Pain and grief are regular companions in the passage of life. One needs to tackle with them every day. Its occurrence therefore is not at all important. What’s more important is to get relieved from it. The strength of the individual lies in the method in which one comes out of the stressful situation. Your efficiency in dealing with pain and grief can help you in better adjusting with the life. It all depends upon your reaction and treatment only.

Express it my Dear!

Reading this might raise questions like how to deal with it or how to do it? The easy, interesting and practical option that effectively solves your problem is by expressing it. Self expression is the best treatment to stress and anxiety. Self expression is the freedom that we allow to our feelings and emotion to get relieved. We can do these in various ways.

Try something creative and interesting ways to express yourself:

• Writing – Writing is an easy, common yet specific activity. You can easily pen down all your feelings and emotions to get rid of pain and agony. Once you start writing them on paper, it becomes easier for you to continue.
• Poetry – Poetry feeds your feelings and emotions. Writing poetry is certainly one of the most relieving activities. But there are several people who are not able to write poetry. For them poetry can be helpful when they only read it. Poetry is not meaning specific. Each and every piece of poetry has multiple interpretations. So, you can interpret it in your own unique way and thus can relate your pain with it.
• Painting – Painting relieves the mind, heart and eyes. It soothes our emotions and gives them a balanced state. The colors, shapes and options that are available for us when we paint our numerous thoughts are amazing. The creative activity relieves you from your suppressed emotions and feelings.
• Theatre – Theatre is one the most ancient activity that has been practiced for several thousand years. It has been performed for various reasons like education, awareness, revolution, justice etc. One such task fulfilled by theatre is the release of pent up emotions. It helps you in directing your emotions in the desired route with creativity.

Follow these creative modes of self expression for relieving pain and grief and add new and bright colors in your lives. This way you’ll be the pain-free creative artist.

Food cravings always irritate us. The more we try to get rid of them, the more they attack us. But why do we feel like resisting these cravings at once? Food cravings actually lead to several problems like excessive weight gain, bloating, overeating, gas etc. Therefore all of us should get relief from these uninvited food and sugar cravings.

Here are some creative and cheerful activities that will help in reducing food cravings or the excessive food intake:

• Cooking – Cooking is one of the most captivating activity that reduces your cravings considerably. Firstly, it slows down the cravings when the process is taking place. The time consumed in cooking slowly lowers down the craving rate and thus you eat lesser in comparison to what you would have eaten otherwise. It is also helpful because when you cook, then you can modify the recipe as per your wishes and thus can make it healthier for you and your family consumption.
• Dancing – Sounds weird? Well, it is not. Dancing releases excess of your energies and satisfies your emotions. Food craving is also a sort of emotion that forces you to eat more. So, dance when you feel like consuming more food. It not only satisfies your cravings but will also help in burning a number of calories easily.
• Sharing – Sharing food with others is also helpful in reducing and controlling the quantity of food eaten. This becomes effective because when you share your eatables with others then you also get involved in talks with them. This takes away much of your concentration from food and also strengthens your interpersonal relationships.
• Play Hide and Seek – Don’t worry! I am not asking you to hide and tell your hubby to find you out. Though it would be fun, yet I am talking about hiding the eatables that you crave most often. Tell others to hide the food so that you have to move your body to find them. This ways you’ll have some exercise as well as your cravings will cut to the half soon before you actually start eating.
• Make it your Reward – There is another way with which you can do it. Whenever you have food cravings, affix some task to be accomplished before consuming anything. This way not only your task would be done but you will also feel encouraged and relish your eating more as a reward.

Follow these points and enjoy your foods along with reducing them.