Putting Quarantine to good use!

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Putting Quarantine to good use!

Healthy body means less medical expenses. It also means you are able to explore and experience life fully. It also means your immune system is good and you are protected not just against ‘this virus’ but all other diseases you are prone to in life.

After the quarantine also things wouldn’t come back to normalcy immediately. We wouldn’t go back to our old lives. No, not possible on so many accounts. We’ll have longer working hours may be. And that too for lesser pay may be! To work for longer hours we need stamina. We can’t rest then. So rest now. Build your strength, stamina, health now! And then when the time to go out and work comes don’t crib about working hours. Don’t ask for free time. Don’t desire ‘vacation’. This break must have killed the desire of ‘no work’ at least for couple of years. You should go back loving your work like never before. Work for the sake of work! So build that body ready to go on that war footing working mode!

Next the pollution levels have come down drastically. It is noticed by so many. The rough cough, gale ki kharash (roughness or irritation in throat), early morning sneezing of many has come down surprisingly. And, that too without any meds.

Use this to your advantage. Do pranayamam regularly without fail at least for ½ an hour daily. If you can’t do for ½ an hour/ day then do 15 mts morn and evening i.e., 15mts twice daily. You can do it immediately after ‘suryopasana’ (homam) that most of us reiki channels do**. If you are reiki channel then do rebirth meditation with selfishness and hatred daily (during this COVID time). That way you complete rebirth + homam in one go. And if you can do the same on terrace or balcony (basically basking in sunlight) then your vitamin D quota also completes for the day. This would address so many of your problems in one go!*

(*Disclaimer -  these all are just suggestions to make good use of quarantine. I don’t become ‘BOUND’ to show results in your life if and when you follow them the way you want it)

(Exceptions : mothers to be and just delivered this doesn’t apply to you. Eat as you like and should. Exercise ONLY when Dr. okays it. You have done a noble job of giving birth to a life. We love you however you look now, so relax! We can get you back to shape when it is time to!)

(Doing homam** - those who are not doing homam for various reasons no need to give explanation to me…..) 

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Note : Share at least one healing experience of yours daily till this covid situation lasts.......i am spending 3-4 hours only on blog, can't you at least spend 5-10mts writing/sharing one of your any reiki experience.......

also reads suggested on this topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=health

questions answered : 

• How to get back our health?
• How to put this free time to good use?

Points to be understood : 

• If we don't take time to take care of our body then we have to take time for our illness.
• At best, most of the illness can be avoided by keeping our body healthy.
• Healthy lifestyle, right eating and sleeping habits, right breathing can keep us away from most of the modern day diseases we live with.
• Body can be repaired if only mind puts in effort in the right direction
• Healthy body should always take priority over the money we wish to earn.

Putting quarantine to good use!

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Putting quarantine to good use!

Walk, walk and walk – even if it is within the house – do. Don’t sit in front of the TV and develop disease. Sitting is the ‘new smoking’. Those who sit a lot develop lots of health complication. Even if you are working from home preferably walk every 1hr at least for 10mts. Stretch and bend. Use the benefit of WFH. And if you have desk or table, stand and work. Keep shifting working standing and sitting.

Don’t binge continuously as you sit chit-chatting with your family. Don’t sit in front of that TV all keep eating. Remember our target is to lose weight the right way not to gain at the end of this session. Those who are already in right shape and weight increase your stamina.

Use every technique you are taught to work on that health problem you have. I have seen so many free of their so many complaints just by following regular diet on right time, exercise daily preferably same time and do pranayamam during last 14-20 days. They didn’t even take meds to heal those issues. So many are free of their meds that they were taking. Try this – who knows how much you would benefit with this simple discipline? Each unto his own!?

Sleep tight and at right time! Don’t sit to watch or gossip till late hours. Do that during the day. Just go to bed by 10pm (yes immediately after the night LC). That way you would give your body much needed rest that it longed for!

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# exercise, healthy life style, diet and you, body, 

also reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=on+maintaining+the+body

Points to understand : 

• Health is not an option, it is a pre-requisite for everyone at all times.
• We don't dig well when we are thirsty. Like-wise we don't look to remain healthy or follow healthy life-style when the fear of pandemic or falling sick looms large on face.
• Be prepared always - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually to face any eventualities of life. Work on all fronts at all points of time!
• Excuses will become very dear (costly). Excuses are easy to make though!
• Find reasons to live right and keep body, mind healthy!
• Why so many of my wishes remain unfulfilled? Are you happy when they come true? Make way for the wishes that have come true and enjoy them so that you learn to love other wishes which are to come true later.

