Too much sitting down is killing people — and it is on the rise, according to the latest data.
Getting up and moving about, though, is linked to less anxiety, more happiness, positive changes in personality and even a boost to cognitive function.
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Accept Every Victory With A Humble Heart And Every Defeat With A Gracious Mind Is The Best Way To Live In This World
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To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry. -Vilhelm Ekelund, poet (14 Oct 1880-1949)
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"Everything is precisely, exactly as it is, but doesn't arrive anywhere. There's no conclusion. It's pattern after pattern after pattern. There's always something fresh—there's always this new moment." —JAMES LOW A  |
It is never too late to decide to become a better person.
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You’ll have good days
Bad days
Overwhelming days
Too tired days
I’m awesome” days
I can’t go on” days
But every day you’ll still show up.
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"There are days when nothing goes right. There are days when you stumble and fall. There are days when you just want to cry. To cry a lot. To sleep a lot. Or even eat a lot. It’s alright, as long as you pick yourself up again."
~Yuki Takeya
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Learn to be alone. Don’t rely on people for happiness, knowledge, or approval. People are going to fold so give yourself time to understand who you are and your interests. Don’t force relationships or situations. Being alone isn’t bad at all.
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Again and again, we realize and rediscover this exceptional truth; that we are what we think, feed on, spend time with, and what we believe in.
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Swami Vivekananda tells us the secret of work: ‘When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.’ Surely, putting this into practice involves struggle. But that is natural, since elevating the mind calls for work.
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Ensuring the quality of sensory input: What we take in through our five sense organs leave their subtle impressions on our mind. More bad impressions make the task of mind discipline that much more difficult. The nobler the impressions, the less fierce the struggle with the mind.
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Following a fixed daily routine: Sticking on to a daily routine can minimize the gyrations of an unruly mind. The mind presents all sorts of difficulties when made to follow a routine. It has revelled in brooding on several options, letting us do nothing. A strict routine does not afford it that luxury. Not letting the mind brood — this one discipline is a potent tool for mind control.
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Samkhya explained, and its relation to Advaita
Seen many doubts regarding samkhya as well as advaita lately, so thought of explaining it to the best of my ability. Any correction is welcome.
So there is Purusha, and there is the un-manifest mula Prakriti. In the un-manifest prakriti, the three gunas are in complete balance. However, when spontaneous unbalancing occurs, creation takes place.
The first entity to be created is Mahat, where sattva is completely predominant. When rajas mediates on Mahat using itself, it gives rise to the ahamkara. Mahat is the universal buddhi, and ahamkara is the universal ego.
Till now these have not been individualised. Till here the entities have been very subtle and universal, but from here, rajas mediates the other two gunas into different grosser and individualistic entities. Rajas mediates the ahamkara using sattva into the sense organs and the organs of action. These are subtle in nature, and not the external physical manifestations of these organs. The sense organs and the organs of action are controlled by manas, which too is formed by the ahamkara mediated by rajas using sattva guna.
Rajas mediates the ahamkara using tamas into the five tanmatras(sound, touch, sight, taste and smell) and the five elements(space, air, fire, water and earth). Power of sound corresponds to space, touch corresponds to air, sight corresponds to fire, taste corresponds to water and smell corresponds to earth.
These five gross elements then give rise to the actual individual body(including the brain for manas, the appendages for the organs of action, the head and the torso to contain the different organs, and the different physical sense organs(ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose)) which helps manifest the subtle powers of the different organs of senses, action, the power of the tanmatras and the manas and help us work out our karma. At a universal level, the five gross elements form the jagat, the entirety of the insentient universe.
Purusha in all this simply witnesses and does not participate in creation. Both realities of purusha and prakriti are fundamental. But you are purusha. So the journey from prakriti to purusha is defined as moksha as per samkhya.
The only difference between Samkhya and Advaita is that Advaita considers Prakriti as not some fundamental reality, but as as an appearance of Brahman itself. In relation to the duality with prakriti, brahman appears as purusha. In reality Brahman alone is. So while samkhya considers the world to be absolutely real, Advaita considers the world to be an appearance, relatively real.
The journey to moksha in Advaita, hence, is not only to purusha, but ultimately to brahman itself. It's a journey from ignorance of brahman to knowledge of brahman. And there is no real transformation which takes place from the perspective of brahman. But yes, at the level of prakriti, samkhya does an excellent job at explaining the process of transformation of mula Prakriti into all this diversity and its journey back to purusha.
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VS LF EXPECTANCY POST COVID
Native American and Alaska Native populations’ lost a total of 6.6 years from 2019 to 2021.
The Hispanic population lost 4.2 years.
The non-Hispanic Black population lost four years.
The white population lost 2.4 years.
And the Asian population lost 2.1 years.
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