8 Easy Tips for Improving Your Quality of Life
MEERA WATTS
Are you in the doldrums? You may have been so consumed with the pursuit to break some of your unwanted habits that you may have already forgotten integrating new, wholesome ones into your old routine. What if doing some minor tweaks to your usual routine could give you the result that you so desire? Check out these eight easy tips for improving your quality of life:
1. Meditate
The benefits of meditation on one’s well-being these days are almost endless, but this begs the question—how does it tangibly improve one’s quality of life? Research has shown that meditation boosts your immune system, promotes sleep, and decreases inflammation. Overall, the simple practice of watching your breath can help you smooth out the rough edges and let go of the stresses of everyday life. It is by cultivating awareness and inner flow that you get to wield your energy to concentrate on the things that truly matter to you.
2. Get in The Zone
This refers to the magical state of mind where one can feel most inspired and perfectly aligned with his/her purpose. To achieve this, figure out what your attractive abilities are (these are talents and skills that you feel are unique). Then apply them in your career or your business. Pick activities that are neither too easy nor too hard wherein you can unleash these abilities. Jot these down in your journal or calendar whenever possible. Sort out the tasks that do not harness your attractive abilities. This will not only get you smack dab in the center of your zone, it will also help you attract other people to join you.
3. Learn Something New
Learning about a new topic, language, or hobby can enhance your creativity and make you a better conversationalist. Your brain will be happy for the new patterns you introduce to it as you do these things. Once you’ve conceived new ideas, you will be amazed at the patterns that will start to form from them. Connections will then spring forth from seemingly unrelated topics—stuff that gives way to innovations.
4. Recognize What Makes You Happy
Figuring out what floats your boat can be a long process, as you may find that the very thing that makes you happy doesn’t necessarily make everyone around you happy. One way to recognize what makes you happy is to keep track of those instances when you feel most joyful about something and record it in your journal. Take time to write about your day before going to bed and how you feel about it in general. Then think of a way you can use this to make others around you happy as well. Remember—how you make others feel says a lot about how you feel deep inside you.
5. Connect
The acts of connecting and fostering healthy relationships with the people around you are surefire ways to improve your quality of life. It doesn’t hurt to smile at a stranger or give your loved ones a hug. Studeis show that a human being needs 12 hugs a day in order to thrive. Simply picking up the phone and telling the people closest to you that you appreciate them or making them feel that you’re always there for them can bring you a great sense of satisfaction.
6. Love Yourself
Loving yourself is the bedrock of your own happiness. It is about accepting who you are and knowing what you can strive to become. You neither have to be too complacent nor beat yourself up to become a better person. You only need to set achievable goals for yourself. Once you learn to be true to your nature and value yourself, only then can you get to the perfect position to love those around you, as well.
7. Your Attitude Matters
The loudest and arguably the most influential voice you’ll ever hear is your own inner voice. You can use it to work against or for you, depending on what messages you allow to dominate you: pessimistic or optimistic. This, your past experiences, and certain events in your life constitute your attitude. It takes a huge deal of effort to delve into the roots of an undesirable attitude, but the reward of ridding yourself of this cumbersome baggage can last a lifetime.
8. Start A Yoga Practice
The quality of life encompasses a vast range of contexts, which include employment, politics, health and much more. But more often than not, this is associated with a person’s state of well-being. One of the main responsibilities a person has to himself is to look after his own well-being, and that can be best achieved by fostering a healthy lifestyle. Yoga plays a significant role in helping a person achieve this.
Learning about yoga is usually equated with some limb-twisting, back-breaking exercise. Try to debunk all those myths before getting started. The keyword is RELAX. You’ll see that it will help you not only live longer but also live better.
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Meera Watts is a yoga teacher, entrepreneur and Mom. Her writing on yoga and holistic health has appeared in Elephant Journal, Yoganonymous, OMtimes and others. She’s also the founder and owner of Siddhi Yoga International, a yoga teacher training school based in Singapore. Siddhi Yoga runs intensive, residential trainings in India (Rishikesh, Goa and Dharamshala), Indonesia (Bali) and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur).