FIVE WAYS TO BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW

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1. KEEP A GRATITUDE JOURNAL: Buy a new notebook and write a list of what you’re grateful for, or what you’re looking forward to each week. Writing down these positive thoughts will lead to increased positivism.

2. MEDITATE: Daily meditate helps to generate happiness from the inside out. Sit on the floor or sofa, wherever you are comfortable, and close your eyes. Make no effort to control the breath; just breathe naturally. Focus on how the abdomen moves with each inhalation and exhalation. Do this for 10 minutes.

3. EXERCISE: moving our bodies releases endorphins, which is one of the happiness chemicals. Try and exercise for a minimum of 20 minutes every day.

4. WRITE: write down your stream of consciousness first thing in the morning or last thing at night. 

5. SHARE-SPEND TIME WITH PARENTS-GRANDPARENTS: This is the best time to share your views and experience which you never had shared with your parents and grandparents and spend quality time with your family members by keeping your gadgets aside. Definitely you will learn a lot of things from your elder’s experience which you can’t get from the textbooks.   

HEARD OF WRITING THERAPY?

A study found that those who spent at least 20 minutes once a week for three weeks writing a story about how a chronic illness affected them, experienced less pain.

Writing therapy works by releasing an entire range of pent-up emotions, negativity and toxins and helps build a new front in life. A lot of people who undergo trauma or stressful events are advised to maintain a journal to write about their triggers and events that have affected them.

HOW TO GO ABOUT IT

• ·       Aim at writing for about 20 minutes every day.
• ·       If there is anything stressing you out, make sure to mention it. Benchmarks and achievements should be written too. Journal writing can also be practiced at a time when you are facing conflict. It can calm you down and release pent-up angst.
• ·       Do not worry about the formation or grammar rules. The trick is to write down the words which you actually feel.
• ·       You can write on a private or public platform, depending on how comfortable you are sharing your feelings. A good approach is to start by maintaining a journal that only you can read.
• ·       Once you start writing, make it a regular habit to follow. You can also get reminders for the same.

Writing is also a good and easy exercise for your brain. It does wonders for memory retention and also improves working memory capacity, which enhances your cognitive functioning in both the short-run and long-run. While people say that writing feels easier than expressing, writing therapy also has a load of health benefits. Maintain a journal for immense positive effects- it’s helpful, creative and completely therapeutic. Those who have practiced it also say that writing relieves pressure and feels rewarding at the end of the day.

ENJOY YOUR EXAMS!

A friend and I were discussing his hopes and plans for his career. This had been sparked off by the fact that he was about to begin his final school exams. As we said goodbye I added, “Enjoy your exams.” He looked at me in disbelief, and commented “Enjoy them? How can you enjoy exams?” His question prompted me to share an experience I had when I was taking my final school exams.

While praying to understand that divine Mind was present and that as Mind’s idea, or reflection, I couldn’t be separated from infinite intelligence, I had an inspired thought. I could make a regular practice before every exam to pause and firmly declare that I wasn’t the one who had to think what to write. I simply needed to listen to what divine Mind was telling me and let that unfold.

Divine Mind is my Mind, the only Mind there is.

So just before I began each exam, I calmly and strongly affirmed that divine Mind is my Mind, The only Mind there is. I silently declared that as divine Mind’s expression, I would know all that I needed to know. Of course I studied for the exams, but the prayer I’ve been describing helped me to understand the questions, to recall what I’d studied, and also to feel unafraid by time limits. I was honestly enjoying the exams.

Once When I was talking with my Professor Jack Leo in Singapore school about my career, we naturally got into a discussion of examinations. The professor told me he’d asked a university student who his examiner was. The young man named several individuals. The professor responded: “And where does God come in?”

He then answered his own question by explaining, “God is the only examiner. God examines man and finds His own reflection.” Stress or anxiety about exams or anything else is removed by such assurances. Only God examines us, and God always sees His perfect likeness in us. Isn’t that also the way for us to know ourselves?

The more I’ve thought about that, the more helpful I’ve found it to be.

God, the only Mind there is, knows us as His reflection.

It’s great to realize that God, the only Mind there is, knows us as His reflection. Therefore nothing originates in us. We’re not personal thinkers and doers. As God’s ideas, we exit to reproduce accurately the activity of divine Mind.

 This, however in no way eliminates the need to be diligent and conscientious in studying. Our honest work along these lines is another way for us to express wisdom, intelligence, and understanding. Thinking of our efforts in this way is especially helpful if something unusual comes up in connection with an exam.

Since all things are possible to God and therefore to God’s reflection, he, too, had enjoyed his exams and their results!

I AS AN INDIAN DELEGATE

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CULTURAL FESTIVAL 2015

 12-17 APRIL 2015 SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA

Today wars, drugs, conflicts, partition takes front page space in newspaper and prime times on television. So today we need efforts to accelerate a closer people to people contact in the realm of socio -cultural community pillar in particular, youth to youth interaction through knowledge exchange of culture, customs and traditions as well as to strengthen friendship, solidarity and co-operation among youth from different countries, because youth can brings the change.

Kingdom of Cambodia took the initiative to organized International Youth Cultural Festival (IYCF) 2015 at Siem Reap to provide a stage for youth to display their amazing cultural resources and co-cooperatively showcase performance, which reflects the unity among nations, altogether under the theme “Unity and Solidarity: Strength in Cultural Diversity”.

It was great opportunity for me to be a part of 12 member delegation of India selected by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India under the leadership of Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal. We were informed to gather at Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) Delhi on 8^th April 2015 for briefings about IYCF event and visa processes.

On 12^th April we reached Cambodian city Siem Reap and the members of IYCF welcomed us in an enthusiastic way. In Orientation evening, Mr. Hun Mani, Chairman of IYCF officially welcomed the 144 delegates from 16 countries and speaks about objectives of festival. Prime Minister Mr. Hun Sen and his wife Mrs. Bun Rany inaugurated the cultural exhibition in which individual country showcased their wide range of culture in their allotted stalls. Interactive session was also taken over to develop good communication among youth of different countries. Community village tour helps us to know about the rituals, life and culture of host country. The main attraction of tour was 500 years old and largest religious monument of the world Angkor Vat Temple which was constructed by King Suryavarman II and it took approx 37 years to complete it. On 16^th April Angkor Sakranti (Cambodian New year celebration) stage was look like Mini world because on that day grand dance event was organized in which individual countries present their folk dances in their cultural dresses.

Welcome dinner in traditional dress, exchange of gifts, group Photos of 144 delegates together on every occasion and many more moments lefts the love, peace and unity mark on youth’s mind. I think the main purpose of the event to building community spirit for youth from 16 countries in order to accept cultural differences and diversity and for youth to understand their identity as well as other nation’s identity in their international community as to avoid discrimination.

On 17^th April, the memorable tour came to an end with beautiful memories, nice friends, great experience and a message of unity, solidarity and peace to spread it into rest of the world.