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Honey – the best alternative

We have been told from a very long time by our parents and grandparents about the importance of honey, that how the regular intake of honey can prove wonders to our health. A lot of people, like me, didn’t bother much about their advice. But now, after reading so much about the importance of honey and after getting to know about some amazing facts about the significance of honey for nutritive and healthy diets, I’m all gaga over this amazing product. Just a regular and small intake of honey can prove highly beneficial to your body. If you would like to say goodbye to unhealthy food and that unwanted fat, then honey is the way for you. Take regular intake of honey every day early in the morning with milk or hot water for better digestion. Not only it will help in proper digestion, but will also help you in keeping a check on your weight. Honey is considered a great way to lose weight and is a perfect substitute to sugar. Yes, both honey and sugar consists of glucose as well as fructose, but honey consists of extra enzymes that are added by the bees during its manufacturing. While sugar lacks in these proteins, enzymes and other important minerals and vitamins, which gets vanished in the process of making it. Honey, on the other hand, consists of all these nutritive values with a proper ratio of vitamins and minerals that are highly important for your health. Just a single spoon of honey comprises of lesser calories than sugar. Not just that, honey is sweeter than sugar, so the consumption of honey would be lesser than that of sugar in order to get the same level of sweetness in your food, while consuming lesser amount of calories. Honey contains special enzymes which make it easy to digest. Also, honey has substantially the low level of GI (Glycemic Index) value than sugar. It is a perfect source for antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that our human body requires for seamless working. Honey, which is a great source of energy, is also used to cure common cold and cough. Just a teaspoon of honey will cure your cough and cold-related problems without any hassle of those unwanted tablets and medicines. If you have oily skin or other skin related problems, then apply honey on your skin to see magical results. If you would like to intake honey in its best form, then Dabur honey is probably one of the best and most reliable sources of the product. With Dabur honey, commence on a crash diet and see the newer and better version of yourself soon. Know more about Dabur honey, the significance of honey and the healthy diet plan here.

Go Ayurveda!

Ayurveda is also known as the “science of life” in an ancient practice of our culture, followed by our ancestors from a very long time. The most significant thing about Ayurvedic treatments is that they are completely holistic and produces no side effects. Since Ayurveda does not treat a disease as a separate entity but considers the entire body as a whole. According to it, the entire body is made up of matter, mind, and soul, and disease should be treated keeping every aspect in mind.

It relies on Mother Nature in extracting the medicines. Mostly minerals that are extracted from plants, roots, leaves, stem, etc are utilized in treating a disease. This is the main reason why it is considered that Ayurveda doesn’t have any side effects. It has now become a very vital part of our culture and daily household life. We all see the importance and practices of Ayurveda around us and witness its importance every day.

If you are facing any skin problem, then consider Turmeric as an option. Commonly known as “Haldi” in Hindi, it is extracted from the roots of the Curcuma longa plant. The plant originally belongs to the ginger family is dried and converted into powder for easy usability. The power of this deep yellow powder is highly significant. Also knows as the “Indian saffron”, it is a vital part of our culture and tradition. Often, we see in the haldi ceremonies of our culture, when the turmeric paste is applied on the skin to impart a radiant glow on bride’s skin. It is a natural cosmetic and used to beautify our skin. Also, on the other hand, it can be used to treat a number of skin diseases.

Due to its antibacterial and highly antiseptic properties, turmeric is used to treat acne, and also fights with pimples and other breakouts. Apply it as a facemask, to clean acnes, scars, and other inflammations caused due to the residual of oil by sebaceous glands. One of the best ways to create a turmeric face mask is by mixing it with sandalwood powder and adding lemon juice to the mixture. Apply it on your face for fifteen minutes and rinse the mixture off with lukewarm water. The 15 minute treatment can significantly decrease the amount of acne, scars and other pigmentations on your face, giving your skin a radiant glow. Turmeric can be used extensity for dry as well as oily skin types. It can be combined with egg, and some drops of olive oil for dry skin types, whereas, if you have oily skin then combine turmeric with sandalwood and some orange juice to extract that extra dirt and oil from your face.

Instead of opting for cosmetic options, go Ayurvedic way and treat your skin wisely. VICCO Turmeric Cream also believes in the same concept of Ayurveda. Know more about the product here:

My Airtel App

I have been using Airtel for the past four years now and I can proudly say that I’m a proud customer. The service, connectivity, customer support and service has always been impeccable. Airtel has always been coming up with new things for its customers – from better plans to easily accessibility, you name it and Airtel will have something special for you. Keeping the same spirit in mind, Airtel has come up with their new app for mobile phones, the My Airtel App.

