You may have heard about or even used various lip enhancement procedures and products such as Botox, but have you ever heard of lip enhancement for camels or for any other animal for that matter? Yes, that is what seems to have happened in Saudi Arabia, where some 12 camels have been disqualified from the country’s annual camel beauty contest because their owners gave them Botox-type injections to make their pouts look fuller and more attractive. Strange, isn’t it?
Why Camels’ lips were enhanced
This month-long festival is highly popular and is one of the biggest in the Gulf involving some 30,000 camels of different breeds, colours and sizes. However, what lured camel owners resort to such tactics was the prize amount- a whopping $31.8m. Read the full report here.
Plumper lips made easy
Let’s talk about lip enhancement in general as we are obviously not going to own camels and prepare them for camel beauty contest. If you are interested in making your lips more plump, then you need not go for collagen injection or any surgical procedure. The good news is that you can have fuller lips instantly with Idol Lips, which is a risk-free and easy-to-use product that can give you plumper lips quickly. All you need to do is apply it just like your regular lipstick and see the difference in the form of fuller lips. And don’t forget to be ready to answer your friends’ queries as to where you got this product from. Visit the official site of Idol-Lips to order today and grab some great offers.
Are you short on cash and payday is still a week away? The situation may worsen if your car breaks down and you need cash to get it repaired before your insurance company can evaluate the loss and pay back the repair costs. This is a common scenario most of us face quite often. Payday loan is the solution no matter where you are in the US.
Minimal documentation
Well, what really seems cumbersome and difficult is to get your loan approved, especially if you have a bad credit history. You need not worry about your bad credit history as you are not alone. A good percentage of the working poupulation in the US has faced bad credit during some point in time their life. What’s more payday loans are offered keeping in mind the requirements, bad credit history and other financial constraints of the applicants. So approval is not an issue at all.
Fast approval- you can have your loan amount credited as soon as tomorrow
As the documentation is minimal and most verification is done online or over the phone, payday loans and processed very fast. Often, all you need to do is show some proof of your employment and your last pay slip. After a few quick procedures like employment verification and a one-on-one conversation, and your loan is approved. However, it depends a lot on the lending company.
Whether your are a new mom or expecting the arrival of your first child, it must be very challenging to manage everything on your own, unless you can afford a full time nurse or baby carer. However, I must say that no matter how many helping hands you have, your child wants personal undivided care and attention from you, which of course nobody else can provide. Are you preparing or ready for that?
Ecocentric Mom Subscription can help
Essentially, this is a way to treat yourself and your little one every month. By subscribing to this programme, you’ll not have to worry about what products to use for your baby without worrying about any side effects. The monthly packets will be based upon your exact requirements either starting from your pregnancy phase or after the childbirth through to the pre-school year of your child. You will receive a packet from Ecocentric Mom every month which will contain a lot of non-toxic stuff that you and your child should use. Pamper any mom with a monthly goodie box if you are based in the US or Canada.
What you’ll get in the packet every month
Organic skincare products
Baby products and accessories
Eco-friendly home care products
A delicious, non-GMO snack
You can also gift this subscription to any of your expecting friends or new moms based in the US. You can also try Ecocentric Mom Gift Box for a month.
As the World Economic Forum’s 48th annual meeting is going to start on 23rd January 2018 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, the Indian prime minister, Mr. Narendra Modi is planning to promote Yoga in addition to highlighting India’s immense potential to become an economical power.
Yoga classes in Davos by Indian yoga teachers
Yes, two highly qualified yoga teachers are going to accompany Mr. Modi, who is leaving for Davos on 22nd January 2018. Some 70 heads of states and governments, including the US president, Donald Trump, the prime minister of the UK, Theresa May and Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany are going to be among those to attend the meeting and to get some tips from Indian yoga gurus. Read the full report.
Does yoga need to be promoted?
It goes without saying that Yoga and its benefits do not need any emphasis as the western world was already made aware of its benefits first by Swami Vivekanand in late 19th century and early 20th century. This set of ancient Indian practices and disciplines again caught the fancy of the western world during 1970s and 1980s in various forms, especially physical exercises which keep you fit and healthy. However, It will not be out of context to say that Yoga is not just a set of Asanas, postures and physical exercises, but a lot more than those. Yoga helps you connect with the almighty and discover your real potential by creating a perfect harmony between your mind and body. It all depends upon how willing and dedicated you are to benefit from Yoga’s unlimited power.
Why yoga works for everyone
No external equipment is required.
Yoga can be performed anywhere, no special set-up is required. In fact, the more natural surrounding your are in, the better.
Anyone can perform yogic exercises
Beneficial for both physical and mental health
There are various forms of yoga from Gyan yoga (philosophy) to hot yoga for weight loss. All you need to do is choose what works best for you, set your goals and achieve what you are looking for.
