Happy Friendship Day - Best Wishes & Quotes

All over the world, Friendship Day is celebrated on different days... In India, it is celebrated on 1st Sunday of August.  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Day

Please go through my previous post on friendship...

A Friend in Deed is the Friend in Need now a days...

Today, as all wish their dear friends, I have thought of collecting the best quotes of great people about friendship. Please pick your favourite quote & share it in the comments below... Wish your best friends with the best quote from the following...

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and

constant." - Socrates

"Friendship is love without his wings!" - Lord Byron

"No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart." - Stephen King

"Man's best support is a very dear friend." - Cicero

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero

"Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice." - Cicero

"As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful." - Cicero

"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection." - Cicero

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison

"I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft..." - Jim Morrison

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you" - Dale Carnegie

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." - Helen Keller

"I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head." - Kurt Cobain

"If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." - Zig Ziglar

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus

"True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals." - C. S. Lewis

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity" - Khalil Gibran

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." - Chanakya

"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends." - Bhimrao R. Ambedkar

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life." - Pythagoras

"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen." - Samuel Johnson

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature." - P. G. Wodehouse

I have picked these beautiful quotes from the Brilliant Quotes website & the app given below...

http://www.bquot.es/en/index.php

Access beautiful collection of quotes for free! Download Brilliant Quotes app now: 

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Happy Friendship Day... Thank u to be my "Best Friend Forever"...

New Learning from the Old Newton's Apple Story

We all know about the story of Newton’s apple tree - one day he observed the apple falling on the ground from the tree & started thinking why it was falling down only & why not going upwards… That is the starting point of developing his theory of gravity and earth’s gravitational force. Now let us assume if we were there in the garden, we would have happily eaten the apple or we would have waited for a better apple to fall down… If we observe the difference, Newton’s focus was on the process of falling of the fruit, but not on the fruit itself. But, our focus might be on the fruits. Though there is a least possibility that Newton knows the Lord Krishna’s teachings of Bhagavad-Gita, he has followed it. Nishkaama Karma without phalaapeksha (work without thinking about the fruits/results) is an important thing told in Bhagawad Gita. We should concentrate on the process but not on the results. Efforts are in our hands, not the result (fruits).

Observe the analogy as follows-

Apple- Fruit- Result

Falling- Process

Living in the present, Enjoying the present moment with consciousness & mindfulness techniques also advise us to consciously observe the process without thinking of the result.

Please go through the following-

Newton's Apple Incident

Nishkaam Karma

Phalaapeksha

Be a 'Star Actor' in Reel & Real Life

If you are convinced that we all are actors and the life is a drama after reading my previous post  Be an 'Actor' of 'Emotions', here is the sequel to it…

If we observe the role & emotional clarity of the star actors, we find several life secrets to learn. Though the star actors act in different roles in different situations & scenes in different movies, they never bring the interference among the roles or emotions. Suppose a star actor has to act in a comedy scene in a movie1 shoot, then in a romantic scene in a movie2 shoot, from there he goes to a movie3 shoot in which he has to play the character of a son whose mother has died- a very sad scene, in movie4 shoot he has to play a college going student role, in movie5 he has to play a role of a thief presented in the court of law – court scene. By the evening or night, he has to go home & play his real roles as a husband, son, father etc. But it is so wonderful that he never carries an emotion of one particular scene to the another. So, there won’t be any interference of the previous scene on the present scene. Otherwise, the performance gets affected. This is what we should learn from the star actors. High level of Emotional Intelligence can be achieved with the realization that we are all actors and the world is a stage.

