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Regular Sleep, Healthy Future

March 9, 2021 by Varsha Kariya

Regular Sleep is an important part of your daily life. Adequate sleep is required to maintain optimal health and well-being. Sleep is as important as regular exercise and a balanced diet. It is one of the pillars of your health. Getting regular and optimal sleep every day has its own benefits.

World Sleep Day is celebrated on March 19, 2021. The slogan for this year is ‘regular sleep, healthy future’. 

Effects of lack of sleep on your health

Sleep deprivation alters your brain activity. It affects your performance and productivity. It is one of the risk factors for obesity. It leads you to eat more. The duration of sleep has many health risk factors. There is an increased risk of heart disease and stroke if you sleep less than 7 hours per night. There is also a heightened risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. Poor quality of sleep is also linked to depression and long-term body inflammation.

Why do you require a good and regular sleep?

Here are some of the reasons why good and regular sleep is important for you:

Health benefits

Sleep has a host of health benefits. It lowers the risk of heart disease and reduces inflammation. Good sleep helps the body fight off infection. As the body heals during sleep, you can have more energy, better coordination, and better overall health.

Regular Sleep Keeps you Energetic
Regular Sleep Keeps you Energetic

Improves productivity

You can sharpen your brain’s ability to learn and preserve information by having a regular sleep. Sleep improves your concentration and lowers the feeling of burnout. It improves problem-solving skills and enhances memory. 

Improves immune function

Regular sleep boosts your immune system.  When you are asleep, your body takes time to rest and recover. It heals the damaged cells and helps to recover, thereby rebooting your body. 

Prevents depression

Sleeping disorders such as insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea cause depression. It is estimated that 90% of people with depression complain about sleep quality. Thus getting a good night’s sleep can be an important part of your plan to manage depression.

Lower weight gain

People with sleep deprivation tend to eat more, which leads to obesity. A good sleep calms down your body and helps a person to consume fewer calories.

You can be emotionally intelligent

Adequate sleep will lead to improved mood and healthier emotional well-being. It is the key to build emotional intelligence. It helps us manage our emotions, builds empathy, and sparks creativity.

Regular Sleep Helps You Think Positively
Regular Sleep Helps You Think Positively

Tips to have better and regular sleep

  • Have a comfortable bed and cool room
  • Reduce caffeine intake after 5 PM
  • Take a walk after your dinner
  • Avoid taking an afternoon nap if you have trouble sleeping at night.
  • Finish your daily chores and dinner by 8 PM
  • Avoid binge-watching TV/videos.
  • Avoid fights and arguments with anyone before bedtime — makeup with them before going to sleep.

Sleep is often neglected as a part of our routine. It is an important component of your overall health and well-being. It enables the body to repair and be fit and be ready for the next day. 

Sleep regularly and have a healthy future. 

Have trouble sleeping? Try tracking your sleep with the help of the JoyScore app. The app can also help you lead a healthy and quality life. Download the app now.

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The Simple but Effective Power of Affirmations

February 25, 2021 by Dikshi Gupta

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” –Oprah Winfrey.

Affirmations are part of your life. It is just anything you say with confidence. It is more important to know that your thoughts will be quite negative. Research says that 80% of the 50,000 subconscious thoughts that you have in a day are negative ones. You need to think and speak in a positive pattern to change your life. 

The affirmations open the door. It is a path to change. If you are talking about affirmations, you are consciously choosing words that help you to eliminate negative aspects of life and create something new.

What are Affirmations?

Affirmations are positive statements that help you overcome negative thoughts. They allow you to be in control of your thoughts and act as a self-help tool. 

Here are few examples of Affirmations that help you see a positive change in your life:

  • I am overflowing with joy
  • I am healthy and my mind is brilliant
  • I acknowledge my own self-worth; my confidence is soaring.
  • I am blessed with an incredible family and wonderful friends.
  • I am growing stronger each day
  • I am a unique and responsible person.
  • I am confident and capable of what I do.

The power of Affirmations

Affirmations are powerful when used in a correct manner. They are more effective if you use them along with positive thinking and goal setting.  You need to embrace powerful and positive affirmations to achieve success. You can reap the benefits of the Affirmations if you practice them regularly.

