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Follow these wellness trends for a beautiful you in 2020

To look beautiful one has to feel beautiful & that can only happen when you feel positive

Published: January 12, 2020 17:45 IANS and compiled by Balaram Menon

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WELLNESS — In today's world, wellness has gained tremendous currency. The origin of 'wellness' dates back to ancient times. One chooses to compliment fitness with 'wellness' and 'mindfulness' to deal with the growing needs of people and the fast paced lifestyle. Wellness is a phenomenon which mainly focuses on optimising overall physical and mental well-being. To look beautiful one has to feel beautiful and that can only happen when you feel positive. Follow these wellness trends by Dr Paras, Life-leadership Coach and founder of Matrrix, for a beautiful you in 2020. Image Credit: IANS

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DNA TESTING — DNA TESTING: Genetic testing will illuminate almost everything as it helps you with in-depth insights of your family and ancestral heritage. Exclusive Genetic testing for health benefits is rapidly increasing. This is a tremendous step to put an end to procrastination and a one-size-fits-all approach. This testing begins with a screening of mother and father in order to assess more than 250 hereditary diseases. Trio testing, where mother, father, and child are tested thoroughly. It could offer even more powerful information on true inheritance patterns and disease predispositions. Furthermore, "population-level genomic" data may also yield insights not only into disease, but also into important areas including fertility, resilience, and longevity. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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BLUE MIND — BLUE MIND: If you're seeing red, feeling angry, anxious, and stressed; don't despair! Try Blue mind. "Blue-mind theory" a mildly meditative state is as water-associated peace, calm and serenity. Water can be used during "self-hypnosis" and "meditation" which rewires the brain by cultivating a feeling of calm and enhances your ability to think clearly and acting appropriately. Water helps your body natural filter, it helps the liver to do its job efficiently. Water helps your brain to push out toxins and make the hormones are stable and balanced. Also, swimming, surfing, sailing, water spa or simply walking on the beach are going to be lapped again by people looking for alleviating pain they suffer from physical stress. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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DOPAMINE FASTING — DOPAMINE FASTING: This "feel-good-escape" and "act of balancing" method is latest wellness trend promises to sharpen your consciousness and ease your stress. Americans in the Bay area are totally abstaining from the addictive sources - tech, coffee, alcohol, sex - for a week (or even for a month) to revitalise their mind and recharge their body and rejuvenate their lives. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain, so when you feel good about abstaining from addictive behaviors like masturbation, shopping, alcoholism etc. and focus on self-enhancement, it releases a chemical in the brain which plays a huge role to make you feel motivated, courage, calm and satisfying. Dopamine fasting will recalibrate your mind and will give you a balanced lifestyle. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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ICE BATH — ICE BATH: Ice bath is a traditional approach which is getting a new lease in life. Ice bath immersions also known as hydrotherapy is said to soothe your sore muscles and mind and thus gives you an active recovery. If you are seeking to incorporate strength and flexibility in your body then this therapy will work wonders for you. It constricts blood vessels, increases blood flow-speed circulation, flushes waste and reduces swelling and tissue breakdown due to injury or extreme obesity. Along with steam and sauna, apparently many well-known gyms and yoga centers have placed ice-bath as a post workout therapy for promoting immediate muscle pain recovery. Image Credit: Pixabay

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NATUROTHERAPY — NATUROTHERAPY: Living off-the-grid, in harmony with nature. It's an ancient way of naturalness and of becoming mindful like our forefathers lived. Many entrepreneurs are coaxing this approach of living in nature with minimum-need-based lifestyle. Living closer to nature is immensely beneficial for your health and lowers the risk of mortality-according to the research. With naturotherapy like acupuncture, acupressure, massage and natural herbal medicines you can also reprogram your immune system. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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BUDDHIST MEDITATION — BUDDHIST MEDITATION: In order to achieve cleansing through spiritualism we need to strictly deviate ourselves from digital resources and deep dive into Buddhist meditation. Buddhist traditions offers offers a smorgasbord of different techniques of breath meditation which enhances you bhavana ("mental development") and jhana/dhyana (mental training) resulting in a calm and luminous mind. This includes different kinds of meditations like - "Walking Meditation", "Metta Meditation", "Sound Meditation", "Tonglen Meditation", "Meditation on the Sameness of Self and Others". Image Credit: Pixabay

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PIECE OF THEORY, — PIECE OF THEORY, "TIMES STRUCTURING": Looking forward to building some great relationships and some new friends this year? Try Eric Berne, the founder of 'Transactional Analysis', where he suggested that human beings need to structure time and relationships with other people in some way. So to avoid an inbuilt drive to create chaos in relationships with other people due to poor time management, we need to structure our time with this piece of theory which involves - withdrawals, certain rituals and past time activates. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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PLANT BASED MEAT — LESS SPICE AND PLANT BASED MEAT: The process healthy, natural and wholefoods is important. People are not ready to give up on taste no matter what! So try plant-based meat which is less spicy and tastier. This is also known as "Flexitarian Diet" is a style of eating that encourages mostly plant-based foods while allowing meat which is very beneficial to health. Image Credit: iStockphoto

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