healthy body tips

It has been a week, I have returned from my two day holiday in Goa, a land of beaches in India. For me I take regular breaks from my hectic schedule for a number of reasons. The life today is so much stress full, that we unknowingly fall in hands of all work and no play lifestyle. Not only that the jobs are not worthy enough for health, they require your mental ability to the fullest extent. All this is happening but no one notices the need of the body. The need to relax your mind. Everyone's body need some rest, some time out!

I have been to Goa and I am so glad I went there. I was having some stress at work last week with almost 12 hours of work daily. My body was desperately asking for a break. And finally I went there with my cousine sister and here husband. The things that I did there included body massage on the beach. I have never known the power of massage as I had never done it before. I experienced how relaxed your body feels after the massage. I am planning to visit some more massage parlours in pune.


Other than this, it was warming experience when I think of food. I had a lot of it. Kingfish, prawns, fish curry rice, tunna toasted sandwitch, scrambled egg . Wow... here is some sneak peak into those things. I was not able to stop myself from eating all the fish. There was no time when I ate something and it was not fish. Goa is good for fish. You can't deny after seeing this somewhat badly composed pic.

We all drink tea but we drink it as if we are addicted? Is it really an addiction or is it healthier for our body? Well there are a lot of advantages or health benefits of drinking black tea. All the following health benefits are inherited from various articles and are based on study of pro advice.

Health Benefits of Black Tea
1) Almost everyone thinks of tea when they first wake up in the morning. This is because black tea has rejuvenating and stimulating effect.
2) Lessens the risk of heart attack.
3) A study showed 20 % increase in cortisol ( Body's stress fighting hormone).

Effects of Milk on Tea:
It is found in India and some other countries that milk is added to the tea. Though milk has it's own health benefits, it spoils or nullifies the health benefits of black tea. The proper way to prepare tea is to boil the tea first and if someone wants milk with it can pour it externally.
However nutritionist's suggest that plain black tea without adding milk to it is good for health.

It has been found that relaxing effect of the black tea was completely vanished when milk was added to it.

Bottom line: Have a black tea without milk.

Related Posts:
Health Benefits of Green Tea
Tea After Meal
Effects of Caffeine

It’s getting better day by day. In the fourth session of yoga we were taught relaxation technique post Yoga. Here is some insight of relaxation and I will update this post with more link on relaxation as I research it more in coming time.

We rest our body by lying on the floor. Palms face upwards. Relax!!! Be there concentrate on your body, let go all the tensions. Breathe normal and again concentrate on your body. Be there for another few seconds. Slowly start releasing the tensions from your toes, concentrate on your toes and try to relax all the muscles, joints and let go all the tensions through it. Be there for half to one minute. Move upwards to calf’s, feel them, let the tension go, relax be there for couple of minutes. Now we move towards knees and apply the same process as above. Then thighs ( again the same process). Now we come to upper body. Feel your heart and the pumping, and the flow from heart everywhere, try to relax. Feel the rib cage part and relax yourself, relax your shoulders, let them at ease, breathe normally and be there for another couple of minutes. Now we come to the face. For face we first concentrate on the chin and try and relax it for a minute. Then we feel the eyes and eyeballs, concentrate and relax. Then we move to the forehead and after a minute of concentration we let go all the tension through the back of our scalp.

Note: I will update this thread with detailed relaxation techniques. Today was my first day at relaxation technique so we can learn a lot more in coming future. If you would like to share something about the relaxation technique. Feel free to do so, we have a comments section below.

( I am working on the third session as it will need some asanas to describe)