Do Affirmations really benefit you?

The benefits usually depend on how you use them. They tend to provide the most benefit when they center on specific traits or achievable changes you like to make to those traits.

Affirmation boosts self-esteem

Affirmations allow you to believe in yourself and the potential of an action you desire to manifest. It provides a reassurance that our wish words become a reality. You can tell yourself that you are motivated and capable. You will be able to view the best version of yourself.

Being Affirmative and confident
Being Calm & Confident

It changes the negative thought patterns into positive ones 

You will be aware of your daily thoughts, thus reducing the risk of negativity. Negative self-talk habits can be altered for positive changes by practicing daily affirmations.

Reflecting affirmation and positivity
Being Affirmative, Reflecting Positivity

Affirmations lead to better health

“Our greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another” – William James

You will feel better if you think positively. Practicing daily affirmations reduces the negative thoughts and also the stress levels. You will feel better both mentally and physically.

They set you up for success

Simple and positive affirmations help you to focus on all the good in your life. You would be more open to learning new things.  Your beliefs and thoughts will shift in a more positive direction. You will experience success which improves your quality of life.

Affirmations can be a refreshing way to use positivity to reverse negative messages and to motivate ourselves. The real secret of happiness is knowing that it’s an inside job. It’s about understanding that life doesn’t happen to you; it happens for you. After working on yourself and your growth, you’ll notice a high sense of self-worth or high self-esteem, and knowing you are worthy of being happy is the secret to true happiness and leading a complete and joyful life.  Download the JoyScore app to get more insights on living a Joyful life.

Filed Under: Mind

Importance of Tracking your Mood – How it helps in improving the quality of life

February 17, 2021 by Dikshi Gupta

Mental health is the talk of the day. A mood is an affective state which is a mix of feelings and emotions. It can be positive or negative. It is affected by your nutrition intake, hours of sleep, and facial expressions.

Your mood affects your personality. Tracking your mood is a powerful way to take care of your mental health. It helps you to appropriately attend to your feelings. Everyone has mood changes throughout the day. Identifying and tracking moods can be an effective tool to ensure better mental health. You can use mood trackers to learn about yourself and your health, self-manage symptoms, and improve your quality of life.

Why should you track your mood?

Gain control of yourself

You can self-manage with good health habits by tracking your mood. You can recognize and be aware of the dangers/problems ahead of your different moods and can control those. Keeping a check on yourself encourages you to work on problem areas. Mood tracking can help you bridge the gap between your thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.

Find out what you need to get the best out of you

If you recognize your feelings, you can understand what is required to take care of yourself. You can control the outcome of your mood. If you are happy, be thankful; if you are sad, share it with a friend. You will respond intentionally rather than immediately by paying attention to your moods.

Identify the patterns and triggers

You need to understand what factors trigger your moods. Triggers are those which bring out emotions and behavioral changes. These may be physical exercise, the food you eat, the amount of sleep, interactions with others, relationships, and the external environment. It’s good to know if there is something specific contributing to a particular mood. Tracking these and making simple lifestyle changes can help you feel good.

Identify your mood and acknowledge it
Identify Your Mood and Keep a Track of it

Share your feelings with others and their impact on others

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” ― Charlotte Bronte

Open up your inner child. Share what you feel. This can help you to recognize how other people are affecting you. If you are angry with others, create a boundary and communicate it clearly with them. Also, be grateful to others if you are happy because of them. 

Get support from a therapist/psychiatrist

You can seek out help from a therapist/psychiatrist if you are struggling to manage your emotions. They can easily assess and help you if you share the data of the mood tracker. If you can record how you are feeling throughout the day, it can help identify and guide an appropriate course of treatment.

Tracking mood with help of therapist
Get Support from a Therapist

Keeping a mood chart can tell you a lot about the timing and impact of your different moods. It is only you who can take charge of your life. Start taking note of your moods, their triggers, and patterns, you will see an amazing discovery. You can track these easily on JoyScore’s mood tracker feature and see which activities have the biggest impact on your wellbeing. Give it a try today!

