Candles on your birthday cake. Warm light from the diyas (lamps) in your God’s room. Aromatherapy candles in your bathroom. Warm bulbs in the corners of your living room. Twinkling fairy lights on your Christmas tree. Admit it, even reading through this list gave you a sense of warmth, calm & relaxation. Candlelight comes closest to the soothing warm, yellow light of sunrise or sunset – think, Golden Hour! Candlelight for self-care can very well find a place in your daily rituals.
Continue readingCategory: Blogging (Page 1 of 4)
In our fast-paced world, finding moments of tranquility can feel like searching for a hidden oasis. We’re constantly bombarded with notifications, deadlines, and the relentless hum of modern life. Life is hectic and we hardly get time to savour, sip and be soothed by a warm beverage. Self-care or self-love gets relegated to the background and we end up feeling rushed, exhausted, and with no joy! But what if we could transform an everyday ritual into a sanctuary of self-care? Enter: the art of brewing coffee.
More than just a caffeine fix, the process of brewing coffee can be a meditative experience, a gentle pause in the chaos. It’s about slowing down, engaging your senses, and appreciating the simple pleasures that life has to offer.
Continue reading
Aromatherapy is the use of fragrant essential oils derived from plants. These oils can be applied on the skin or body via surface application or massages, inhaled but never ingested or consumed. Also called as essential oil therapy, it is believed that aromatherapy can enhance physical, mental and emotional well-being. In a broader sense or to make it more scientific – these plant based aromatic oils are believed to affect the body through the sense of smell (olfactory sense), stimulating the brain and influencing the central nervous system. It can alleviate symptoms, boost your mood, reduce stress, and promote a sense of relaxation.
Continue reading
For over a month now, I have been ruminating on a theme to base my blog posts on for the A to Z blogging challenge with Blogchatter. From food, to plants, to fiction to food fiction, I had a 100 themes running through my head. Heck, I even experimented with writing a few posts for some of these themes. But, as they say, “feel nahi aa raha tha!”
Continue readingWhat is a universal passion that our country shares? First there’s Cricket & then maybe Bollywood. Add to it a dash of suspense and page turning mystery and you have a story that hooks you in from the start. That’s what I felt about this tale spun by the author Madhav Nayak. ‘A Murder is Fixed’ succeeds in conjuring up an evocative narrative that has the edge of seat excitement of a cricket match, the hair raising mystery of a criminal story and the ease of a comforting bunch of characters that soften the riddle of a whodunnit! I enjoyed Nayak’s debut novel and here is my review of it.
Continue reading
National Nutrition Week is celebrated every year from 1st to 7th September. The initiative was conceptualised by the central government in 1982 to talk about the causes, effects, and the solutions to malnutrition. The theme of the program varies every year. This year the theme is ‘Better Child Health’ and focuses on addressing issues related to undernutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life. Children’s nutrition is a crucial factor which determines the quality and well being of the adults that they will grow into.
In the first 6 months or 180 days, of a child’s life, the sole nutrition should come from milk. The government and other regulatory & informative bodies have been working hard to propagate the virtue of breastmilk for babies should attain prime importance. In practice, while most are fairly successful in achieving this milestone, they are stumped when it comes to nutrition in the days proceeding the 6 months where other foods are introduced for baby. Even well-meaning & determined caregivers find themselves at a loss when it comes to children’s nutrition . Continue reading
You’d never believe me if I told you I was mildly telepathic, but it’s true and I can prove it. For as long as I can remember I would begin humming a song and then someone would turn a TV or the radio on and that very song would play on it. I would idly walk into the living room, not sure what I came here for, and then the phone would ring and I would answer it within half a ring. In the days of yore when our phones did not flash the name or number of the person calling, I would have a hunch whose call it was. When people began conversations with me, I cut to the chase and gave them the answer or solution they were looking for. “I was just about to ask you that, how did you know that?” was a line I heard very often. Continue reading
April 2018. What a month it has been! I have always noticed and said to people too, that in my life I see a complete scarcity of action and experiences and then face a flood, nay a cloud burst, of activity. So too with this April. And when that flood happened I felt so overwhelmed to even acknowledge that I faced it all – joyful moments to utter remorse and despair. But the bottomline is that I emerged. And lived to write this gratitude post. Continue reading
There was a whole generation of babies that was raised on screens. Screens while they ate, dozed off and played. Then came a time when it was uncool to shove a screen in front of a baby. Zero screen time was the order given. Research papers proved how screen time was damaging not just our children’s eyes but their brains too. But is a zero screen time feasible at all in a world which is becoming increasingly online? Does it not put immense pressure on the parent to “entertain” their child themselves without relying on technology? Is it really a positive thing to do in a world where technology is everywhere? What happens when the parent needs a break badly.. even if it is just to have a quick shower? Is it bad to rely on technology then?
Yelling. It is so common for parents to subject their children to yelling. And then one day start receiving it all back in return, until all you hear are yelling matches in the house and no one is winning. I think we will all agree that yelling is unhealthy and best avoidable. No parent enters their parenting journey wanting to yell. But somewhere along the way it just happens. And then there is no turning the clock back to a time when there was no yelling. But like everything else, yelling does not have to be the point of no return. With conscious “no yelling” and consistent practice, yelling can be relegated to a place from where it will never return. Continue reading
Follow me on Social Media
Indiblogger
