Month: January 2022

Importance of shared values in a relationship

Importance of shared values in a relationship

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Values can define who you are, and a couple needs to share each other’s values in life to avoid resentment and disappointment later on.

Sharing values in a relationship as a couple.
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Values in life can motivate people to act according to what they believe. It may be about healthy living, communication, relationship, parenting, personality, religion, and lifestyle. Values guide human behavior, such as in identifying the importance of an action, what actions should be done, or what is essential in your life.

A healthy relationship is a product of having good communication about your values and priorities. You’ve got to talk about your wants and expectations with each other within the relationship, thereby making you aware of the possibilities.

The importance of shared values in a relationship:

  • It will help you to keep each other, especially in difficult times. There isn’t a perfect relationship, as you go along with your life as a couple, there will be challenges that you have to face.
  • It brings happiness, comfort, and security.
  • There is a high chance of having a successful relationship if the couple shares values.
  • It gives substance to your life choices.
  • Makes your relationships easier to manage.
  • It will guide your relationship through the years.
  • If you are aware of each other’s values in life, it will help with your disposition and mutual decision-making.
  • It’s an important aspect of a good relationship.
  • It guides your beliefs and it helps you correct each other’s words and actions.
  • Shared values are important because our approach to life and relationship changes as we age.

Signs that your significant other is valuing you:

  • You are appreciated for your role, and for what you can do.
  • You aren’t blamed, and you aren’t made guilty for having other priorities.
  • Your significant other listens to your opinions and responds to you with compassion.
  • Your advice matters and it isn’t wasted.
  • You are being respected as a unique person who has a unique personality and goals in life.
Ways on how to maintain our energy levels

Ways on how to maintain our energy levels

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As humans, we need energy for our bodies to function well. For us to have energy, we need to eat and do activities that can help to energize our bodies.

Things that you can do to maintain your energy levels.

Below are some ways to stay energized:

  • Eat your meal, the carbohydrates that we eat break down into simple sugars. It turns into blood sugar or glucose which is used as energy by our body. Examples of carbohydrate-rich foods are bread, beans, rice, sweet potato, yam, cassava, corn, cake, cookies, etc.
  • Exercise your body, exercises increase energy supply and boost the circulation of oxygen in our body, allowing our body to function well by using our energy efficiently.
  • Do deep breathing exercises, the volume of oxygen that is coming into our body helps in changing our feelings. The increased oxygenation in our body leads to more energy. Deep breathing exercises also help in controlling the release of stress hormones.
  • Being hydrated, drinking enough water can give energy because it helps in the prevention of fatigue and tiredness that is caused by dehydration.
  • Get a nap when you are sleepy, a power nap improves your mood and boosts your energy levels, thus helping you to avoid feeling tired and irritated.
  • Connect with nature, a study suggests that nature can take off the feelings of tiredness and exhaustion. According to this study, there is about 90 percent of people reported that they increase their energy levels when outside and doing outdoor activities.
  • Controlling your mood and avoiding stress, indulging in emotional stress can consume your energy because stress can produce fatigue and can affect your sleep.
  • Avoid overworking because it decreases your energy levels.
  • Going outside the house and moving around, gives more energy because it increases your energy supply. Enjoy the morning sunlight, it helps your body feel energized.
  • Start a conversation with other people, interacting will stimulate your brain and therefore keep you alert and energized.
  • Have a break from screens because it changes your brain’s activities, sleeping patterns, and reaction to time management.
  • The majority of studies indicate that vitamin B is good in eliciting energy. It maintains energy levels, brain function, and alertness. It helps in combatting tiredness and fatigue.

Disclaimer: This post is intended for educational purposes only!

Ways to balance your life and tips to enhance your parenting skills

Ways to balance your life and tips to enhance your parenting skills

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As parents, it’s our responsibility to look after our children, take care of them, give their needs, provide their rights, nurture and raise them well.

Balancing life and enhancing parenting skills.