The other important aspect here is- the star actors never interfere with the roles of the junior artistes. They may become the mentors for the junior actors. But they never spoon-feed the juniors. Always they encourage the uniqueness of each & every actor. The Role Clarity is the important aspect we should learn from this. Most of the star actors focus on their roles and continually improving themselves. They normally give suggestions to the junior actors as mentors only without ego. We have already seen how lack of ego helps in building the relations The Relations are Precious - Happy Father’s Day.  We have never seen a movie/drama in which all the roles are played by a single actor except in monologue. The movie/drama becomes a success when all the actors do their best. The unity in diversity is the key there. It applies to the cross-functional team management also. The director is the person who understands the script requirements and chooses the actors as per their unique capabilities & skills and ensures that those skills are blended well into the effective story telling. It is the same in case of a Team Manager. The real big Writer & Director is the GOD. All the others are like assistant directors for a particular scene or episode. Star actors politely present their views or suggestions to make some corrections in the script. But they never blame the director. Most of the times they don’t interfere in those areas. They always focus on their roles and try to continually improve their performance.

Again, all these learnings are applicable to all of us to perform better in our roles such as husband, father, son, mother, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, teacher-student, boss-subordinate, peers & in any relationship.

Having the role clarity & emotional intelligence without interference is the key for becoming a Star Actor.

Be a Star Actor to win the hearts of people around you…

Be a Star in both Reel & Real life also...

The Relations are Precious - Happy Father’s Day

Most of the countries in the world celebrate Father’s Day on third Sunday of June. Though it is not there in the Indian tradition, still the concept is taken to celebrate with the children. They give the gifts to the father as a token of love & affection. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father's_Day ) 

As we have already discussed in the previous blogs that all these days are celebrated to reinforce / strengthen a particular concept or relation.

People correlate many things to “Father” such as:  

God – Father of the World

Scientist/Inventors – Father of a particular science or theory

Priest in the churches – Father

Boss- Fatherly nature

Some people say my dad is like my brother, my friend etc. Some say he is the hero of their lives… Some say he is the villain… why is it so? It all depends on how we maintain the relations.

He is the Head of the family. So, he has

·       to think about the family and take decisions

·       to look after the family and welfare.

·       to take feedback & control

We say- face is the index of mind. Normally the face is seen by ourselves in the mirror. Some people use it for self-analysis & correction. But for some people, the mirror develops the ego. The moment, the ego comes into any relation, there are fair chances that the bonding in the relationship starts reducing.

The relationship without ego is like the plain glass through which we can see the image of the people around us clearly as they are. We can recognize and appreciate as they are. The moment the ego which is like the reflecting material coat on the glass slowly makes it a mirror through which we will try to see ourselves in others. That’s why we hear many times fathers saying he is seeing himself in his kid. Till that point it is OK. But strongly imposing our ideas and thoughts on to the kids and trying to make them as we are or better than us is mostly the father’s thinking. But unfortunately, it is not because of the pure love & affection. The pure love & affection comes when we are able to identify the people around as they are. We should recognize & appreciate other’s unique capabilities clearing the coating of the Ego… Then we will be so much transparent in our relationship. This is another perspective of looking at Transparency in the Relationships… That is removing the ego, recognizing and appreciating the other’s talents.

Just imagine what will you see if you use the mirror to see what the child is doing. Obviously, you can’t see the him/her. You are just trying to find yourself by using the mirror ego. Please remove the reflective coat (ego). So, our mind should be like a pure glass which can pass the light to see the true reflection of the others. There should not be any coat of ego which is a barrier for the relationship.

This concept can be applied in any relationship such as Father-Son, Mother-Daughter, Husband-Wife, Mother in law – Daughter in law, Boss-Subordinate, Teacher-Student, Elders-Youngsters.

So, remove the ego to make a clear & transparent bonding in any relationship. The relations are precious like glasses. So take at most care to preserve them from breaking.

One more aspect I want to discuss here is, the role of a father is to make the son grow and stand on his own and face all the challenges. It is the responsibility of the father to bring up the child as a responsible citizen. Feel the Responsibility to Fulfill the Responsibility.

Turn Inwards & Outwards - Rethink & Restore the Ecosystems – Happy World Environment Day

As we are always very busy in degrading the Environment and deforming the ecological systems, for making us to take a pause and rethink and start contributing towards our Environment, every year World Environment Day is celebrated on 5^th June. This is a factual satire from my personal perspective. But actually, it is a great initiative of UN to spread the awareness on Environment Protection. This year, the theme is “Ecosystem Restoration”.

Please go through my previous posts related to the Environment (click on the following) … 

Happy Earth Day

Save the Environment & Biodiversity from the “Inhumanity in Humanity”

Happy "World Environment Day"

"Protect the Ozone Layer" to "Get Protected"

Inclusive Growth of Agriculture and Biodiversity with Industrialization

Environment & Sustainability

Wishing Happy, Safe, Healthy & Eco-friendly New Year…

It is always said, “Think before you act”. There are two options to think… Thinking inwards - Thinking about ourselves. Thinking outwards – Thinking about others. “How I get benefit out of something?” or “how others can benefit us?”. I am not talking about these things… These come under selfish thinking. We won’t achieve anything out of these. During the pandemic, we must have heard several times about thinking inwards to understand who we really are… This awareness is self-actualization the highest of the Maslow’s hierarchy. https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2021/05/interoception-introspection-happy.html

As per me, turning inward with a selfish goal won’t give any results… Understanding the nature/environment in the holistic spectrum and then shifting the focus to the self is the proper way of achieving the self-actualization as we are the part of the world and we are interdependent on the Environment. The moment the child comes out of the mother’s womb, he/she gets placed in the Nature’s lap… It takes care of that kid by giving proper Oxygen, maintaining suitable temperature, so many other things which help him/her to live throughout his/her life. So, from birth to death, we are dependent on the Nature. Nature also depends on us as we are the people who can take care of it or destroy it. But Nature has its own self adjusting mechanism to find the ecological balance. It is beyond Human Intelligence. We always talk about Biodiversity… Just see how fast the God is to create so many variants of Corona Virus… Still, the human-beings are also fighting against it for the survival. Finally, it is the Survival of the fittest… This is the law of nature and that’s how ecological balance is maintained… But, human race, over a period for so many years, has become very selfish and was fiddling with the ecological balance and spoiling the biodiversity with full of selfishness for the comforts… Deforestation, use of fossil fuels, pollution etc. Earlier in good olden days, we used to depend on the Nature for the survival. But now it has become a greed to get all the comforts at the cost of Nature’s degradation. One more surprising thing you must have observed is, during this pandemic attack of the Environment, the human race is opting for the natural remedies… Most of the people started understanding the importance of Ayurveda which is a pure natural medical science… Just observe the composition of an ayurvedic medicine consists of extracts from several plants. Thus, to take care of ourselves we need to take care of at least those plants… We are dependent on cattle for milk products… This is how the tradition, Culture and Nature are integrated. All the people in the world must have understood the importance of Oxygen for our lives in this pandemic. Seeing from the positive perspective, this pandemic has given huge opportunities of innovation and invention… Similarly, the environmental degradation also gives an opportunity for us to rethink and do something better to restore the ecosystems.

So, let us turn inwards & outwards with the Bird’s Eye View (https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2015/10/birds-eye-view.html) to understand the interdependency of Self & the Environment and contribute towards Ecosystem Restoration. Whether it is a business or life, we need to understand both the internal & external environment and the intra and inter dependencies and act accordingly… Thus, again our focus should be like the lenses of the mobile phone. One lens is used for taking the selfie (Looking inward) & the other is for the rest of the world (looking outward). Finally, the mobile is in our hands only… Use it properly…

 

Commit to Quit Tobacco – Happy World No Tobacco Day

Every year on 31^st May, World No Tobacco Day is celebrated. The initiative is taken up by World Health Organization… This year the theme is “Commit to Quit”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_No_Tobacco_Day

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-no-tobacco-day/world-no-tobacco-day-2021

Normally people start Smoking & Drinking at the young age due to various reasons discussed earlier in my previous post King's Habits

After few months or years, it will become a habit…

Let us now understand the terms Habit, Habit formation & difference between a Bad Habit & Addiction from this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit

Habit is a routine of behaviour that is repeated & occurs subconsciously… After so many repetitions habits are formed… it varies from individual to individual… If a habit has an undesirable pattern either to self or society, it is called a bad habit.

