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Happiness - Simplified

Happiness is the innermost human nature. We struggle hard to obtai Happiness in our daily life. But, we don’t really experience it, rather we are ignorant of it. The basic question is, can we really experience and enjoy happiness. Certainly the answer is yes. Now let us understand that the most important entity in our life is our own mind, and our whole life is an expression and perception of the mind. Really we can’t experience and enjoy anything other than what is perceived by the mind.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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How to activate our Inner Potentials?

Inner potentials are set to ignite only if we feel that our present life or situation is not successful or when we feel that we have not achieved anything remarkable in our lives. The thought that we are more than what we are, makes us think of ways to activate or ignite our potentials. We all know man is a being having more possibilities. Human race has come up from the mere usage of stones to the present world of technology. Still humans managed to cross every stumbling block with the help of his brain and self confidence.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Get Rid Of A Bad Habit?

Habits once formed can be hard to quit, even if we know that they are not particularly good for us. There are a lot of people who are looking to quit or get rid of an unwanted habit, but they can’t seem to understand how doing it. Here are a few recommended ways to tackle these unwanted habits. How to begin?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Difference betwee Habit and Behaviour

What is Habit? Researchers show that our day-to-day is automated by our habits. From what we wear, to what we eat and most of our decision making is habit-driven. As a matter of fact, studies suggest that up to 45% of our daily behaviour is automatic. You can look at your morning routine as an example of a habit. Your morning routine would look like: - Wake up - Turn off the alarm button - Brush your teeth - Take a shower - Put on your clothes - Drink a cup of coffee - Eat your breakfast

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Master Relationship With Time

Time is never sufficient for any of us. We always think that we do not have sufficient time to complete our tasks because it rushes to nowhere and we are not able to catch up with it. The first truth regarding the idea that we do not have sufficient time is not true since most of us try to fit in all types of duties to the schedule. The majority of them, are not of any use. Some are not at all productive or does not give any positive results in life at all.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Why Habits Are Important In Our Life

Routines or as we say habits ought to be a part of everyone’s lifestyle. They become such a part of your daily schedule that they become who you are. Habits allow you to build environments to do everything with high efficiency. They can be extremely useful and it is perhaps impossible to run our lives without them. It is so because they are to a large extent the basis of your success or even your downfall. What is a habit? How is it formed?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Better Things for A Better Life

As days, weeks, months and years are passing on, we are getting older and older. For that matter, we are gaining more experiences and lessons in life. Actually, we are getting better and better. If we look retrospectively, we are amazed to see that how we had changed? Sometimes it is very interesting to note the ways and means we had adopted in our life to become better . For some years we were less successful.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How to be committed to execute major things in life effectively

To be frank to ourselves, we normally find that we are only partially committed to the things that we do normally. Many think that they are at least half committed, but the real fact is that the majority find themselves even less than half committed to what they normally do. When we plan to bring a change in our diet pattern, can we be fully assured that we are committed to this? Do we take the right steps to start from purchasing grocery, not to buy junk items and to plan a well-balanced meal, or change the normal pattern of eating?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Steps To Take In Life When We Face Uncertainty

When we are going to take an uncertain path, such as choosing a new job or opportunity, entering into a new phase in life, or starting a business or something different, most of us feel a kind of emptiness. We are not able to make the right decision and some of us try to quit it due to the fear of entering into this uncertain path. How to reach out to uncertainty and become successful

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple Let Go Things in Life

As human beings most of the time we are living in our old concepts and beliefs. It is a common fact in a particular situation, especially when there are various problems and conflicts we are very rigid and stubborn. The very attitude of rigidity will not find a solution to a particular problem and that will lead everybody to various miseries and sufferings.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some Better Ways to Change our Life.

