Living Alone

Being Alone: Boon or Bane

Like me, there would be thousands of boys and girls who at some point of there life have felt alone with very little social interactions and no-one to spend time with except you yourself. If you are one of them then some would be happy that they explored a new part of life of which most of the people are unaware and some would be ridiculing the times they went through "That" time and term that time as "Suffering" and misery and remember the time as the most dreaded times of their life.

Well, here's what according to me is the topic, Boon and Bane sides of being alone.

Being alone has wonderful personality development opportunities but in some ways, it is drastic too..

Being Alone as Boon:

Exploring a new world:
There is a new world to explore, where only peace and silence awaits, where there is nothing to worry about and no one to worry for, neither you have anyone to worry for you, in basic terms you are a free soul, can do anything you want and like the way you want. You would decide your own outcomes, you would be your own student and your own teacher, you'll be amazed by how much you already knew when you will learn from yourself. The true beauty of nature can only be felt if you any point of life explored this world. For those who didn't, you have been enjoying only "Scenic" beauty of nature not the "True" one.

All the Time is yours:
When you are alone, you are not expected by anyone to give or spend your time with them, all the time is yours, this statement may sound quite obvious and simple but only those who don't have time for themselves know the value of time. So respect the gift you are gifted with. You can do all the work required to survive in the world and still after that you'll be left with more than enough time to spend and learn many new things from the most awesome person in the world, and that's you.

Exploding Creativity:
Whenever you have any type of company, their thinking, words and mindsets, whether you admit or not change your behavior, thinking, language and mindset. You won't even notice the changes they had been feeding to your brain unconsciously which are manifested by your brain subconsciously and when the changes become powerful enough they take a physical form as your actions or consequences of your actions, but when don't have any type of company, you don't change for no reason. You change for the better. You think what you can think and no one else because then no one restricts or manipulates your thinking by any subconscious remote control. You are the master of your brain, you can train it in any way you like.

Love for Body:
In the hectic life, we get no time to exercise or to stay fit. For a healthy living, physical fitness is necessary. When you have all the time and all the creativity you are leading to the steps of physical fitness. Since, you have time, you can try out every single exercise you learned from any resource in the world and adopt the one that suits you and when you'll start exercising you'll start understanding the physics of exercising and how it biologically affects humans. Through your creativity you can invent new exercises or modify the existing ones and then practice them according to you. Exercising must always be a fun activity and then you can be the ultimate machine who can create or modify exercise that your hormone fed brain would like. Since, you have all the time, you'll never ever get busy enough to say "I should miss exercise today else I'll be delaying the other work" thus keeping you on schedule. And when you have finally understood the physics of exercise you can generate your own exercise schedules to get leaner.(The more on physical fitness will be covered in future posts.)

Love for Food:
For a fit body, feeding it with healthy food is necessary. When you have time, you just start saying "It's boring"!, well it's never boring to improvise the quality of life, you can research how the feeding works, how our body reacts to which food and then personally experiment each of the findings on yourself and then use the result for yourself to improve the quality of life.

Love your brain:
Since, time is there, health is there, good food is there, now's the time for brain training. The only requirement is will power and time (which you already have). Abandon the world of cold, dark and negative atmosphere and step into the warm, bright and positive environment of new world you've explored. You've a lot to see and feel. Feed you brain with good thoughts, stay positive. Humans have the strange capability of resisting change whether it is for good or bad they always resist the change. Train your brain to take a command on this capability and change for good, read positive attitude encouraging books and quoted and try implementing them in your life.