This is still at the psychological level… This can be treated by replacing the similar stimuli and increasing the willpower. With solely willpower also, one can easily quit a bad habit.

But if the bad habit is still continued, the physiological/neurological system  gets tuned to the stimuli. Then it becomes an Addiction. Here it becomes difficult to the addicted person though he or she wants to quit the bad habit with full will power as the physiological/neurological system won’t co-operate…These are called withdrawal symptoms… If we forcibly quit the habit, the withdrawal symptoms may increase & may damage the health… some people again restart the habit & go to previous state or worse state – This is called Relapse…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relapse

To avoid relapse or withdrawal symptoms, we need a help of a psychiatrist/psychologist to guide these addictive persons to come out of these in a healthy way…

After understanding these basic concepts, now let us go for my thoughts….

Smoking kills – This we would have seen many times just before the movie an ad comes… It says tobacco consumption in the form of smoking may cause lung cancer and chewing tobacco may lead to mouth cancers etc…

I say the source of several fire hazards is smoking… The ignition source for fire can be a match stick or a cigarette or beedi whatever in the workplace, industry or petrol bunks or any place where they are strictly.

This, as using tobacco is a health & fire hazard most of the companies have gone for No Tobacco policy and banned the use of Tobacco.

The other important aspect of smoking is it greatly affects the persons around… Passive smoking has a huge affect on the health of the people who are continuously exposed to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking

So the ill effect is airborne… So it becomes a social responsibility to avoid smoking in public as the smokers are damaging the health of the passive smoking.

By reading these lines immediately you might have made the analogy with the COVID-19, airborne, mask , social distancing etc. Exactly you are right. Smokers should be treated similar to the corona spreaders. They should also feel the responsibility to avoid smoking in public areas and this save the passive smokers. Everything is in Our Hands.

One more important connection is there between smoking & corona… Already the capacity & health of lungs might have been compromised with the smoking habit and just imagine this corona virus is also attacking the lungs further to an extent that  the oxygen saturation levels are dropping so drastically that several people are quitting this world…

So just decide… Quit Tobacco or you will Quit the World soon…

Quit smoKING to be the real KING.

 

 

 

Buy Wisely Using ‘Unit Price’ Comparison

Earlier Sundays used to be Fundays with a lot of shopping in malls & entertainment. But due to lockdown, all that has gone now… Now the purchases are through online… Anyways, whether it is a normal purchase or online purchase of FMCG goods, some factors influence the purchase decision… So we should understand those factors & act accordingly.  Let us discuss one of those now…

Earlier in good olden day, all the FMCG goods were packed & sold following uniform weights… such as 100gm, 200gm, 500gm or 1Kg etc…. uniform volumes such as 100/200/500ml/1lt etc…. We never used to see 110gm or 270ml etc…. But now a days, we see different weights or volumes of FMCG products… This is creating the problems for the normal customers to compare the prices and is impacting the purchase decision of several consumers. Let us take an example

One beverage let us say apple juice,  1lt price is Rs100/- for Brand-A, where as for Brand-B it is Rs95/- but the weight return on the pack is 900ml. If someone does not observe properly, it appears that the Brand-B is cheaper compared to the Brand-A. But the actual fact is Brand-B is costlier.  If we see the per litre price of both brands, Brand-A is Rs100/-, Brand-B is 95*1000/900 =Rs105.55/-. If Brand-C is 110/-

Here we should introduce the term Unit Price… It is the price of the product per unit or per kg or per gm or per ml or per lt etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_price

So the price comparison & analysis is greatly affected by the weight of the product/volume also. But unfortunately, most of the customers don’t consider it because of several reasons…

1.       Lack of awareness

2.       No scope to evaluate in normal retail outlets

3.       Very tedious & time taking job

4.       With the apprehension that the savings will be very minimal in comparison to the efforts made for the analysis

5.       So many other factors we can add on

As cited above, there is a need to increase the awareness of the customers. The research shows that using unit price concept has helped the purchasers to save around 17-18%.

