8 BIBLE VERSES WHEN YOU FEEL LOW

With the changing world , it is as normal as the sun rising and setting to feel sometimes low and lost . Specially during this period when we are isolated in our homes and we are not able to go out or meet our friends . Thanks to the digital world where we can connect to people virtually but its hard to say who is being their true self  there and thats when we feel the void which can be only filled by the almighty God . Here I give you some Bible verses which will help  to cope up in such stress . Its like the eternal promise . If it is written then it will be fulfilled.

ISAIAH 35:4 "tell everyone who is discouraged , be strong and don't be afraid God is coming to your rescue"

PHILIPPIANS 4:13 " I can do all things through him who strengthens me"

ISAIAH 41:10 " Do not fear for i am with you , do not be dismayed for i am your God , I will strengthen you , i will uphold you with my victorious right hand"

PSALMS 46:1 "God is our refuge and strength , a very present help in trouble "

1 PETER 1:7 "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you " 

PSALMS 18:2 "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer ,my God ,my rock in whom I take refuge , my shield and the horn of my salvation ,my stronghold "

ISAIAH 43:2 " When you go through deep waters , I will be with you "

PSALMS 20:1 "The Lord answer you in the day of trouble , the name of the God of Jacob protect you "

 

 

5 TO DO LISTS FOR HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

HEALTH IS WEALTH

 I have been making to-do list daily now for quite some  time because i had so much going on with my life that i felt like i am missing out on giving time to myself . While i was going through my diary i found some common factors that i would love to share with you people. Hoping it helps you as it had helped me always through all my ups and downs. the art of making  to do lists on a daily basis is a work in progress that i too am still working on but some points to keep in mind for life. i summarized it under very basic  5 categories  

1. PHYSICAL HEALTH

• Rise  and go to bed early                                                                 
• Work on positive energy and a strong mind
• Drinking water at regular intervals is as important as breathing
• Eat healthy and only when you are hungry 
• Dont exhaust  yourself and enjoy whatever you do
• Walk and talk on your phone , its  work's like an exercise
• Practice your hobbies , a refreshment to the mind

2. MENTAL HEALTH 

• Have courage and be kind 
• Do an ARK daily - act of random kindness
• Dont overthink . whatever you feel is ok, share and talk to your loved ones whatever you feel. Thats gonna feel light
• Accept yourself and everyone as they are 
• Study to learn something new 
• Be humble and have gratitude 
• Approach challenges with love and never give up attitude 
• Believe in yourself 
• Reading good books and listening to good music is as good as a therapy session
• indulge yourself in your favourite activities

3. SPIRITUAL HEALTH 

• Be a true believer in god 
• Have a jesus heart 
• Pray daily everytime for everyone 
• Listen more  and take notes on life lessons 
• Memorize scripture or even a verse 
• Instead of complaining live a faith filled life 
• Meditate and be still 
• Godly teachings should be a guiding light  in your path

4.  HYGIENE HEALTH 

• Brush teeth twice a day 
• Brush your hair 
• Keep your body and hair clean
• Accept your bodily flaws , be imperfectly perfect 
• Wash your face , moisturize skin , and protect yourself from sunlight 
• If you are at home get out of your pjs during the day to give it a jumpstart
• Keep your surroundings clean and hygienic 

5. ORGANISATION HEALTH

• Time management is the key 
• Set routines and be productive in your work 
• Its ok to make mistakes 
• Keep yourselves and your team organised 
• Dont try to do everything at once . doing bit by bit is the best way .  
• Trust your team and divide work and if you are working alone divide time and make to do list . 

5 tips to help you develop Patience

IMPATIENT OR I'M PATIENT

"Have Patience ,God isn't finished yet" Philippians 1:6

Patience is the ability to endure difficult circumstances such as preserverance, in the face of delay , tolerance of provocation without responding in anger.

1. ACCEPT that you have less patience . Once you are aware of it you will be able to work whenever you are in the most vulnerable situations.

2. UNDERSTAND and talk to yourself . there is none better than yourself who can do that . Only you know when you feel angry or what things make you impatient . Give yourself some time to know that.

3. STAY CALM when you are in such a situation , where you are most likely to lose patience . Keep quiet and take a deep breath and keep your mind calm and speak softly . Go to a quieter place and then come back and solve it.

4. MEDITATE for some time on a daily basis preferably morning hours in order to keep the mind composed for the challenges you are going to face for  the rest of the day.