We have the role of offering them the support and encouragement that could help them to get into the activities that will enable them to complete their developmental tasks. And for us to provide all of these, we have to balance also our own life.

If there is an imbalance in our life this can account for an imbalance as well in our parenting skills. So, below are some tips to help you with taking the necessary action that could help you in parenting your children.

  • Face your children with a relaxed mood or aura. Manage your stress, and maybe you can do some self-care activities early in the morning while they are still asleep. Consider it as your me-time routine.
  • Learn with your children, and do something together. Like playing with them, eating meals, and praying together.
  • Enjoy the night routine. This is the moment that you are complete because maybe one of you is working in the daytime. Use this time to bond and interact with your children and spouse.
  • Delegate and set boundaries. Do not do all the tasks alone, share your parenting roles with your spouse. You are one into this beautiful journey.
  • Prioritizing your well-being is a helpful way for you and your children. It increases your self-confidence as a unique person, thus improving your ability to become a good parent.
  • Honor each other’s words. Go along with your children. Listen to what they are saying so that they will also listen to you.
  • Manage your schedule and spend it wisely. To avoid getting stress that could ruin your day, you should plan things.
  • Be true at all times, tell your children what is going on. Update them with your current activities so that they would know why you aren’t present sometimes.
  • Think of every decision that you will make. Set your priorities and consider your children.
  • Be present if you can, especially during important days or occasions in their life.
  • Lastly, aim to better yourself so that you can successfully help with their development.
Why rejections aren’t bad and what can you do if you are experiencing it?

Why rejections aren’t bad and what can you do if you are experiencing it?

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Rejections are part of life that we have to accept. Rejections are real but it isn’t that bad, this is essential for our well-being if only we take it positively.

Things to do when you are experiencing rejections.

Rejection is the act of not accepting or considering something. And it’s not a comfortable feeling especially if you aren’t expecting it. It may happen in life a few times a year depending on how you handle every situation.

Examples of rejections are as follows: you are being ignored by the person that you wanted, turned down by someone, disappointed over not being chosen, not considering your ideas or opinions, refusal to support your goals, or you aren’t promoted over other colleagues. There are lots of rejections and it comes from small to big form.

Below are the effects of rejections in our life:

  • This could increase your emotional feelings such as anxiety, sadness, anger, jealousy, and depression.
  • It decreases your daily performance, you feel less energized than usual.
  • It can also affect your self-esteem, the way you interact with others, and the way you handle your day.

What can you do about rejection is that you should make it a positive experience rather than thinking of negative thoughts and feelings.

If for example, you are the person who’s gonna be rejecting someone, make sure that you do it positively. This will lessen the gravity of how the rejected person will handle the situation.

  • Preparedness- you have to prepare yourself, think of how you will deliver your words.
  • Be honest about your reason, and tell why you are rejecting.
  • Avoid false hope as it will only make another emotional problem to the person.

How to deal with rejections?

  • Understand why it hurts, allow yourself to feel it.
  • Look at the brighter side of life.
  • Take a look at yourself, watch out for your thoughts and emotions.
  • Do self-affirmations and self-care activities.
  • Surround yourself with loved ones who can bring comfort and guidance.
  • Strive to do better, and just try until you make it.
  • Think of your goal, remember that rejections are part of achieving success.
The SM mall in Baguio City Philippines

The SM mall in Baguio City Philippines

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SM Mall in Baguio City.

A shopping mall is a good place that can help you relieve stress and boredom, help you get a good physical activity through walking around, it helps to boost your mood because there are lots of things that can surely entertain you while inside the mall. And Baguio City also has an SM mall where you can do countless things like in the other cities. What’s good in this Mall is that you are connected with nature. The place is surrounded by trees and mountains thereby providing fresh air and good ambiance.

The SM Mall in Baguio is located at Luneta Hill, Upper Session Rd, Baguio, Benguet. This is a spacious mall in the city where you can spend some of your time dining in, doing shopping, sightseeing at the Mall’s roof deck, etc.