Let us say we have 4 brands with 4 different weights & prices. We have to calculate for all the unit price and compare. This is for one product. If we want to purchase several, just imagine how much tedious and impracticable it is… Thus, we are bound to make a mistake in the price assessment, comparison, and analysis & finally purchase decision.

The only way to go about is to either go for standard uniform weights like in olden days or to get the information about Unit Price. As the product manufacturers are cleverly doing it, the purchasers should also be smart.

1.       If the products to be purchased are less in number, please do the unit price analysis to compare.

2.       Visit the supermarkets where we have the Price as well as Unit prices both are displayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_price_information_in_supermarkets

3.       Please use the online purchase websites/apps which give the unit price information beside the price. A famous online purchase app gives Unit price within the brackets just beside the selling price.

 

Thus, think twice, buy wisely after comparing the unit prices of the products especially FMCG products.

Happy Sunday… Happy Shopping…

Interoception & Introspection – Happy Buddha Purnima

The first full moon day of vaisakha in lunar calendar is celebrated as the birthday/enlightenment day/death day of Gautham Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha's_Birthday

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

The moment we think of Buddhism, or Gautham Budhha’s teachings, Mindfulness meditation technique comes to our mind. It is very famous all over the world… Extensively used by many psychologists integrating it to therapy…

Please go through this to understand ithe basics about mindfulness…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness

Here if we see an interesting term is introduced – interoception – the sense of the internal state of the conscious or unconscious body. This basically talks about the brain sensing the physiological status or feel of the body. This is used in mindfulness to be aware of our breathing, body scan, focus on surroundings- sounds etc. This is how the mental state of the body can be controlled by using the physical state of the body… This clearly explains how both r interconnected.

Now it is very interesting to understand introspection… we all know it that introspection is looking inwards or knowing thyself or self analysis or self awareness. If we observe, it is almost synonymous to interoception. But there is a difference… Introspection is the porcess of observing one’s own thoughts and emotions. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection#:~:text=Introspection%20is%20the%20examination%20of,the%20examination%20of%20one's%20soul.

It is more about the mental state of mind. Whereas interoception is related to physiological state…

Please go through the following to understand about these two…

https://alliancechampions.com/interoception-introspection-intuition-and-longevity/#:~:text=Interoception%20%E2%80%93%20The%20sense%20of%20the,the%20need%20for%20conscious%20reasoning.

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.11470abstract

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-020-01318-5

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051114002294

After understanding the difference between interoception & introspection, as we can’t separate the psychological process from the physiological process, let us have an integrated view at both the things supporting the mindfulness meditation process.

Mindfulness meditation involves interoception as we try to focus on the breathing or sensations etc.(physiological). At the same time, we are observing the deviations & thoughts and are trying to consciously but not forcibly bringing back the attention… this is how we are introspecting ourselves and integrating it to interoception, to achieve the mindfulness meditative state.

Kabar Zinn’s famous Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) technique uses mindful eating of a raisin which is a combination of both psychological & physiological processes and an integrative & holistic approach.

Apart from Mindfulness, another greatest contribution of Lord Buddha to the world is in the form of his teachings… U might have already come across so many wonderful & inspirational quotes & slogans from Buddhism. The ethics & discipline are the main pillars of Buddhism… This is how Buddhism is beyond the boundaries of religion… it is a way of life… guiding us how to live in present and be mindful about whatever we do… it gives us the true inspiration & motivation to be mindful at each & every moment of our lives …

Be Mindful always…

Happy (World Book & Copyright Day + English Language Day)

23^rd April is the death day of William Shakespeare and is considered to be his Birthday also as exactly the birthday was not recorded… But he was born in April… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

https://guides.nyu.edu/shakespeare-bday

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/william-shakespeare/when-was-shakespeare-born/

The same day coincides with the birth & death days of other prominent authors also… Thus, it is decided by the UNESCO to celebrate World Book & Copyright Day on April 23^rd every year.

