Blessings Of Less Eating

It is a common belief that good and more eating is necessary for good physical and mental health. In our daily lives, we invest our efforts, money and time for having good and delicious food. Our media, print and social, invest most of their capacity in the publicity of the delicious foods and their preparations. The Antithesis of this whole trend will be surprising for most of us that there are so many blessings of less eating. It is strived to include different groups of food on daily basis, to make our health good to best.

It is discovered by Ibn-e-Khaldun that the people living in the areas abundant with food and grains are not healthier than from the areas where there is very small seasonings are there. People who have less food are healthy, smart, intelligent and having a fair complexion. The causes are described as that in their bodies, no extra fat expands their body parts and makes the function of the brain dull. No poisonous matters are grown in the stomach. Their spiritual capacity and activity are sharper than the people having plenty of food. When there is less food, there will be no wastage of time in making different delicious recipes. So the mind will have more spare time to think in deep about deep ideas. This thing will be increasing their mental and spiritual space and resulting efforts.

He gave the example of animals as well. Those who live in hilly areas where there are so many seasonings are there, are dull and having physique wise weaker bodies than the animals who are living in deserts, where there very few things to eat. These are intelligent and smart and have more active lives. People eating those animals are also like these animals, active, smart and intelligent.   

All these findings are good, but to reduce our diet, in the circumstances we are living is not easy or let’s say not possible. It will require extreme self-control and awareness of health rules. One more important thing is that our stomach is habitual of eating more. The sudden decrease can put harm to our bodies. The only gradual decrease in our food intake can do work better.

In our daily life, we see that people with thin bodies usually have more active and healthy routines. They can move more easily and do a lot of tasks than the people with more weight. People who eat less are healthier and have longer lives in most cases. They can do creative work more actively. Excessive eating can cause so many health issues like heart problems, diabetes or joint problems. 

These studies and findings, shown in the beginning, are presented by Ibn-e. Khaldun. Some findings of the same nature are also there. One study published in the Cell Metabolism journal concluded that cutting calorie intake by 15 per cent over two years can slow ageing and protect against diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. It is also reported that after they start to lose weight, their hunger levels subside a bit and they start to feel the benefits of the weight loss. They find it easier to move around, their joints hurt less, they feel better.

The importance of diet is self-evident. One cannot survive without eating. We must focus on our diet patterns and try to improve them. The gradual decrease in our eating and selection of balanced diet, with some gap, about 5-6 hours, will help us to improve our daily lives. It will not only improve our health but also increase our mental and spiritual abilities. It will decrease the chances of illness and can increase our life span. Some exercise also can help a lot. Balance is the rule of this world and for our healthy life as well.

The outcome of this write up is that we must be eating to live and not to live for eating.

Skills to Prosper in Life

Prosperity is a relative term. It cannot be generalized. One can feel prosperous due to one thing and the other can feel due to some other. Skills to prosper in life are definitely important and those can help in making our lives good to best. Our lives, individual or social, must not be static. There must be a continuous process towards prosperity.

 

In all this process, we have to consider our skills, which are giving and demanding. Demanding for us and for others. There are so many skills which can be valuable. In different situations, different skills can be of great value. We must focus on our plus points to improve the situation as a whole. 

Some personality characteristics play a basic and vital role in it: 

1. Identify your strengths and weaknesses.

First of all, we must be self-aware. We must know our bright and grey areas and then we have to work on our weaknesses and enhance our brighter ones, by thinking critically. Then the strengths can be improved and weaknesses can be replaced with positive ones. Some skills can be more giving than others those must be appreciated. In this way, we can start an ongoing process of prosperity in our lives and society.

2. Feedback is crucial.

We must ask for feedback to improve our performance. Then Accept criticism and suggestions. After asking for feedback, it will be of vital importance, to welcome criticism and suggestions. On the basis of this feedback, we can improve our skills and strategies.

3. Train your skills.

Training and practice are must as this quotation says “Practice makes a man perfect”. Our skills can become more valuable with practice and perfection. The qualities after training and continuous practice, convert our qualities into our skills.

4. Set goals and monitor your progress.

Goals can give us direction and motivation and set targets for us. without it, our efforts cannot be fruitful. When we start any task, we must know what we are going to achieve. This makes our struggle more oriented and directed.