As the usage of different applications on smartphones has increased a lot in the last few years, and it is expected to increase even more in the coming years, it is not a surprise to see a step like this. As a smartphone user, I have different applications installed on my phone and I use them constantly for different purposes. From an app to book cabs to an app to buy clothes and from an app to order fresh food to another app that helps me in maintaining my stocks, I’m a complete addict who use my smartphone, not just to stay in touch with my friends and family members or to use different social media platforms, but to do so much more.

Now, with the introduction of My Airtel App, I would be able to pay bills of my mobile and DTH connection, buy new things for myself and my family members, track my bills and services and create different groups for friends and family. It is a singular app to provide so much and more. Frankly speaking, when I installed the app on my phone, I didn’t expect it to be so extensive and well-functioning. I thought that I would be able to pay bills and do some other basic things with the app, but it fulfilled so many other things as well and reached above my expectations. The App does so many things, but here are my top three picks:

1. Pay all your bills at one place: It doesn’t matter if you are using a prepaid service or a postpaid one, or you are just a DTH customer. You can pay all your bills and charge your phone with different schemes and offers in one place with the new app.

2. Track your usage and services: The app also provides an easy interface to track the usage of any service or other information related to it.

3. Be Social: You can add your friends and family members in your app and can pay their bills or customize some service plans according to the entire group which makes it so easy and unique.

I believe that this is a very successful and needed initiative by Airtel and all the other network companies will soon follow the lead. You can also give it a try! Download My Airtel App on your Android device from this official website.

The New League

We have all seen the latest videos of Kapil Dev talking about the “Ek Nayi League” and welcoming people to guess about it. Well, I couldn’t resist myself to do the same and thus this blog post came into existence.

“Ek Nayi League” – yes, the name sounds interesting and fresh. It surely talks about something new, something which has never been done before. The campaign also invites people to guess what is it all about and the person giving the right answer might end up winning 1 lakh rupees. I also know that people have been guessing the most bizarre and weird things for the campaign. But often we forget that the simplest answers often leads us to the righteous path.

As the advertisements showcased Kapil Dev with a cricket bat, playing or giving some valuable lessons, I’m pretty sure he is talking about a cricket league, something like IPL (Indian Premiere League) but much bigger in every sphere. It will be more practical and would be played in a better way. Yes, it could be a 20-20 thing, like the IPL or could be an entire one-day match as well. Yes, it can have some of your favorites cricketers and might have the most unexpected faces with a combination of some players as well. Yes, it might be assisted by those legendary coaches whom we all know (including Kapil Dev) or it would be entire different. Yes, it can have the same concept of assigning teams with different regions, or it could be entirely different as well, with the assignment of teams in a completely different and unexpected way. Yes, it can include the bidding players or it can have a mechanism in which players can play to support a particular NGO as well.

There are so many possibilities and so many alternatives. It could be any of these things or could be none of them as well. We all are completely oblivion about it and I guess, that is the beauty of it. Although, I do know that it includes something about love and the matter of hearts, as he said in the videos, not to play with your heart or the consequences could be terrible (getting hit-wicked or googly). Since it keeps you hooked, wanting to read more, wanting to know more about the idea of “Ek Nayi League” and what would be it like. I guess to really know in a concrete way, what it is all about in real, we all have to wait. We all can wait and keep guessing about the right idea of the theme behind the campaign. You can visit the website for “Ek Nayi League” here and apply some other guesses as well. You never know, you might end up winning that grand prize money!

The Perfect Smartphone

A smartphone has become one of the most important parts of our lives. We carry it everywhere we go. We can’t completely function without it, as we rely on it with so many things. Irrespective of how our smartphones have changes our lives, the quest for that one perfect smartphone never stops. The kind of smartphone that will redefine the way we think of our phone.

I recently got to know about ASUS Zenfone 2, and after reading about some of its insanely amazing features, I can completely agree on the fact that its usage will redefine your smartphone experience entirely. With so many new things to offer, in a single device – this one should not be missed. Here are my hand-picked top five reasons, why I believe the ASUS Zenfone 2 would redefine your smartphone experience:

1. I believe that a smartphone should be insanely fast. One should be able to switch between multiple tasks and apps running on the device easily. The ideal smartphone should enable seamless multi-tasking with minimum response time. With one of the first smartphones to have a 4 GB RAM, the Zenfone 2 promises to provide a fast and reliable user interface.

2. The most common complaint that I get from most of the smartphone users is about the low battery life of their phones. With Zenfone 2, you never have to worry about running out of batter again, as it comes with ASUS-exclusive technology that charges the device much faster than the traditional system, making you charge your phone up to 60% in just 39 minutes.

3. With a 13 megapixel rear camera, and a 5 megapixel front camera, Zenfone 2 enables you to click high-resolution pictures in no time. It comes with Pixelmaster technology that captures stunning pictures with zero shutter lag. It also allows you to capture 400% brighter photos at night without the need of a flash.