We’ll discuss about various forms of yoga in our upcoming posts as volumes can be written on all of those. We’ll mainly focus on those forms that are can fit into our busy and modern lifestyle.
Not sure how to obtain meditation benefits? You can use meditation for healing by using 3 quick tips. Let’s start with how meditation can be used in modern life. While there is no clear definition of modern meditation, it essentially means an informal collection of various forms and styles of meditation, customised to suit our modern lifestyle in the 21st century.
Meditate for inner peace or self-realisation
As meditation was developed more than 3000 years ago, when there were no Facebook, Twitter and general stress of modern life, people had a lot of time to sit in a particular posture to attain inner peace, self-realisation and awakening. Though the purpose of meditation still remains the same, we cannot make time to sit for hours to achieve something, effect of which will fade away in less than 24 hours.
Modern meditation for healing and positive effects
One of the most talked about and desired effects of meditation is stress reduction. In fact, that is probably the number 1 reason that makes meditation and its various forms so popular in the modern world, whether you are in Chicago or Shanghai. Let’s take a look at some of most effective methods or techniques of meditation for healing that can help you achieve better focus, inner awareness, mental peace and physical fitness to a great extent.
Pre-requisite to start modern meditation
First and foremost, you need to decide or identify which sensory organ works best for you. As we know that eyes, ears and skin are the more dominant than other sensory methods, we can use these senses to attain meditation benefit s. Here is how we can do it
Visualisation or guided imagery for meditation
If visual forms stimulate your mind, then go for Tratak meditation, which essentially involves focusing on any visual image. It can be a dot, circle, flame of a candle, your own image in the mirror or any special image that stimulates your mind. The idea is to keep looking at that image for 10 to 15 minutes without blinking until your eyes start watering. Then, close your eyes and let them relax for 5 minutes and then wash your eyes with cold water. Do not strain your eye in the beginning as you cannot stay without blinking for more than a few minutes. Be within your comfort level, as the moment it starts hurting, the whole exercise becomes counter-productive.
Using sound for meditation
This is an easy and convenient method in today’s world as you can listen to the music anytime of the day. In fact, you can use your travelling time (if you are not driving) to meditate by listening to various audio forms of meditative music such as chanting of certain hymns, shlokas or ‘Om’.
Deep breathing and sense of smell for meditation
Volumes have been written about how to benefit from deep breathing and its various forms. However, the bottom line is as long as you feel good about any form of deep breathing, it is beneficial for you. Simply breathe deeply a few times a day (morning hours are preferred), without thinking about anything else. Just feel the air going inside your lungs and coming out as you exhale.
Quick breathing exercise anyone can perform
Repeat this a few times and a day and notice the difference immediately after the exercise. Continued practice of this exercise will help you gain better focus, high energy levels and overall better physical health including stress reduction. We do not realise the importance of deep breathing and simply remain devoid of its health benefits, which include better heart health, more focus and increased stamina.
We discussed the impact or side effects of infobesity in our last post. Let’s have a look at how to minimise the effect of infobesity no matter where you are. Though chances are that you are already aware of some these techniques, you never think about them seriously, which results in making the situation worse.
7 Easy ways to overcome the impact of information overload
Use technology wisely: Though digital technology is the root cause of heavy overload of unnecessary information, you can use it to your advantage. If you notice that you are spending a lot of time filtering information, then spend some more time to find out tools, software and techniques that can do the job for you.
Stop multi-tasking if you cannot handle it: Multi-tasking is a good way to save time. However, it does not serve its real purpose if you get stressed, fall sick or goof up with any of the tasks that you want to accomplish in one go. The best way to overcome this problem is to focus on one task at a time.
Make important decisions in the morning: Though every individual’s bio-clock is set according to their lifestyle, eating and sleeping habits, research confirms that a majority of highly successful people are early risers and they make their important decisions in the morning hours. This simple habit keeps them stress-free the rest of the day. You need not be disappointed if you are not an early riser. The idea is to use your creative and productive potential when your physical and mental energy levels are at their peak, which is when you wake up after a good night’s sleep, no matter what time of the day it is.
Don’t work continuously: It has been proved that you cannot focus on one thing for more than 90 minutes at a stretch. Simply taking a 5-minute break every 90 minutes of work will boost your thinking and focusing power immensely.
Do similar tasks together: This is what requires managing capabilities. For example, if you are going to the market, make sure that you finish your shopping in one go instead of going twice or thrice. Accumulate all your shopping needs for one day and make time for it. If you have to pay bills, make sure that you pay all the bills for the month in one or two sittings instead of spending half an hour every alternate day.