The mall already has most of the products that you will be needing while in Baguio. There are numerous food stalls and restaurants inside where you can enjoy a variety of cuisine that will suit your cravings!

The best place for me when in the mall is their roof deck, where you can view the beautiful environment of Baguio.

Just learn from it, a new journey won’t harm you!

Just learn from it, a new journey won’t harm you!

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Journey in life should not harm you.

Uncertainties are always there, but what’s important is that you were able to embrace whatever it is!

This past week was so fast that I have to decide to try something which I am not that sure if I can be able to grasp and go along with others. My curiosities have led me to juggle this journey. And I am happy that I tried it compared to not trying at all. I don’t know if I was just overwhelmed with what I can do after finishing this up. But what I am sure of is that the experiences that I will be gaining in this journey will give some learnings that I can use as I go along wherever it takes.

Risk-taking isn’t that easy because you have to come out from that comfort zone that is protecting you all the way. Shielding you from hurts and frustrations that you might experience as you go through your new journey.

My advice to all of you who are having a hard time deciding if you should push yourself in starting a new venture or not is that just go with it. And accept whatever outcome it may produce. You might achieve success or failure out of it, but what’s important is that it both gave you new knowledge that you can use with the new skills that you can develop.

Lastly, a new journey won’t harm you because it’s the key to widening your scope and broadening your understanding of what life is!

The health benefits of walking

The health benefits of walking

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Benefits that walking can give to our body.

Brisk walking daily is a simple way to get into a healthy lifestyle. But, though the ideal time is to walk in the morning to gain as well the benefits of the morning sunshine, you can also do it in the afternoon when the surrounding is already calm and peaceful.

Below are the benefits that walking can contribute to our health:

  • Walking can help to burn calories, and as a result, it helps you to maintain desirable weight, and lose those excess fats. Little by little, making your body fit and achieve a good shape.
  • Prevents the risk of hypertension or high blood pressure, stroke, heart diseases, diabetes, cancer, and bone problems.
  • Improves heart health, lung function, and blood circulation.
  • Strengthens your muscles, joints, and bones.
  • It uplifts your mood, going outside means that you can see different scenarios, you can interact with different people, and you’ve got to enjoy the beautiful nature.
  • It improves your sleep at night. A good night’s sleep is very essential for our well-being, to recharge and be energized for tomorrow’s new adventure.
  • Walking is beneficial in boosting your energy and immunity.
  • Helps to combat anxiety and depression.
  • It could also improve your cognitive functioning and memory as you age. Going outside for a walk could stimulate your learning potential.
How to feel happier when you are sad?

How to feel happier when you are sad?

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Sadness is an emotional state wherein there is a feeling of unhappiness, less energy and downtime.

It’s a normal human emotion that we feel whenever we are upset, we feel pain or disappointed about something. Sadness is an emotion that each of us will experience from time to time as a part of being alive. But the way we handle it varies from one person to another.

Ways to feel happier when you are sad.

Emotions like sadness are an important human experience that could provide some learnings in our life. Accept the feeling and claim that you can pass through it.

Avoid focusing on unchangeable things at this time, instead focus on the most important thing that could help you move on from that feeling.

The good thing is that you can still do something to feel happier when you are sad, consider the following:

  • You have to assess why you are feeling down. Give yourself time to process your mood and feelings. Allow yourself to think of ways on how you can handle the situation, and be able to decide for the best action that you should do.
  • Spend more time outside. Let your skin feel the rays of the morning sun and allow your nose to breathe in some fresh air.
  • When inside the house, choose to watch funny movies instead of drama or stories that could trigger your sadness.
  • Eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables that could boost your mood.
  • Try out journaling, yoga, and meditation, these are activities that could help your inner self.
  • Cry it out! Crying could help you to reduce pain and improve your mood.
  • Exercise and do physical activities that will make you busy and have fun. Engage in activities that you enjoy. Just like playing your favorite sport, hiking, biking, traveling, baking, cooking, etc.
  • Find support, talk to a jolly person, or you can ask for opinions or pieces of advice that you can use to lift your mood.
  • Smile and laugh! Normally, you can’t do it if you’re sad. But you can stretch that muscles up and move it as if you are feeling some happiness, then you will.
  • Listen to upbeat music, and sing with it.
  • Gibe time for yourself, self-care and self-love isn’t selfish.
  • Read more about self-development topics that could help to improve and better yourself.
  • Reward yourself for combatting sadness.

