Life Skills

- Holistic wellness relates to the whole of something or to the total system instead of just to its parts . Holistic wellness attempts to see the whole person, including mind, body, and soul, not just any one aspect. All these three things are interconnected for overall success and happy life. Certainly! Here's a reflection tailored for assessing self-reflection practices and holistic wellness: **Section 1: General Information** 1.1.  How would you describe your overall well-being at the moment? **Section 2: Awareness and Understanding** 2.1. How familiar are you with the concept of holistic wellness, involving the mind, body, and soul? 2.2. In your opinion, how interconnected are mental, physical, and spiritual aspects in achieving overall wellness? **Section 3: Mindful Practices** 3.1. Do you currently engage in any mindfulness or meditation practices? If yes, please describe: 3.2. How do you think mindful practices contribute to your mental well-being? **Section 4: Physical Well...

-  Sharing something interesting that I came across today. Quite insightful. "Buy one - get one free" may be a marketing gimmick. But it is true in real life in many sense. We buy (i.e. harbouring this emotion) anger and get acidity free. We buy jealousy and get headache free. We buy hatred and get ulcer free. We buy stress and get blood pressure free and so on. Conversely, if we buy trust, we get friendship free. If we buy exercise, we get health free. If we buy peace, we get prosperity free. If we buy honesty, we get sleep free. If we buy LOVE, we get all good virtues free. May Almighty bless us with the wisdom to buy right things for a healthy and purposeful life! Source: received through whatsapp message

  - Have you ever had a bad fight or argument. A financial setback. Got bad or  unpleasant news. Lost someone or something important and special to you. As humans all experience this as a natural course of action. Positive emotions—such as happiness, comfort, contentedness, and pleasure—help us make good decisions: And the good news is Positive emotions can practised into a habit. Picture source: The positive mind Emotion is a complex experience of consciousness, bodily sensation, and behaviour that reflects the personal significance of a thing, an event, or a state of affairs. People who do a good job of managing  emotions  know that it's healthy to express. Because of this, they're able to react to  situations  in productive ways and they are able to win situations in day to day life. And also people who are good at managing emotions tend to have lasting and productive relationships. During the 1970s, psychologist Paul Eckman identified six basic...

 - Does our facial expression depends on culture or it's universal? A UC Berkeley study reveals how similar people are in different corners of the world in how they express emotion in the face of the most meaningful contexts of lives.  'The typical human face has 43 different muscles that can be activated around the eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, chin, and brow to make thousands of different expressions'. A large study used the algorithm to track instances of 16 facial expressions one tends to associate with; amusement,  anger,  awe,  concentration,  confusion,  contempt,  contentment,  desire,  disappointment,  doubt,  interest,  pain,  sadness,  surprise, and  triumph. The results revealed that people from different cultures share about 70% of the facial expressions used in response to different social and emotional situations. Click to read in detail from source: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are...

- Click to watch the mind map in a very excellent approach: (Mind maps) 10 ways to build emotional intelligence- is from the book written by Daniel Goleman. Source: Directly linked to youtube. Further reading: Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict. Emotional intelligence helps you build stronger relationships, succeed at school and work, and achieve your career and personal goals. Intellectual ability or your intelligence quotient (IQ) isn’t enough on its own to achieve success in life. Yes, your IQ can help you get into college, but it’s your EQ that will help you manage the stress and emotions when facing your final exams or stresses in real life.  Click to read full article from source:

Welcome to Life Skills Express. Quotes for life- 1. Kindness is the language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.  - Mark Twain  2. Teaching is like selling goods, if students have not understood, then you have not sold your goods - John Dewey 3. 'Criticism tell me where I should improve, appreciation shuts my door for improvement' - MAQM 4. If you are skilling yourself because someone can employ you, then its slavery.  - Gandhiji 5. 'In relationship every time you win an argument, actually you are losing'.  - MAMMOTHS    6. In 2005 the VMware company executive's product was rejected by Dell. In 2015 Dell announced the biggest technology acquisition of EMC Company, and VMware was part of EMC. After the deal disclosure the same old executive had this to say; 'If you are an executive at any technology company, I hope the next time a young product manager from a startup comes knocking on your ...