5. Observe and listen to others.

To live in our small circle is not a positive way to lead our lives. We must be observing and listening beings. It will broaden our scenario and may be helpful in leading a meaningful life.

6. We must expand our canvass.

If we expand our vision and broaden our minds, we can perform in a better way. So, we must increase our circle of effectiveness.

Human life is very precious. We must lead a life, that is full of activity, effort and motivation. We must put our best into our life situations. Success depends on many factors that are not always in our control. Our responsibility is just to do our best with ourselves and with others.

Know Your Worth

 Everyone in this world is born with some worth. Those who search and get the benefit from it, remain successful and lucky in life. It is of vital importance to know your worth and make your life from good to best and in changing others’ framework of life in a positive direction.

 

To know one’s own worth depends on many factors around us. If our living environment is enriched and open, then the chances of disclosure of our worth will be easy. An encouraging scenario can better help us not only in knowing our worth but can provide more chances to establish and prove these positive aspects.

 

Home environment is of crucial importance. If we have a sensitive and loving family, then these chances are multiplied and in the reverse case, the results can be totally negative. So, it is of extreme importance to be vigilant and encouraging.

 

Knowing your worth and value is vital if you’re going to have success and happiness in your life. The knowledge of our worth can give us confidence, which can make our lives meaningful and successful. In this way, we can feel fully alive and as a valuable contributing part of society.

 

The more you believe in your abilities and in your own self, the more efficient and effective you’ll be in all aspects of your life. You’ll have positive self-esteem, recognize the difference you make, be clear about your values and engage in activities that are more fulfilling. Every person is unique, so don’t compare yourself with others.

 

It is important for all of us to lead our lives with confidence and knowing one’s worth can help a lot. Confidence can improve our lives a lot. It can help us not only finding our plus points but also important in creating more positive features in our lives. So, it is important to accept yourself unconditionally, and then try to evaluate yourself honestly. If you find something that is not favourable for you, then you can strive to adopt more positive ones.

 

It will be awesome not to recognise our worth. In this way, we can harm ourselves and the people related to us. Our life is so precious and a blessing to us. It is extremely important to try to know our worth, which has been blessed by our creator. We can lead a successful life with the recognition of our plus points and at the same time, we can lead an unsuccessful life, with so many issues due to just ignoring them. The environment and the people living around us can play a vital role into it.

The Magic Of Encouragement

The words and gestures, others give to someone, have an effect. It depends on the nature of the remarks. Encouragement can be used, for the shaping of human personality by moving them from good to best ways of achieving desired goals. This is the magic of encouragement.

This works in this way that positive reinforcement is presented after a behaviour and desired behaviour is more likely to occur and reoccur. In personality development, it can help remarkably.

Our simple encouraging words and actions can make miracles. These words can be like:  There you go, Keep up the good work. Keep it up, Good job, I’m so proud of you. A tired person, who is feeling so low became suddenly active and enthusiastic by listening to encouraging remarks e.g. well done, great job or such a brilliant idea. So, to uplift backbenchers, these kinds of words can make a great improvement in their performance.

Encouragement brings with it many benefits in the people, as it is the act of giving someone support, confidence and hope.  A remarkable incident must be shared that a prisoner in jail was leading a dull and discouraged life. An officer visited the jail and passed encouraging remarks about him, “You are very intelligent”. These 4 words sentences made him a different man. He feels that he is so intelligent. After many years, that prisoner became a very successful person, after coming out of jail. That officer met him on some occasion. The successful man (the former prisoner) told him that you are the cause of my success by giving encouraging remarks “You are very intelligent”. It shows the miracle of encouragement.

When we are encouraged, our confidence grows. The encouragement might provide a momentary lift or change someone's confidence for a lifetime. Either way, it matters – and you never know when what you will say will make a big difference in someone's confidence.

