girl Child” since January 2015. Dr. Rajendra Phadke is the National Convener of BBBP Abhiyan.The Beti Bachao campaign is also supported by the Indian Medical Association.
Aim of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao SchemeThe aim of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme is to stop the drop in girl child sex ratio. Therefore, it will encourage women’s empowerment in order to improve women status in the country. It is a tri-ministerial initiative of the following ministries:Women and Child DevelopmentHealth and Family WelfareHuman Resource Development
These are foods that you should definitely eat every day, if possible, at every meal, regardless of the diet you follow. Whatever diet you follow, vegetables are the most important food for your health.
Focus on choosing less processed foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains as a major part of your diet. If you’re on a plant-based diet, most of your meals will consist of plant-based foods, such as vegetables and beans.
Each type of plant-based diet depends on how much animal products such as meat, dairy, and eggs are included in the diet. In terms of heart health, people on a ketogenic diet are encouraged to choose good quality foods and eat plenty of plant-based foods such as fruits and vegetables. Safe and healthy diets do not require excessive amounts of vitamins or supplements. The diet should include foods that you like, that you would like to eat throughout your life, not those that you can tolerate throughout the entire plan.
If you don’t like the foods on the plan, if the plan is too restrictive, or if it gets boring, you may not stick with it, so long-term weight loss is unlikely. But a healthy diet and snacks, along with exercise, can help you lose weight and maintain normal growth. Regular exercise can help teens feel healthier and feel better about themselves. However, combining a healthier diet with more activity is the best way to lose weight, maintain your weight over the long term, and improve your health.
In some situations, faster weight loss can be safe if done right, such as following a low-calorie, doctor-supervised diet or a short, fast-start phase of a healthy eating plan.
The bottom line is to understand your body type and choose a sustainable healthy weight loss plan, given that different diets work for different people. Here are the 8 best diet plans to help you lose weight and improve your overall health. The good news is that anyone can follow The Healthy Eating Plate’s recommendations and choose healthy, flavorful foods to create the diet that’s best for you.
Vegetarian Share on Pinterest Many people choose vegetarian food for ethical and health reasons. Types of vegetarians include fruit vegetarians, ovo vegetarians, egg vegetarians, semi-vegetarians, peach vegetarians, and raw vegetarians, leading to some differences in their meal plans (18).
Terms applied to such eating habits include “junk food diet” and “Western diet”. Some people eat unhealthy diets out of habit rather than consciously choosing unhealthy foods. A diet is best described as a fixed eating and drinking plan in which the type and amount of food is planned to achieve weight loss or maintain a specific lifestyle. Dieting is the practice of achieving or maintaining a certain weight through diet.
The individual diet is the sum of foods and drinks that you usually consume. The ketogenic diet, or keto diet, is a strict form of low-carbohydrate diet in which carbohydrate-containing foods are hardly consumed in order to put the body into a state of ketosis. The keto diet was designed to keep the body in a near-permanent state of ketosis, a metabolic state in which the body produces ketones from fat to use as energy instead of sugar from carbohydrates (the body’s primary and preferred source of energy). This is a popular, fast, low-carb diet for weight loss, whose proponents believe that you can lose a significant amount of kilograms by consuming proteins and fats in any amount, but without carbohydrates.
According to a May 2017 article in the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, a plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. A study published in August 2019 in the Journal of the American Heart Association also concluded that people who followed a strictly plant-based diet had a 25% lower risk of dying from any cause than those who did not. This study raises questions about long-term effects and mechanisms, but the researchers concluded that a low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diet could be considered a real recommendation for weight loss.
The results of these three studies suggest that a macronutrient-based dietary approach may have some benefits, but studies also show that while a particular diet may lead to weight loss for one person, it may not be effective for another person. individual differences in genes and lifestyle.
These diets have proven themselves by limiting and eliminating entire food groups from the diet. The point of these diets is to match people with their overall dietary needs based on their blood type. For example, people with blood type O are encouraged to eat plenty of protein-rich foods.
When following a gout diet, people should eat all vegetables and fruits, eggs, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and most beverages. If you’re following the Atkins 40 diet, you should eat all of the above foods in addition to the foods below.
Foods that should be included in this diet on a regular basis include fruits, protein, starchy vegetables, whole grains, plant-based milk replacers, non-starchy vegetables, condiments, herbs, spices and seasonings, nuts seeds and other healthy fats, beverages Wait. Healthy fats, dairy products, vegetables, protein, fruits, herbs and spices, and beverages are some of the staples after a very low-fat diet.
