Smiling can have a profound effect on our mind and bodies, not only do they produce endorphins and makes us feel better but they also make us more attractive and approachable. Most people believe that smiling is an involuntary response when in fact we can choose to smile as much or as little as we like. A smile can light up a room, melt away stress transfer from one person to another. If that’s not enough of a push here are the top ten reasons you should make a conscious effort to smile more every day. Smiling Relieves Stress Stress can permeate our entire being, and can really show up in our faces. Smiling not only helps to...
In our world filled with social media available 24/7, many have acquired a fear called FOMO - the fear of missing out. What if we looked at it from a different perspective? JOMO. The joy of missing out. What a beautiful concept. Being able to disconnect from the outside world for a time to just be with yourself. That is the ultimate self-care. No guilt, no shoulda, woulda, coulda's, just time to breathe. How would you do it? "There is so much to do. It's the Holiday Season." At Egret Jewellery we make time for self-care. Make a date with yourself Set a time in your calendar. When will you be alone during the day? Make it easy to spend some time...
December is just around the corner and we are busying around Christmas shopping and writing endless lists of all the wonderful things we need to buy. The trees have shed their leaves and the early morning frost has started to show itself on blades of grass outside. Christmas is such a wonderful time, the lights hanging from telegraph poles and wrapped around trees take us back to a time in our childhood full of wonder and awe. It’s not surprising that it is most people's favourite time of the year. Having said that Christmas can be hard for many of us as we can notice the lack of things in our lives more. How, when we want to purchase...
“Financial goals. Family goals. Academic goals.” With so many milestones to cover, our lives have turned from peaceful journeys to rat races. We find “happiness” in accomplishing what our peers have accomplished. And with all that pressure, we can feel overwhelmed with mental issues such as anxiety and depression. With the rising cases of mental illnesses, the use of drugs for these conditions has also increased. The balance is obviously lost and things are not the way they should be. When our minds are stressed, our body system does not relax, wearing out the body at a much faster rate, and making us age faster than we should be. How to escape the rat race Let’s...
Somewhere, down this long winding road of life, we seem to have lost our way. The once perfect connection between mind, body and spirit is now only present in snippets, in people scattered all over our world. For many of us the Western world, with its fast pace and countless distractions, locks us in a never-ending battle riddled with depression, anxiety and social segregation. In amongst the long days in concrete walls and the virtual realities of our lives we have lost our relationship to thought and as a by-product to this our connection to spirit. Our thoughts have been allowed to run wild and any control we had over them has diminished. We have turned to drowning them out...
