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• Gratitude Meditation: Mini guide...

• Positive News Of The Day: Solar powered train tracks?

• Food For The Soul: Ayurvedic post workout smoothie...

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TODAY'S LEARNINGGratitude Meditation

What is it?

When practicing gratitude meditation, you concentrate on feeling grateful and happy. Breathing slowly and thoroughly while focusing on pleasant feelings helps us to maintain a calm heart, a clear mind, and a healthy body. Your thoughts will calm down as you direct all of your mental focus and attention toward experiencing a state of appreciation and gratitude, allowing you to enter a state of meditation. This method can be applied at any time of day to aid in overcoming any unfavorable feelings or emotions that might be present in your life.

Technique for practicing gratitude meditation

Identify the things in your life that you are grateful for. List the three items for which you are currently grateful, including people, places, experiences, etc. I am thankful for my family, work, and house, for instance.

Locate a peaceful area where you won't be bothered. Make sure you're comfortable because the room's climate will impact how cozy you feel. Put on a sweatshirt or a meditation blanket if you're feeling chilly.

Relax your shoulders and chin, and feel your vertebrae long. For support, put pillows and blankets under your pelvis and legs.

Take a few abdominal breaths while closing your eyes.

Concentrate your efforts on the first item on your list. Recall your emotions of positivity, appreciation, and gratitude for this person, location, or event. Consider how much you value them and how fortunate you are to have them in your life. When you recognize these factors, take note of your feelings. If your thoughts stray, refocus them on your gratitude. Continue to inhale and exhale gently.

Repeat for items two and three on your list.

Consider or experience gifts of appreciation surrounding you or falling upon you as you finish your meditation. Think about how much beauty, serenity, and pleasure are all around you, and that you already have everything you need. Put your palms over your heart and inhale slowly and deeply, feeling thankful for all the blessings in your life.

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Europe's love of trains is about to change the way solar energy is made on the continent. The Swiss are about to start putting solar panels in the spaces between train tracks.

Sun-Ways is a new company that wants to put solar panels between the tracks near Buttes Station in the west of the country. They are waiting for the Federal Office of Transport to give them permission to do so.

With more than 2,000 miles of track, the Swiss national train network could produce more than 1 terawatt hour of electricity per year, which is about 2% of the country's total gross annual usage.

FOOD FOR THE SOULAyurveda Recipes: Post-Workout Smoothie

Smoothies are now so closely associated with health and fitness that it's hard to imagine not having one in the morning after working out. "Smoothie after workout" is a great way to get a lot of nutrients at once and can be a great treat to help you heal from a workout. But if we take into account what Ayurveda says about digestion and how our bodies react to exercise, we might change what we put in the drink mixer.

Ingredients

8 ounces homemade almond milk

4 ounces coconut water

1 teaspoon honey

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

1/4 teaspoon ginger powder

1 teaspoon sesame seeds + a pinch

Instructions

Place coconut water and almond milk into blender and combine. Add honey, turmeric, ginger, and sesame seeds and blend until smooth and frothy. Serve sprinkled with a pinch of sesame seeds.

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