Pep Talk

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LIFEISNOWHERE

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Life is no where

OR

Life is now here

Life is what we make out of it

Its upto us how we want to live it.  

We go to a garden (whenever that happens) nearby, for our morning walks. An old gentleman writes a `Thought for the Day' on the white board there.  Most of the times thought provoking.   This thought today kept encircling in my mind while I walked and remained with me the whole day.  Thought I must document it here :)  How true na.  Some people are never happy.  Keep complaining about everything around them and it vitiates the environment around them.  And some, come what may, make the best of everything.  

Incidently, MARK INGLIS, was in town to interact with CEOs and business leaders from the State.  World's First Double Amputee To Climb MT EVEREST, the tallest mountain in the world. A New Zealander as was Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to scale Mt Everest. Mark is now a leading international motivational speaker too.  How rightly her says - Positivism is the only free thing in life! He got stuck in a snow cave on Mt Cook in 1983 at age 23 for approx 14 days due to extreme weather.  Being frost bitten, both his legs had to be amputated below the knees.  This did not deter him from chasing his dream of scaling Mt Everest.  And he did it in 2006.What he has to say about his amputated legs!  He says people see him as a man with no legs.  But for him, it is a man who will never get a frostbite Heights of positivism is all I can say.  The only black dot that does not diminish ever is the controversy that he and his team mates did not assist a stranded, gravely injured British mountaineer  David Sharp just 450 metres down the summit the day he scaled Mt Everest.  David Sharp did not survive.  

Here's a picture of Mt Everest.  Its the top right pic in the collage. As seen from Nathulla Pass. These are pics of Nathulla Pass in India.  My dream holiday yet to happen some day!

This moment reminds me of a lovely  book I read and re-read sometime back. `Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom'. Beautiful  thoughts and life's lessons.  Believe me, it peps you up every time you read it!

Take care of your heart

Do not deceive yourself

Are you overworking beyond limits of necessity?

Do you take 30 minutes walk each day?

Breakfast? Err.. I have to skip today… no way. I’ll have it around 11 am

Lunch… oops its already 3 pm?!

Dinner….. atleast lemme have it at peace…say 11ish?

Finally…… to bed at midnight

Wake up…. Its morning again… have to ready the kids to school

A typical daily schedule for scores of us each day

In a state of awareness? We know it isn’t right… It isn’t good for us.  Yet, we are far away from the state of awakening. High time we need to make a beginning and change this lifestyle.  Afterall, we need to take care of our heart, keep it beating strong and steady.

Here’s something that we’ve been having for the last couple of months.  I thought I must share this here.  Though, looks cumbersome, my Hubby is the inspiration behind our effort and the last time we made it, he had the patience to even start making this at 10 pm! It’s a syrup, believed to be good in taking care of blockages in the veins….. in arresting cholesterol in the arteries.

There are 5 ingredients.  Lemon, garlic, ginger, apple vinegar and honey. Mind you no side effects and one develops a taste for it within a short span of time.  As you are aware, Lemon juice helps in controlling blood pressure, purifies blood, and strengthens the immune system as it has vitamin C, B, calcium and iron. It protects our body against germs and bacteria. Ginger is an anti-inflammatory helps in thinning blood and arresting cholesterol.  Garlic is also highly beneficial in lowering cholesterol levels and reversing high blood pressure.  It boosts immunity, helps in overcoming fatigue and is an antiseptic too. I do not know much about benefits of apple vinegar but had read sometime back regarding its properties in reducing pressure, breaking down fat content and lowering cholesterol.  Honey of course has numerous medicinal values. To name some, a source of quick energy and an effective heart stimulant.

Here’s how we make the syrup.  It is to be had a tablespoon each morning before breakfast.

What we need…. A bowl of lemons, garlic, ginger, apple vinegar and honey

Squeeze out juice of lemons.  Extract juice of ginger.  I used the food processor. For garlic, we can grind the garlic pods with a little water to a smooth paste.

Then boil one bowl of lemon juice, one bowl of ginger juice, one bowl of garlic juice and one bowl of apple vinegar for about 30 minutes on slow fire so that say 1/4^th of the syrup gets evaporated, leaving approx 3 bowls of the mixture.  

 After it cools down, add 3 bowls of honey to it and store it in a glass jar.

Please store the jar in the refrigerator.  The syrup is ready.