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Dr Thimappa Hegde, Director, Senior Consultant Neuro Surgeon gives hope during these challenging times of #COVID-19. His words of consolation bring a sense of deep trust in the Divine thereby seeing the reality as God's plan.
As long as I am well, Let me see how well I can serve the people around me
Dream is not something that you see while sleeping, but it is something that doesn't let you sleep.
Dream something positive
Dream about Go ahead
ABJ Abdul kalam quote from patanjali
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction. Dormant forces and faculties expand in you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
The key is to be inspired.
Viktor Frankl - These people can do anything to my body but they cannot do anything to me.
Logo Therapy - If I know the meaning why I am going through this unit of suffering I am able to handle it.
Can we take every breakdown positively
When you win, you win
when you loose you learn and therefore you win.
TED Talk by Brother Davidsteindl-rast
Are happy people grateful?
Whenever you are grateful, you are happy.
Shortcut to happiness is Gratefulness.
Key is
TO be able to live each moment
To be able to live each moment
in a deep sense of acceptance
Why we suffer,
I am not able to accept this moment as It is
Nice quote by Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish economist Nobel Peace prize winner, secretary General of UN, He was source of inspiration to John F Kennedy
For all that has been in my life until now - Thank You
And for all that shall be YES.
Thanks: for all that has happened.
Yes: for all that will happen.
Rabindranath Tagore Prayer
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Grant that I may not be a coward feeling your mercy in my success alone, but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Laurie
Santos is a Psychology Professor at Yale University. She has created the most
popular course in Yale’s history, it’s on Happiness. And she’s also behind the Happiness
Lab Podcast, teaches online class “The Science of Wellbeing”, more than a
million people have enrolled in just the past few weeks.
Yale
psychology professor Laurie Santos, who teaches an online class in happiness,
joins TODAY to share five tips to make yourself feel better in a stressful
time, including deep belly breathing, acts of kindness, and practicing
gratitude. The TODAY anchors reveal their own wellness practices: Savannah
Guthrie shows a photo of herself doing yoga, and Hoda Kotb shares video of
Haley Joy laughing.
Lessons learnt from Laurie Santos
shares 5 ways to feel better!:-
· The
Key to Happiness
· Yale’s
online class gains over 1 M followers during quarantine
· If
you are having tough time for staying positive lately, you are not alone.
1.People battling with
not having work
2.Wondering about paying
bills
3.Unemployment numbers
· They
are some scientific tools that can improve your mood strategies and make you
feel even a little happier every day.
· How
alter our mood during challenging and turbulent times
· How
can we elevate our mood when these things are happening around us?
· She
thinks, this is critical. We need to validate the fact that this is an awful
and incredibly stressful time. As science gives us things to do to fight the
virus, you can wash your hands and so on, there are other things we can do to take care of our mood, even in a
scary time like this.
· [Question]
· Is
happiness a DNA thing? Certain people who are happy and certain people who
aren’t.
· [Answers:]
It is kind of Yes or No. There is a heritable component, some people have it
easier than others. All of us can take action to feel better in general and
especially during a crisis time like this.
· Five
things you’re going to tell us to help and
·
1.one of them is a
physical thing. We are going to do right now, it’s just basically deep
breathing, right?
§Basically, what we’re
going to do is we’re going to try to deactivate our sympathetic nervous system,
the fight or flight mode, that is on for everyone right now, making our chest
feel tight and making us feel anxious.
§Taking a deep belly
breath, breathing in and then slowly out, especially deep breathing in, deeply
to our belly, breathing in and out.
§That simple action is
activating your vagus nerve, that turns on the parasympathetic nerveous system
your rest and digest.
§And even just a
second of doing that you can feel your chest opening up a bit.
§It’s silly but add
those in, set a little timer to do that throughout the day.
2.Do Acts of kindness
to others
§Is doing an act of
kindness, help somebody out.
§This is critical,
when we get stressed we think self-care, focus on ourselves, but the research
suggests if we want to be happy, we need to be other oriented.
§Call that elderly
neighbour, donate that $3 you’re saying on morning coffee by donating to a
local business.
§By doing nice things
for others are actually elevate your own mood.
3.Focus on what you
control
§We have to admit when
we’re hunkered down at home the tendency is to eat whatever’s around, makes you
feel good, comfort food, junk food. That is what we gravitates to. (Normal
tendency)
§You say, No, No, No..
stay away from that stuff.
§I think this is a
time when we really need to hunker down on the kinds of things we can control.
§We can’t control this
virus but we can actively take efforts to control what we’re putting into our
body.
§How we’re reflecting,
what our mind-set is saying about these things.
§There’s so much we
can take action on ourselves and we need to remember that right now.
§Telling jokes to
others(roll around laughing – easy with kids).
§Spending time with
Kids and make them laugh so that we can laugh together because Laughing is
contiguous.
§
4.Exercise, Eat
Healthily and Sleep Enough
§Eating healthy is one
of those things you say is critical during this time.
§I think getting back
to the basics is really super critical.
§Make sure you’re
getting in that morning cardio, make sure you’re sleeping well, eating healthy.
§Those things seem
simple and they have a great effect on our physical health, they help our immune
function which we really need right now, and they help our mood and help our
mental health more than we expect.
§Walking
§Yoga
§Cardio exercise
5.Actively practice
Gratitude.
§Finally, Gratitude.
Man, that’s a biggy.
§It’s hard right now
because there’s so many things to complain about.
§But the research
suggests we can help our mood and our resilience if we take a little time to
focus on the blessings.
§It might not seem
like there’s a lot to be grateful for. But there are, all of us who are
healthy. Right now should savour the moment. It’s not guaranteed.
§The simple little
things like finding the tea you love in your pantry, those are things you want
to notice and that’s the things that helps you get through the crisis.
· We
all have little things that make us happy.
§I’m very grateful,
the big things is my kids, my family, my spouse and us all getting to be
together that’s number one.
§Doing Yoga
§Telling jokes or
stories to the family
§Family, getting the
family together.
§Laughing made me so
happy
·
1.Count your blessings
2.Savour the good
moments
3.Build resilience
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Reference:-
· Yale's
massively popular 'happiness' course is available free online
"You
ain't gonna get out of life alive, so while you're here you might as well have
a good time." - Les Brown
Human
beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person
you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the
people you're ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. - Daniel
Gilbert.
Systems Thinking
To instil a habit, we
need a system in place. I follow this tracker. My 13 Weeks Daily Tracker :-
Updated till 18th of April 2020