Consider sadness as an opportunity for you to grow, learn and heal yourself. You cannot heal what you don’t feel, as they say! Feel it and be able to elicit some lessons that it could bring into your life.

You have to take note that:

If your sadness brings you so much fatigue, poor concentration, inability to eat your meal, inability to do your personal hygiene, difficulty in doing daily life activities, and insomnia you already need to seek a professional help.

Self-care ideas that are helpful for women!

Self-care ideas that are helpful for women!

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We can’t avoid being irritated or stressed sometimes due to countless things that need our attention each day.

Self-care tips for women.

As a woman, we can’t avoid having mood swings, especially when there are bodily discomforts that we are experiencing. Having mood swings aren’t a joke, we also don’t like it as it affects our daily relationship with other people in the household. That’s why we also need to do some self-care activities that can lift our mood and better our day.

Here are self-care ideas that you can do:

  • Ensure good nutrition, proper hygiene, enough rest, and sleep. These are important things that we need to provide to ourselves daily. Taking care of ourselves is also making sure that our body achieves the necessary elements that could energize us.
  • Boost your physical health – doing physical activities or daily exercises is a good way to help your immune system work at its best. This would help us to strengthen our balance which is essential for the avoidance of injuries and falls.
  • Relax or unwind – you need this to remove the stress that is ruining your body. Take a few minutes to stay in an area where you can do deep breathing and alone time. Process your mood and fill your mind with positive thoughts. Taking care of our mental health is very necessary, especially nowadays!
  • Find time to socialize – you also need to socialize with other people. A small talk to different people could increase your socialization skill, it can help you to easily connect better with different behaviors.
  • Enhance your skills – enhancing your skills and capabilities is a good way to build self-confidence within you. Caring for yourself is not just about the physical. You also need to help yourself with the things that could help you grow and develop.
  • Change your routine—routine activities make you bored, and therefore it’s a need to change the usual things that you do. It helps you to stay enthusiastic and excited about doing new stuff every day.
  • Ask for help, delegate if you can’t do the chores alone. Listen to your body, so as not to exhaust it, and to avoid getting sick.
  • Smile often – the power of smiling and being happy is always a good idea to help you achieve a well and healthy mind and body.
  • Be grateful – being appreciative for what you have is a good way towards achieving self-fulfillment. Shine within so you can shine outside!
  • Avoid negative thoughts – indulging in negativities could make your mental health suffer.
  • Lastly, be mindful of doing the things that you love.
Enjoy the little things while it lasts

Enjoy the little things while it lasts

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Every so often, our temperament is so short that we often react immediately to situations and hard times that we experience from time to time.

Because of this, we feel sad, pressured, worried, and rushing to get rid of the challenges that we are facing. But we forget that all of those have something to impart in our lives. Challenges happen to give us a lesson and to open our eyes to simple things that we need to appreciate and be thankful for.

Little things in life that we need to enjoy.
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There are numerous reasons to appreciate and enjoy life.

It’s just a matter of realizing it on our own, accepting it certainly, and being contended for what we have.

