Essential / important things to do for the whose basic needs (food, clothing and shelter) are met. The following things are not something new but it's been there for a long time and all of them knew such important things. It's not a Eureka list but known boring list.
The following things are not for the people whose basic needs are not met could be many reasons for this unfortunate situation.
1. Take care of your health(Eat in Moderation). You need to have a clear purpose why you should eat in moderation. Most of the time the motivation is to loose weight or bring down your cholesterol or glucose level to the normal range. This purpose should become strong intent in your mind. If the intent is strong then you will indulge into action without any external force or external motivation from outside. If the intention is not strong then eating in moderation is not a worthy pursuit since you will fail and can become emotionally draining. So wait to fall sick and a kick from the doctors would help you in forming strong intentions so as Psychological counselling will help if there are any emotional blockages . Without the purpose and intention the resolve will not be strong enough to adopt "Eating in Moderation".
There are people who live longer just eating crappy food without any fitness regime such people are exception to the rule but not a common occurrence. There are people who eat and do exercise and still suffer premature death. Probably there are genetic or emotional reasons for such problems. I have seen people who eat good food but mentally unstable not they have mental disease but their emotional state is not balanced. Reasons could be many for such unstable conditions and to list all of them is an impossible task. Most of the people fall in the middle when eating in moderation is adopted they will see marginal improvements in their health but for some that could be life changing.
The key factors for taking care of your health are eat in moderation(what is moderation is relative and will differ from person to person). Eat in moderation according to your age but moderation may not be applicable to adults in their 20s who are into rigorous fitness regiment or labors who work hard on the field or factories. Listening to your body is very important to differentiate when to start and stop eating. The first few days will be a challenge when adopting a new habit. To adopt to a new habit a healthy support group is very vital to discuss your mental challenges and problems in choosing food that could be filling and satisfying. If not able to follow any thing just remember the key thing if your stomach is lighter and not heavy means you have eaten in moderation. following this simple thing will take a long way to promote decent health if not optimum.
A suggestion for meat eaters would be to cut down on red meat if not avoid and embrace white meat like chicken and fish which can satisfy all your nutritional requirements with out consuming red meat. I would prefer Organic meat over conventional meat. If possible refrain from meat eating at least for one or two days in a month so same goes for diary products as well. Consume low fat organic milk and organic cheese which will be easy on your stomach.if your allergic to caesin protein try A2 milk which are available at whole foods but check your local grocery stores. Vegetables in nature except for few are nasty in taste and makes you puke so it's better to make it tastier by adding ingredients by the way millions of recipes are available online as long as you are willing to devote sometime for healthy cooking.
Regarding Junk foods you need to consume junk foods but in small to moderate quantities, suppression is as dangerous if not more dangerous as eating only junk foods. The mind is a weird component if you suppress something it creates the urge to eat more I don't know why but the nature of the mind is to remember negative things most of the times not the positive things as we all know that we remember the disrespect but not the respect given to us. Please be careful while playing with your mind because we don't know who we are until we encounter challenges most of them fall and few rise above the challenges to permanently alter their habits.
Eating in moderation is a long process until it becomes a habit where the senses are under control whenever we see or smell the food. In all this process do not feel guilt if you can't keep up the habit it's Okay if you can't keep up the habit rather feeling bad or guilt. The guilt is not going to help you in promoting any healthy habits or move away from negative it's just stays there and you become two different person one with guilt and one with bad habits. It's better to pursue bad habits if you can't control without guilt. But I believe most of the people has decent amount of will power to over come most of the bad habits but for some help is required to adjust. Another possibility is the urge will always be there to eat crappy food but using determination as a tool we may postpone it for a while but determine requires tremendous amount of energy which is limited in supply so habit doesn't require energy as it's an autonomous activity not even you respond to something, it just happens.
In summary include vegetables, white meat, fruits, moderate carbs , low fat diary , moderate junk foods as part of your daily intake and moderate exercise like walking, running, swimming will add more help in controlling your urges in the initial stages of transitioning to moderate eating.
2. Quiet time. Humans needs to invest some time for themselves. Why we need quite time because we need to spend time with ourselves to experience some sense of temporary peace alas permanent peace means death or spiritual enlightenment. For some spending time with themselves can be a dangerous thing as this may not a suitable option to pursue. Before we venture into quiet time activities we should have a clear understanding what quiet time means and why we need it. Break is different from quite time.Behaving crazily with our selves is not a quite time. Including just one person in any activity is not a quite time. Watching movie is not a quite time. A broad definition would be an activity which doesn't stimulate your senses too much can be called as quite time means resting the body and senses. Why we need quite time because spending time with your self satisfies your mind because all through the day we do activities to satisfy other people which includes family , organization and managers. We do those activities because we love them that's why. I have never understood love thyself but doing quite activity for myself have resulted in temporary inner peace.
What are different activities that we can do to consider it that as a quiet time. Active activities include playing chess against a computer , writing, reading ,solving puzzles, reading a book, playing music, deep thinking on your professional or personal problems. Every individual can come up with their own list as long as it meets the definition. Such activities should not be result oriented but rather pleasure oriented. As long as it involves less use of our five senses means naturally the mind will result in peace by itself. At first it may require some effort but it's worth for a balanced living. Find a place where nobody will disturb you and set a time and amount of time you are going to spend on the activity. At first choose an activity that interest and in the process you will find out about the likability of the chosen activity and an opportunity to explore new activities. Set a time where it's comfortable and not taking time away from essential activities.
Passive activities include meditation, walking or slow jogging in nature, drawing , observing nature which include ourselves, watching your mind without any intervention, listening to melodious music with closed eyes, chanting, prayer to GOD or nature, watching your breath on the nostrils, Contemplation, Concentrating on an object. In short very very less brain stimulation. Find a quite place without much disturbance which can come in the form of people and external noise.
Will continue in part -II