1.  When we are encouraged, our confidence grows. The encouragement might provide a momentary lift or change someone's confidence for a lifetime. Either way, it matters – and you never know when what you will say will make a big difference in someone's confidence.
2. Encouragement creates belief. When we know that others believe in us, it changes everything. When we encourage people, we are letting them know we see what they have done, and by extension, believe what they will be able to do in the future; and that improves their belief in themselves and their potential.
3. Encouragement builds confidence. Does your confidence increase when people let you know how what you are doing is making a difference? It is true for you and for others too. When we are encouraged, our confidence grows. The encouragement might provide a momentary lift or change someone’s confidence for a lifetime.
4. Encouragement improves attitude. We never feel worse after someone encourages us. Encouragement almost by definition makes us feel better, puts a bounce in our step and smile on our faces. And when our attitude is better, we are healthier, happier and more productive.
5. Encouragement promotes action. Sometimes moving forward, taking action and trying new things is hard – for anyone. Look at the four items you have just read about: awareness, belief, confidence and attitude; as we have more of any one of these, our ability and willingness to take action grows, doesn’t it? Now imagine something that we could do or say to someone else that grew all four . . . how powerful would that be? Genuine, authentic, meaningful encouragement is that thing; and that is how powerful it can be.

It is very easy and good for us to play our positive part in changing other’s life in a better direction by giving encouraging remarks. In this way, we can make a difference in our surroundings, in a slight way.

Learning From Experience

Learning is the process of getting some knowledge, enhancing our experience, and change in behavior, in the desired way. There are so many ways of gaining experience: from books, from parents, from elders, from teachers, from society, and from our own personal experiences. All above mentioned are valuable and authentic ones. Some learn from one source more than the others and some rely on many of them. The purpose of all learning is traveling from good to best way of behaving. This is learning from experience.

Learning from experience means to learn about something from experience obviously. This experience can be of our own or of others; of different people, of different books written by different writers, of the history of people, and so on.

Experiential Learning

As the name suggests, experiential learning is the process of learning through experience. Experiential learning theory was initially proposed by psychologist David Kolb who emphasized how experiences influence the learning process. Kolb defined experiential learning as "the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.  It includes:

Concrete Experience

In a concrete experience, each learner engages in an activity or task Concrete experience provides information that serves as a basis for further learning steps. The main thing required in this stage is the involvement of the learner. This quality may produce the best results.

Reflective Observation:

Reflection is a process of exploring and examining ourselves, our perspectives, attributes, experiences, and actions/interactions. It helps us gain insight and see how to move forward. Reflection is often done as writing, possibly because this allows us to probe our reflections and develop them more thoughtfully. Active or reflective experimentation. This may be done by these 5 processes:

1. Reporting
2. Reasoning
3. Responding
4. Relating
5. Reconstructing

Abstract Conceptualization:

A learning ability or mode that requires thinking or conceptualizing when learning from experience.

Active experimentation:

This stage in the cycle is the testing stage. Learners return to participating in a task, this time with the goal of applying their conclusions to new experiences. They are able to make predictions, analyze tasks, and make plans for the acquired knowledge in the future.

According to Kolb, people who are considered "watchers" prefer reflective observation, while those who are "doers" are more likely to engage in active experimentation.

Experiential learning is becoming far more common in schools and educational institutes around the world. In this phase of life, people learn through these steps, sometimes knowingly and sometimes unknowingly. Successful learning follows a practical and successful life, by using this learning style.

It is human nature that he wants to learn from his own experience. Maybe it is the best way. In this way, our retention will be more accurate and clearer. Whatever we learn, we can utilize with precision and perfection. We can transfer our learned knowledge with more confidence and accuracy. But this process can be practically possible in only some aspects. We are not in a position, to learn all kinds of things from our own experience. In our educational process, from the nursery to the higher levels, we have to depend upon the knowledge developed by others. Then we have to depend on teaches as well. Now we depend more on Internet, for most of our required knowledge, for making assignments and for doing preparations for exams.

All the developments in different fields of life are dependent on the prevailing body of knowledge, collected by our predecessors. Otherwise, new discoveries and inventions are impossible or will be very time-consuming. We have to have some base, for doing new experiments. We cannot do anything in a vacuum. So, we are to take some prior findings as to the measures for comparison of our incoming figures. It is a continuous process of series of findings in a logical way.

