First Love

Self-Love Tips

Cultivating self-love will ensure health, happiness, and success in the coming year. Here are 9 ways to feel more love:

1. Give yourself Daily Love. Do at least one special thing for yourself every day.
   
   

   
   
2. You can’t give what you don’t have. You must Clearly Love yourself first before you can love anything else.
3. Feed your mind Nourishing Love. Positive thoughts create a positive outlook and future.
4. Practice the art of gratitude. Always notice your blessings, be grateful, and you will have Joyful Love in your life.
5. Find Inspiring Love for yourself. Discover what makes you happy and pursue your passions.
6. Nurture yourself with Pure Love. Spend time in nature and connect with Mother Earth. Be good to her and soak up all she has to offer.
7. You’ll be Loving It if you practice being in the present moment and unattached.
8. Feel the Love as you care for yourself. Use the time during your self care routine to consciously love yourself and think about things that make you happy.
9. Practice Compassionate Love for yourself and others. Be understanding and have patience with yourself and everyone around you.

Ajith's Look In Gautham Menon's Film (Thala 55) Revealed

Ajith Kumar and Gautham Menon's forthcoming movie, which is called by the name 'Thala 55' by audience, was launched on April 9 in a simple manner. After much delay, the film had its muhurat at AM Rathnam's Shridi Sai Baba temple in Valasaravakkam, Chennai. People thought that Thala's look in the film would be revealed at the muhurat, but the actor had skipped the event and it had disappointed them. Now, it has been revealed as our sources have sent pictures of Ajith Kumar on the sets of his next flick. The actor in short hairs and without beard looks stylish in his new avatar. In the below snap, we can see the Mankatha star having a conversation with Gautham Menon.

 Ajith's Look In Gautham Menon's Film Revealed ADVERTISEMENT According to reports, Gautham Menon and Ajith Kumar's film is an action thriller. Anushka Shetty will be playing the female lead role. There are also speculations that Trisha Krishnan has been approached to play an important role. But the makers of the film have not opened up on the issue so far. Arun Vijay has been reportedly signed to do the role of a baddie.

The Health Benefits Of Listening To Music - By Dr Mercola

If you’re a music lover, you already know that turning on the tunes can help calm your nerves, make stress disappear, pump up your energy level during a workout, bring back old memories, as well as prompt countless other emotions too varied to list.

Even if you’re not a music aficionado, per se, there are compelling reasons why you may want to become one, which were recently revealed by a series of new research.

Music Prompts Numerous Brain Changes Linked to Emotions and Abstract Decision Making

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When you listen to music, much more is happening in your body than simple auditory processing. Music triggers activity in the nucleus accumbens, a part of your brain that releases the feel-good chemical dopamine and is involved in forming expectations.

At the same time, the amygdala, which is involved in processing emotion, and the prefrontal cortex, which makes possible abstract decision-making, are also activated, according to new research published in the journal Science.

Based on the brain activity in certain regions, especially the nucleus accumbens, captured by an fMRI imager while participants listened to music, the researchers could predict how much money the listeners were willing to spend on previously unheard music. As you might suspect, songs that triggered activity in the emotional and intellectual areas of the brain demanded a higher price.

Interestingly, the study’s lead author noted that your brain learns how to predict how different pieces of music will unfold using pattern recognition and prediction, skills that may have been key to our evolutionary progress. Time reported:

“These predictions are culture-dependent and based on experience: someone raised on rock or Western classical music won’t be able to predict the course of an Indian raga, for example, and vice versa.

But if a piece develops in a way that’s both slightly novel and still in line with our brain’s prediction, we tend to like it a lot. And that, says [lead researcher] Salimpoor, ‘is because we’ve made a kind of intellectual conquest.’

Music may, in other words, tap into a brain mechanism that was key to our evolutionary progress. The ability to recognize patterns and generalize from experience, to predict what’s likely to happen in the future — in short, the ability to imagine — is something humans do far better than any other animals. It’s what allowed us (aided by the far less glamorous opposable thumb) to take over the world.”