<ul><li>When am I at my happiest? When was the last time that I was truly full of pure joy? What sparked that? What can I do to let it happen more often?</li><li>What has been troubling me the most lately?</li><li>Am I currently trying to push down some feelings? What might they be telling me?</li><li>What feels unresolved in my life? Am I holding on to someone or something I need to let go of?</li><li>Is there any person or situation I can’t get out of my head because I never got closure?</li><li>What usually makes me anxious? How do I try to eliminate these triggers? Am I my own best friend during hard times?</li></ul>

Mental Health & Well being : Self-Reflection Questions

1. Make a list of 30 things that make you smile. It can be absolutely anything.2. Write a letter to the person or situation that feels unresolved, saying everything you didn’t have a chance to express. Get it off your chest!3. What things can you start doing to improve your mental health? Be as detailed as possible and make a plan with action items.4. If my body could talk, it would tell me . . . Write a letter and let it all out.

Mental Health & Well being : Mental Excercises

<ul><li>What do I value the most in relationships?</li><li>What am I looking out for in a relationship?</li><li>How can I express my love to close ones better?</li><li>What can I thank my family for?</li><li>Do I miss someone right now? Do they miss me, too?</li><li>How often do I think about someone who’s no longer a part of my life?</li><li>What was my most painful lesson about love?</li><li>Have I accepted someone’s apology without ever truly forgiving them? What held me back?</li><li>Is my relationship with myself a healthy one?</li><li>What is the best thing about dating me?</li><li>Who in my life can I be the most myself around?</li></ul>

Relationship : Self-Reflection Questions

Make a list of the people in your life who genuinely support you and whom you can trust. Which of them do you turn to in difficult moments? Make time to hang out with them!

Relationship :  Mental Excercise

<ul><li>What worries me most about the future?</li><li>What matters most in my life? What am I doing about those things?</li><li>What things do I consider my greatest accomplishments in life?</li><li>What do I think of first when I wake up in the morning?</li><li>What do I consider to be my purpose in life?</li><li>What is my main goal for next year?</li><li>What new skills should I acquire to reach my goals?</li><li>Would I change my workplace if I was offered a bigger salary elsewhere?</li><li>Is money a solution to all my current problems?</li><li>What would I do if I didn’t have to worry about money?</li><li>Does my job stress me out more than it fulfills me?</li></ul>

Career & Motivation : Self-Reflection Questions

1. Rank 10 life values that are important to you in descending order. Do you act according to them?2. Write about a time when your work felt real, necessary, and satisfying to you, whether it was paid or unpaid, professional or domestic, physical or mental.3. Make a list of 15 things that inspire you, and think about how you can try to do them more often.4. List 7 new things you would like to try in the near time.

Career & Motivation : Mental Excercises

<ul><li>What serendipity has transformed my life the most?</li><li>How would I name the current chapter of my life?</li><li>Is there something I regret not having done? How would I like to change it? What failure am I most grateful for?</li><li>Am I my greatest fan or my biggest critic?</li><li>What insecurity of mine is my biggest hurdle?</li><li>Do I consider myself beautiful when I wake up in the morning?</li><li>Is it more important for me to be liked by everyone or to be myself? Why so? Do I like the person I am now? Would I change something about myself? What is my biggest fear? How am I working on it?</li></ul>

Gratitude : Self-Reflection Questions

1. Write 10 sentences about yourself you would tell a stranger for them to understand you better.2. Make a list of 8 things you’d like to eliminate from your life.3. List 8 things you have been putting off. How about making time in your schedule for them?4. Name 3 things you are thankful to yourself for doing today.5. Name your 5 biggest strengths.

Gratitude : Mental Excercises

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Growth Questions & Exercises 

Research shows that inflammation is often the root cause of major diseases in the body. Learn how to defend yours from it daily and with ease.Inflammation is the health buzzword of our time. It's linked to just about every ailment and disease, and to countless diets promising to reverse it. But what causes the condition, and can we really quell it?

6 Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Protect Your Body Against Inflammation

The real culprit is chronic inflammation, an ongoing immune response triggered by stress, processed foods, poor sleep, and other modern-day menaces. Essentially, your body is pumping out white blood cells to protect you from perceived threats. (Acute inflammation, on the other hand, is a helpful, temporary influx that helps heal a paper cut or fight a cold.)