Love yourself:
Let's start from beginning, when you have all the time, you are physically fit, eating good food, and have been training your brain for good. You are nearly invincible now. You made an invincible soldier of yourself who would be greatly efficient to fight the ups and downs of life and a you also made a good human of yourself so that you would be able to enjoy "true" beauty of nature I talked about. Ever saw a person sitting alone on a bench in a park and enjoying the moment alone, well you might have seen many but only few of them are really experiencing the "True" beauty of nature.
Talking about myself, due to time, health, food and brain I explored another side of me and learned many new things, I never knew I could write poetry, I exercised and never realized that eventually i got so fit that I was able to learn Parkour, fit enough to learn BBoying moves (as I had passion for dancing since I was 13) and a lot more. Since, I was alone I tried every single thing within my grasp to pass my time and here I am from Fatso to toned body, brain and body trained good enough to learn a new skill without much effort and leading a healthy life, facing the ups and downs of life by tackling them with full power, well you can do it too!

Being Alone as Bane:

Negative Thoughts poison our brain:

Just like good food is healthy food for body good thoughts are healthy fuel for our brain. Some people may take a different fork subconsciously towards the journey to the "New world" to be explored and feed their brain with negative thoughts like, "Nobody cares if i live or die", "I am worth nothing", " I hate myself", and many more which leads you to depression and suicidal tendencies.

Lack of love for themselves:
These people lack love for themselves and eat high fat foods to please their brain, since fat is the pleasure giving agent to brain besides positive thoughts, they don't exercise and wait for this dingy time to pass by but the time is long enough that they had  done so bad to them already that when they realize, it is already too late.


Sharing my personal experience, I too took the wrong fork, I too was depressed and fed my brain with negative thoughts. The case was so severe that I was on the antidepressants because I felt sleepy all the time of day even after waking up a good nights sleep. Then I was finally fed up of myself and accepted the fact that my change resisting capability was resisting my change for good. I trained hard, did every work on schedule, found various activities to indulge in to make me so busy that I won't even think of the depressing things and gave specific amount of time to sort the things out improve myself to tackle the things which caused depression.

Well if i can do it, you can do it too, it might be my way, You got to figure your way out of the misery, try and practice every new method to make you life a boon. You can do it, since you have all the time you have right? Make your own methods to tackle problem don't count on methods of other people who had same experience because somewhere in you, you have creativity right?
And when you'll succeed, results will be overwhelming!!!

The Banana Recipe

Banana Recipes

The Complete Breakfast

This is a very simple and easy to make and hassle free recipe.

Providing all the necessary nutrients and hunger satisfying meal with a very good taste.

1.Just take your breakfast cereal or oatmeal.

2.Add milk in it.

3.Add sliced bananas.

4. Add a little amount of chocolate sauce on top.

5.Enjoy.

Banana Shake

When it comes to making a banana shake there are thousand of recipes out there, but this is the one I personally made it doesn't contain sugar, i.e it will fit in all diet plans but it has natural sweetness means it can be drunk with joy also.

This recipe contains enough protein to be taken by Gym body builders or serves good as mass gainer( do not misunderstand with fat gainer)

Ingredients required:(Serves 1)

1.1 Banana

2.250 ml Milk(toned)

3.Ice cubes (as per requirement)

4.Raisins 7-8

5.Cashews 4-5

6.Almonds 2-3

7.Vanilla Essence 6-7 Drops

8.Nutrilite Protein Powder 5g (Link Below)

Amway Nutrilite Protein Powder Pack - 200 Gm
Amway Nutrilite Protein Family Pack (1Kg)

How to make:-
1.Take a Shake jar and place it over Mixer/Grinder.
2.Add bananas, milk, raisin, cashews, almonds  and Nutrilite protein powder.
3. Start the Mixer/Grinder and let it do it's work till the shake rises in volume and becomes smooth.
4.Add Ice cubes and vanilla essence, and grind till smooth
5.Serve chilled!

This is the perfect protein shake because unlike any other protein supplement that are only used to add bulk in the body, Nutrilite Protein gives all the Amino Acids required by our body which provides nourishment to muscles and all the body.
Benefits of Bananas.
Eat pure, Live Healthy!!