Here are the little things that you need to enjoy and be glad for every day:

  • Your life! Being able to wake up each day is a great blessing already. It means a new day and a new chance to explore the gifts of life.
  • The people around you. Don’t spend a day interacting only with the virtual world! You are human, and humans need to interact with real people with whom you can connect and learn something. Enjoy their company and embrace whatever lessons you might get from them.
  • Nature and environment. Be glad that you can still see some trees and be able to breathe some fresh air each day.
  • Enjoy every clean water that you drink, food that you eat, clothing that you wear, and shelter where you live. You don’t know how other people are wishing to have those blessings.
  • Appreciate and be glad for the experiences that molded you to be a better person. Good or bad, the important is that it taught you something.
  • Lastly, be happy for the memories that you’ve created from other people, places, and adventures along your life’s journey.
Importance of doing what we love and its contribution to our well-being

Importance of doing what we love and its contribution to our well-being

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Time flies so fast, and as we grow older, we will come to realize the importance of doing the things that make us happy. And now is the perfect time to do whatever it is.

Improving our well-being by doing what we love.
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Activities that we love like reading, writing, researching, singing, listening to music, dancing, biking, hiking, traveling, cooking, baking, gardening, arts, etc. are a few activities that some of us enjoy doing while bringing pleasure and happiness in our hearts.

Imagine postponing what you love to do because of your inadequacies, laziness, shyness, intimidation, and procrastination. And then you woke up one day only to find out that you can’t do these simple activities anymore?

Well-being is said to be the state wherein we are healthy, happy, contented, and comfortable in life.

The simple things that we love to do each day are the key ways to add up and build our well-being that contributes a lot to achieving our overall health.

How does doing what we love could help us achieve this?

  • Doing the things that we love helps us to relieve stress and boredom.
  • Uplifts our mood and self-esteem.
  • Improves our social life because it helps us to connect with other people.
  • It improves our health, it makes us feel happy, thus creating smiles and laughter that brightens up our day.
  • Makes us motivated in life, and it inspires us to seek new knowledge day by day.
  • Increases our productivity and helps us to be mindful of the important things to focus on.
  • Achieving a sense of accomplishment that is essential in keeping our minds healthy.
Home remedies for sore throat

Home remedies for sore throat

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A sore throat is a painful, itchy, and irritated throat.

This could produce an uneasy feeling because it brings difficulty in swallowing our food and drinking our fluids. This could also make us uncomfortable at night as it ruins a good night of sleep.

Home treatment for sore throat.

But don’t worry, as you can do remedies to ease and treat this while at home!

You can try the following home interventions:

  • Try the healing effect of honey – this is a good remedy for sore throat. It helps to speed up the healing of sore throat because of its anti-inflammatory properties. You can add 1 tbsp of honey to a glass of water and drink it, or take at least 1 tbsp of honey followed by 1 glass of water. Please note however that you should not give honey to children under 1-year-old.
  • Gargle with warm salt water- it could help to break down secretions, thereby soothing a sore and itchy throat. Just add 1/2 tsp of salt into a glass of warm water and gargle it. It could also help to have a clean throat.
  • Increase your fluid intake or stay hydrated. Staying hydrated is an essential part of treating your sore throat. If you are dehydrated, your body is unable to produce enough saliva that can help to keep your throat lubricated. Thereby making your sore throat worsen.
  • Moisturize the air – use a humidifier or if not available, you can use a DIY instead. Go for a steam bath, the moist air coming from it helps to reduce swelling and painful throat. You can also drape your head and lean into a bowl of hot water to breathe in the steam.
  • Have proper nutrition, eat your meal. Food is the fuel of the human body, it gives us the energy, vitamins, and minerals that our body needs to combat an illness.
  • Elevate your pillow – an extra high pillow will help you breathe easier, thus promoting a good night of sleep. Enough rest or sleep is good at boosting your immunity.

When to see your doctor?

You need a doctor’s consultation or go to the nearest clinic or hospital if you already have a severe sore throat. A sore throat accompanied by high fever, swollen tonsils, severe pain when swallowing, and if you have nausea or vomiting.

Remember that prevention is always better than cure, so make sure to distance yourself and use your face mask when interacting with a sick person. Wash your hands frequently with soap and water. Do some ways to boost your immune system, just like eating healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. Drinking enough water, doing physical activities and exercises. Performing your hygiene daily, and having enough rest and sleep.