25. Rest for Zealouszestyliving

Hello friends, 

A very good day/night to you all. Just as our car, house and other gadgets/machines require oiling and maintenance and cannot be overworked beyond a certain point, our body which is mortal requires rest and rejuvenation to carry out its various functions. 

   One simple way of re charging the battery of this exquisite natural machine is resting. 

Resting can be in the form of sleep, sitting, lying down or just being still. Then there are power naps adored by students and busy professionals who have to multitask. These are 20 min naps which refresh you when you are really busy but mind you they are no substitutes for the regular night time sleep. Let us now concentrate on physical rest which also contributes to mental rest, to know more about resting a chaotic mind you may click HERE or HERE or HERE.

The Necessity of Rest for Zealouszestyliving:

1.  Timely rest is akin to servicing our vehicle which ensures that it runs smoothly.
2. We achieve rejuvenation  by  resting our body timely.
3. Alertness level is optimum when the body is well rested.
4. It ensures safety e.g.while driving etc. Even when we move about our jobs/chores in a rested frame of mind we are more balanced in terms of gait etc.
5. Athletes and people engaged in intense physical fitness regimes can prevent muscle tear and fractures which occur due to over working a tired body.
6. A better mood and in general a happier state of mind is ensured by rest.
7. Proper sleep pattern is said to promote a healthy body weight. So this again proves the importance of sleep and rest . (Years ago I thought that less amount of sleep will cause more calories to burn but apparently this is not so).

So if you are not well rested and are tired what are you waiting for? Just leap into bed ha! ha! at least that's what I will be doing! For "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctors book." goes an Irish Proverb.

Thank you for reading this blog , how particular are you about rest? Are you in despair over lack of rest? don't worry to make you full of hope until the next post I leave you with this quote . 

"The best bridge between despair and Hope is a good night's sleep."---E. Joseph Cossman. 

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24. Harmless Vices, the minute thorns in Zealouszestyliving

Hello friends, 

A very good day/night to you all. The previous two posts were about harmful vices (part 1 and part 2). Here I will mention some bad habits to which we are addicted but these are not all that harmful. All of us have some such habit or the other. 

E.g.
Nail biting, excessive shopping, eating junk food, being glued to the tv, emotional eating, excessive socializing etc. Or some kind of repetitive behavior which we indulge in and which may lie on the border of being termed as Obsessive Compulsive Behavior (OBS) you may read more about OBS HERE.    

7 Possible Outcomes of Harmless Vices: 

• Certain habits like excessive shopping can lead to a dent in finances in the long term. (Have you watched the romantic comedy  -Confessions of a shopaholic?)
• Emotional eating can lead to being overweight and result in a lack of self confidence. 
• They may hone the escapist mentality as whenever we have to do some important work we may resort to this so called harmless vice.
• Bad habits can be time wasters. e.g. Stress of studies may increase our habit of nail biting or procrastination and lead to wasting time.
• They reduce our ability.
• They prevent us from using our full potential.
• They weaken our capacity.

You don't live life to the fullest due to these bad habits, in other words your life will be more zealous and zesty if you try to eliminate the harmless vices. I agree it is difficult as there does not appear to be a dire need to do so. But I am sure you agree that they can be minute thorns in our life. 

Thank you for reading,  I leave you with this quote till my next post with the hope that you and me are able to control our harmless vices efficiently.

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices"---Benjamin Franklin.

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