How to Boost Your Brain and Stay Focused

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How is your stress level this morning?  You might be the lucky one if you already had your morning cup of coffee before you read this article and your stress level is probably tamed and under control.  For the rest of you, hold tight, there is hope coming at the end of this article.

Productivity is in high demand these days, no matter what job, or career you have.  With the environment filled with chatter, noise, and unwanted updates on anything and everything (updates on family and friends, updates on how many people liked your posts, updates on your friends pet, on Donald Trump) and so on…..  

 

How can you not have brain fog, stress, and attention deficit and keep yourself focused to be productive at work and give whatever energy left you have to your family after work?  It is a balance game but in recent discoveries, a new “coffee” and “Red Bull” type of remedy has emerged that apparently is making a dent in solving this problem. With the rise of technology and information changing at lightning speed, we need to keep our minds in optimal health which leads to optimal overall wellness.  

In the tech industry, there is a known secret on how these tech influencers are able to keep focused and get so much done and crank out new ideas.  The little secret is called “Nootropics”.   Silicon Valley has known about it and it is now making its way mainstream into coffees and snack bars.(courtesy: Wellandgood.com)  This is a cognitive enhancing supplement that helps improve cognition, memory recall, helps you attain your goals and keeps you focused.

With a little help from science, our stress level can be reduced and our mental focus can be increased.  We also have to remember that science can only help our mental wellness so far. It is ultimately up to us to sustain that mental wellness day in and day out.  While achieving high productivity, our body will use up a lot of energy and concentration. In order to bring it back to balance, we will need to bring our mind and body back to a state of calm and relaxation.  Like any high intensity exercise we need to have a cool down period where you must learn to rest and be still. Work for 6 days and rest on the 7th Sabbath day. Creating this balance of productivity and rest will sustain your overall wellness  and overtime you mind and body will thank you for it. 

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Do you have to be a “Sage” to live a happy life?

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Living a full and happy life requires an important rule that needs to be followed.  It is learning to gain wisdom and letting it guide you in your decisions in life. Wisdom is not a dead word reserved for only “Sages” and highly intelligent people but it is attainable for ordinary people.  You may think finding wisdom is fairly easy with the answers at the tip of your fingers. Just ask Google or Alexa and you’ve got your answer. Surprisingly we often mistaken knowledge for wisdom. These technological devices and advances can only provide us with knowledge, which are just facts and familiarity of a thing or topic.  These days we give knowledge too much credit for a person’s success and happiness but in actuality, knowledge is only potential and “wisdom” is the vehicle that will put the “knowledge” into action and to work for you.

How do you gain wisdom in an age where knowledge is everywhere and easy to get a hold of?  Do you simply just sit and meditate for wisdom to happen? The answer to that Q & A is YES!  Meditation opens your mind to start decluttering and getting rid of all the unnecessary knowledge you collect throughout the day and creates a clean slate in your mind so relevant and important knowledge and understanding remains.  Once you are able to distinguish the important knowledge, that is when you can start putting those knowledge into actions. When those knowledge are set in motion, an automatic connection between your brain and heart will start to develop. Soon this connection will be the driving force that will guide you in your path through life, preventing you from stumbling and going in the wrong direction.  It will also help guard your heart from emotional instability. In our world today, guarding our heart is the most important thing we must learn to do. Running on emotional instability creates chaos in our lives.

Learning to meditate each day, asking for wisdom, seeking for wisdom, and allowing wisdom to enter in your life will guide you to a happier and purposeful life.

Living a life of joy and happiness is overrated

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Have you ever felt like you have been walking in the dark in broad daylight?  Has it happened just once or is it a constant occurrence? It is not fun, because you are constantly feeling like you are bumping into things and you think people and situations just keep getting in your path and they need to get out of your way.  So we go through the day blaming others and situations for being in our way. In reality, if you are walking in complete darkness, of course you will bump into things, it is natural, but if you had a flashlight or anytype of light source you would see what is in front of you and maneuver your way around it.  If you saw what was in front of you, it is 100% certain that you will not go head on into it, unless it was planned.

So since this is such an easy solution, then why do some of us keep choosing to walk in the dark and crossing our fingers that we don’t bump into anything?  

When we walk in the dark, we can only rely on ourselves to guide us and nothing else.  We then begin to find joy and delight knowing that we conquer the darkness by our own might.  Slowing we build an identity for ourselves, saying that we are our own guiding light. When we start to identify ourselves as the guiding light, we feel empowered and start telling others that you don’t need this or that, just trust yourself and you will get where you need to be.

This illusion is so dangerous because, we start to live a life of joy and happiness that is based on our own abilities and when the time comes when we can no longer guide ourselves, we become devastated and lose our identity and self worth and stress starts to build up inside.  What then happens to joy and happiness?

The cure to walking out of the darkness is to find your source of light.  Only the presence of light can really help you maneuver yourself through life.  Don’t let society make you think that it is the source of light in your life. Light in its natural form will warm you up inside and not leave you feeling cold and empty.  Once you find your natural source of light, you become a firefly that lights up the darkness.

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A Royal Wedding- Building a Legacy

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In light of the times of modern technology age and short lived weddings and marriages, it is always out of curiosity and a bit heart warming to see and watch another Royal Wedding take place.  We are so accustomed to weddings that are modern and focused on what we (the couple) want instead of sticking to plans that carry on a traditional approach that have long lasting effect to generations that will come afterwards.    This royal wedding between Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle will merge both modern concepts yet keep what was special and sacred to the royal heritage.

Special invitations are made by the same company since 1985 with the Royal tradition of the Three-Feathered Badge of the Prince of Wales that are printed in gold ink while announcements and every detail of the wedding are posted on the special Royal Family website.  Here, you will be amazed on the details of the wedding that are posted for the public to view.  From the names of the Bridesmaids and Page Boys to the food that will be prepared and served.  

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Courtesy https://www.royal.uk/royal-wedding-2018

It is not so much the large amount of money and time spent on the invitations and big guest list that makes the royal weddings such an event to watch but more on how traditions are kept that has been passed on for years that has created the Royal Family legacy.

To create a long legacy of our family, we need to start putting in traditions and values that will surpass all trends that will come and go.  It may seem more fun and exciting to incorporate just our own ideas into the wedding planning and forget our parent’s request for certain things to be incorporated in the wedding but a few years later when it is time for our kids to get marry, there will not be any traditions that they can use in their wedding to continue on the lineage, and to remember the family legacy by.  It is short lived to create a wedding and marriage only based on our own needs but will be more long lasting if we are able to let our family be a part of that legacy.

As we watch the Royal Wedding this Saturday, May 19th, we can certainly pick up all the traditions that are still used and most likely new traditions at the same time that will be set forth by Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle.  It will be a wedding that is filled with old traditions that brings us back to a time when fairy tale weddings are possible and to a new time when marriage is not just based on royal agreements but actually based on love and respect for one another.

“Leave a Legacy Worth Sharing!”