Yellow Curved SuperFruit

Bananas

The Fruit which could have unimaginable benefits

Some people hate the fruit while some people love them so badly that they are the first and foremost thing that initiate their morning. This post is for haters as well as lovers, for haters to give a reason to love and for lovers to give a reason to love the  even more.

Gym Buddies: Bananas are gym buddies, studded with carbohydrates and nutrients to pump up muscles and makes up for the lost calcium by increasing the calcium absorbing tendency. One banana can be taken before workout to boost up the energy during workout (but not if abs or cardio day), and taking banana after workout compensates for what was lost. Recipe.

Alert Simulator: Due to abundance of Potassium in it, it acts as alert simulator, thus best to take just before exam.

Depression: Bananas help overcome depression due to high levels of Tryptophan, which is converted to Serotonin --> The Happy Mood  neurotransmitter.

Fits in every diet plan: Since, low in calories (Approximately 110 per banana) and high in nutrients, it fits in all diet plans whether for mass gaining or fat losing.

Perfect Breakfast: Any recipe including bananas in breakfast is probably the best on the go recipe when in hurry, satisfying, hunger and providing sufficient nutrients.Recipe.

Blood Pressure: Due to high in potassium and low in salts, FDA recognizes this food the recommended one to lower blood pressure and prevent heart stroke.

Hunger and Digestion: Since bananas contain Pectin, a type of water soluble fiber, abundance of liquid should be taken with bananas because the fiber absorbs water and makes you feel fuller, thus helping in weight loss, this fiber also aids digestion.

CAUTION: If enough liquid is not taken with bananas then the fiber absorbs the liquid matter present in stomach, which may lead to temporary constipation.

Sugar and Nicotine craving: Whether you are trying to lose weight by cutting on the high sugar foods or trying to quid smoking. Banana is the way, having various components of Vitamin B-Complex, Potassium and Manganese, it helps to reduce the sugar cravings and helps in quitting smoking and fast recovery of body after quitting of smoking .

Pro-Biotic: Bananas stimulate the growth of healthy bacteria in he bowel and thus are Pro-Biotic in nature.

Immunity: Since, good levels of Iron and Vitamin B-Complex components in it, it helps in strengthening Nervous system and stimulates the growth of White Blood Cells, thus improving immunity and indeed protecting us from various deadly diseases.

Still not enough to love bananas??

Well here's the last one, The Minions love them too.. :P

The Very First Recipe

Tea

The Very First Recipe which almost every human learns but about 90% of you learn the wrong recipe.

Green Tea:-
It is very simple to make, just add two or three pinch(not more than that, that is using a tea bag is not a good practice) of green tea in a cup or tumbler and pour boiling water and cover it for 5 minutes. Strain it and drink it.

I have tried a dozen types of green tea but the one which I prefer is:-
Organic India The Tulsi Green Tea- 100 g
And if you are in a hurry:-
Organic India Tulsi Green - 25 Tea Bags

Black Tea:-
This is where it gets controversial, during my visit to Kerala, I learned that most of the people and even those who think themselves as tea master make tea in a very wrong way.Here's how to make tea which has many benefits and no harm:-
1.Take two or three pinches of tea( and not teabag, that is not a good practice, tea bags are just business strategies for various companies and are only meant for making tea on the go while travelling) and put it in a kettle for one cup, multiply the quantity for multiple cups.

2.Add equivalent boiling water and cover the vessel for 5 minutes, strain and serve.

3.For Milk Tea: Do not add the milk while boiling the water, first make the tea ready after adding boiled water, leaving it for 5 minutes and straining it, then add boiling milk as per requirement and sugar according to taste and not while making the whole tea.

Every element in tea should be added in a different step and off the flame.
If we make the tea in traditional way, that is by boiling water and adding tea leaves then milk and required materials on the flame then many of the nutritional contents get burnt and thus we are unable to exploit full benefits of tea.

Tea made by this method will benefit you like green tea , unlike traditional tea there will be no gas problem, and it will give you kick start for the day too (Since, it has no L-theanine because of oxidation).