4. With a luxurious ultra-thin design, you won’t stop flaunting this device in front of everyone. It has a 72% screen-to-body ratio and a stunning 1920 x 1080 full HD IPS display. The big 5.5 inch display enables you to see everything bigger and beautiful.

5. With an edgy new age assembly of various technologies, the new Zenfone 2 provides a wide variety of exciting and new features, redefining the Zen user interface experience, delivering a new level of empowering luxury to its users. With features like ZenMotion, SnapView, Trend Micro Security and much more, the device provides security, privacy and a seamless user experience.

With so many features to offer, one can easily conclude that this surely is the kind of device which will redefine your smartphone experience. This one is surely a keeper. If you like to know more about it, you can visit its official page here.

A trip to Guptaji’s place

Kellogg’s waale Guptaji’s family is famous and well-renowned for their breakfast. They way their experiment things and try to make delicious yet tasty breakfast every morning is a commendable job. To learn the same art from them, I finally decided to visit their place.

When I first entered their home, I was welcomed with different cornflakes ladoos. Yes, the idea of making ladoos out of cornflakes was something new and original; it never came across my mind. I took a bite of the same, and the taste of it melted all my taste buds. I loved it.

With their ladoos, I was welcomed with their warmth and wisdom. All the family members were happy, smiling and healthy. When I asked the mother about the secret behind such a healthy family, the humble lady gave full credit to the usage of cornflakes for their morning meals every day.

Corn is one of the most nutritive grains, as it is light on fat and high on the amount of carbohydrates and other essentials. It supplies high energy to our body to continue with our days with the least amount of fat. Having cornflakes for breakfast every morning is probably one of the best practices you can ever have. But eating the same kind of meal over and over again, every day can get a little mundane. You might start to dislike the same nutritive cornflakes. This is where Guptaji can family can come to your rescue.

They have experimented successfully with the usage of cornflakes in different sorts of meal. You don’t have to just add some or other sort of fruit or need to add some artificial essence with your milk to add a dash of newness in your breakfast. If you will visit Guptaji’s family, you will realize all those amazing things one can do with the usage of cornflakes – just the way they made corn ladoos with the usage of cornflakes, and that was just a small example. They have made plenty of delicious dishes with the usage of cornflakes successfully. That is one of the reasons why I love, absolutely loved visiting Guptaji’s family. I got to learn so many things about the usage of cornflakes, not just its nutritive value, but also the number of different dishes that I can make with the usage of cornflakes and can consume them every day without ever getting bored with the same taste. No wonder why everyone keeps on seeking for some or other excuse to visit their family for some snacks or breakfast over and over again. Because I know I would be doing the same.

I would love to visit them anyone, in a heartbeat, whenever I would be in a mood to learn some of other new way with which I could spice up my taste palette, with some new usage of cornflakes in an unexpected yet delicious dish.

If you want to learn these dishes, you can visit their page here or watch their video here or below:

Home

When I was a kid, my mother told me that out of every other organ in our human body, our heart is the most sensitive one, and that if it is broken once, it is broken forever. I thought that she was not making any sense and I didn't listen to her until I had a broken heart.

She taught me a lot of things, she taught me how to ride a bicycle, how to fly kite, how to bake, how to wash clothes and how to survive on my own. She also taught me a lot of lessons about life. She taught me how to be honest, humble, thoughtful and proud. She taught me so many things! But I guess the most valuable lesson was about the fire. She always taught me to be careful of the fire – not the kind of physical fire that you see everywhere, but the flames inside of some people. She always taught me to be at a distance from such people, or else we can just end up losing ourselves with those flames.

I didn't listen to her and got burnt in those flames. There I was, broken – both from inside and outside, with a heart that was burnt rigorously with the fire of love. Losing yourself for the one you love is the worst thing that could happen to anyone. But it happened with me. I lost the one that I used to love. I was heartbroken and I had no where to go. My friends were concerned about me. I was not talking, I was not crying. I was not doing anything at all. I was just a living statue.

Fearing that I would end up losing myself, my boss gave me a leave and asked me to go home. I did the same. I went home and stayed there for a couple of days. My mother realized that everything was wrong with me. She asked me numerous times, but I never told her what happened and how I lost track.

One such day, when I was done with my dinner, my mother entered my room. I was sitting silently in front of my laptop, doing absolutely nothing at all. “What is wrong, son? You can tell me!” She asked me once again and I couldn't stop myself at that time.

“I got burnt mom. I got burnt with the flames. I broke my own heart. I'm heart-broken.” I burst into tears before even finishing my sentence. That was the first time when I cried ever since the heart-break, and there was no stopping back. Tears started to fall out of my eyes like waterfall and there was no stopping.