5. PRACTICE ART activities like mandala or origami which may  help you practice patience and stay cool resulting in a beautiful art piece as well . Mandala is a sanskrit word for magic circle which creates a space for self and soul as an aid to meditation and helps improve your focus . You can see some amazing videos here . Origami is the art of paper folding and creating beautiful objects . It will teach you that mistakes can be undone and continous work can bring changes. You can learn making some   here

Tested and Tried

Note: Its ok if you are losing patience , keep working on it and never give up.

TIPS FOR LIFE FROM AN ARTIST's EYE VIEW

! Trash to Treasure Thursday !

While doing some cleaning for my mom's kitchen garden in the backyard , I found these 2 wooden blocks ,plainly lying in a corner , leftover of the furniture work we got done last year , calling out for some colours and TaDa I painted them .

Turned out to be pretty and fun.Now the hard part is ,I just have to find a place to keep them in the house which is already packed with my random stuff due to the study-work from home situation. Finally I am motivated to clean and declutter the space for these newbies and many more to come.

TIP : Some times what we consider to be of no use at one time will appear as the most beautiful things at another time so enjoy your bad and good times  because we never know when it will turn into treasure .

P.S. My mom is surprised to see my room clean than my paintings.😝😝

5 Steps To Live Your Hobbies

THE E's TO HAPPY HOBBIES

"Arise,Shine; for your light has come ,and the glory of Lord has risen upon you".Isaiah 60:1

All day work and no play makes jack a dull boy is an old proverb which is very familiar to  each one of us and it is true talking abut the current scenario , the lockdown  got me sitting in my home and dreaming of enjoying some free days  but soon it changed into  work from home reality and it doubles the work for someone who is working and studying as I had to complete my college assignments and projects and also prepare notes for my students for the classes I was taking online. And  in the first few days I enjoyed but I got weary. I lost in touch with myself at some into keeping me away from all my hobbies . thats when i realized that our hobbies play a major role in our daily life .

Literal defination of hobbies is  a pursuit outside ones regular Occupations engaged in specially for relaxation .

1. Empower (verb) - to give official authority or to promote self actualization- understand your points of happiness . what you enjoy the most ? does it relax you from day today stress ? whats your inner power ? If you answered these questions and you have more than tins welcome aboard on the flight of you hobbies .
2. Engage (verb) - to offer to a cause or to bind to do something - Now that you have got your hobbies lets do something with them . If you love drawing painting , engage yourselves in a new art forms , enjoy crafting try some diy decor things , love books then read, recite and repeat the list is goes on.
   
3.  Entertain (verb) - amuse or interest - . Day by day your interest keeps growing and now it has become a part of your daily life and you can do things not to impress anyone but to inspire them.
4. Educate (verb )- teach or train - Thats when your hobbies make a change in the world . you love cooking , teach people some great recipes , love drawing ,share your art , loves reading and writing start a blog (like i did),it will motivate others its a big world and there are always people who would love to learn from you.
5. Exuberant (adjective )- joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic - You are on your own now,thats how your hobbies come to life. After all these actions you are filled with  a feeling of relaxation and now ready to work better with a cheerful mind and heart .

This blog post is  Dedicated to my sister , a nurse and all frontliners who are working hard to keep the virus intact specially during this pandemic situation ,Teachers and  and servicemen , IT industry staff who are 24*7 online even at their homes to provide us with uninterrupted services giving up their fun for selfless services to people. its because of them that I am safe and sound and writing this blog.   My dear readers don't take your life and interests for granted and live them.

How can one live a colourful life ?

Beginners tip to draw your life as you like

Materials listed below are easily found in a nearby shop called "heart" .💖

1. canvas - god created man in his own image  he gave us blank canvas called soul which is transparent and as white as a sheet of paper . freedom to draw , colour and design it in a way it is beautiful and r different yet keeps its originality .
2. a set of brushes - . different no. of brushes reciprocate to your talents, aspirations and dreams . the brushes come with a caution " handle with care " the way we think will determine if we are on the right path or not .
3. colours - its your mind and what you have learned over the time and then finally its time to transfer your creations from mind to the canvas .