Filed Under: Mind

Living Naturally with Hypothyroidism

January 26, 2021 by Dikshi Gupta

Have you heard someone from your friend’s group or family talk about facing a Thyroid issue, Hypothyroidism? Have you been curious about it or are you someone who is suffering from it? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, did you know that this issue can be managed by making subtle lifestyle changes?

Hypothyroidism is a condition where your body doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormones, which are required for your well being and is commonly referred to as the ‘Thyroid Issue’. It affects women more frequently than men and also among people over the age group of 60. 

The signs of hypothyroidism vary, depending on the severity of the hormone deficiency. Problems tend to develop slowly and steadily, often over some time. At first, you may not notice the symptoms of hypothyroidism, such as tiredness and weight gain. Or maybe you attribute them to getting older. But as your metabolism continues to slow, you may develop more problems like elevated blood cholesterol level, stiffness or swelling in your joints, and thinning hair.

Clean food for Hypothyroidism
Clean Food

But it is possible to live well with Hypothyroidism. Bringing about subtle lifestyle changes can help you better manage your symptoms. Here are 4 simple lifestyle changes you can habituate:

Eat a clean and balanced diet everyday

Clean eating includes a diet pattern that comprises fresh, whole foods. These are minimally processed, real foods that are close to their natural state. To keep your energy levels stable it is important to go for a balanced diet which includes, green leafy vegetables, fruits, whole grains, lean protein and healthy fats. 

Yoga for Hypothyroidism
Yoga

 Exercise Regularly

Moderate intensity workout suits the best to maintain Hypothyroidism. Overdoing it might affect the body’s ability to convert inactive thyroid hormone to the active form. If this process is hampered it can cause visible symptoms of Hypothyroidism. A brisk morning walk or a jog and yoga is recommended. You can try different and simple activities on the JoyScore app as well.  

Meditate for Hypothyroid
Meditation

Meditate for Hypothyroidism

Having a chronic disease, even if it is monitored by the doctor, can be stressful and might do much harm than good. Hence, it is suggested, we take control of our well being by striving for a balanced state of mind. Being in a meditative state helps raise our awareness towards our inner self as well as our surroundings. It consciously helps in reducing the stress that we face in our day to day lives. JoyScore is an app which can help you reach this meditative stage by raising your awareness towards your inner self. 

 Practice restorative sleep habits

Hypothyroidism can make you feel tired all the time. But having a schedule and sticking to it helps a lot. Sleeping at a particular time and waking up early every day- including the weekends, can help you drift off easily at night. Have a warm tea before you sleep as it helps relax your mind and sleep quickly. 

 Joyscore can aid you with implementing these changes through guided meditation, breathing, sleep management, and stress reduction tools. With the help of such activities and games in the app, you may be able to maintain or even reverse thyroid. With JoyScore, you can enhance your living and lead a joyful life. Download the app now. 

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Maintain A Healthy Weight For A Healthy Being

January 20, 2021 by Dikshi Gupta

A healthy weight is a weight that lets you make the most of your life. It’s a weight at which you feel lively, live longer, and have a reduced risk of chronic disease. By measuring your BMI, you can check whether you are a healthy weight or not! For a healthy weight, a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is optimal.

It’s rightly said that Health is Wealth. A healthy lifestyle is essential for everyone. Maintaining a healthy weight is critical for health, and a healthy body weight can protect you from various illnesses. Maintaining weight is not only beneficial for your body but also for your mind. When you look better, you perceive better, which gives you more confidence to do things you never thought you could.

Being a healthy weight improves your health and fitness in many ways. Shedding even a small amount of weight will boost your quality of life. With a healthy weight, you will be active and energetic, improve your self-esteem, and reduce your chances of being mentally low. 

Weighing Scale for Healthy Weight
Weighing Scale

Maintaining a healthy weight is a big worry for everyone. The epidemic of obesity is sweeping worldwide. A healthy weight is essential because it helps prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, and other chronic diseases. Millions of people battle with their weight every day. Eating healthy, and finding time to exercise are the biggest complaints of overweight people.

Many people fail at shedding weight because they are laid back. They would like to lose weight, but it is hard for them to find time to exercise because of jobs, families, and busy lives. People seldom consider their health when it comes to losing weight. Just the weight reduction on the scale is not the solution to you being healthy. Being mentally fit also accounts for a healthy being.