Just as we have foods that most diet and nutrition experts recommend eating on a daily basis, we have foods that most nutrition experts advise against eating. Following the Sirtfood diet is not as easy as eating only these foods. As the name suggests, this diet encourages eating raw, unprocessed foods (at least three-quarters of the food you eat should be raw). The Raw Food Diet The raw food diet, or raw food diet, involves the consumption of foods and drinks that have not been processed, are 100% plant-based, and are ideally organic.
First and foremost, you need to base your ketogenic diet on healthy foods like healthy oils, avocados, eggs, oily fish, meats, cheese, seasonings, low carb vegetables, nuts and seeds, butter, and cream. An extreme diet can cause problems if you don’t get the right types and amounts of nutrients. Eating large amounts of certain foods such as grapefruit or meat will drastically cut calories; o Eliminating entire food groups, such as carbohydrates, can cause nutritional problems.
But there are some common anti-inflammatory foods to include in your diet if you’re in pain. Rather than trying to follow a long-term, low-FODMAP diet, Dr. Farhadi suggests using a food list to identify personal triggers—by far the most helpful thing anyone living with IBS can do, since some foods are triggers for some patients, but not others (and even triggers may not always be disabled).
Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people.It is also an area of research that seeks to understand how humans use verbal and nonverbal cues to accomplish a number of personal and relational goals..2021Interpersonal communication research addresses at least six categories of inquiry:
1) how humans adjust and adapt their verbal communication and nonverbal communication during face-to-face communication;
2) how messages are produced;
3) how uncertainty influences behavior and information-management strategies;
4) deceptive communication;
5) relational dialectics; and
6) social interactions that are mediated by technology.
A large number of scholars have described their work as research into interpersonal communication. There is considerable variety in how this area of study is conceptually and operationally defined.Researchers in interpersonal communication come from many different research paradigms and theoretical traditions, adding to the complexity of the field.Interpersonal communication is often defined as communication that takes place between people who are interdependent and have some knowledge of each other: for example, communication between a son and his father, an employer and an employee, two sisters, a teacher and a student, two lovers, two friends, and so on.Although interpersonal communication is most often between pairs of individuals, it can also be extended to include small intimate groups such as the family. Interpersonal communication can take place in face-to-face settings, as well as through platforms such as social media.The study of interpersonal communication addresses a variety of elements and uses both quantitative/social scientific methods and qualitative methods.There is growing interest in biological and physiological perspectives on interpersonal communication. Some of the concepts explored are personality, knowledge structures and social interaction, language, nonverbal signals, emotional experience and expression, supportive communication, social networks and the life of relationships, influence, conflict, computer-mediated communication, interpersonal skills, interpersonal communication in the workplace, intercultural perspectives on interpersonal communication, escalation and de-escalation of romantic or platonic relationships, interpersonal communication and healthcare, family relationships, and communication across the life span.
What Are the 4 Types of Interpersonal Communication and Interpersonal Skills?
When it comes to basic elements of interpersonal communication, the various types of possible communication will cluster under four basic categories: verbal, listening, written, and non-verbal communication
.1. Verbal
Whenever you talk or even make an audible sound (like “hmm” of “Ahh!” for example), you’re creating verbal communication. Beyond the content of what you’re saying and the context in which it’s being said, verbal communication also includes additional auditory factors like intonation. This refers to how your voice rises and falls in tone as you speak and can shade how the words are meant to be interpreted. For example, the phrase “Have a nice day” can take on a number of different meanings when you imagine it said in a friendly way, sarcastically, or even ominously.
2. Listening
Chances are that some point in your life you’ve been accused of “hearing but not listening” to what someone was saying to you. The distinction between the two concepts might have seemed nuanced at first until the message became clear: hearing is involuntary and effortless whereas listening is focused and intentional. Hearing is an automatic response that is the result of having working ears. Listening takes more effort. It’s purposeful and requires concentration to understand what the speaker is sharing.
3Written Communication
When information that is complex or lengthy needs to be shared, it’s usually conveyed through written communication. To that end, written communication is often considered more legally valid than spoken words are. That’s why it often serves as an “official” mode of communication. Written communication can also include emoji, which can help convey more emotional information and context that can be hard to deduce from the words themselves.
When you convey a message via written symbols, you’re practicing written communication. From emails and text messages to more formal memoranda and reports, written communication is the cornerstone of most information sharing in business.
