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ARE YOU TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED?

Harry wakes up, white light piercing through his eyes. With difficulty, he tries to look around, but he can’t. It is as if he is bathed in numbness. He tries not to panic and stay calm. But it is not easy to relax. After all, events from the previous day play constantly on his mind. The massive heart attack he suffered made him take note of life and its transience. Until that moment, he never appreciated what he had—the various gifts of life. Today, lying motionless in the hospital, he finds himself fighting for his dear life.

Harry here is but a fictional character. Yet, each of us might be able to relate to him directly or indirectly. Life is fleeting, and in a fraction of second, everything can change without a warning. This isn’t a revelation, but a well-known truth. Yet, the cruel irony is that we often take life for granted without the slightest fear that tomorrow we may not have all that we have today. Assuming our bodies would function well forever, we seldom pay attention to our health and wellbeing; as if there is ample time, we often put our lives on hold, not pursuing our cherished dreams; as if our loved ones will be always around, we hardly invest time in our relationships; taking our immediate surroundings for granted, we pollute and deplete natural resources, putting our own survival at risk.

Given the limited time we have on earth, we ought to be more grateful for life. But are we as grateful as we should be? More importantly, why aren’t we appreciative enough for the things around us? Social psychology experiment ‘Violinist in the Metro’ offers an insight. In this experiment, world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell wore everyday clothes and played in a corner of the Washington DC metro station during rush hours. Famous for playing complex pieces with tremendous ease, the violinist’s concerts always sell out and each ticket costs no less than a 100 dollars. But, when he played at the station, the outcome was different. Over a thousand passengers crossed paths with Bell that day without even noticing him or his performance. Only a handful of people stopped to listen. This experiment revealed something profound: we could very well overlook something remarkable for two reasons—one, because it is ubiquitous and hence seems familiar and commonplace, and two, because we are seldom mindful, living in the present moment.

So, what does this mean for us? Breaking out of the inertia of comfort and familiarity, the first step toward a life of appreciation is to acknowledge its importance in life. Soulveda brings you five simple approaches that can help make gratitude our second nature.

Being present in the present

When we consciously notice our lives and our external environment at every moment, we pay attention to the sights, sounds, fragrances and sensations that come our way and the emotions they evoke. We realise that every moment comes with a million things to be grateful for, and that life is about finding joy in the smallest of things—the smell of grass, the pitter-patter of rain, the beauty of a flower, or the playfulness of a puppy. Life gives us a million reasons to smile in the here and now, we only need to pay attention to them to fill our hearts with joy.

Blinded by negativity, we hardly acknowledge our own accomplishments and start taking everything good that comes our way for granted.

Counting every blessing

Often, we lead our lives focusing on the things we do not have, and therefore, spend our time and energy worrying about how to get all that we want. In this rush to get somewhere, we seldom stop and smell the roses, experiencing, for the most part, dissatisfaction, taking for granted what’s right there in front of the eyes. Not to say that having dreams and ambitions is wrong. But while fulfilling our needs and desires, we could also consciously practice being grateful for what we already have—a loving family, genuine friends, good health, a satisfying job, an illustrious career… the list can go on. Motivational speakers and life coaches recommend the more we focus on the good side of life and practice being grateful, the more this good side follows us, and the more we become appreciative and contented.

Looking at the grass on our side of the lawn

We often waste our time comparing our lives with that of the others. Believing that the grass is greener on the other side, we envy others’ fortunes and resent our misfortunes. Blinded by negativity, we hardly acknowledge our own accomplishments and start taking everything good that comes our way for granted. Instead, if we paid close attention to everyone’s lives and remained objective, we’d realise that each of our paths is laden with crests and troughs, ups and downs. We’d realise that life is not fair or unfair, but an outcome of causes and their corresponding effects. Each of us must face our own battles and overcome our challenges as we progress through life.

Generosity resides more in the spirit and the heart, not necessarily in the purse.

Appreciating the contrast

Life, as we often find, manifests in twos—darkness and light, positivity and negativity, scarcity and abundance, good and bad, pleasure and pain, so on and so forth. One’s dependent on the other. Unfortunately, none of us like to deal with the downside of life. Seldom do we realise that it is this very duality that provides us with a much-needed contrast to become appreciative of the good side of life. After all, it is pain which helps us appreciate joy. It is darkness which makes us aware of the importance of light. It is because of the bad that we value the good. The more we learn to appreciate the contrasts of life’s elements, the more we’d learn to enjoy life and live well.

