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Tips to wake up during colder mornings {Health}

Swathy · December 9, 2011 · 4 Comments

Body feels sluggish in the winters so I am putting down some tips and some yoga poses to help your body awaken in the mornings. Try them out, they actually work.

Drink lemon/lime juice in the morning as soon as you wake up. It helps with your bowel movements.
Splash your face with rose water / water seven times. This wakes you up.
Click your teeth together to set off rousing energy in the body. Follow with gum massage.
Trataka is an eye exercise which should be done for the health of your eyes.
- Rotate eyes in clockwise direction five times.
- Repeat in anti-clockwise direction.
- Simultaneously, stretch your body completely as soon as you wake up (Yastikasana).
  - helps kick start your metabolism
  - gives your body a powerful stretch
Awaken your third eye – massage the center of your eyebrows with your forefinger dipped in oil.
- this alerts the rational part of your brain
Anuloma-Viloma and Kapalabhati are two amazing yogamudras to awaken the body.

These tips will also control the unwanted weight gain in winters.

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Another Exercise for Beautiful Breasts

Swathy · September 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I do not know how many of you have gone through my earlier post on exercises for firming your breasts and home remedies for making them big. But, not having beautiful and perky breasts are a big low-down for women whether they show it or not. Knowing that your body and all its parts are beautiful brings a different kind of confidence and attraction to the person. So, if you are low on your self-image, you should go through those posts. I am sure they would be of help and I can vouch that they have helped me.

Now, I want to add another exercise which you can do make your breasts firmer and more round. Bring both your palms together and press hard in the namaste position parallel to your breasts and press them as forcefully as you can against each other. This helps in tightening the muscles within the breasts. You might feel that this would be no good. At least I thought so unless I tried it. To see the visible effect, try this sometime in the shower and you would see the immediate change in the position of breasts when you are pressing the hands. Your breasts shift upwards and become more perky and rounded.

A trick to get rid of stress and tiredness

Swathy · August 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I am not gonna preach that you should not take stress and anything like that. I have already done my due in that field. I just wanted to share a simple tip with you all to get rid of any stress or tiredness you might feel in the course of the day. Whether you are sitting in front of your computer or engrossed in household chores you are bound to overwork and need a stretch. In that case, the best thing you can do is to massage your scalp and eyes slowly using your finger tips.

Hold your scalp with your finger tips and move the skin of the scalp in slow motion. Do not be vigorous. Be gentle and massage soothingly. Close your eyes and leave your senses free. Do not think of anything. In a matter of few minutes, you would feel blood rushing to your scalp. Continue with the massage for around 5-10 minutes. Then, start on with massaging your eyes. Use your middle finger and press on the inner edge of the eye right next to the nose bridge. Trace a line up to the outer corner of the eye going around the under eye area maintaining a firm pressure on the skin. Do this for at least 10 times and you would feel lightening sensation which is not easy to describe. But, after this session of massage, you would feel energized. Do these massage at least once in two hours.

And, the added advantages of these exercises are better hair growth and hair quality along with erasing of fine lines and wrinkles around the eye. There are other ways to get rid of stress too.