. Non-Verbal Communication
Getting meaning across without using words either written or spoken is the essence of non-verbal communication. This can be achieved through everything from facial expressions, to specific gestures (“jazz hands,” anyone?) to body language and certain postures. To get a sense of how much can be communicated through non+verbal communication, consider that mimes are able to tell entire stories without uttering a word. Moreover, non-verbal communication often complements spoken communication. Gestures like ‘air quotes” or shoulder shrugging add additional if not entirely different meanings to what’s being said.
Personality is something that people tend to think a lot about. When we meet new people, whether through work, school, or social events, it is often their personality on which we immediately focus. Whether they are nice, helpful, outgoing, or shy are just a few of the things that we assess as we evaluate the people around us.
What Is Personality Development?
It is our personality that makes us who we are, but how exactly do our personalities form? Personality development has been a major topic of interest for some of the most prominent thinkers in psychology. Since the inception of psychology as a separate science, researchers have proposed a variety of ideas to explain how and why personality develops.
Personality development refers to how the organized patterns of behavior that make up each person’s unique personality emerge over time. Many factors go into influencing personality, including genetics, environment, parenting, and societal variables. Perhaps most importantly, it is the ongoing interaction of all of these influences that continue to shape personality over time.
Personality involves not only inborn traits but also the development of cognitive and behavioral patterns that influence how people think and act. Temperament is a key part of the personality that is determined by inherited traits.
Character is an aspect of personality influenced by experience that continues to grow and change throughout life. While personality continues to evolve over time and respond to the influences and experiences of life, much of personality is determined by inborn traits and early childhood experiences.
⭕⭕HOW TO DEVELOP PERSONALITY?⭕⭕
1️⃣Evaluating Yourself
2️⃣Focusing on Positive Personality Traits
3️⃣Avoid Negative Personality Traits
4️⃣Speak Up More
5️⃣Believing in yourself
There are three main influences on personality development that we are going to look at in this lesson. Those are heredity, environment, and situation.
Empathy, compassion, and helping others: People with a strong personality believe that they are free and do not owe people around them any favours, and in return they respect the fact that others do not owe them. Preferring being alone and silence over mingling with those who do not understand them.
Here I have got some simple yet crucial tips over how you can acquire a well-meaning personality.
Reflexology is a type of therapy that uses gentle pressure on specific points along your feet (and possibly on your hands or ears as well) to help you feel better. The theory is that this eases stress, and that helps your body work better. It’s also known as zone therapy.
The way reflexology connects spots on the outside of your body to the inside is a bit like acupuncture and acupressure. But those therapies use points all over your body, not just on your feet, hands, and ears. And while reflexologists do use their hands, it isn’t a form of massage.
Like those other therapies, though, reflexology is complementary to medical treatments. It can be done alongside traditional care, but it’s not an alternative to it, and reflexologists don’t diagnose or treat illnesses.
Different types of reflexology
There are many types of reflexology. The common types of reflexology are:
Standard Reflexology
Zone Therapy – developed by Eunice Ingham in the 1930’s
Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT)
The Reflex Meridian Therapy
5 Elements Reflexology
The Morell Technique
Reflexology Benefits
Reflexology may help you feel less stressed, more relaxed, and more energized. But the benefits might go deeper if you have certain health issues.
Some people with medical conditions find that they feel less pain and discomfort if they have less stress, and reflexology may help with that. Researchers reviewed 17 studies of the psychological benefits of the therapy and found that it boosted feelings of well-being and made it easier for people to manage their conditions.
More research is needed to see if reflexology can have a direct effect on specific conditions, but based on what we know so far, it may ease:
Anxiety among people who’ve had heart surgery.
Pain during labour.
Arthritis pain.
Some symptoms of multiple sclerosis, like fatigue, and uncomfortable skin sensations.
Emotional and physical pain caused by cancer.
back pain and muscle strain
sports injuries
stress
anxiety and depression
sleep and eating disorders
poor circulation
irritable bowel syndrome
migraine or sinus problems
pre-menstrual tension
symptoms of the menopause
breathing difficulties such as asthma
balancing the central nervouse system
It may also
Improve sinus issues.
Relieve back pain.
Ease constipation.
How Does Reflexology Work?
There are different theories about the exact way that reflexology works, but the main concept of all is that different areas of the feet are linked to specific body parts, and that putting pressure on one area of the foot can have an effect on the organ that it corresponds with.