From Palm leaf & ink to the paper & pen, printing, e-books, it has taken several shapes as a medium of providing the intellectual content over the years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

Normally, we are in an apprehension that the books are meant to be read or studied… Just read few lines about ‘reading’…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading. But normally, we forget the important aspect of writing… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing

Ideally, both reading & writing should go hand in hand… As the reading improves our knowledge, writing improves our cognitive skills and enhances our creativity & innovative ideas… Writing a notes, journal/diary, an article, a book, poetry, prose or anything useful is the best habit to inculcate… It is a must for the researchers… It always forces you to continually improve your thought process. If we practice to be a critical reader, we can become a good writer… While reading, understand the concepts from the writer’s point of view… Just put yourself in the author’s shoes to identify the skills of writing…

In my view, reading is nothing but the process in which the writer in us critically follows the writer of the book to ignite new thoughts in our minds… the whole process adds value to us… As a writer, we should also follow the same… we should add value to the readers… In this reading & writing process, we should not make use of the others' ideas or texts… Using others’ ideas & texts without giving due credit to the author is called plagiarism… As the reading & writing are very important aspects of research, all the researchers should be careful to avoid plagiarism… To protect the text & ideas, copyrights act is enacted… Plagiarism is a punishable offence…  If we learn the art of critically reading the manuscripts & books, we will automatically get new ideas to contribute to the world… This is how we should nurture the creativity & innovation…

I have to bring one more perspective of looking at reading a book or manuscript, the moment we are reading a book, we will get confined to the thought process of that author if we are blindly following it… That’s why we should have an open & critical mind while reading so that we will have a sufficient scope for the new thoughts to bud… We should identify the thin line between getting into the author’s shoes & getting carried away by the author’s thought process… That line brings the scope for new thoughts… Let us explore those budding thoughts and make them blossom into a book or manuscript or a blog or a diary at least…

Most of the people still prefer to read the books in the physical form only… I want to discuss here about the advantages of e-books, audiobooks, though they have also got some pros & cons…

Advantages of e-books

Ø  Readers can customize the settings of the font, colour, background etc., to their comfort levels…

Ø  Very easy to share digitally

Ø  Can take a print anytime

Ø  Can save huge volumes in a smart device & carry & read anytime

Ø  No external lighting is required

Ø  Preservation is not a problem

Ø  Searching is very easy

Ø  Can highlight & take a note simultaneously

Ø  It is easy to use the dictionary or translator or any other useful digital application on the digital content…

Ø  It can be changed to other digital formats also as per convenience

Ø  The list goes on….

Ø  The audiobooks are very useful for those who have the problems in reading… They can get the knowledge by listening to the audiobooks.

Coming to English, English is the only language in the world in which most of the intellectual information is shared in terms of books, manuscripts, research papers, journals etc., Thus, we need to master this language a lot… Most of the Asian researchers face the problems in publishing due to the problems with their English language skills… Let us take the English Day (today) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_English_Language_Day )as the opportunity to focus on our reading & writing skills of English & continually improve on it…

Let us make a habit of reading & writing books in English… All the Best…

I just recall the quote from William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage and all men and women are merely players”, which I had used in my blog post Be an 'Actor' of 'Emotions'.

