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7 Great Things To Do While Stuck At Home For Adults & Children

ketan Raval April 11, 2020

7 Great Things To Do While Stuck At Home For Adults & Children

The global pandemic

has people locked in their homes. Many are expressing their boredom while some are looking for more productive activities aside from endlessly scrolling on their social media feed.

We get it — getting stuck inside your house can be such a drag, even for children. So, instead of having your children glued to their mobile phones, tablets, or computers, here are some activities that adults and children can enjoy at home.

1. Take Out the Board Games

Are those boards gathering dust in the attic? Now is the time to take them out and play with children. If you also have puzzles

, now is the best time to put them together. What makes puzzles great is that they’re stimulating. On the other hand, board games are a great way to bond with the family and to challenge each other.

2. Read Books

Set aside time to read.

Now, you have the time to read the books that you’ve been meaning to read. Children can do this as well — all you need is to be firm with the time. Allocate an hour or two for reading, and eventually, you or your children will ease into it until it becomes a part of your routine.

3. Work Out

Whether or not you go to the gym, working out is important, especially these days.

Fortunately, there are a lot of workout routines that you can do even without equipment — thanks to YouTube along with other apps, you can stay active while you’re inside your home. Who said that you can’t work out at home? You can also encourage your kids to join you while you’re at it.

It would be best if you can choose workout videos that are entertaining and fun, so your children will be encouraged to work out with you.

4. De-clutter

7 Great Things To Do While Stuck At Home For Adults & Children

You have all the time in the world now to de-clutter your home.

Use this opportunity as well to sanitize every area! Start with your closet — take out the clothes that you no longer wear. For kids, you can ask them to help you by organizing, folding, etc. If they’re old enough to organize their closets, ask them to do so and have a reward system in place such as whoever finishes first or the one with the most organized closet gets a prize.

The prize can be as simple as getting an extra hour to play a video game or perhaps their favorite snack.

On the other hand, adults can highly benefit from de-cluttering especially in times like this. Cleaning your house can help relieve your stress and anxiety about what’s going on in the world today. Consider it therapy for your mind, body, and soul.

5. Cook Healthy Meals

Cooking is now an essential part of our days

— and while you’re at it, why don’t you whip out some healthy meals to boost everyone’s immune system in the household? If you have kids, you can ask them to help you cook. For older kids, you can start teaching them an important life skill, which is cooking.

To make it even more interesting, why don’t you ask your kids to come up with a delicious healthy meal that they can make with you?

6. Charge Your Crystals

If you have quite a huge collection of crystals and you haven’t had the time to charge them, then you can do it now. Charge your crystals under the sun and make sure to wipe them to keep them looking good.

And while you’re at it, why don’t you learn more about crystals and see how you can use it amid the health crisis? Maybe you can use a specific crystal to clear your mind and ease your anxiety.

7. Practice Manifestation

Manifestation is a process, and now that you have a lot of free time at home, commit to practicing manifestation a couple of minutes per day. With so many things that are happening, now is the perfect time to practice manifestation. At the same time, this is also a great way to meditate.

Love and light to you!

3 Powerful Ways to Manifest Amidst Tough Times

ketan Raval April 11, 2020

3 Powerful Ways to Manifest Amidst Tough Times

Tough situations can make it challenging to get out of bed in the morning. The thing is, it happens.

At several points in our lives, we have to deal with a difficult situation.

The difficult times can either come in small or big packages, but it is our habits that will help us endure through the tough times and get us to a place of happiness in a short amount of time.

Hence, it all starts with YOU.

3 Powerful Ways to Manifest Amidst Tough Times

The mind can’t make its own direction — instead, it will follow particular thought patterns. It is during this time when we must tap into our higher consciousness to observe where the mind wanders and to direct it to the right place.

During the toughest of times, we must direct our minds towards positivity, love, gratitude, and faith in the Universe.

When you practice the mind to create a number of positive thought patterns, you can loosen your grip on it as time goes by— even when you face another hurdle in your life.

Another thing to remember is that you don’t need to feel happy in your situation.

It doesn’t work like that.

Instead, you need to believe how you want to feel.

That said, did you know that you can STILL manifest during the toughest times of your life?

How To Manifest During the Most Challenging Times In Your Life

Manifesting may be the last thing on your mind when you’re going through a difficult time in your life. It’s understandable given that the situation makes you more focused on the problem other than the solution. Isn’t that right?

You become too engrossed in the bad thing that’s happening that you can no longer snap out of it. That’s what you think.

Manifesting during this time is possible. In fact, it is even highly recommended.

1. Have a Clear Intention

Now that you’ve spent hours or even days thinking about what went wrong or what’s wrong right now, it’s time to know how you want to rise above this. What would be the best solution for this problem? What can happen in your life that will make things better?