According to zone theory, a foot is divided into five zones that run from toe to heel: The big toe is zone 1, and the pinky toe is zone 5. The body is divided into 10 zones that run from head to foot. Zone 1 aligns with the left and right center of the body, and zone 5 aligns with the left and right sides of the body. When you place pressure on zone 1 in the foot, it can relieve pain in the part of the body that’s linked to that area.
A theory that dates back to the 19th century suggests that reflexology works by stimulating the nervous system. Pressing on areas of the feet in a calming way stimulates the nerves there, which sends a message to the central nervous system. This helps to relax the body and has positive effects on your breathing, blood flow, immune response, and more.
Another theory suggests that reflexology helps offset the way that your brain registers pain. When your feet are massaged, the relaxing sensations may help relieve stress and improve your mood, which may make you less inclined to perceive pain as deeply.
Still another theory suggests that your body contains “vital energy” that is affected by stress. If you don’t work to relieve the stress, your body may not work as well as it should, which may lead to aches or illness. Reflexology is thought to help you maintain the flow of vital energy through your body.
When You Should Avoid Reflexology
Most people, even those in the hospital, can benefit from reflexology. A study on women with advanced breast cancer found it was safe even for people who are very ill.
But you shouldn’t have reflexology if you’re recovering from an injured foot or have gout. Because it may affect blood flow, it’s not for people with blood clots or women who are pregnant.
If you have a chronic condition, a disease that affects your feet or legs, or arthritis in your feet or ankles, ask your doctor first. If your feet are off-limits, you may still be able to have reflexology on your hands or ears.
If you have recently had an operation or surgery, if you have had any injuries that might affect your treatment – such as a recently healed broken ankle avoid reflexology.
The master of romance Nicholas Sparks returned with another novel titled Every Breath in 2018 after a break of two years. Every Breath is Sparks’ 21st novel. It is a touching story of Tru and Hope who are undergoing their own issues in life. They have a chance meeting at Sunset Beach, North Carolina and fall in love under hopeless circumstances but, fate has something else in store for them.
Tru Walls is a 42-year-old safari guide from Zimbabwe; Hope is a 36-year-old emergency room nurse from North Carolina. Tru travels from Zimbabwe to Sunset Beach, North Carolina for the first time in his life to discover his late mother’s early years, after he received a letter from a man who claims to be his biological father. While Hope Anderson is going through a personal crisis—she has been dating her boyfriend for six years with no wedding plans yet, and recently her father was diagnosed with ALS—and decides to take a break and to make some important decisions of her life at her family’s cottage at Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Their paths cross during a chance encounter on the beach, and there is an instant connection between Tru and Hope which changes their lives forever. But, Hope is divided between her feelings for her boyfriend of six years and Tru, whom she falls in love with.
What’s interesting to note is that though Tru and Hope are fictional characters, the story is inspired from a real-life mailbox ‘Kindred Spirit’ which is located on a secluded part of Sunset Beach in North Carolina, where people have left their love-letters for many years for others to read and share. Sparks also reveals on his website that Tru’s character is inspired from his recent trip to Africa, as he writes, “I then came up with the character of Tru when I was travelling in Africa. I was so impressed with the welcoming people, the exotic landscape, and the natural beauty and wildlife that I wanted to find a way to include a character from Zimbabwe into one of my books.” Spread across many years and continents, Every Breath is a bittersweet contemporary story of love at first-sight, circumstances and destiny which will warm your heart.
How critics view the book:
USA Today writes in a review, “What makes “Every Breath” rise above mere pleasurable manipulation is its unpredictability and strong character development, especially with Tru.”
Sara Lawrence for the Dailymail.co.uk writes in an article, “The tussle between Hope’s head and heart is deeply moving and I was captivated.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BCE–8 BCE ), more commonly known as Horace, was a Roman poet, best known for his satires and his lyric odes.
His letters in verse, particularly his Ars Poetica: Epistle to the Pisos, outline his beliefs about the art and craft of poetry. His main contribution to the traditions of literary theory we are exploring lie in his articulation of the purpose of poetry, or literature in general: it is dulce et utile, sweet and useful.
Horace insists that literature serves the didactic purpose which had been Plato’s main concern, and that it provides pleasure; the two goals are not incompatible, as Plato had feared. Poetry is a useful teaching tool, Horace argues, precisely because it is pleasurable. The pleasure of poetry makes it popular and accessible, and its lessons thus can be widely learned. Like Plato, Horace sees nature as the primary source for poetry, but he argues that poets should imitate other authors as well as imitating nature. Horace thus establishes the importance of a poet knowing a literary tradition, and respecting inherited forms and conventions, as well as creating new works.