Keep email, whatsapp and soclal media distractions away: You can spend your whole day on social media, if you wish. However, the result will be postponing or forgetting important tasks for that day. You may have to make time for those tasks any other day, which will mean postponing the task for that day to next day or getting stressed in order to accomplish the tasks of both days together.
Observe a Silent or Electronic-free day: This is my favourite method to de-stress myself. If you can manage, keep yourself away from cellphones, PCs, laptops or any type of electronic devices for at least one day every fortnight. This will work wonders for you.
In fact, my idea of enjoying a day off is to do nothing at all. No electronic media, no newspapers or magazines and not even watching TV for a day. If you can meditate, you will notice a remarkable change in your overall energy levels and ability to focus on the task at hand.
As the word itself suggests, it is a combination of information and obesity, which means overload of information from various sources. It goes without saying that in today’s world, you spend a lot of time in front of screen. Computers, laptops, smartphones and of course TVs are the sources that keep you bombarding with information you may not necessarily need. Just like overeating makes you obese, unnecessary consumption of information makes you infobese. An average American, whether he stays in New York or San Francisco, consumes approx. 34 GB of information everyday and the result is obvious, infobesity.
Effects of infobesity?
Stress – First and foremost, infobesity is one of the major causes of stress, especially in the corporate world.
Delay in decision making– When you are overburdened with a lot of data, you will need additional time to filter the data you actually need. This is obviously going to consume additional time which will result in delayed decisions. Surprisingly, some 43% of senior managers are infobese across the globe From New York to New Delhi.
Effect on relationships– If you spend more time in front of PC than with your spouse or family members, the relationships are bound to impacted. Infobesity is one of the silent reasons of growing number of divorces.
Useless printed materials– A majority of businesses still rely on printed information. A lot of printed materials are produced that are neither read nor used.
Physical health- Last but not the least, spending more time in front of screen weakens your eye-sight, causes headache and loss of sound sleep, which have serious impact on your overall health condition and quality of life.
In our upcoming posts, we’ll take a look at how to minimise or offset the side effects of infobesity.
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Are you interested in Cardio Kickboxing or Yoga?
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Live and on-demand yoga classes
Getting live instructions while you perform yoga or practice kickboxing, will help you follow you goals in a hassle-free manner. In fact, you can also access previous workout sessions on demand if you miss them due to your busy schedule or any other reason.
Perhaps for the first time, any food item is being withdrawn from the market due to contamination that caused an outbreak of Salmonalla. The producer of the baby milk powder, Lactalis, a French dairy giant, has announced that it would withdraw some 12 million boxes of powdered baby milk from the markets of some 83 countries in the world.
It is being said that the contamination was noticed at Lactalis factory based in Craon in France, but it was not handled carefully which resulted in its non-stop production and subsequent distribution across the world. Though the authorities have denied this allegation, it is clear that there was some lapse or human error during the production and quality checking phase.
A welcome step by Lactalis
In addition to quickly announcing the withdrawal of its baby milk powder from the market, the company sources say that it is a big lesson for them. The CEO of the company, Emmanuel Besnier has said
“But we will learn the lessons of this crisis and draw up a new health and safety plan that is even more strict in consultation with the authorities. Our absolute priority is maximum health safety,”
The company has been headed by Besnier for 17 years and there are some 300 plus employees in Craon factory. The production at the factory was stopped in December 2017. However, Besnier said that the production would start in a few months only after ensuring that health safety measures are in place. Further, he promised that appropriate compensation will be provided to the affected families.
You must have heard of yoga, but have you heard of doga? If you are a pet lover, chances are you are familiar with the term. Doga is somewhat self-explanatory; yoga with dog is doga. Though it is a relatively new term, many pet lover are familiar with the practice knowingly or unknowingly.
Doga
Did you know ?
That dog is one of the very few animals that falls ill very rarely, One of the biggest reasons behind dog’s agility, strength and mental alertness is its ability to keep itself fit by performing various exercises or physical activities that are quite similar to yoga performed by humans.
Stretching by dog
If you are a dog owner, you must have watched your dog stretch quite often, especially after it wakes up after a sleep. By stretching, dogs relax their nerves and muscles and boost the flow of blood, which energises them and works wonders for their overall fitness.
Doga stretching
Coming back to our original topic, doga, I’d like to discuss the impact of performing yoga with your dog or using dog as prop for your exercise. If you start stretching yourself just like your dog does, then you can notice the difference in your health within weeks. There are many other benefits of doga. Let’s take a look at them.
Benefits of doga
Helps in extending your dog’s life
You develop a better and stronger bond with your dog
It helps you minimise stress level
Your pet feels pampered and important
Your dog may also get a chance to meet other dogs performing doga