Happy Earth Day

On 22^nd April, every year, Earth Day is celebrated throughout the world to reunite all of our thoughts and efforts to save the Mother Earth… Let us first understand some basics about Earth & Earth Day… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

The theme of this year is to “Restore Our Earth” https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/

It is our prime responsibility to understand all the following terms and its importance…

Environment – Environmental protection

Ecology – Ecological balance

Biodiversity

Green House Effect- Green House Gases – Global Warming – Climate Change

Energy sources- Fossil Fuels- Energy Conservation

Environmental Pollution- Carbon Footprint

Sustainability- Environment vs Development/Economy- Sustainable Development

Agriculture – Soil properties

Ground water, Forests

 

I have made an attempt in my previous blogs to introduce some concepts briefly… Actually, integrating all the above concepts will give us the holistic picture of the Environment Management to save the Mother Earth…

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/06/save-environment-biodiversity-from.html

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2019/06/happy-world-environment-day.html

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2016/09/ptotect-ozone-layer-to-get-protected.html

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2015/08/inclusive-growth-of-agriculture-and.html

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2015/06/environment-sustainability.html

 

 

As per UN, the COVID-19 pandemic situation has also got an influence on the eco-system. https://www.un.org/en/observances/earth-day

https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/06/everything-is-in-your-hands.html

 

We have also seen earlier how the Health, Environment, Safety and Happiness are inter-related and interdependent. https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2021/01/wishing-happy-safe-healthy-eco-friendly.html

If we see from the technical perspective-

Earth has the gravitational force which is pulling us towards the centre of the earth, thus facilitating to hold the things on the surface of the Earth… We all know the importance of Earth in the Electrical & Electronics fields… With its zero potential, how it is protecting us… Earth also behaves a natural magnet and provides the North & South poles for the magnetism. The list goes on….

Spiritually, Earth is considered as the Mother-God & is worshipped. We would have heard “Down to Earth” while describing the personality trait of a person… Lack of Ego is the important aspect of Learning and Growth… Moreover, Earth is the symbol of Patience, Endurance, Strength, Vastness/Broadness, Inclusive Nature, Embeddedness, Supporting Nature… These are some of the psychological factors we can learn from the Earth…

Considering all these aspects into account, let us try to follow some of the following responsibilities-

Ø      To conserve the natural resources & go for the alternative/renewable resources

Ø      To reduce the carbon footprint and GHG emissions

Ø      To prevent deforestation

Ø      To promote agriculture- to reduce the use of chemicals as fertilizers- To reduce the soil/ground water pollution

Ø      To understand the interdependence of Environment, Health, Safety & Happiness and follow the holistic strategies to ensure the overall growth.

Ø      To take up Sustainability initiatives to take care of the future generations.

Ø      To optimize the energy consumption

Ø      To protect the biodiversity & ensure ecological balance

Ø      To ensure proper earthing of all the electrical appliances

Ø      To be a ‘Down to Earth’ person always

From our Birth to Death on the Earth, let our journey be so environment-friendly that we and the earth mutually protect each other always…

Happy World Health Day

First of all, let us understand what Health is… as per World Health Organization (WHO), “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution.

Every year, on 7^th April, World Health Day is celebrated to promote good Health in the world… This year the theme is “Building a Fairer, Healthier World for Everyone”. As we have seen in this pandemic, some countries, some regions got badly affected compared to some countries in the world… As per the principles of WHO, “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition”. It is the high time that all the people in the entire world should unite and cooperate each other to fight against this deadly virus… ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः। (Sarve Bhavanthu Sukhinaha) is the Sanskrit verse for the universal prayer for a happy life to all… Sarve Janah Sukhinobhavanthu… Let all people live happily… लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु || - Happy World - A Prospective Perspective

 

We have already seen the holistic view of interdependency of Health, Safety, Environment with Happiness…https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2021/01/wishing-happy-safe-healthy-eco-friendly.html. Maintaining good health is in our hands only… Maintaining good health is in our hands only.