Except for a few late Roman and early medieval writers who contributed to the discussion of theories about literature, such as Plotinus (204–70), Boethius (480–524), St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–74), and Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Horace pretty much defined the parameters of thought about literature from the ancient world until the Renaissance.
The explosion of art, literature, and science which we think of as the hallmark of the European Renaissance in the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries prompted not only a deluge of literary texts, including the works of such luminaries as Shakespeare, but also a torrent of writings about the purpose, form, and importance of literature. The Renaissance discourse on literary theory was stimulated at least in part by the rediscovery of Aristotle’s Poetics, a text which had been lost to Western culture during the Dark Ages.
Can’t figure out how to sleep better? Below are the best techniques for getting better sleep, from sleep experts and neurologists.
1. Keep Clocks Out of Your Bedroom
What’s the biggest change you can make to get more sleep? Don’t look at the clock during sleeping hours, says sleep expert Terry Cralle. Without a clock, the “chore” of falling asleep goes away. You won’t start doing math in your head and worrying about how little sleep you’re getting. If your room is dark and cool and you’re “in the dark” about how much sleep you’ve missed, you’ll most often fall back to sleep soon.
2. Follow a Sleep Schedule
One of the biggest reasons we don’t sleep is that we don’t respect it. “People say they only have time for 4–5 hours a night,” says Cralle. “But that can be dangerous, with studies showing metabolic changes after just a few nights of short sleeping.”
Wondering, “When should I wake up?” Or, “What time should I go to bed?” Try to go to bed as close to the first full darkness as you can, and rise with the sun. Going to sleep at 9pm, 10pm, or 11pm matters less than keeping the same sleep schedule every night.
Is 6 hours of sleep enough?
Getting 6 hours of sleep a night will sap your focus, moods, health, and well-being. Always get 7–9 hours of in-the-bed sleep time, even if you’re awake for some of it. Even if you feel fine after six hours of sleep, your effectiveness suffers.
3. Get More Daylight
Numerous studies show getting more natural light is one of the top techniques for how to sleep better. Yet we’ve got ever brighter screens in laptops and phones. Those screens—and our brightly-lit homes—are sending silent messages to our brains that say, “It’s morning! Go to sleep 12 hours from now.” Trying to override those messages can be like eating a 32-ounce porterhouse steak right after Thanksgiving dinner. Your body will say, “Nope.”
The upside? One-third of US employees work from home at least sometime during the week. That gives us a tremendous opportunity to work on a porch, park bench or in an outdoor cafe. In winter, sit near a window for a few hours in the morning.
4. Have a Coffee Cutoff Time
Tired of being tired? Try switching to decaf after 2pm. Studies show that even drinking coffee 6 hours before bedtime can rob your sleep time.
5. Try Audiobooks
Listening to an audiobook can help you sleep. Turn the volume down and set the playback to its slowest speed. Then set a timer so it shuts off in an hour. Most phones can set a “stop playback” alarm. Here’s how on iPhone and Android.
6. Distraction Techniques
When your mind has a tricky “job to do,” it stays alert. “Some people fall asleep better with a distraction,” says Cralle. So, here are a few tips for how to sleep better with distractions:
The Navy SEAL Technique
Why is sleep important for Navy SEALs? Imagine trying to sleep in the rain, cold, or in a fire zone, when your life depends on being rested. Thankfully, these hardened warriors have a trick that helps them drift off in two minutes.
How to fall asleep:
Sit on the edge of your bed.
Relax the muscles of your face, jaw, tongue, and eyes.
Let your shoulders and arm muscles go slack.
Breathe out. Relax your chest, then thighs, calves, feet, and toes.
Clear your mind for 10 seconds.
Picture one of these three images:
You’re lying in a pit room in a black velvet hammock.
You’re in a canoe on a calm lake with blue sky above.
You repeat the words “don’t think,” for 10 seconds.
The 2-minute Navy SEAL sleep technique works for 96% of sleepers. The downside? It can take six weeks of practice.
There’s no research to support learning styles. How to learn: Match your content to the process – students should learn music by listening to music, while students should learn reading by doing more reading.