Cook right, eat healthy! 

Developing Brain Powers

Develop Your Powers Of Concentration & Retention

The one who has developed his powers of concentration can read in minutes what another person could read in eight hours.

Students these days often complain that despite having studied copious notes a number of times, their confidence gets shattered at examination times as they are unable to remember that they studied. They often wonder how to develop their powers of concentration and retention. To achieve concentration powers, three yogic techniques are suggested.

• Oxygenating the brain:For those who are required to sit for long hours at a stretch, their blood tends to get accumulated in the lower half of their bodies which means that sufficient quantity of oxygen is not pushed to the brain. This in turn negatively impacts their power of concentration. To oxygenate the brain, practice "Shirshasana" (Stand on you head with leg upwards) for 5-10 minutes daily in the morning. The brain draws plenty of blood through this which contributes to sharpening memory and concentration power. Also, avoid sitting for long hours at a stretch; take 5 minute brisk walk at regular intervals.
• Combine Meditation with chanting: While meditating, mentally repeat your chosen mantra (any mantra). Then mingle the mantra with incoming and outgoing breaths. The powerful vibrations of mantra will permeate each and every cell of your body, bringing the breath under your control. This in turn will improve blood circulation in your body, reduce stress levels and increase you power of concentration. Practice this technique for about 20 minutes daily, preferably in early morning hours.
• Concentration with Meditation: This technique involves steady gazing. Light a candle and place it so that it is at the level of your eye. Look straight at the flame without blinking the eyes for half a minute or for as long as you are able to keep you eyes open, Concentrate on the flame with the eyes open till tears come. When your eyes get tired, close and visualize the after-image of the flame in front of your (closed) eyes. Do this for 5 minuted before going to sleep and before you begin your studies. This will do wonders to your power of concentration.

Swami Sivanada says,"When you study a book, focus your whole mind on the subject in hand. Do not allow the mind to see any external object or hear any sound. Collect all dissipated rays of mind. When mental rays are concentrated, illumination begins."

-the speaking tree, TIMES OF INDIA

Low Calorie Ice Cream

Ice Cream ( Low Fat)

Doesn't it sound amazing?? Ice Cream, that too low fat

When it comes to ice cream, whether he is a child or an adult, everyone starts twisting their tongue in and out their mouth and each and every taste bud craves for the creamy layer to melt on their tongue and flow inside, leaving a smooth and soothing experience.

But normal ice cream, as the name suggests contains high amounts of cream pertaining to deposition of fats in the body.

And some people see all processed food toxic except which are made at home.

So, here I present the recipe, tried and tested, home made, chemical free, pure vegetarian, ice-cream and obviously with less cream. :P 

Ice Cream Chemistry :

Ever wondered why market ice cream is so fluffy and home made ice cream solid like brick??

This is because market ice cream is incorporated with air and contains emulsifiers that avoid crystallization of water present in milk and cream. So, here we go.

Ingredients :-

All the ingredients are for standard volumes, all the amounts can be integrally multiplied for more servings.

1.Standard Milk  250 ml

   (Natural milk cream 

   should not be removed)  

2.Fresh Cream   10-20 ml

   (As per creamy experience)

3.Ground Sugar  3 Tablespoon

4.Custard Powder  1.5 Tablespoon
  (of required flavor.)

Procedure:-

1.Take about 50 ml cold milk and mix in the Custard powder and bring rest of the milk to boil.

2.Mix the custard mixed milk and about 2 tablespoon sugar in boiling milk and cook until it becomes    really thick.

3.Bring the custard to room temperature and then put it in the Mixer/Grinder in the Shake making   jar(because it incorporated air in the shakes and then the shake rises in volume), and turn the Mixer/Grinder on.

4.Let it do its thing until the custard rises in the volume a bit.

5.Put the custard in Freezer until it is partially frozen.