Becoming more generous

Perhaps the easiest way to becoming more appreciative in life is by becoming more giving, more generous. Generosity resides more in the spirit and the heart, not necessarily in the purse. We need not always give something that costs money, but something that would make someone feel special, like a smile, a loving gesture. In fact, what we’d almost always notice is that even these seemingly ‘little things’ can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life. This impact we can make on someone else’s life, in turn, makes us feel grateful and appreciative for what we have. What we take for granted is something someone else is praying for. Happiness resides in sharing, in giving a little of what we have to others, in allowing ourselves a little generosity now and then. After all, the payback is equally rewarding—a life of appreciation, gratitude and generosity.

Written with inputs from Shayan Belliappa.

How to Avoid Heart Disease When You Have Diabetes?

Heart disease and Diabetes

We are all aware of the consequences of Diabetes which carries lot of complications with it. There are big chances of developing heart disease which can lead to heart attack or stroke. A diabetic patient can protect heart and health by taking care of blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol level.

To add to it, high blood sugar can also damage blood vessels and nerves which control heart and blood vessels. If diabetes persists for long duration, then the chances of falling in trap of heart disease are high.

It is a proven fact that people with diabetes have tendency to develop heart disease at a younger age than people without diabetes

Adults with diabetes have higher chances of dying from heart disease than the people without diabetes.

There are certain steps which can lower the chances of getting heart stroke or heart disease.

Stop smoking

Stop smoking would be right command for diabetic patient as both smoking and diabetesnarrow blood vessels which can lead to heart stroke. Smoking can also damage the blood vessels in legs and furthers the risk of lower leg infections, ulcers, and amputation.

High blood pressure

Control of high blood pressure is must as it can damage blood vessels, strain heart and aggravate the problem via increased risk of heart attack, stroke, eye problems and even kidney problems.

Abnormal cholesterol levels

Cholesterol is a kind of fat formed by liver and is found in blood. There are two kinds of cholesterol in blood: LDL and HDL

LDI clogs blood vessels and high level of LDI may cause heart disease.

Obesity and belly fat

Even obesity or overweight acts as an obstacle to manage diabetes. It also increases risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. Excess belly fat increases the risk of heart disease. You can check your excess bally fat by measuring your waist.

Excess belly fat for man is said to be at risk if it measures more than 40 inches and more than 35 inches in case of woman. A healthy diet plan can reduce calories in your diet. Despite having normal weight, excess belly fat raises the risk of heart problems.

Family history of heart disease

Family history of heart disease develops chances of getting heart diseases. If any member had a heart attack before the age of 50, then chances of developing heart disease are increased.

Here if diabetic patients, you can still save yourself from heart stroke by taking precautions.

How to lower the chances of getting stroke or heart attack on having diabetes?

If diabetes is kept under control, then heart disease can be averted.

Certain measures can be taken to lower the chances of getting heart attack or stroke.

Need to manage your diabetes ABCs

Awareness of ABC’s, help to manage blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol level. As stated earlier, smoking should be stopped to prevent chances of getting heart disease.

A stands for A1C test

This test shows average blood sugar level over the past 3 months. The higher A1C number  reveals high blood glucose level, This can harm heart, kidneys ,blood vessels, feet, and eyes.

B is for blood pressure

If blood pressure gets too high, then heart works too hard. High blood pressure can become a reason for heart attack or stroke besides damaging kidneys and eyes.

The blood pressure level of diabetic patients should be below 140/90 mm Hg.

C is for cholesterol

There are two kind of cholesterol in your blood: LDL and HDL. Cholesterol can blood vessels which can lead to heart attack. Then HDL Cholesterol helps remove the unwanted cholesterol from your blood vessels to make you safe.

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THE DANGERS OF REPRESSED EMOTIONS

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.” ― Sabaa Tahir

Every single day, we encounter stimuli in our external environment that trigger a mix of emotions within us. Some are positive, others are negative. Naturally, we welcome positive emotions because they make us feel good—variants of good. But when it comes to negative emotions, we rarely address them. As a matter of fact, we either suppress or repress them.

To better understand what ‘suppression’ and ‘repression’ mean, let’s take a simple example: Say, we’ve had the roughest of days at work, and at the end of the day, we get back to a messy home and an argument with the spouse that quickly escalates to an unwanted magnitude. It is, indeed, a negative stimulus and so, the negative emotion of anger stirs up within. In response, we could react in three probable ways: One, we could acknowledge our anger, and share it with someone, express it irrespective of how we are feeling. Two, sensing our rising anger, we could suppress it with the help of the classic mechanism of deep breaths, counting to ten. That would mean shifting our focus and glossing over the emotion. Three, we could repress our emotion.