Questions answered :

How to keep ourselves safe from diseases?

What steps do I take to keep myself useful during these 'extra' free time given unasked?

How to make break down situation into break through situation?

Why so many of my wishes remain unfulfilled? 

Putting quarantine to good use!

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Putting quarantine to good use!

Emotional investment :

# I don’t get time to play/spend time with my kid/spouse/ family

# I feel I have failed as a mother/wife as I am not spending time with kid as I am too busy with my work.

# I feel guilty of not cooking good food to my kid/spouse.

# I feel like a bad mother/parent as I am not able to teach my kid anything substantial.

We are staying with our ‘family’ only. This is to show us that at the end and all that matters is ‘this family’. Once the lockdown is lifted we have a different war to wage going out. We’ll have to work for longer hours for lesser pay maybe, make other sacrifices. All that would look worth it if we have built strong emotional balance in our life. A person’s fear is directly proportionate to his emotional well-being.

And his emotional well being is based on his connect with his near and dear ones. The more loving a person’s relationship is, the less he is fearful of change and tough times.

So, go make those bonds that make you strong!

These desires/complaints (which are high lightened in red) can’t be done away with a wand! You need to do your part here. And Universe had given that much needed time that you asked for to fulfill these wishes of yours. You can’t even complain.

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# emotional well being, love and relationships, mental strength, family, near and dear ones, emotional connect

also reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=family

Points to understand : 

• If you can't savour what you have, you can never value what you get!
• If you haven't found 'love in relationships' by now, you can't get it even if you keep searching for that 'special person' to share it with!
• Love and affection is all about sharing, caring, playing together, teasing, being for one other. We learn it from the family we are born into. We need to connect with them inspite of differences to learn the art of happiness.
• I have found that bad times brings people together like never before. The family and friends that face calamity together bond like never before. People who bond over pain stay connected and bonded for life time to come. 
• If Quarantine is so depressive then going out is fatal. Are you saying being safe is depressive for you?

Questions answered : 

• How to address my pain, suffering, depression, frustration and such related feelings during this 'forced period of lockdown'?
• why can't I be leading a happy family life?

Me, My Guru - To quit or not to!

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“...if I quit, I was afraid it would become my habit......” this was a powerful statement and we all started discussing on this.

“So true! Whenever I embark on something new, if I am not comfortable with it then I leave it without second thought. Now looking back, I think I let ‘quitting’ become my nature. I was never eager enough to try harder. One small hitch and I quit! I guess I was ‘wrong’ all those times”.

“Can you elaborate on the issues or situations where you quit easily”.

 “As you all know I am over-weight and have health issues because of that. Every Doctor suggests that I lose weight. Whenever I meet some Doctor, read some article or in similar way get inspired to lose weight, I start doing exercise vigorously the very next day. But within a week or so, I discontinue or in short – quit”.

“Oh that! Don’t worry; count me in, in that field. Same problem here”

Everyone was participating and the discussion was moving at such fast pace that I skipped on names to bother only about the contents. I knew looking at dialogues I would be able to guess as to who had said what, but I guess I was wrong there too!

“Me too! I’ve been on and off so many times with this that my family has made a joke of it now”

“Oh relax! It’s story of everybody!”

“Not everybody. Just people like us who quit, who are not strong enough to stick to their ‘agenda’, people who are more wedded to their laziness than their health”

“You are saying we love ill-health to health and pain and suffering to stamina”

“Exactly! Isn’t it obvious that we all are so undisciplined in this field? Why can’t we ‘win’ over our own weakness? Our enemy is right within us and we are doing nothing to defeat him”

Every argument looked valid and true and yet our weakness was so strong that inspite of ‘knowing’ we were incapable of ‘utilising’ or ‘applying’ this ‘knowing’.

Yes, we could justify our actions with giving reasons but today as we decided to be honest with ourselves, we did all realize and agree that ‘we were lazy beyond doubt and shame. Nothing moved us to drop it and embrace healthy life-style! And that’s the only reasons we ‘started’.

“So that means, I need to keep going in every situation and never give up on my desire and dreams. Right? I just need to keep going and I’ll be winner sooner or later. Is that correct?”

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