6.Repeat Step 3 with this partially frozen ice cream and add cream and rest of the sugar and turn the Mixer/Grinder on until it is completely liquid.

7.Put it in the freezer again and wait until frozen.

8.Now, scrape off the Scoops with Scoop scraper, add your favorite toppings and enjoy.

If you want to make fruit ice cream then add small pieces of soft fruits after Step 6.

You may try variations with flavor concentration with increment of custard powder and sweetness by increment or decrement of sugar and creamy texture by increasing amount of cream added.

Caution: This ice cream is not like one in the market because they use many chemical or Non-Veg compounds as emulsifiers, more amount of cream, Special Ice cream makers to incorporate air, and big deep freeze freezers but still it is really good enough to make family members smile. :)

The Drink which adds Greens to Life!

Green Tea 

Extracting the most of the amazing benefits

The drink which may do wonders to human health is easily available in the market but people are just unaware or bounded by the fact that they don't want to try anything new or the "Taste" doesn't suit them. Well I don't have a problem but they are the only one who cannot see their good when it's just available to buy from money.

Before telling about the Tea one should know that maximum allowed healthy intake of caffeine is 400 mg per day and a Green Tea Bag contains approximately 31.8 mg of caffeine. Overdose of caffeine can be destructive in nature. Caffeine overdose leads to disrupted sleep patterns which indeed affects overall health.

Treasure that green tea holds constitutes:

• Antioxidants: When we eat anything unhealthy like burger, pizza, etc. The starch and sugar are converted to glycogen which provide energy to required parts of the body, BUT when we eat anything unhealthy along with these processes free radicals are also produced, which are the prime contributor for health deterioration. This is when Antioxidants come into play, Antioxidants help the blood get rid of free radicals and other toxic substances in the blood. If you join any fitness or wight-loss program, it is mandatory to detoxify the blood. I guess Green Tea greatly serves the purpose.
• Caffeine: Caffeine is the brain body activity stimulant, if we talk in technical terms caffeine actually "Overclock" the body and brain functions and thus helps you in taking the best work from your body. It actually gives kick start to the day if taken in the morning.
• L-Theanine: As discussed above, caffeine overdose is destructive. Well, don't worry about caffeine when you drink Green Tea. Comparing ordinary tea and Green tea, Green Tea is not oxidized, due to which some nutrients and chemical compounds which where there since birth of the plant do not get blotted out. One of them is L-Theanine, an amino acid which reduces the effect of caffeine and provides calming effect to body and brain and relieves the person from anxiety.

Some other benefits:-

1. There is a hypothesis that when Green Tea taken with honey and lemon, reduces the capacity of body to absorb fat, therefore helping in fat-loss.
2. It improves metabolism, means it will keep fueling your body with energy with whatever energy sources present in the body.
3. If Green tea taken in a habit, it can even correct irregular Menstrual Cycles in women.
4. Green tea with honey and lemon just quadruples the benefits for health and also improves Taste. :P
5. It Improves digestion.
6. It suppresses appetite if taken before meals.

And there are many uncounted and unlisted benefits.
I have tried about dozens of different Green Tea, but the best one i came across was:-
Organic India The Tulsi Green Tea- 100 g
And if you are in a hurry:-
Organic India Tulsi Green - 25 Tea Bags
For instructions on how to make green tea in correct way. Click Here!

If you are not drinking minimum of 3 cups of Green Tea per day, then you are not doing any good to your body.

Behavior isn't always the Mirror of Personality

Ego, what people think of it isn't the way it actually is. 

Some people see it as the identity of a rude, argumentative, obnoxious to talk with kind of person, but in reality that might not be the case.

Some men use it as the defense system in flow of what others say or think but the drawback is, it completely takes over their identity. Living under the hood of ego is like living in a virtual world where everything works and seems apt to the eyes of the person.You can witness it as this entity within your field of consciousness operating under the guise of identity. 