Healthy Weight

Consuming a healthy diet and maintaining healthy body weight is essential.The most crucial step to do is to make appropriate lifestyle changes, achieving fitness goals. The second important thing is obtaining the optimum weight level. It’s necessary to undergo fundamental changes with nutrition, exercise, rest to reach the optimum weight. It is imperative to realize that achieving and maintaining optimum health is not a short-term commitment. The goal is to shed weight the right way. 

To maintain a healthy weight, choose foods with a variety of nutrients but not a lot of calories. Choosing healthy foods and remaining active has health benefits for everybody—no matter your age or weight. It’s essential to choose nutrient-dense foods and be active at least 150 minutes per week.

Healthy Weight

When your weight is in a healthy range:

  • Your body more efficiently circulates blood.
  • You feel lively about yourself and have more energy to make other positive health changes.
  • You are less fatigued throughout the day.
  • You feel better mentally and have clarity of thoughts.

It’s about a long term lifestyle change. A healthy outside starts from the inside. Joyscore can help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight through its various activities and games. You can also get help from guided meditation, breathing, sleep management, and stress reduction tools. Joyscore can enhance your living and make your life joyful. Download the app now

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Celebrate endings- As they proceed to new beginnings

January 4, 2021 by Dikshi Gupta

Welcome to the new year! Are you ready with your hopes, dreams, wishes, and any new-year resolutions you might want to accomplish? With the COVID-19 pandemic still a going concern, some of your traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations — the kind that includes crowds and parties  — might be off the table this year. Yet, the pandemic can’t stop some of the best New Year’s traditions: the goal-setting. 

Some of the most common goals people set are to eat better, lose weight, stop smoking and get in shape. Those are all excellent choices, but there are other great desires to accomplish, so let’s look at it from another perspective. Would achieving all the goals on your list gives you the ultimate happiness and peace in life?

2021 Resolution List
2021 Resolution List

Before the ball drops on December 31, it’s still a tradition to settle on a couple of New Year’s goals, and this year, a renewed emphasis on your health just might top the list. When the pandemic forced us to stay indoor, it gave us time to reflect on our inner self. Our priorities changed and money wasn’t the only center of our survival. Our health, especially mental health, became more important.  

A new year marks a new beginning and opens doors for limitless possibilities. Hence,this year, explore your inner self. Try simple lifestyle tweaks each day, and you’ll not only jumpstart a healthier body and mind — you’ll feel fantastic and fully determined to make 2021 a much better year than ever before. It’s time to put you first for even more “new year, new you” inspiration. 

The following stands to reason, of course: If it were so easy to reach self-improvement goals, we wouldn’t have to make resolutions in the first place; we would change instantly. Many people observe this New Year’s rite because they believe that their lives will be better if they make a transformation requiring some sacrifice. They face failure because the resolutions they choose don’t match their real goal of greater happiness.

Celebrate Endings
Celebrate Endings

Here are few achievable goals that will calm you down, alleviate your stress, help your skin shine, and organize the chaos in your life — maybe you’ll even start a daily journal to stay on track! You will discover simple ways to squeeze a little more fitness into your busy days and sane strategies for decluttering. Every morning, meet the light with joy and happiness for the opportunity to face another day. Pursue peace every day in a world where it seems to be in short supply. Show gratitude, perform random acts of kindness, and leave the trail like glitter, wherever your footsteps lead you. Laugh about something every day. Remind yourself to take a break for personal relaxation. Enjoy and engage in the simple things in life that bring happiness to you. If you first make 2021 a year to accomplish and fulfill your desire to lead a happier life from the inside out, your other resolutions could be easier to accomplish. Achieve your 2021 goals with Joyscore and live a meaningful life.

Celebrate Endings

We wish you to start the new year with an abundance of joy and zest. We hope that 2021 will be a year our world emerges from the pandemic, refreshed and reinvigorated. Here’s wishing you all a happy, blessed, and heart-and-soul prospering year ahead! Download the Joyscore app now, and get on the optimal path of health, happiness, and success.

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