Rereading Material
How to learn: Instead of rereading, highlighting, or underlining important information, ask yourself:
What is the author trying to say?’
How is this different from other things I’ve read?’
How does this relate to other material I know?’
Focusing On One Subject At A Time
When it comes to learning a difficult subject, people often believe you should practice one thing at a time. How to learn: Mixing it up, however, is a better approach. In mixed learning, you get a chance to see the core idea below it.
Sticking With The First Answer
In school, many of us were taught that if you put an answer on a test you shouldn’t change it, but we’re better off reconsidering. We need time to deliberate and reflect to understand something. How to learn: While facts are important, how you use them is key. To solve new problems and come up with ideas, you need analogies and systems of how things relate to each other.
More Time For Learning
Putting in a lot of hours doesn’t always mean you’ll become good at something. People tend to be blissfully unaware of their incompetence. How to learn: What works instead isn’t just time; it’s outside advice and input. That’s why hiring coaches and tutors are so beneficial to learning.
Ever wondered why even after a busy day you couldn’t sleep at night ?
Most of todays generation is found awake for late nights, sleepless.This is because their brains naturally work on late schedules.This change takes place because the teen brains create the sleep hormone melatonin later at night than kids and adults do.
Among the teenagers, the body’s internal sleep cycle is reset to fall asleep later at night and wake up later in the morning. The sleep wake cycle is so crucial that it affects the regular activities of a person.There are several other reasons why teens lose sleep though. Considering the pandemic, the world functions on several devices which release blue light and delays the release of melatonin making It even harder to sleep.
Reasons of having Insomnia :
Feeling uncomfortable or sick due to a stuffy nose or headache or so on
Uncomfortable sleeping environment
Emotional trouble
Stress or Anxiety
Depression
Poor Sleeping habits
Lack of friends
Not speaking their thoughts out
How to improve ones sleep cycle:
To get at least 8 hours of sleep is very important among the teenagers for their regular mental and physical activities to be executed at their best capacity. Therefore, one should start picking up some habits and practice them regularly.
Here are some tips:
1.Electronics: It is advised to keep the electronic devices away from you while you sleep and stop with the homework or turn off all screens one hour before you go to bed.
2.Bed Time routine: Try practicing a relaxing bed time routine like a warm bath or shower or reading or listening to music
3.Caffeine: Avoid caffeine in the late afternoon hours or evening hours. It leads to absolute withdrawing of sleep.
4.Exercise: Practice regular exercise during the day but not anytime close to the sleeping hours. It makes your mind feel relaxed and also offers good practice in life.
Also avoid taking long naps during the day. Even on a tiring day a short nap not more than one hour should be taken. It is better to keep the bedroom dark, quite and cool.
Therefore, the teens today should adopt different methods to improve their sleep cycle which otherwise leads to many health ailments and also makes it difficult for them to complete their regular activities at the best of their capacity.
It is a healthy activity to reflect on the time gone by, objectively, before making plans for the year ahead. However, most of us are moving towards one of the two extremes:
Self-ridicule or lamenting the stuff we didn’t do or did wrong.
Self-congratulation of patting oneself on the back for all the great stuff we did, while ignoring the mistakes.
Reviewing The Year: Achievement And Effort
While reflecting on the past, we normally look at our achievements and appreciate what we have been successful at. Despite our best efforts, we sometimes do not get success due to other factors like luck, timing etc. The right approach is to learn from the experiences and to appreciate one’s effort. Example: Going for various interviews that didn’t go well wasted a lot of our time, energy, effort and resources, but we still have to appreciate our effort and what all we learned from the rejections.
Reviewing The Year: Self-Change
If we learned and changed during the past year/decade, we are on the path towards growth, even though it may not be visible or tangible as of now. Personal growth means your experiments are paying results. The troubling thing would be to remain completely unchanged, as stagnancy is a cause for concern.
Reviewing The Year: The Boss-Like Evaluation
It’s a great idea to have an objective assessment for one’s achievements and efforts, reviewing them like a supportive boss would do while providing an appraisal. To maintain an ideal balance, give yourself constructive feedback (25 per cent) and appreciate the hard work and achieved goals (75 per cent).
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
Reviewing The Year: Understand What Worked
Sometimes the reason for your success is the failure you endured. The good night’s sleep that helped you shine the next day for the interview, is an important aspect of success. Most of the time it is our self-care and other unidentified reasons that become a cause for our eventual success, and one needs to think holistically while reflecting to find the hidden reasons.
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