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It is important to realize that our comfort zone is a trap as it keeps us from growing and learning. Because we are so comfortable within our comfort zone we repel anything that takes us beyond it, including success and wealth. Here are five secrets that will help you master your comfort zone:

1. “I Know It All” is a symptom
One of the strong pull that keeps us within our comfort zone is our extreme comfort with our thoughts. At any given point we are strongly and emotionally attached to our ideas. We all feel strongly that our beliefs are right. But successful people are more open. They are always willing to challenge their own ideas and treat them as mere hypothesis that need testing and proving. The first step to be able to step out of our comfort zone is to create a distance between our ideas and our egos. This allows us to view our ideas dispassionately, not feeling threatened when they need revision.

2. You can grow only from the outside of the comfort zone
There is familiarity and coziness inside the comfort zone. But be careful. This coziness is a trap. Hanging out with familiar friends, tuning into the same channels whose ideas resonate with yours, working in the same areas where you have expertise: all this is fine, but keep in mind it could be something that may be holding you back. The only way to grow out of your comfort zone is to step outside it. Which means you have to be able to become uncomfortable. You should be able to handle unfamiliar situations, explore uncomfortable ideas, deal with strangers, and go to unknown places. Continue reading →

We cannot live without light. Exposure to sunlight is critically important for our health. But too much exposure to light can also lead to problems. We all are aware that exposure to sunlight has a direct impact on our mood. This is because exposure to sunlight causes hormones to be released in our bodies. These have a direct impact on our health and mood. But when we get too much of light the pendulum swings the other way and it begins to have an adverse impact. This short video alerts us to the danger that “light pollution” has on our health and on the environment. This is worth watching and sharing.

Related:
International Dark-Sky Association
More details on the video.

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Did you know that if you sleep 5 or 6 hours a night or less you are at increasing risk of being overweight? Adults should be sleeping between 7 to 9 hours a night. Children on the other hand need at least 10 hours of sleep a night:

1. A British study that followed more than 8,000 children found that those who slept fewer than 10 and a half hours a night at age 3 had a 45 percent higher risk of becoming obese by age 7, compared to children who slept more than 12 hours a night.
2. The largest and longest study to date on adult sleep habits and weight is the Nurses’ Health Study. This study followed 68,000 middle-age American women for up to 16 years. Compared to women who slept seven hours a night, women who slept five hours or less were 15 percent more likely to become obese over the course of the study.

What is even more remarkable is that the impact of sleep loss with weight gain is more immediate than previously thought. A recent study at the University of Colorado shows that just a few nights of inadequate sleep can lead to an immediate weight gain of one to two pounds:

This study showed that just one week of restricted sleep of five hours per night leads to an average weight gain of two pounds within that week itself. Reverting to 9 hours of sleep per night the following week caused some of the weight gain to be shed, but significantly it did not reverse all the gain. This shows that some of the damage done by sleep loss may be long term and may take longer to reverse. Continue reading →