All of us are very eager to change our life for a better tomorrow. Many a times we depend on the advice of other people, we also try to change ourselves. We try to find an answer to this question from various sources. Self-help or self-improvement is one of the most important things in our life. The end result that we want in our life is to lead a balanced, happy, peaceful and harmonious life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Planning Well To Manage Our Time

Most of the people around us face time constrain issue in their personal or professional life because of the overwhelming amount of tasks. There are people whom I know who belong to the category of “good time management skills”, who can accomplish a ton of their personal and professional tasks in one single day and these people are very successful. This can be possible by making the best of their time, which can be achieved by prioritizing the tasks in their personal and professional life and also having a good plan in mind to accomplish them.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Interesting habits of healthy and happy people

It is high time that we should understand Happiness is what we create. It is really an inner state of mind. So also health is a state that we have to develop ourselves very carefully. Health, Happiness and Well-being are the states that we really want in life. Along with that we want to be successful also in life. We are at our freedom to choose what we want in life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Face When Your Expectation Fails

We normally get frustrated and disappointed and at some point angry at other people in our lives. This normally happens to each and every one of us. We do find others extremely rude, irritating, untrustworthy, hurting, not considerate and frustrating more often. Such a thing can become hurtful and abusive to us. But actually, to be true, the real problem is not with the other person, it simply is due to our expectations of the next person. Maybe we can say that expectation kills. Expecting too much from others can cause a lot of frustration and inner conflict in our minds.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Become Fearless You Lag Behind Others

We have fear – it’s an emotion and that’s too normal as breathing. When talking about our greatest fears, one among such fears is the fear that we are always behind others in the race. People mostly find it frustrating while taking part in the race of life. The main issue of fear arises when we stuck in life with some sort of fear and unable to move forward the life with taking necessary changes.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple Tips for An Amazing Life

As human beings, we have to live in this world till the end of our life, to put it another way till our death. If we study or observe our life or the life of our family members or colleagues for that matter anybody in this society we can find a variety of things in relation to the way we live. Some people are especially lucky or successful. They utilize every chance or situation in their life and everything that they do end in great success.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

10 Benefits of Fasting

Fasting is most common now a days as we all know that it has got plenty of health benefits. Fasting was traditionally practiced in various religious cultures and practices. Fasting really changes our mind and body and enhances and activates our entire life.Below we are presenting some important benefits of fasting, which will actually change our life very effectively and positively.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

20 Good Habits For A Healthy Living

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

100 Ways for Freedom from Stress

Stress is part and parcel of our day to day life. Every day from morning till we are asleep and also from birth to death each and everybody has to face one or other problem in life, which will create a lot of stress and strain. In fact, at one end we are trying to avoid stressful situations, but at the other end it is coming in a big way. It is a fact that, to live a life some stress is really needed. But when it exceeds the limits we cannot cop with it.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Psychological & Health Benefits of Spiritual Practices

From time immemorial religion, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and related subjects are of great conce to all people all over the world. About 80% of research in relation to religion and spirituality includes the study of mental health also. Spirituality can perhaps help you connect with your divine self. In addition to endowing meaning to your life, it has the potential to improve mental, physical, and emotional well-being as well. It has been a source of relief and comfort from various challenging issues for thousands of years.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Importance Of Good Habits In Daily Life

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Spinach

Health Benefits of Spinach Being a dark leafy vegetable that provides a range of health benefits for most parts of a human body including bone, skin, hair, heart, and digestive system, spinach is no wonder considered as a super food which prevents us from numerous common health diseases like blood pressure, anaemia, cancer diabetes, asthma, and more.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

10 Ways Morning Walk can Keep you Fit

Brisk walking is the easiest and simple exercise that you can do to remain fit. However, it should not be underestimated by its simplicity as it can provide a large number of advantages. There are a variety of benefits that walking brings you such as

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Diet Rich in Fruits and Vegetables

In todays life, it is very important to understand the important health benefits of including fruits and vegetables as a major part of our diet. Presently people all over the world are becoming more aware of this fact due to the essential preventive and curative aspects of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

7 Foods to Improve Eyesight

As it turns out, the rumours about carrots are true: they help your eyes and improve vision. They contain beta-carotene, a form of vitami A. Not only does this give carrots their eye-catching colour, it helps your eyes function at their best.r

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Benefits of Exercise for a healthy lifestyle

Health is a very important part of our life. What is healthy living? A healthy living is a life which includes a balance between physical health and mental health, which can be simply achieved by investing time in regular exercise. Our health can be improved with a balanced diet and proper exercise. Regular exercise can improve your sleep quality, and energy level. Few benefits of regular exercise are 1. Reduce stress