Same is our life, as we are born to this world from our mother's womb we are like the blank canvas . The family we are born into becomes a part of our soul . we learn from them , we grow and mature and eventually we decide to go on our own to pursue our passion and make a profession but most certainly during this rush of growing we often feed our body but our souls remain like an empty canvas. But now we are ready with our full armour to face the world and start thinking to live and make the choice between right and wrong ,leading to decisions made in hurry and the outline goes wrong . But if you believe its right then continue coloring and a beautiful picture comes into life and you start living trying to be a part of the world .

when it comes to living our life , its completely different for different people but what matters is the efforts, invest in your hobbies, try new things and surely no judgments: to live , enjoy and design the perfect painting . Like the sky , splashing colors giving  hope to the world . So be like SKY.

5 ways to stop judging

The meaning of judging is to form an opinion or conclusion about something or someone. The half of  population today are victim of this chronic disorder of judging ourselves on the basis of how we look , what we do , and many other aspects which really doesn't matter to the other half of the population who have taken up the job to judge others and they are quite good at that you know why because that's what they enjoy so let them do it.  They are doing what they like so lets take some steps to stop doing what we don't like.

MY GUIDE TO STOP JUDGING

1. ACCEPT DIFFERENCES -  Look around you to find so much diversity even in a smallest place like our home , you are different from your parents ,the siblings are never same , even the flowers , the leaves,  the buildings etc. , from everyone to everything  is different then why not live according to what we are made of by never comparing and seeing yourself as a unique person.
2. NEVER BULK UP - Stop collecting your flaws and and adding them in the back of your head
   
   such that when someone points out those flaws you start overthinking and  slowly it becomes the bitter truth for you . If you don't have a problem nobody will ever have .
3. EMBRACE THE UPS AND DOWNS - Its commonly said life is a roller caster ride , the curves. the highs and lows we have certainly enjoyed that ride but when it comes to life a single failure gives unlimited reasons to judge yourself as a non worthy person . Change these reasons into steps to rise above the failure . Like  the waves Of the ocean that  keep rising and falling but never stop.
4. REALITY AND VIRTUALITY - Its a common feeling of being rejected or not accepted in the virtual era where likes and comments decide whether you are good or not . The trolling and the roast culture spreading all over internet is the major reason for judging ourselves and others . Stop listening to this money making virtuality where someone is  hitting at your self confidence . Believe in what you are doing.Accept your mistakes and move on .
5. SATISFACTION-  Defined as the fulfillment of one's wishes. whatever you do small or big keep a check if it satisfies your inner self or not. Do something for others every now and then which will give you selfless satisfaction boosting your heart , mind and soul. If you are satisfied you will never judge .
   

Judge-me-ntal

what will people GOD say?

For a very long time my mind was in a conflict with my heart about starting this blog, do you know why ? because i was thinking about what people would think of me ? will my thoughts be accepted by everyone ? will i be able to make a change ? so many questions suffocating my inner self , the self confidence i swear by was constantly  falling into the dark deep ditch of fear of being judged by other people. But as these thoughts kept hovering on my head.  while i am in the real world this judging doesn't matter much to me because my friends are there with me and they know who i am as a real person. but in the virtual world where we are seen by hundreds, thousands and many more people the scenario is quite different. And i realized I am not judged by people , because they don't know me but i am the one judging myself  and this realization took a toll on me . i kept myself logged out of the social media , giving myself some time to regain what i lost . But as i tried to keep myself motivated by getting in touch with my hobbies ,i felt i was on the right path of reconciling with myself , as the days passed on i was roaming in   various lanes of my mind  in a fit to get away with being  judgemental , i reached a backdoor into my heart with a signboard which read enter to know what god will say , i don't know about the whereabouts of that signboard but it instantly spoke to me, may be i have read it somewhere , saved in my memory and when it was the  right time  i remembered it . The invisible connection between the brain and the heart ,i often hear people say that listen to the heart not the mind but i say they are  not separate things they work together , and comes handy when we need them the most  may be our heart gives us confidence but the reason behind it is the brain .i thought to myself i was so stupid to care about what people would say where as the only thing that matters  is what  god will say because everyone in this world is here for a reason and if can work for that why to stop  as i logged in back to my social media there she was , my angel , my sister calling me and believe it or not god exists,  because she said it , she asked me to start my channel and share my views with people , and i couldn't stop smiling in that moment that taking a leap is the only crucial part in this world  and the rest is all  up to god and he is good. Believe in yourself, you are given a reason  not to keep it to yourself  but to share it to the world ,be a witness and stop thinking about others, start thinking about god and  he will think about you here i am writing this blog and many more making an acquaintance with myself with a thought to not be so mental to judge yourself because you are worth more than many sparrows.