Chronic Inflammation Culprit

Persistently heightened levels of white blood cells and their by-products (like cytokines, proteins that can trigger inflammatory reactions) can damage tissues and organs and impair immune function, says Christopher D'Adamo, Ph.D., director at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. That damage can outwardly manifest in symptoms like skin rashes and persistent joint pain, fatigue, or digestive problems—and contribute to diseases including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and depression.6  Changes You Can Make to Protect Your Body Against Inflammation

Damage Caused by Inflammation

The occasional scoop of ice cream is A-OK, but too many high-glycemic foods (treats and snacks with lots of added sugars and refined carbs) can cause your blood sugar to rise and fall rapidly after eating. Oxidative stress can also ensue, which is when unstable free radicals outnumber the body's antioxidant defenses and contribute to cell and tissue damage, sparking inflammation.

1. Avoid Excess Sugar

Colorful, Aromatic Foods Are BestThese helpers, which include flavonoids and carotenoids, are abundant in deeply pigmented, aromatic foods like citrus, berries, tomatoes, red cabbage, broccoli, dark leafy greens, parsley, garlic, ginger, dark chocolate, turmeric, and tea.

2. Consume Foods That Fight Inflammation

When bad bacteria (including potentially harmful pathogens like E. coli) are disproportionate to good ones, we can develop gut dysbiosis. This condition lets harmful substances (toxins produced by gut bacteria) to leak from the intestines into the bloodstream, which can cause chronic inflammation throughout the body.Anything from saturated fats to stress can drive this process, but plants help undo it.

3. Care for Your Gut

Opt for polyunsaturated and monounsaturated (from fish, nuts, seeds, avocados, and olive oil) rather than saturated (common in fried foods). In high quantities (more than 13 grams a day, for most people—think a bacon cheeseburger), the latter may decrease the diversity of beneficial microbes in your gut, priming you for a flare-up.

4. Eat Superfats

Working out causes normal, short-term bouts of acute inflammation (which help your muscles repair and grow), but it can also have net benefits over time. A study found that just 15 minutes of strength training a day led to changes in the gut microbiome associated with higher levels of short-chain fatty acids and reduced inflammatory markers. Exercise also helps you maintain a healthy weight, which is important because excess fat tissue releases pro-inflammatory cytokines.

5. Move More

Quality shut-eye helps your body regulate cortisol, the fight-or-flight hormone secreted in response to stressful events to boost alertness and prime you for physical activity. When it flows unchecked, it may increase inflammation. Stress also often leads to poor eating habits, compromised immune function, and digestive issues—all of which contribute to chronic inflammation.

6. Get Quality Sleep

“Reduce inflammation to treat the root of many issues. If your gut isn't working right it can cause so many other issues.”-Jay Woodman

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How to Protect Your Body Against Inflammation

Habits can be a powerful tool for achieving goals and getting things done. Automatic and requiring little effort to implement, habits can help you yield the results you want, but only if you’re someone who is wired for disciplined living with a dependable schedule.Many of us are “unhabiters,” someone who juggles multiple roles and responsibilities and has a life that’s busy and unpredictable. Unhabiters need a more flexible approach to behaviour change, which is why habits just don’t work.

Why Habits Don't Work

People who are successful with habits formation have strong willpower and are organized. They tend to stick to their plan even when they’re tempted to make impulsive choices because they are innately disciplined. And perhaps most importantly, they tend to have schedules that run according to plan without a lot of disruption.Unhabiters, however, often have roles and responsibilities that can interrupt plans. An unhabiter may have to care for children or elders. These roles can add unexpected activities that derail plans. A rigid habit schedule isn’t going to work.

No Disruption Creates Habits

If you have the personality type or lifestyle that doesn’t support an unwavering habit loop, you can leverage your brain’s executive functioning system, also called your prefrontal cortex.The prefrontal cortex provides three primary executive functions: working memory, which allows you to remember and work with one or two pieces of information at a time; cognitive flexibility, which lets you course correct and switch gears in the face of new information; and inhibition, which provides us with self-control.

Use Your Brain System

Some ways we can boost our prefrontal cortex are through good nutrition, exercise, and mental games. These measures don’t always help when we face a real-life situation and must make a choice in the moment. To address this point of conflict, there is a simple method called POP that helps can be used at a point of conflict—such as a distraction from your goals—to support flexible thinking.POP stands for “pause,” “open your options,” and “pick the joy choice.”