When you have a clear picture, and you’re 100% sure that it’s exactly what you need to get out of a rut, set that as your intention for your manifestation process.

You have to know what you want and you need to stick with it.

2. Visualize Your Desire Every Day

There’s no overnight miracle for what you want to come into your life. So, you need to make a conscious effort to make it come to you. Every day, set aside a few minutes to sit quietly

and visualize what you want.

Imagine your desire in great detail — watch it as an outsider and see yourself fully enjoying what you have manifested. Feel it and see it in your life.

3. Use Affirmations

Affirmations are these powerful statements that you can use repetitively to alter your core subconscious beliefs and create new neural pathways in your brain. You can get affirmations online or you can make your own.

Use affirmations to help shift your perspective that things are too tough or to get through deeply ingrained negative emotions. You can use the affirmation silently or out loud. By doing so, you will be able to see possibilities instead of the problem itself.

Whatever is happening in your life right now, no matter how tough it is, it’s even more important now to get into the manifestation process.

Manifestation will not only help you overcome a tough time, but you will also feel calm and relaxed while you’re manifesting.

Don’t fall victim to your own life.

Manifest despite the challenging times and you will come out stronger and happier than ever.

4 ways to Stay Grounded During a Pandemic

ketan Raval April 11, 2020

4 ways to Stay Grounded During a Pandemic

I know these are strange times and I want to help you with some easy tools to stay grounded whenever you feel afraid or anxious.

The truth is that in all this talk of uncertainty in the world, we forget that life is always uncertain. Change is the only thing we can rely on, and that can be a beautiful thing. Why?

Because it means life is evolving and expanding. We, humans, are adaptable. We may not be in total control of this virus

, we may not be in total control of the stability of the economy, but we are in control of our reaction to those things.

We have the power to decide whether fear takes over or not. We have the power to let it become part of our everyday lives, or not.

As I’ve said before, this global health pandemic can actually be a positive thing. It can give us a little (or a rather big) nudge towards remembering our inner power and connecting to it.

There’s been quite a few memes and quotes going around about staying inside and going inside. Literally – to your homes and your minds. Go within, seek the power, and security you crave inside your own being. For that is where you will always find it.

A need for security and safety is a basic human need. With these four mindful practices, I want to guide you towards the present moment and replace your fear with faith. Your insecurity with strength and your anxiety with trust and love.

1. Ground yourself and connect to the Earth

4 ways to Stay Grounded During a Pandemic

The Root Chakra is located at the base of your spine and is associated with feelings of security, stability, and being fearless, as well as your basic needs of shelter, food, and safety. At the moment, many people are reacting to the kind of energy that this Root Chakra governs. Our fears around safety, security, and basic needs being met are being activated energetically as we go through these global events.

That’s why it’s important to balance this Chakra. When it is out of harmony, it causes the rest of the chakras to go off balance too. It can also trigger our fight or flight response, and any prolonged amount of time we spend that in the fight or flight state is harmful. It compromises our mental, emotional, and physical health, weakening our immune systems, and generally causing us to feel off-balanced. We come from a place of fear rather than enlightenment.

PRACTICE: Balancing your Root Chakra at least once a day if not twice (morning and evening). I suggest sitting

quietly and allowing the silence and stillness to ground you, connecting you to the earth. If possible do this outside, on grass, or close to a tree.

When you sit for just a few moments, imagining your Root Chakra energy flowing freely, grounding you to the earth with its strong and calming energy and bringing your energetic body back into coherence.

If you have any red crystals, hold them as you do this balancing practice. Crystals such as red jasper and tourmaline are balancing. You can also burn woody incense such as sandalwood or patchouli.

2. Send a Healing Prayer to the Earth

Whenever you feel overwhelmed, practice sending love and peaceful, healing energy to the entire planet.

By doing so, it focuses your mind

towards positivity and caring for others. It gives you a wider sense of perspective and makes you feel useful. Energy is catching too you know! Spread a feeling of kindness and positivity and uplift others with your vibration.

You can sit quietly and just focus on sending love and healing to all parts of the Earth that need it. If it’s easier for you, imagine the animals and children first, see them receiving the love and healing they need. If you understand vibrational energy, you know that it can be received through time and space. Your prayers matter.

3. Express Yourself and Release Fear

I highly recommend finding a positive outlet for your feelings during this time. With so much on the news, messages, social media etc., you could be absorbing too much negative information. Whenever you come across some disturbing news or something that makes you feel anxious, don’t just hold it in or push it away, release it in one of the following ways:

Writing in a journal. Expressing yourself in words

can be so healing and helps to remove the weight of negative information. Once you get it down on paper

, you get to make sense of it. I find this releases some of the power bad news and fearful events can have over our mind and spirit.

