Year after year, it gets tough to think up innovative gifts for the people you want to send out your love to during the holiday season. You could end up thinking about Christmas gift ideas for months, and still seem stuck at the end of the year. I don’t know about the rest of them, but if you have any fitness and health enthusiasts among your list of ‘to gift’ people, here are some Christmas gift ideas, specifically catering to them. iMuffs Wireless Headphones: Ask any fitness enthusiast who is also a music lover, and he/she will tell you that finding the right pair of headphones can be quite a pain. If you have a family member or a friend who likes working 0ut; and has a drawer full of headphones that have been abandoned over the years; you can answer all their prayers by gifting them  [...] 

Here are some of the celebs you might recognize from the big screen, the small screen and the ramp. Here’s how some of these celebrity smokers kicked the butt. They used hypnosis, nicotine patches or went cold turkey; but it seemed to work for them. Inspire yourself to do the same. Gisele Bundchen: This Brazilian supermodel, famous for her good looks and that gorgeous body was said to quit her smoking habit in the year 2007. This was part of her New Year’s resolution to live her healthier life. After quitting, she piled on some pounds (about 15). She was once quoted saying that almost everything food tasted better when it tasted and smelt like an ashtray. Given the fact that you can sense the taste and smell better once you’ve quit, chances are that you’ll take to food, big time. The  [...] 

There is a possibility that you may have heard of or read of a term called ‘good stress’. Basically there is ‘good stress’ and then there is ‘bad stress’. If you want to know what that means, read on! It is unlikely that you hear anyone raving about how ‘great they’re feeling now that they’re stressed’. Why then is it is called ‘good stress’? However, think about it. If there hadn’t been any stress in our lives, would we have felt utterly unhappy all the time? If stress has to be defined as something that can alter our homeostasis; in that case, good stress is known to be vital to a happy and healthy life. The good form of stress, however, can turn into the bad form and vice versa. Here’s all you ever needed to know about the good form of stress. Good v/s Bad: Eustress  [...] 

‘How To Relax?’ is a question that I get asked very often by my jittery friends who know that I write blog posts like this one. A lot of people that I know have some serious trouble with the concept of relaxing. It is like they’re incapable of relaxing. I think that they aren’t alone in their struggle. There are a lot of people out there (hopefully reading this) who leave their workplaces, but find it incapable to stop working, at least in their heads. Given the fact that technology is constantly following us everywhere, it becomes even tougher to think of anything but work; for the means are with you most of the times. All said and done, it is important for you understand that you must spend a certain amount of time in the day relaxing your mind. That is the only way your mind will  [...] 

So you want to head back indoors to workout. Your reasons could be varied; either it’s too hot, too cold or too wet outside for you to workout. Well, but what is it that you can do indoors? Before you hang your head low and trudge back to your aerobics or spin classes, let’s try and break the good news to you. There are other fun ways of shaking things up, while you keep fit and lose those extra pounds. Here are some fun routines that will help you in burning some calories and providing for a full aerobic routine that can help strengthen your heart. The Added Bonus: Other than just keeping you and your heart fit, there is more that these workouts have to offer. They could increase your sense of balance, your flexibility and strengthen your core abdominal muscles. Hula Hooping: Yes, those  [...] 

There is an old adage that says ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. Well, it does also take a supportive community or a strong support system to keep a person happy and sane. Man is called a social animal for a reason and this would mean that all of us are in constant need of companionship and this would perhaps throw some light on why teenagers are constantly texting each other, even from the dinner table.  People who didn’t own a personal computer until last year are now regulars on social networking sites like facebook and twitter. The first trick to befriending others would be to befriend ourselves. If you are comfortable with yourself, you will be able to get into meaningful platonic relationships with people around you. If you do end up having a strong support system in place,  [...] 

Tringggggggg… The alarm goes off and you wake up. Well, almost! Groggy eyed, you hunt for the alarm (or the cell phone) and you look at the time. It’s 6:20 am. You know you could actually afford to sleep till 7:00 if you decide to take a shower in 10 minutes today instead of the usual 20. Sacrificing 10 minutes of shower-time doesn’t seem like a big deal when weighed with half an hour of sleep, right! Wrong! Think twice before you hit the snooze button next time; it might do worse than better for you. We tell you why! Metabolism Sleeps For Longer Too: If you oversleep, the metabolism of your body is also likely to sleep for longer. Your body doesn’t get a chance to get into the right rhythm of things. If you’re sleeping for a longer time, then you’re also starving yourself for that  [...] 

When you hear the term ‘Art Of Living‘ the first thing to hit your mind is – ‘Huh! What’s this all about?’ If this was exactly your expression, then we’re here to decode it for you. Art of Living fever catches on in America: In today’s day and age, people are looking for ways to grapple with one evil that seems to but cause several other problems – STRESS. It tends to interfere not only with your professional, but also your personal life. Given its intrusion man has for long tried to find a sustainable method to take care of the problem and return to a state of so-called normalcy. At this hour of need, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar comes out with the Art of Living course which has been designed to ensure that you deal with the stress and further keep it  [...] 

Dr. Buddy Rydell: I’m going to need you to retard your anger. Dave Buznik: It’s retarded. I’m retarded. Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler in Anger Management. Every once in a while, we all come across situations like these in our lives where we feel our anger is not the problem, we are. And why not? How much ever you try to stay in check of your anger levels, there’s always something that occurs that prove disastrous; a difficult boss, cranky children, pesky neighbors, a car that won’t start, a check that keeps bouncing. The problems are endless. However, it is necessary to understand, if you haven’t already, that keeping your cool and managing matters diligently is top priority. Not only because it makes life easier, it keeps you healthier. The biggest harm  [...] 

The entire decade of the 60s was synonymous with one phrase – hippie. The hippie culture took the world by storm. Orange clad men and women, with unkempt hair; and long chains. Smoking, drinking, living and loving. What a time it was!!! Peace was all around, and with the peace came new ways of wanting to keep the peace in. Chants of ‘HARE KRISHNA HARE RAM’ made rounds of the world. The Beatles were amongst the pioneers to this world-wide movement. They embraced the ‘transcendental meditation’ movement, when they made a trip to the famous Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967. Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Transcendental Meditation, which got popularized as TM, was spread by the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who began what came to be seen as a world-wide movement. He  [...]