Some people have a little ego that does no harm to anyone, but some have so strong magnitude of it that it creates kind of very strong repelling magnetic fields due to which it seams like banging your head on the wall while talking to them.

But in reality they are not like that inside and as it is said "People aren't wrong, their habits are", there are some ways to understand people with strong ego:-

• Ego is their defensive shield : They lack self-love, self-worth, so by building themselves externally (through bodily training,materials,wealth reputation,etc), they are supplementing their deep sense of lacking. Ego is a sign of disharmony deep inside the spirit.They are trying to create cosmetic personal value. Talking personally, when I feel disgusted and lack self-worth within my deep subconscious brain, I want to work out often. Similar to the old analogy of how bullies come from the parents who bully them, people with big ego often act from a place of depression and insecurity. Beneath the mask is a boy or a girl who needs some healing to be done. I am just saying that ego might be a secret door leading to the wounds dated to youth and childhood.
• Pain changes a person in thousand different ways: When you come across a person who gets on your nerves, don't feed your ego in return, try to understand their pain. Feeding your ego juices them up an protecting their defense systems of the ego castle in which resides all the feelings and emotions he/she could be hiding from rest of the world. Give them the energy of acceptance and love and you'll be amazed by the results.
• Self-Loving and Self-Worth: Loving yourself and staying centered in heart and mind may reveal the new doors of vision which no one even bothers to see. Do you really think any egoistic person could have got under the skin of  Buddha?? or any self portraying men with high attitude could have turned Jesus' temper up ?? Taking part in conversations with people who's words contain enough toxicity lethal for your peace of mind. They may shift the center of your spirit and alter the way you think and behave. Dealing with them is like nullifying a great part of your bright, warm and positive energy with dark, cold and negative energy. People anticipate most of the future happenings which never happen and then the rest of the work of manifesting them is done by the brain which indeed leads to anxiety and depression of the event which will probably happen but the probability of happening is not "ONE"

Their ego is like a shield to defend, mask to pretend, Ups and downs to deal and wounds to heal.So don't take them too seriously.

Egg Nutrition Do's and Don'ts

All About Eggs (Chicken)

About 100 grams of eggs contain 13 grams of Protein which may sound good, right?? But it also contains Saturated Fat about 3.3 grams and Cholesterol about 373 mg which may lead to disasters..

 Things to remember before eating eggs:-

• Poultry Chicken Eggs are Unfertilized: Yes, you heard right, it is possible that every egg you ate since your birth isn't fertilized at all. Poultry chickens are genetically engineered to lay about one egg per day but in reality chickens only lay eggs in breeding season only after mating with the males, fertilized counts to about 15-20 eggs per year but poultry eggs count to 330-340 eggs per year. Since, unfertilized eggs contain pure female hormones and sex chromosomes and not taking them in apt dosage may cause hormonal imbalance and lead to catastrophic consequences like: Gynecomastia (Male Breasts) in men, Uterus cancer in women, and many life destroying diseases and abnormalities.

• High Cholesterol: High Cholesterol make it a live edible grenade to humans. Since, high cholesterol can cause blockage in arteries and may cause cardiac arrest, therefore egg consumption for vulnerable people should not be more than 4 Egg Whites per week, and those with healthy heart can consume 4 egg wholes per week and not more than that, say experts.
• Get all Nutrition: Cooking eggs fully doesn't give you full nutrition. most of the nutrition is concentrated in the egg yolk, since it is supposed be the nutrition of "supposed" cultivating life inside the egg. Therefore it doesn't mean it should be eaten raw, egg may contain some bacteria Salmonella that can cause life threatening diseases such as typhoid fever, food poisoning, gastroenteritis,etc.Therefore eggs should be cooked to half, i.e Half-Fried or Half-Boiled.

  These Images show the actual  recipe that how they should be cooked to get all the nutrition they contain.

The post doesn't intend to instil a fear of eggs among the readers but to be cautious what overdose can do. Everything in controlled quantities is beneficial but lethal if overdosed.