My mother consoled me. She told me that everything will be alright in the end and that is exactly what I wanted. I was at the perfect place, talking to the perfect person. She told me about her life and how the same thing happened with her. She got over with it too and she was sure that I would be over with my grief as well. I didn't realize, but that day, she taught me a very important lesson too. She taught me that time does heal everything.

That was one of the best days of my life, when I was #together with my mom. I was home.

I wasn't broken anymore.

Housing believes in the same power of #togetherness as well. That the people you love can change your life with their optimism and joy. Visit them here and know more about them!

That one mistake

I love to travel. I live to travel. People move from one city to another to chase their dreams, to find a new job, to be famous or rich, to start a new business or sometimes to start a brand new life. I did that too. But my story was completely different.

I was on a backpacking expedition last year. I was travelling various parts of India, mostly the Himalayan ranges. It was a ritual – to travel to an unknown destination, clicking various pictures of the surrounding and the local people, tasting new food and experimenting with various dishes, sleeping on couches of various unknown people, and exploring myself with the surrounding. When I started my journey, I had no idea that it would result in changing me. But it did. In the process of exploring all those amazing places, I ended up finding myself.

I can not pick-point the exact place where it happened. But it did. I was travelling near Nainital – somewhere between Nainital and Almora. I was climbing a hill and I sat down. It was a beautiful day – I could see the entire town of Nainital from that hill and it was one of the most beautiful visions that my eyes ever saw. The sun was shinning perfectly and reflected the beauty of Naini lake flawlessly. I was so certain at that moment, that it was the exact place where I wanted to spend the rest of my life.

I was at peace there and that is the entire motive of human life – to find peace, right?

I gave up my job and never went back to the hectic city which sucked the life right out of me. And I stayed, I stayed there at Nainital. I found a new place to live there by Housing and shifted my entire life there. That gave a second chance to my life. I was able to give a fresh start to my life that day. Yes, there were a lot of obstacles on the way. People were apprehensive about my choice – they thought that I was making one of the biggest mistakes of my life. But what was I suppoed to do? To not make any mistake, even if that mistake would make happy. I didn't want to have any regrets in my life. I didn't want to live a life made of “buts” and “what ifs”

I opened a small scale business at Nainital and rented a small place. Life took a new turn and I found peace. I'm happy now, more than ever. I'm content and I'm at peace. I like every choice that I made.

I'm so glad that I made that mistake.

Housing encourages you to #StartANewLife as well. Visit their website here to know more or watch their video here:

That girl in the rain

They say we should always live our life on our terms, should always live as if today is our last day and that we all would be dead tomorrow. We should live in the moment. We read this a lot of times, and often even acknowledge the fact that we live only once, that we should try to take as much as we can from life, because when life starts to take things from us – it even takes our last breath.

I was aware about all of that, but all it took was a simple incident which made me believe the same. I'm very fond of my neighbors. They are simple and honest people, who are completely humble and down to earth. They have a daughter, named Isha, who is cute and adorable. She might look like any other little girl to you, but she is not. She has been suffering from a terrible heart disease from the past two years. After consecutive surgeries, she was told that she won't be able to live long. At the age of nine, she was told that she won't be able to live. She won't be able to fulfill her dreams, she won't attend any college or will marry, she won't get old. One day, a months down the lane, she will just stop existing and that's it.

Her parents were terrified – heartbroken and helpless, but they never let Isha see the pain behind their eyes. A couple of days back, it was raining heavily. I was enjoying the weather with a cup of hot chocolate, and sitting peacefully on the couch. It was then I saw Isha dancing in the rain. I thought it would be unhealthy for her to get drenched, so I ran outside with an umbrella.

She stopped my assistance and refused to seek the shelter of an umbrella. “I want to feel the raindrops, hitting my skin. I want to feel it, every bit of it. I want to live in the moment,” she said. The words echoed in my heart and left me numb.

“We should always live in the moment. Today. Present. Because that is what life is all about – it is made up of moments of happiness like this. Like this.” She concluded finally, completely drenched in rain, and smiling with each and every drop of rain that poured on her skin.

That day, I realized that we truly live only once. But if we do it right, once is enough. All it took was that little girl to make me realize that fact. From that day, I decided that I would be living my life on my terms. That moment truly inspired me to be better and to strike for excellence, every moment. From that day, I decided to make every moment count.

That girl in the rain taught me how to live.

Housing visions a world full of optimism and positivity. To know more about it, vision their website here.

neuroticdream

To whoever who is reading this; One day you will realise that, i promise. stay strong love❤️you’ve been strong for so long, don’t give up now! dont hurt yourself, its not worth it.. you’re not alone in this on We Heart It.

theplatoniceclipse

Thank you!

The Platonic Eclipse turned 1 today! :)

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I love it when people are affectionate with me. I like when they always invite me places, or text me, or call me. I would rather have that person than someone who makes me text them first all the time and replies back like 10 hours later.