Studies show that our subconscious mind, sometimes, represses the surge of negative emotions because it perceives them as harmful to our psychological wellbeing and self-image. According to the study Repression: Finding Our Way in the Maze of Concepts published by the National Centre of Biotechnology Information: “Repressive-defensiveness is characterized by a non-conscious avoidance of threatening information.” And so, a person with repressive tendencies is likely to remain sociable and cheerful, who rarely complain about their misfortune. Their self-image too is positive. However, when such a person encounters someone who discusses an emotional problem, they are inclined to quickly change the subject in an attempt to avoid dealing with negative emotions.

So, what is the right way to handle negative emotions, given there are various ways to deal with them? Responds clinical psychologist Dr Joy Bannerjee, “It is in our best interest to acknowledge our emotions and feel through them. The more we become receptive to a spectrum of emotions that surface from within us, the better we’d become, at not only acknowledging them but also at processing and expressing them.” When we shun away negative emotions—either by suppressing or repressing them, we only bury them alive. They fester until one day they emerge to cause greater damage.

The more we keep them buried, the more they surface. Letting them surface, airing them out is the only way to experience the much-needed catharsis.

According to an article published by Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine How Emotional Processes Affect Physical Health and Well-Being, pent-up emotions can deteriorate our overall wellbeing. They can adversely affect our immune system making us susceptible to physical illnesses; they can lead to somatisation—an unconscious process wherein emotional pain is converted into physical pain, and they can shorten the lifespan. The article states, “Freud uncovered links between repressed emotions and physical symptoms nearly one hundred years ago… Over 80% of all doctor visits involved a social-emotional problem, while only 16% could be considered solely organic in nature.”

Negative emotions can wreak havoc. The more we keep them buried, the more they surface. Letting them surface, airing them out is the only way to experience the much-needed catharsis. Let’s look at a few simple ways to address the complex layers of emotions:

Acknowledge them

Anger, jealousy, guilt or fear, the first step to deal with negative emotions lurking within is to acknowledge them. Judging emotions and labelling them as good or bad never helps. Emotions are just emotions, and there is nothing wrong in feeling them. The more we accept them for what they are, the more we can feel and process them.

Write about them

Writing is almost a cathartic experience, a seamless way to air out the intense and complex emotions we feel from time to time. A journal of emotions and connected thoughts is always a useful tool. Experts say the key lies in being as descriptive as possible about how we feel, and why we feel the way we do. The more we record our emotions and the thoughts that triggered them, the better we are likely to get at decoding our own psyche. The better chance we have at navigating through our own thoughts and process everything we feel.

Use them to fuel creativity

Strong emotions—both positive and negative—are often the greatest source of inspiration. Some of the best artistic and creative endeavours in history have emerged from tapping into the intensity of human emotions. Art, in any form, has the ability to reach into the recesses of the deepest of emotions. Emotions, when allowed to spur art, become the fuel for creativity.

How Healthy Fats Affect Youths with Diabetes?

Healthy fats and diabetes

Today let’s take a look at the role fat plays with our health, the consumption of it and how it affects the body. Also, how these healthy fats are inducing diabetes among youth.

So should we avoid ‘Fat’? The answer is a big ‘No’. Fat is not all that bad, it is very much required for our body. The catch here is the number of calories the fat adds on consumption. Each gram of fat provides more than two times the calories when compared to protein and carbohydrate.

Fats play immense role in the body as it accomplishes so many functions in the human body.

  • Supply energy to cells
  • Provides essential fatty acids not found in the body
  • Transports vitamins that are fat-soluble (A,D, E and K)
  • Provides a fatty layer for protection around the vital organs
  • Very much needed to produce hormones

Overeating fat can lead to weight gain in no time unless you are physically very active.

The type of fat also plays a vital role in cholesterol levels in the body. The types of fat are

  • Saturated Fats
  • Unsaturated fats

Saturated Fats

The saturated fats are present in more amounts in animal products like

  • Butter
  • Cream
  • Cheese
  • Meat
  • Poultry and Meat products
  • Pastries/Cakes/Biscuits/White Bread and other processed foods

The saturated fats increase the bad cholesterol (LDL) in the body. Increase in LDL can add fat to the artery walls thereby increasing the risk to your heart.

