Handwashing and mindfulness

• Road Running: running on paved roads, paths, and sidewalks.
• Treadmill Running: easier than outdoor running and can be gentler on your joints.
• Racing. Road races can vary from 5Ks to half or full marathons or even ultramarathons. 
• Trail Running: it takes place on hiking trails, from deserts to mountains.
• Track Running. Track events include shorter distance races from the 50-yard dash to 400-meter sprints. 

• Invest in Shoes and Gear. Visit a specialty running store to get fitted for the best shoes for you and check out gear such as running shorts, tops, or tights made of wicking fibers.
• Stay Safe. Do a warmup before you start, like a walk or an easy jog for 5 min.
• Follow running safety advice, such as going against traffic when running on roads. Always carry some form of identification with you.
• Use the Run/Walk Method. Start with running for one minute, then walk for one minute. Try to increase the running intervals over time.
• Make It Manageable. Keep a conversational pace during each workout. If you can't speak in a full sentence, slow down. Breathe through your nose to get enough oxygen.

Parents' frame of mind impacts their children. Parents should not blame themselves when their children struggle.

Since parents lead by example, treating themselves with compassion and without judgment can help their children to do the same.

Many parents stop meditating once they have children. But new research suggests that even brief interventions can be helpful.

• Take two breaths of kindness wherever you are.
• Find moments of newness while engaged in your daily tasks of living.
• Bring awareness and gratitude to the everyday things you take for granted.

• Vinegar, honey, vanilla and many other extracts, along with sugar, salt, corn syrup and molasses will last years after they are showing expired on the package.
• Oats: Rolled and steel-cut oats will last for a year, while par-cooked (instant) ones can last even more than that.

• White Flour lasts quite long but whole-wheat and whole-grain flour start going bad after a few months. Anything refined and ‘white’ lasts longer than anything unpolished and brown. This is due to the presence of fats in anything which is unrefined.
• Tree nuts can go bad in a few months if not stored in a freezer.

Neurologically speaking, motivation is the desire to escape psychological discomfort or a life situation that is not giving us any kind of ‘pleasure’.

Most behaviors are prompted by discomfort. If we are hungry, we eat. If we are lonely, we call up a friend. If we are bored, we turn on the TV.

If we are procrastinating instead of doing a certain task, telling ourselves that we would it later, it is a sure sign that the task isn’t a habit which can be done on autopilot but is, in fact, a routine.

Anything that requires effort is easy to forget or postpone.

Hydrator and moisturizer are marketing terms. Moisturizers are oil-based ingredients and work by creating a seal on the surface of the skin to prevent water evaporating. Hydrators are ingredients called humectants that absorb water from the atmosphere or your skin and hold it in place on your skin.

Moisturizer is a universal term for moisturizer types: emollients (fats and oils), squalene (oil), humectants (hydrator, such as glycerine or hyaluronic acid), occlusive.

There are a ton of different products on the market, but most skin lotions and products contain both occlusive and emollient ingredients and humectant ingredients. It means they moisturize and hydrate at the same time.

The form a product takes does not affect the performance - only the experience of applying the ingredients.

It is a process of quiet reflection that requires mindful attentiveness, letting go of distracting thoughts and opinions to be fully in the moment with the text. 

It slows down the reader and the reading—that alone changes the experience. It moves the reader into a calm awareness, allowing for a more profound experience and understanding.

Writing benefits from the capacities that mindfulness cultivates: being in the moment, even when remembering the past or imagining the future; not judging others and oneself while still exercising discriminating wisdom; holding multiple perspectives; being open to the new; and practicing kindness, compassion, and patience. 

Break the problems into workable pieces. Ask yourself how you can manage each piece.

Every crisis presents opportunities for growth. Think how someone else you admire might handle the situation.

How can your crises shape you for the better?

Getting your emotions down on paper can decrease anxieties, as you reassess them while writing. 

Spending time within a forest setting can reduce psychological stress, depressive symptoms, and hostility, while at the same time improving sleep, and increasing both vigor and a feeling of liveliness

20 minutes of walking in the woods and listening to the sounds of nature alter cerebral blood flow in a manner that indicated a state of relaxation and reduced stress hormone levels.