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Yogasanasa & Benefits : Part II


Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Bhujangasan

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Time: 1/2 minute

Method:

  • Lie on your stomach, forehead on the ground, hands under shoulders.
  • Raise your upper body by the strength of the back muscles, head up.
  • Don’t take help of the hands, they may remain on the ground or held on the back over the hips.

Benefits: Helps in keeping the dorsal spine elastic and strong. Backache due to overstrain can be thus relieved. Helps considerably in reducing abdominal fat.

Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Dhanurasan

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Time: 1/2 minute

Method:

  • Lie on your stomach.
  • Bend knees, hold the ankles.
  • Pull your hands and push with your legs, knees together, till the trunk forms an arch with only the stomach on the ground.
  • Look up.
  • After releasing the posture lie for a while in Shavasan

Benefits: Reduces abdominal fat. The compressing of the spinal column, pressing the nerves with the scapulae (the winged bones at the back attached to the arms) minimizes blood circulation while in the asan. But when the pose is released a greater supply of blood is endured to those very regions increasing spinal flexibility and definitely raising the vitality.

Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Chakrasan

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Time: 1/2 minute

Method:

  • Lie on your back.
  • Bend knees, place feet apart and close to hips, place hands overhead, palms besides ears and shoulders.
  • Push with hands and, without moving feet, raise trunk as high as possible to curve the back into an arch.
  • Look on the ground between the hands.

Benefits: Builds a flexible back, stimulates the nerves of the spine. One of the powerful back bending postures.

Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Bhadrasan

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Time: 2 minutes

Method:

  • Sit holding feet together, heels as close to body as possible.
  • Head up, chin down.
  • Normal breathing.

Benefits: Specially recommended for those suffering from urinary disorder. The pelvis, the abdomen and the back get stimulated through a plentiful supply of blood. Keeps the kidneys, the prostate and the bladder healthy.

Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Vajrasan

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Time: 2 minutes

Method:

  • Sit on your heels.
  • Hands on knees, abdomen drawn in, chest up, back straight, shoulders squared, and head erect.
  • Normal breathing

Benefits: Aids digestion and helps cure sciatica.

Yogasanasa – Yoga Exercises

Paad-Pashchimottanasan

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Time: 2 minutes

 Method:

  • Lie on your back, legs straight, arms overhead, hands together, palms facing up.
  • Sit up, take hands overhead, back straight.
  • Then bend forward to hold the big toes, head between arms and touching the knees

Benefits: Reduces abdominal fat. Removes wind from the intestines and increases appetite.

Does Management know their Staff?


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On walking into the factory, the Managing Director of the company noticed a young guy leaning against the wall, doing nothing.

He approached the young man and calmly said to him, “How much do you earn?”

The young man was quite amazed that he was asked such a personal question, he replied, none the less, “I earn $ 2000.00 a month Sir. Why?”

Without answering, the MD took out his wallet and removed $6000.00 cash and gave it to the young man and said, “Around here I pay people for working, not for standing around looking pretty!

Here is your 3 months salary, now GET OUT and don’t come back”. The young man turned around and was quickly out of sight.

Noticing a few onlookers, the MD said in a very upset manner, “And that applies to everybody in this company”.

He approached one of the onlookers and asked him, “Who’s the young man I just fired?”

To which an amazing reply came – “He was the pizza delivery guy, Sir!”

This might sound like a joke but in big organizations I don’t know how well they manage their resource. I’ve heard several such instances and not sure how far they were true. But I know a real case of my friend where in he joined the company for a temporary 2 month contract job for a HR assignment and he inspired his boss.

His boss didn’t want to miss him and he kept him on the silent rolls of the company for more than six months before he was brought lime light. Above story is meant to be a joke but it showcases the lapses in the system.

Tips to remain slim!!!