Now let us see the ‘health’ through the holistic spectrum…

Our body is an organization functioning through several complex sub-systems (processes) in perfect coordination & cooperation similar to various functional departments in a business organization. The health of the organization is defined as the integration of the performance of each & every component of the sub-system. If it is matching with the desired performance then we can call the organization is healthy… Managing the health of this organization depends on how much clearly, we understand the various systems and their interdependencies, their roles and importance…

We all know every process (system) or sub-process (subsystem) has inputs and outputs… The efficiency of that system is defined as the output divided by the input… The quality of the output is directly dependent on the quality of the input…

The inputs (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste) to the body are taken through the 5 sensory organs (eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth). These inputs are fed to both the psychological & physiological processes, thus greatly influence the performance & outcomes… Using proper controls in the input may enhance the performance of the process and yield good results… Thus, being mindful of whatever is fed to the body is very important in ensuring the overall health of the systems.

What we sow is what we reap… If we feed healthy food to the body, systems will be healthy, we will be healthy… So let us feed a well-balanced, nutritious diet to our body which consists of proteins, minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, fibres, anti-oxidants etc… We should understand the importance of each & every component in these and ensure the proper mix of these in desired proportions…  

Healthy Diet  is the key for Holistic Health… 

Ideally, we should go for the natural (raw) food (without chemicals & pesticides)… we should reduce carbohydrates… we should reduce fat, sugar, salt intake… All these suggestions we often listen… We should be mindful of designing our meal (input)… Both quality & quantity are to be monitored and optimized to ensure optimal performance of the systems… We will take one example… We are often advised to increase the vegetable curries or green vegetables or cereals, pulses ( proteins) percentage in the meal & reduce the rice/ roti (carbohydrates) percentage… Suppose 100gm vegetable curry/daal consumes 1gm of salt & 5gm of oil… If we double the quantity of curry or daal in our meal & obviously major part of our meal is with good things only, so we think it is a good diet… but we forget to consider that the intake of salt & oil also has also been doubled to maintain the same taste… Thus, again it does not help to ensure holistic health… Being mindful of this, for good health, we should either compromise on taste or to go for healthy alternatives… Always take the advice from the qualified nutritionist… The imbalance in the diet may lead to imbalance in the systems & may adversely affect the health…Let us plan our meal to ensure a sustainable health in future…

Thus, the quantity& quality of the inputs to the body are to be so controlled that those enhance the efficiency & effectiveness of all the sub-systems & the systems of the body to ensure the sustainable holistic health of this complex but yet beautiful organization.

 

Please click on my previous posts on Health…

Whose Wealth is Our Health?

“Test” for the “Best“

‘Dynamic’ or ‘Diabetic’?

Know the Numbers and Optimize the Blood Pressure...

Integrating Yoga, Meditation & Music...

Is “Yoga” only to cure “Roga”?

Happy World Mental Health Day

Add Colours to Life – Happy Holi

We all know that Holi is the festival of colours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi

We all know VIBGYOR is the acronym for the colours… The primary colours are Red, Green & Blue and the combination of all the colours is White (Reflection)… Lack of colours is Black (Absorption)…

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/White

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_mixing

Now let us see how the colours are tied with the emotions & psychology… Colours have an influence on the emotions of the people and the emotions are also represented by the colours… Let us now just understand the Color Psychology here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology.

If we bring the analogy between colours and emotions,

There may be good emotions (represented by some colours) and bad emotions (represented by some colours)… The mix of these emotions and our response to it determines our Personality & Behaviour. However, proper blending of these emotions (colours) is required to achieve the level of Self Actualization (White colour is the combination of all the colours)…  White is considered to be a reflection of Purity (Soul)… After the birth (Plain emotion=Pure soul=White), we start adding different emotions and perceptions (different colours) to life… but in the process we forget to realize that it is in our hands to properly mix these (emotions=colours) to achieve the enlightenment (self actualization= White)…. The conscious attempt to properly mix these mindfully will enhance our Emotional Intelligence as well as the Spiritual Intelligence…

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it… Danny Kaye

Be a painter; Add colours to Life to make it more Vibrant & Beautiful… ResearchSubbu

Happy Holi