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Benefits of Breathing

Breathing is very fundamental to us. From birth to death, we are living only because of our breathing. All of us are habituated on a regular breathing pattern. If we can change our breathing pattern we can definitely make changes in our health and well-being and it will enhance our total life. Most of the time we are always Shallow Breathers. There is scientific proof that deep breathing is a total exercise for the entire Mind & Body.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Four Ways To Think about Behavior

There are various ways to think about an individual or an animal. Most of the people judge people based on their behavior. Now, Behavior is often thought in four alte ative ways per Niko Tinbergen. Back in 1963, Niko Tinbergen, who would win a Nobel Prize a decade later, wrote a classic paper entitled "On Aims and Methods in Ethology." Tinbergen distinguished among four different types of explanations when coping with behavior: (1) proximate explanations, (2) developmental explanations, (3) natural selection explanations, and (4) phylogenetic explanations.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Five Easy ways to use garlic for good health

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Garlic, the king of folk remedies and a great low calorie immunity booster has been known to beat off almost all kinds of common infections like cold or flu and help strengthen one immunity system when consumed regularly. Garlic is a recommended remedy for many problems like cold, flu, sore throat, high BP, cholesterol, ear infection, gangrene, and high levels of blood sugar.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Benefits of Ginger-Honey Mixture

Health Benefits of Ginger-Honey Mixture As children, we all were familiar with our grandmothers’ home remedies for curing cough and cold. These were actually harmless and perfectly safe for the body. Ginger and honey rated in the top list among the ingredients that were used for such natural treatments.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Lose Your Weight With These Simple Carrot Recipes

Carrot is especially known for its capability to help one lose weight. On a daily limit of 1,500-calorie diet, carrots contribute to only 3% which is only 50 calories per cup. Canned carrots have even less calories - 37 calories per cup.r

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Proven Weight Loss Foods Very Fast in 3 Days

Today, everyone is aware of the fact that being obese is unhealthy. People with more than normal body weight tend to make a lot of sacrifices so as to stay healthy. Adding into the diet, a certain food in your diet can help with weight loss very quickly, even within three whole days. Consume the right food and get yourself planned for the great change that you are about to face within a few days. Some of the foods that can help you in burning your calories are given below

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Five Fast Weight Loss Recipes for Healthy Living

In today’s world, most people live more of a sedentary lifestyle which makes their belly bloat and their weights explode. Their work pressures keep them busy for long, so they do not have time to take care of health. What would be a better thing than an easy and fast recipe that can help reduce weight? Here are some fast and easy to cook recipes that will help you keep your weight in control Tomato-Cucumber Juice

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

8 Reasons Why It Is So Hard To Really Change Your Behaviour

We are great at setting goals and bad at making any change in ourselves that will ultimately lead us to our success. Behavioral patterns are hardcoded in our brains and are somewhat unbreakable. Changing our behavior for our betterment is on everyone’s agenda and yet sustained change is a tremendously difficult factor. So what is it that makes it so hard to change our behavior? We take the path of least resistance

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Habit Formation and Behavior Change

Many of the most pressing issues prevailing in the society such as health and wellness, illness, emotional state, costs and expenses, and climate change are deeply rooted in the behavior of an individual. People form opinions and pay importance to an individual's behavior. A person’s behavior defines who he actually is.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some things we should delete from our mind

Our Mind is a storehouse of all our past memories events, happenings, incidents, emotions and the like many things. All our painful events are more stronger than other ordinary things. Most of us nurture and keep these memories and lead a life with that in mind. This approach definitely creates a lot of mental and emotional problems for ourselves and others. If we are keeping on these thoughts and events we can never become a loving person. It is important to note that unless and until we discard our past negative memories, we cannot a peaceful life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Five Fast Weight Loss Recipes for Healthy Living

In today’s world, most people live more of a sedentary lifestyle which makes their belly bloat and their weights explode. Their work pressures keep them busy for long, so they do not have time to take care of health. What would be a better thing than an easy and fast recipe that can help reduce weight? Here are some fast and easy to cook recipes that will help you keep your weight in control

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Healthy Bites on a busy Day

Today, time can be seen as a commodity that is depleting fast because we are overwhelmed with so much of the work that we always find ourselves falling short of time. We often complain that we do not have time to spend with family and to take care of ourselves. An in this situation, when someone says that we should do something to stay healthy, we are only able to say “I don’t have enough time”.