  • First of all we must be determined to remain slim and work towards it. Develop a mind set towards it.
  • Set realistic goals.
  • Make lifestyle changes like giving up alcohol, smoking, avoiding fatty food, and refined food.
  • Include fresh foods as far as possible as processed foods tend to contain high level of salt and sugar.
  • Do not expect immediate results.
  • Never go for crash diets instead reduce weight gradually and slowly.
  • Never skip meals as you tend to eat more, the next meal. Do not skip breakfast in particular.
  • Include lot of fiber in your diet as it gives a feeling of fullness, thereby preventing you from gorging spicy and fatty food.
  • Nuts contain lot of fiber .They are satisfying and cause people to eat less at meal time.
  • Take warm lime juice mixed with honey the first thing in the morning.
  • Go for skimmed milk.
  • As far as possible avoid weight loss supplements.
  • When you have cravings for sweets, take a fruit instead.
  • When you have cravings for certain type of food like chocolates or ice cream, once in a while, you can take in small quantities.
  • Take fruits and vegetables which have lot of water content like watermelons, cucumbers and white pumpkin.
  • Keep yourself engaged as boredom leads to overeating.
  • Drink lot of water, at least 8 glasses per day.
  • Use the stairs instead of lift. Park the car a little far away and walk to your office. Use every opportunity to be physically active.
  • Walk Walk and Walk as much as possible .Even if you are busy; go for walk at least 5 days a week.
  • Aerobic exercise like jogging, swimming, cycling, running accelerates weight loss. Consult a physician before starting any weight loss program. Aerobic exercise combined with healthy eating will certainly help in weight reduction.
  • Make your exercise session enjoyable.
  • Keep yourself free of stress.
  • Finally, weight loss is a slow process, so do not get disappointed and give up.

Improve your mind by taking these simple steps


Go back to school: Continuing your education does not have to be a complicated endeavor. Take an online class, or just a weekend seminar.

Read classic books: Improve your mind by finally picking up all those books you were supposed to read in school.

Plan: Always have a plan for your life, so you’ll know what you’re working toward.

Quit procrastinating: Resolve to get moving, and you’ll find that you have much more time than you originally realized.

Get inspired by a book: Read a book that will help you spark positive changes in your life.

Learn from your mistakes: Don’t let mistakes get you down. Instead, consider what you did wrong, and how you can avoid doing so again in the future.

Stop worrying: Let go of worry, and know that the future will come no matter what you do about it.

Learn to play a musical instrument: Pick up a guitar, or even a harp, to improve your mental capacity and have something fun to do.

Work to your own advantage: Improve upon what you can, and let the rest fall away.

Think slowly: Instead of jumping to conclusions, carefully calculate what a situation means. Doing so can help you save relationships that might be damaged by rash thinking.

Participate in a debate: Have a rational discussion with someone of similar intellect to improve your knowledge.

Learn a new language: Broaden your horizons by learning how to speak a new language.

Visit Wikipedia: Spend some time on Wikipedia learning lots of interesting facts you’ve never realized before.

This is how business works


It is the month of June, on the shores of the Black Sea , it is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her services on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he d id not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the business is today…..

Things an Indian does after returning from abroad


  • Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.
  • Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.
  • Sprays duo such so that he doesn’t need to take bath.
  • Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.
  • Says “Hey” instead of  “Hi”.

       Says “Yogurt” instead says “Curds”.
       Says “Cab” instead of “Taxi”.
       Says “Candy” instead of “Chocolate”.
       Says “Cookie” instead of “Biscuit”.
       Says “Free Way” instead of “Highway”.
       Says “got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
       Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven Zero Four)

  • Doesn’t forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.
  • Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)
  • Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep down the heart multiplies by 43 times).
  • Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.
  • When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats “Zee” several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y Zee(but never says Zed)
  • Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY, on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says “Oh! British Style!!!!”
  • Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and Indian Road Conditions.
  • Even after 2 months, complaints about “Jet Lag”.
  • Avoids eating more chili (hot) stuff.
  • Tries to drink “Diet Coke”, instead of Normal Coke.
  • Tries to complain about any thing in India as if he is experiencing it for the first time.
  • Pronounces “schedule” as “skejule”, and “module” as “mojule”.
  • Looks speciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.

Few more important

  • From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to India, even after 4 months of arrival.
  • Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.

Ultimate one

  • Tries to begin conversation with “In US ….” or “When I was in US…”

Explaining Love & Marriage – Nice examples


A student asks a teacher, “What is love?”

The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.

But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.”

The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big wheat, but he wonders….may be there is a bigger one later.

Then he saw another bigger one… But may be there is an even bigger one waiting for him.

Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he start to realize that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he know he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted.

So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.

The teacher told him, “…this is love… You keep looking for a better one, but when later you realise, you have already miss the person….”

“What is marriage then?” the student asked.

The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.”

The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field, he has picked one medium corn that he feel satisfy, and come back to the teacher..

The teacher told him, “this time you bring back a corn…. You look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get…. This is marriage.”