Boosting Our Brain

Pause: The wisdom of the pause gives us a chance to create space between stimulus and response. Taking a breath and pausing help support our working memory.Open your options: Choice points are all about logistics, managing plans, and resources.Pick the joy choice: Of your options, choose the one that makes you feel best about resolving the situation. By definition, it’s the perfect imperfect action that lets us do something instead of nothing, so that we stay consistent, and stand with our needs.

POP!

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Buddha the Man Change the people life and perspectives apart from religion boundaries he gives the way to live the life at it's fullest potential.

Deep Philosophy Quotes of “Buddha”  

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."

“When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts."

“Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now."

"The mind is everything; what you think you become."

“Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others."﻿

“Give, even if you only have a little." ﻿

Buddha Born in this world to give a sight of life without suffering from attachments and giving a different purposes to us.  In this thread i am sharing Buddha's great quotes that's helpful in our daily life as a guide Book to live a wonderful time

The way to Enhance your Life 

<ol><li>Be authentic</li><li>Help other people</li><li>Earn your way</li><li>Be physically active</li><li>Do everything with love</li><li>Be honest</li><li>Respect your beliefs</li><li>Accept your defects</li><li>Never humiliate others </li><li>Meditate</li><li>Live your passions</li><li>Connect with the people you love</li></ol>Putting these into practice will help you realize your God-given potential.

These 12 habits will assist you in being the best version of yourself:

While it can be beneficial to adapt to your environment in some situations, changing your personality to suit the situation impedes your growth and maturity. If you hide behind a mask, you will never be able to share everything you have to give. When we are authentic, we are more comfortable, secure, and respected.

1. Be authentic

When someone needs your help, be compassionate and give them a hand, whenever possible. If you cannot help them, connect them with someone who can. Daily life is full of opportunities to do this. If you do someone a favor, don’t hold it over their head, and don’t expect something in return. Do what is right, because it is right, and that’s it.

2. Help other people

Work hard and win the respect of the people around you, walking your path without stepping on anyone else. Don’t expect to receive anything without earning it. Adversity and sacrifice will make aspects of your personality shine that you might not have discovered otherwise, and will give you a feeling of achievement and self-improvement that will surprise you.

3. Earn your way

Try to incorporate movement into your daily life: <ul><li>walk to work, </li><li>take the stairs instead of the elevator, </li><li>stand up from your seat every half hour, </li><li> make plans to do more physically demanding activities with your friends. </li></ul>This will strengthen your body and will make it possible for you to live more intensely.

4. Be physically active

The love we put into our actions is what gives true meaning to what we do. If we do them with love, the smallest of our actions can become great. Love always bears fruit and strengthens us internally.

5. Do everything with love

There are also times when it is better to keep your mouth shut, but when it’s time to speak out, be honest. By being truthful, we defend what is right and reject what is wrong. Avoid getting involved with lies; one lie tends to lead to another and trap us in a web that it’s hard to escape.

6. Be honest

Being faithful to what you believe is crucial. When you act in line with your beliefs, regardless of the outcome, you will feel proud of yourself for having been faithful and coherent.

7. Respect your beliefs

We all have them, without exception. It’s always important to be humble so that we can recognize where we can change and how we can improve upon our weaknesses and defects. Humility is the first step on the path to learning and growing.

8. Accept your defects

If someone does something shameful or embarrassing, resist the temptation to say something that could hurt them, no matter how smart or fair it might appear. People might laugh because what you said was funny at that moment, but after reflecting about it, they will think less of you.

9. Never humiliate others

Begin and end each day with a few minutes of introspection. Think of those moments as a gift to yourself, that will allow you to silence the constant mental noise of the day and anchor you in the present, the only moment you can really take advantage of.

10. Meditate

When you really enjoy an activity, you lose the sense of time. Try to experience that sensation more often by doing activities that you love. They are one of the greatest sources of motivation and creativity.

11. Live your passions

Invest quality time in quality relationships. Establishing strong interpersonal relationships is comforting, it opens our mind, and it increases our life expectancy.

12. Connect with the people you love

We must seek to be the best possible version of ourselves, achieving an internal balance that is contagious, a profound state of peace that allows us to use our abilities to the maximum.

It's not enough to be ourselves; we need to practice healthy habits and virtues to really be all we can be.

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