ADD ABDOMINALS

Yes, you need to crunch your abs. start with 30, and gradually build up to 500 maximum. Find out which is your magic number between 30 and 50. That’s when your tummy looks flat while standing and concave while lying down. You can add exercise for other spots gradually until you have a full body workout in which you are comfortable and which you look forward to each time.

CYCLE FOR STAMINA

You don’t jump into the deep end with both feet before you are ready for it. Similarity, don’t go in for a rigorous training regime from day one. It’s the surest way to bid goodbye to exercising forever! Instead, cycle on a stationary bike five days a week for three months and build your stamina. It will definitely increase your stamina for life long. Practice it daily for few minutes of time.

CUT CALORIES MODERATELY

Fewer calories equal weight-loss.but, while eating less is a must, enforcing huge calorie cuts can slow your metabolism. So, make moderate cuts and phase in more and more cuts gradually. Suggestions. The first week, cut out deep-fried foods. The second week, switch from whole milk to skimmed milk. The third week, reduce sweets and so on. It will give good results within a few weeks of time. It won’t affect your health at any cost.

6 SOUND BITES

Instead of eating one katori of rice, have ½ katori of rice and veggies (cauliflower, French beans). It’s yummier and lower in calories. Don’t take the next bite until you’ve swallowed the earlier one. Postpone your second helping for 20 blissful minutes-you’ll find you don’t need it. If prone to hunger pangs due to blood sugar swings, eat a teaspoon of soaked or sported fenugreek seeds. Drink a cup of coffee to banish pre-training blues. Entertain positive, healthy thoughts. They are low in mental calories and rich in mental nutrients.

VALUABLE ENERGY SAVING TIPS

Do some things at fixed times daily-exercise class, writing your journal, telephone calls, reading the newspaper, catching up on correspondence, energy otherwise frittered away by indecisiveness. Don’t wait for the right moment. Start a project when your instinct says “start” that’s the right moment. Give and receive love and devote your energies to people who energies you. If you can’t avoid energy-drainers, meditate immediately after you meet with or talk to them. Work with love as if work itself is the reward and not the fruits of the work. Express gratitude and appreciation constantly. These are rich, positive, energizing exercise. Patience and perseverance are great energy-conserves. Impatience and quitting are energy-thieves.

ENERGY SAVING TRICKS

Priorities your task, and stand by your priorities. Try exercising between 3pm and 5pm that’s when your body is most flexible. Eat a fat-free lunch to avoid the afternoon slump. Identify your high alert time during the day and do your important tasks at this time. Every 90 minutes, your brain switches from alertness and practical thinking today dreaming. Use this info to flow from working to daydreaming to working and so on to make the best use of your 90 minute energy- cycles.

USE STRESS BEAUTIFULLY:

The feeling of pressure, of stress is your natural creative energetic force urging you to use it positively. It comes up at the most unexpected ways. Say, when you’re walking, you get the urge to run. Then, run! Or it gnaws at you when you want to sleep at night. Well, get up and dance/play the piano/read/write/sing/paint or whatever it is that you wanted to do but never got down to doing because you were distracted. Run do act and suddenly you will relax… all stress gone… balanced, harmonious, and contented.

DON’T OD ON MATERIALISM:

You are empress of the universe, your very roots, your spirit are nourished by the universe. Look within and experience the splendid shining treasures of joy, bliss, ecstasy, peace unimaginable, and creativity unmatchable. They are yours, all yours. So don’t needlessly beg for materialistic stuff from outside. Dwell in a royal meditative energy befitting an empress instead of in materialistic energy betting a beggar. Simplify your life. Cast out clutter. Don’t add more to it. Fewer things equal more energy.

LET GO THE DESIRE TO BE RIGHT:

Think and act from innocence, take as many things as possible at face value without being influenced by them. Trying to show everybody how smart you are begets no rewards, no real growth. Be a fool who knows nothing yet feels on top of the world. Be a child lost in joyous wonder. Become a bundle of energy enchanted pursuing discovery.

BE YOURSELF BE THERE:

The more you manipulate, pretend, market, do public relations, boast, the more energy you waste ‘through your unnatural body gesture, your plastic smile, your put-on’ I’m confident’ act. No, no, don’t turn yourself into a wreck with high blood pressure and other ills. Shed those presentations, pretences, masks. Just be yourself, be there, open in heart, mind and face, be fully available to serve, to give, to love, to trust. Forget yourself and share whatever you have in a very relaxed way.