Courtesy : Sundar Kumar

Funny GYM experience


One fat guy – goes to a popular GYM seeing an ad for a new gym guaranteeing to reduce anyone’s weight by 5, 10 or 20 kilograms on the first day. So he goes and tells them he wants to lose 5 kg. ! They lead him into a huge gym with all kinds of ropes and parallel bars and ladders and tell him to wait a minute.

He’s standing there when on the far side of the gym a door opens and out steps a beautiful girl, with a sign saying

” If you catch me, I’m yours.”

He starts running, and just as he gets close, she starts picking up speed.

Before he knows it, he’s running all over the gym, up the ladders, down the ladders, across the parallel bars, here and there. And just as he’s about to catch the blonde, pop, she disappears through a door. In comes the management who lead him to the showers, and then weigh him. Sure enough, he lost exactly 5 kg.

He’s back on the street and starts to think.

“Jesus, I was so close to catching her. If I had a little more time…”

So he races back to the gym and says, “I want to lose 20 more kg.”

“No problem,” says the manager.

Again he is led to the large gym. This time he’s standing by the door when it opens….

Out comes a Gorilla with a sign.

“If I catch you, you’re mine .”

Loving someone??? Express it immediately…


IT’S 7TH GRADE..

I stared at the girl next to me… She was my so called “best friend”… I stared at her… Long, silky hair… And I wished she was mine… But she didn’t notice me like that… I knew it… After class she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before… And I handed them to her… She said “thanks”… And gave me a kiss on the cheek… I wanted to tell her… I want her to know that I don’t want to be “just friends”… I love her but I’m too shy to tell her… And I don’t know why…

IT’S JUNIOR YEAR..

My phone rang… On the other end it was her… She was in tears… Mumbling on and on about how her love had broken her heart… She asked me to come over because she didn’t want to be alone… So I did… As I sat next to her on the sofa… I stared at her soft eyes… Wishing she was mine… After 2 hours… I Drew Barrymore movie… And 3 bags of chips… She decided to go to sleep… She looked at me.. Said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek… I wanted to tell her… I want her to know… That I don’t want to be “just friends”… I love her but I’m too shy to tell her… And I don’t know why…

IT’S SENIOR YEAR..

The day before prom… She walked to my locker… “My date is sick” she said… He’s not going to go… Well… I didn’t have a date and in 7th grade… We made a promise that if neiter of us had dates… We’d go together just as “best friends”… And so we did…

IT’S PROM NIGHT..

After everything was over with… I was standing at her front door step… I stared at her … She smiled at me… I wanted her to be mine… But she doesn’t think of me like that… And I know it… Then she said “I had the best time… Thanks!”… And she gave me a kiss on the cheek… I wanted to tell her… I wanted her to know that I don’t want to be “just friends”… I love her but I’m just too shy… And I don’t know why…

IT’S GRADUATION DAY..

A day passed… And then a week… And then a month… Before I could blink… It was graduation day… I watched her… Perfect body… Floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma… I wanted her to be mine… But she doesn’t think of me that way… And I know it… Before everyone went home… She came to me in her smock and hat… And cried as I hugged her… Then she lifted her head from my shoulders and said “you’re my best friend”… “Thanks!”… And gave me a kiss on the cheek… I wanted to tell her.. I wanted to know that I wanted to be more than “just friends”… I love her but I’m too shy… And I don’t know why…

IT’S A FEW YEARS LATER..

Now I sit in the pews of the church… A church that she is getting married in now… I watched her say “I do” an drive off to her new life… Married to another man… I wanted her to be mine… But she didn’t see me like that… And I knew it… But before she drove away… She came to me and said “You came!… Thanks!”… And she kissed me on the cheek… I wanted to tell her… I wantd her to know that I didn’t want to be “just friends”… I love her but I’m just too shy… And I don’t know why…

YEARS PASSED..

I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my “best friend”… At the service they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years… This is what it said… “I stare at him… Wishing he was mine… But he doesn’t notice me like that… And I know it… I wanted to tell him… I wanted him to know… That I don’t want to be “just friends”… I love him but I’m just too shy… And I don’t know why… I wish he would tell me he loved me”… I wish I did too… I thought to myself and I cried…
rest in peace my Love

Ten things to learn from Jepan


1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2. THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.

4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.

5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.

6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?

7. THE
TENDERNESS Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.

8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.

9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.

10. THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.