The people, who try to learn from the experiences of others, good or bad, usually sustain a good direction in life without loosening precious time, valuable efforts, and avoiding awful events. These can lead a person towards a meaningful and positive life.

Honesty Is The Best Policy

What is Honesty is the Best Policy

Honesty is the Best Policy, is an idiom or we can say a factual reality. Let’s see what is Honesty? “The quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness. freedom from deceit or fraud”. All these qualities are included in this one word. It means it’s an umbrella term for all these good qualities.
If we see in-depth, we come to know that all these good traits are demanded and required by society. Not only a good society but these are the characteristics of a good and peaceful family as well. In the absence of these, any progressive and flourishing society cannot be established.

Importance

Societies came into being after divine guidance, usually have all of these characteristics in the best form. The distance from that period decreases these values gradually. So, a special effort has to be taken into account, to revive those ones. Different people and organizations try their best to hold these qualities, but they find it difficult.

Where is it found least

In most of the developing countries, we will find that the situation is not very positive. In every department, especially the departments of public dealings like police and judiciary. The image of these institutions is not good. The reason for this image is that the general public has to face a negative attitude there. They do not find sincere cooperation, honest dealing, respect, or desired fair results. The worldwide condition of these institutions may be better but is not ideal. The reason behind this is the lack of honesty. Behind this condition, there may be the unfair economic conditions of these departments. So, to fulfill the basic requirements, they have to adopt these unfair means. Now they have become so habitual that it is beyond any limits. In these circumstances, there are so many people who present an honest attitude.  Those people who are presenting exemplary behavior for others, maybe these societies are surviving due to them.

What is honesty?

Honesty is a valuable trait in a world full of false promises. The person who is truthful, trustworthy or genuine. Honesty leads to a fulfilling, free life. Honesty is not just about telling the truth. It's about being real with yourself and others. Honesty sharpens our perception and allows us to observe everything around us with clarity. We must know the qualities of an honest person, so we can try to be one of the desired ones:

1. They're Not Concerned About Popularity Contests. Honest people don't obsess over what peers think of them. They simply are who they are, and other people can accept them or reject them.
2. They Stand Up for Their Beliefs. Honest individuals aren't afraid to speak their minds. Honest people will adopt the right position and state their opinions.
3. They Are Thick Skinned. Honesty requires thick skin. Not all people love hearing the truth, and when you dish out a fresh dose of reality, some might be inclined to back in your face. Honest individuals may fall victim to the insecure defensiveness of others, requiring them to be thick-skinned.
4. They Have Close Friendships. As a result, individuals who are honest often have rich, meaningful friendships. Others know that their honest friend won't complain about them behind their back and desire their betterment. This level of trust allows for deeper, healthier relationships.
5. They Are Trusted by Peers. Peers will seek the aid of honest individuals, knowing they can count on them for true, objective advice. Many others will lie and tell you the story you want to hear. Others trust honest individuals to tell them how it really is, without sugar-coating the truth.

So, we will try to be honest, and act our part in a positive way. Honesty will definitely create an effect that is more lasting and desired.

The Object Of The Superior Man Is Truth

• Confucius in his quote says “The object of the superior man is truth”, sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. The superior man has the feeling of truthfulness. They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

  According to Confucius who is known as the first teacher in China, truthfulness is the basis of every virtue. Without truth, nothing valuable can be achieved.  Sincerity is an essential quality of people.

   

  This is only one good to best quality which Confucius has described of a supper-man. Supper-man is an ideal person, which he named Nobel-man and great-man. He was really a very wise person, looking like a Man of God. His teachings are of great value and can be taken as golden words.

   

  These quotes are not only admirable but are recommendable to apply in our lives. The actual effectiveness of his quotes is to understand them fully and then try our best to act upon them. In this way, we can make our lives like supper-man.

   

  It is also a fact that it will not be an easy thing to lead our lives truthfully. There are so many distractors that hinder our ways toward honesty. So, it will be necessary to establish the nobility of the virtue of truthfulness. Only and only then we can get the full benefit of the virtue of truth.

   

  Truth is a quality, recommended by almost all religious groups. There is no other view about truthfulness. It is an international quality, which is commendable and recommendable. It is very important to apply this rule in our lives, by using all our efforts.

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