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Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Better Rules to live by

To lead a better life is our real necessity. Most of us, most of the time are unaware of how to lead a better life. Throughout the Ages all the Religious and Spiritual teachings all over the world emphasized about the importance of various values and virtues of leading a purposeful life. Here we are trying to mention some of the simple rules for leading a purposeful life. 1. Acknowledge your blessings

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health Risks of Being Underweight

We do not usually take being underweight as a serious problem like being overweight. This ISA condition that happens when people have a body weight, which is usually less than the weight required for a normal body. The real problem that such people find is lacking the right calories that are necessary for fueling up the body. People with parents who have thin body are prone to have this condition.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Health benefits of Jogging for Everybody

Jogging is a kind of exercise that is done in a very slow pace and not in a hurry. When doing such a kind of exercise, we usually think that the benefits of jogging related to a really hard or fast exercise would be less. It can be considered as a choice that can be made for living healthy life. But the unknown benefits of jogging are as given below. Boosts up Stamina

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Habits affecting our Health and Wealth Adversily

Each and everybody has got various habits from early childhood. Some of the habits we acquire later in our life by our contacts, Associations, Family circumstances, Personal choice and the like many things. Whether a habit is good or bad, it has got definite influence on our life. Especially with regard to our health and to some extend with regard our wealth. We all know that our health is being most important thing in our life.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Some simple tips to save money

Irrespective of the personal, familial and social status, we are all bound to have a sound financial background in our life. Whether rich or poor, young or old, financial stability is very important to lead a comfortable life. Most of the time, most of us don't give much importance and attention to save money for the future.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

How To Develop Good Habits Automatically

Do You Have a Huge Goal You’d Like to Accomplish? This may include losing weight, starting a relationship, getting out of debt or developing your spiritual life. If it's an enormous goal, it'll likely require consistent action on a day to day basis to ascertain the goal is achieved.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple Tips for Working Smarter

All of us work every day from morning to evening in various situations. But if you observe, we can see that some people are working very faster, very actively and in a better way than others. Have we ever thought how it happens? We can find many explanations for this. Basically, some people are very active and creative. Some others are very lazy. Some don’t know how to utilize their time energy in a better way. Have you heard this saying? “work smarter, not harder” Let us understand the meaning of this !

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail

Learning good habits is not an easy task. But once you develop new good habits and new behaviour you must make sure that you to follow it regularly. However, the reality is that you are more likely to fall into your old habits and patterns rather than sticking to the new behaviour. This is one of the biggest reasons why people fail to develop or stick to new habits. To help you in developing and following new habits in your life, we list down some of the common mistakes that cause new habits to fail.

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Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Keep Your Body Fit by Muay Thai

Muay Thai a noble art with antique traditions & is a combat sport . It is also the Thai national sport. Muay Thai has its roots in Buddhist Thailand, hence few consider that it has spiritual aspects also. Muay Thai boxers typically perform some Buddhist rituals before beginning a match. This involves boxing techniques such as hard kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and low kicks to the thighs.

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Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

What is Behaviour?

How does Psychology define the term “behavior?” It begins with understanding that all behavior can be described as an attempt on an individual’s part to bring about or act in a set of circumstances or a situation. It can be either be a change from one situation to another or be in the context of an already existing one. For example, a girl combs her hair, leaves for her work, then reads a book, listens to her favorite music playlist over again, and subconsciously calculates what she needs to prepare for dinner. Those automated behaviors become a part of a person’s routine.

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Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

The Power of Habit

Habits frame one's life way more than we probably realize. Habits are strong and the human brain clings to them. Every person has many habits. Habits are an important part of an individual. They grow stronger and become more powerful with the passage of time and slowly turn to an automated behaviour.

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Personal Development

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By Dr.Purushothaman KollamRecently published1 topic

Simple Ways to Make Exercise a Habit

To live a healthy life you have to do some physical workout. By keeping your body fit and healthy you can face any challenges in life. A lot of people want to make exercise a regular part of their lives but they fail to do so. Exercising is on the top list of habits people want to follow but they are not able to put their thoughts into action. They find a lack of motivation, coming out of their comfort zone, etc. as one of the many reasons for not being able to make exercise a habit. In this article, we list some of the simple ways to make exercise a habit.

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Personal Development

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