There is a vast change in the lifestyle of our youth nowadays. The reasons mainly being

  • The increase of snacks available on the shelf
  • Consumption of Aerated drinks
  • Consumption of Alcohol
  • Reduction in physical activity

Increase of snacks available on the shelf

The easy availability of a variety of snacks at the counter has given an opportunity to binge. The wide range of snacks is so tempting that its very hard to resist.

The cookies, assortment of cakes and masala munch snack items are too much to handle, isn’t it?

With services available at your fingertips, they are all available at your doorstep. Wow making it easier for you to enjoy your favorite video games on the couch making you ‘couch potatoes’.

Consumption of Aerated drinks

Consuming Aerated drinks with friends has become a sight to watch at every nook and corner of the city. You do not need a reason to open a can of Cola/Pepsi. Hold On! The aerated drinks are nothing but sugar water adding more processed sugar to your system.

Consumption of Alcohol

The celebration among youth is marked with parties at discotheques or at Dominoes or KFC. In fact Pizza Hut, Cafes are the favorite hanging destinations of the youth today, and it has become a weekend trend. To catch up with a movie followed by a visit to a fast food chain has become an expected norm.

Wine, Cheese, Chicken are right when you take as per the body requirement. The excess will result in adding extra sugar or glucose to your body.

Reduction in Physical Activity

With cabs available at the doorstep, you just need to walk out of your door. Unless there is a conscious effort to be active physically, a sedentary lifestyle with above temptations can throw you off balance in no time.

Mind you! There is nothing wrong with the party trend, but the question here is how often it is? As anything in excess either cheese, or aerated drink or alcohol can add to your waistline in a single meal.

Studies have revealed that an increase in consumption of processed food leads to weight gain. The saturated fats can lead to fat accumulation around your abdomen increases the risk for diabetes. Further, it will lead to ‘insulin resistance’ resulting in type-2 diabetes.

Fast food, Fast life, Urgency to reach to the top is driving our youth today. Just a pause and a thought about your health can do wonders before it is too late. A little awareness of your body and food you intake would let you enjoy the life to the most.

Youth, considered being pillars of tomorrow are entitled with the enormous responsibility of taking good care of themselves. Youth in good health can shape a better tomorrow.

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SELECTING THE RIGHT MANAGERS

Selecting the right managers

An executive manager plays a very key role in the successful functioning of a company. His selection and appointment is a very important aspect for the growth of any organisation. Head-hunters and placement agencies provide resource and services for hiring the right kind of candidates. However, the parameters have to be set by the employer.

Kautilya, in his Arthashastra, gives us detailed guidelines on the selection of managers who are fresh management trainees, and also those how are experienced and need to be directly recruited for higher responsibilities.

Selection of management trainees

Book one, chapter five points out the various qualities to the tested by the human resource department, when it hunts for management trainees during campus interviews.

Kautilya says that a ‘trainable’ person is the one who has the following six qualities:

Desire to learn

Should be open minded. After learning all the theories of management, a trainee should be available to learn the practical side of it from seniors.

Effective listening ability

Listening is hearing ‘plus’ thinking. He should be able to understand what is being expected out of him from the organisation.

Ability to reflect

One should be able to think from all angles. Both logical and creative thinking is required in the field of management.

The true test of a good manager comes during crisis. He should be able to shoulder all the responsibilities and execute an immediate action plan.

Ability to reject false views

He should be able to reach at his own conclusions. One should be able to differentiate between various points of view.

Intent on truth not on person

It is an ability to separate the person from the problem. He should be able to stick to the ‘truth’ that he has reached after his own careful analysis.

Selection of experienced managers

Qualities to be tested before recruiting a person from another organisation is given in chapter nine of book one.

Technical competence

In that particular field to be tested with the help of those people more learned in that science.

Intelligence, perseverance and dexterity

His experience should also be coupled with the intelligence to understand the ‘crux’ of any problem. He should also have the ability to progress in spite of various hindrances.

Eloquence, Boldness and presence of mind

The ability to make quick decisions and a personality that reflects confidence. Eloquence also means to communicate words in a short yet effective manner.

Ability to bear troubles during emergencies

The true test of a good manager comes during crisis. He should be able to shoulder all the responsibilities and execute an immediate action plan.

Uprightness, friendliness and firmness of devotion in dealing with others

He should be a people’s man. Management is the ability to get the work done from other people.

Strength of character

Moral strength and ethical dealings. These have to be conveyed more my action than just words.