Painting, expressing yourself in art. Express yourself through painting

, molding in clay, sketching, whatever you like, can help release pent-up feelings and negative energy through expression.

Dancing or playing an instrument . Having a quick high energy dance break is a great way to release tension, let off steam, and change your mood. If you play an instrument, get lost in some music practice. Anything that helps you to shift your energy towards a higher vibration is recommended.

4. Connect With Your Breath

When we are in a fight or flight state our breathing is often shallow and short. Many of us remain in this state a lot of the time and our sympathetic nervous system is activated constantly.

Connecting with your breath is so important for grounding. Next time you feel anxious or caught up in a spiral of worrisome thoughts, focus on the way that you are breathing. Take some conscious, slow, deep breaths in through the nose

, down to your abdomen and then feel it flowing out as you exhale. Focus on your exhale being a little longer than the inhale. This will stimulate the rest and digest response (as opposed to the fight or flight response).

It does not take long for your breath to bring you back to a sense of calm. When you feel yourself calming down, you will be able to view your fear more rationally, and you will have connected to that stillness within. Your spirit. That part of you that knows you are always taken care of. That connection is often enough to bring you back to a sense of faith in yourself and your ability to stand in your own power.

It is natural to feel fear and anxiety, especially during this time, like I said before life is characterized by its uncertain nature. Don’t judge yourself for these feelings, simply allow yourself to go through those emotions and then use one of the tools above, work towards balancing and grounding yourself.

Do you have any other grounding techniques that you enjoy and find successful? Share them with us below!

5 Quick Tips To Start Your Meditation Practice During a Health Crisis

ketan Raval April 11, 2020

5 Quick Tips To Start Your Meditation Practice During a Health Crisis

The global pandemic has made almost everyone around the world anxious. As the virus

spreads with no cure, what was once normal was now put on hold. For how long—that we don’t know. Now, the only thing that we can do is to stay inside our homes

, keep ourselves healthy, and create a routine that will become our new normal.

With all of these things happening, how are you coping?

Day by day, you wake up on the same bed

, you walk around the same place, and you see the same faces. There’s barely anything to do.

I know you’re probably tired. The kind of tired that is sad that is filled with anxiety.
The sleepless nights that you go through. The hollow pit in your stomach when you wake up in the morning with nothing but horrible news.

The world is at a standstill.

How are you?

Just like most things in the world, this too shall pass.

While we’re here, I encourage you to meditate.

Whether you have tried it or not, I can’t think of a more perfect time but now for meditation practice.

You are already probably aware of how it takes a lot of patience, practice, and time, to achieve a meditative state.

But trust me, once you get there, it would be magnificent.

One of the most important habits that I’ve formed in the past years was my habit of meditation. It has helped me through a lot of things—I’ve become more focused, peaceful, and less anxious about discomfort. It made me more appreciative and attentive to all the things that life has to offer.

My life has become simpler but in the grandest way possible. I’m far from perfect, but meditation has helped me come a long way.

So, go on… start your meditation habit now. Here, I’ll share with you some tips that helped me over the years:

Give It Two Minutes

5 Quick Tips To Start Your Meditation Practice During a Health Crisis

On your first meditation practice, I don’t want you to stay seated longer than two minutes. I just want you to meditate in just two minutes.

If you get distracted in the middle of your practice, that’s okay. Just give it two minutes.

Do this for at least a week. If it goes well within a week, then increase a minute in the next week. But for now, start with two minutes for seven days.

Do It First Thing in the Morning

It’s easy to say that you’ll commit to meditation every day… until you forget all about it. So, instead of checking your phone in the morning, meditate.

Set yourself up for this. When your eyes open in the morning, take two minutes to meditate, whether you’re still lying down on your bed or seated—whatever’s comfortable.

Just Do It

One of the things that hold us back from doing a task is when we continuously ask ourselves “how?” We often question HOW when the task is unfamiliar to us.

When it comes to meditation, stop asking HOW. Just do it.

Don’t think about how you’ll sit, where you’ll sit, etc. Sit where you’re comfortable in. You can worry about the other things when you fall into a routine of meditation.

Don’t Think Too Much About Clearing the Mind

I know that you want to clear your mind when you meditate. Here’s the truth, though— it’s quite impossible to achieve it the first time. You can clear your mind, yes, for a couple of seconds.

But it’s okay when you can’t hold it for two minutes straight. The more you pressure yourself in the middle of your practice, the more you won’t achieve it.

Therefore, take it easy. Clearing the mind is not the “goal” of meditation. Just focus your attention and practice some more when your mind wanders.