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Do you sometimes get a feeling –
you need to hit the restart button? As in hit the restart button of your life
and lifestyle? Yes weird, I know but I do get this feeling. In fact, I have
been getting it for quite some time. For a change I thought I’ll pay heed to
what my mind and soul was telling me – RESTART.
For some time now I haven’t been keeping
well – thanks to a very hectic schedule, loads of travel and wading through
traffic – everything has been taking a toll on health. The sedentary lifestyle
that we lead, rather that I am compelled to lead resulted in back pain, low hb,
low blood pressure and god knows what not. It’s easy to say that we should find
time to exercise and all that gyaan but in reality it’s difficult when you
leave for office at 7:30AM drive for 18 km each side and get back home at 8:30
pm. After that only two important thing on your mind is food and sleep.
That is when I realized the body
was shouting to just stop and block out the stress and hit the restart button.
I realized there was an urgent need to get back to basics and throw out the ‘convenient
lifestyle’ – if there is anything like that. And get into a path of holistic
detox. No I’m not trying to sound all spa-ish and enlightened type of thing.
I’ll share just how I rebooted my
system and what changes I can see in myself.
Start your day with Food
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When you lead a busy and
stressful life you want things quick. You hardly have time. But this is exactly
where you need to invest time. Some wise men had said “Health is wealth” it definitely
is true. And if you don’t pay heed all that wealth you are accumulating will
get into the bulging pockets of hospitals and nowhere else. And you know how
hospitals are these days. I’ll keep my experiences with hospitals for a latter
post.
So instead of starting your day
with bread butter jam and glutten laden food, packaged food – I started taking
fresh cooked food – sometimes the plain poha, roti subji, fresh fruits or egg white omelets with
whole wheat bread does the trick. Starting the day with heavy breakfast is a
good way to charge up your metabolism. When I was younger and at home my mother
always made sure I started the day with a full tummy because she knew my lunch
tantrums with tiffin boxes! Mothers are always right! Heavy breakfast helps,
remember that!
Keep the Junk in the Junk Yard
Lot of people might disagree with
me but really I was trying to heal and detox my body from inside. We need to
identify the things that only our tongues like and stomach doesn’t. I
completely had cut out caffine and soda from my system. Coffee is was
one of my favorite beverages and I loved my lattes and espressos, but it only
dehydrates you. I am off coffee completely for a year now and I can see how
much less dehydrated I am. All the black shots that I was taking to wipe off
the headaches were actually the reason for them!
And yes, soda or cold drink is
just not a good friend for your body – specially your teeth and bone. The
earlier you realize the better. I am off
soda completely for more than 6 months now and I can live without it without
any trouble.
Instead I started taking in lot
of water – plain water – it’s not just like that that they say water is life. Lemon
water, ginger water, honey water are all good ways of hydrating your body. All that
bouts of headache have vanished without medicines. (Yes the doctors gave a huge
list of tests and meds for every damn thing I asked).
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The next big thing I did was say
bye to fast food chains selling chicken fries and burgers and pizzas and what
not. I left that for two reasons – I am actually bored of the fries and tacos
and burgers & I really don’t want to make my body suffer because of 1
minute of taste indulgence.
Now I order a pizza occasionally,
I in fact like baking one myself – and because I know I am making it fresh I am
much relieved. There’s actually no alternative for freshly cooked food. I never
believed it before and survived on street food/ junk food for a long time. But
now I can see the difference in myself. Better metabolism, better digestion and
less stomach troubles!
Get closer to nature and natural products
When coming to my hair and skin –
I stopped using all sorts of creams, essential oils and all that jazz. Yes they
promise a lot of things but don’t deliver. I switched over to fresh aloe,
coconut oil, olive oil, almond oil, natural yogurt and these perform way better
than anything else available on market.
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I still don’t get a lot of time
to have a full fledged exercise routine but I started doing a lot of breathing exercise
whenever I got time – while driving, in shower, while reading. Morning deep
breathing has some sort of a thing that really can clean up your mind. It at
least does to me.
So going back to basics and
getting creative with lifestyle wasn’t too difficult a task. And I can see a
lot of positive changes already in the last 7-8 months. I wonder why I had to
wait till the mind and soul started signaling! It doesn't take much to create a better life for yourself.
Do you sometimes feel like doing
this? Let me know.
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I am participating in write tribe festival of words #4 Post written for DAY 1 Topic: Can you learn to be creative
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