Bless yourself with " Emotional-Cleanse "

God knows how we hate the feeling of being choked on last night's binge that isn't just ready to pop itself out. Such is the feeling of physical discomfort that leaves us with no better resort than to push it all out. Since the physical effects are prominent enough to make us act on them, we become rather fine judges of finding our way to a physical cleanse. But what about times when our brain feels stuffed and we can't help but be overwhelmed with even a minuscule decision or responsibility? 

That's when a whistle warning for our "Emotional Cleanse" shall blow. But, we can loosen ourselves a bit as this one does not require us to survive on blended greens. "Emotional Cleanse" is more of an approach to get rid of undigested or overprocessed emotions by mindful exercises. Each emotion in us holds a value and overpassing it would only undermine our journey to thorough nourishment. So every unsettling emotion in our mind needs an acknowledgment and an exit, at the right times.

This detox can be inculcated in our daily life very easily and does not require heavy efforts for its start. We can learn to process our emotions in a simpler way by involving a few premeditated steps in our regime. Few of them being :

• Get Real - Acknowledgement of emotion is the first step to healing and addressing the same helps us get to the root cause of the associated feeling.

• Find your tribe - Identify people you trust and do not shy away from asking their help when you feel you require their assistance.

• Soak what feels good - Treasure experiences, people, places, etc. which fill you up with joyful emotions (love, care, trust, happiness, etc)

•  Forgive yourself and others - Grudges feed on our mental health, causing plague inside our mind. Forgiveness and acceptance can be the two most effective antidotes to this problem.

•  Spend time on self-care - Self-care is an important step to incorporate into your self-love journey. Spending time alone and recognizing your true self can make the cleansing process easier for you.

Since our bodies are connected to our spirits, they do not benefit from these toxins released due to clogged emotions. Neglecting our emotional health for a long period of time can result in dangerous outcomes like chronic tension, depression/anxiety, easy distractions, abrupt weight gain/loss, hypertension, etc. Therefore, we must not forget to reset the release button for our emotions from time to time.

How to stop subconscious promotion of gender bias

Living in a society where we are tagged along with gender as soon as we are pushed out of our mother's sack, makes it impossible for us to think apart from it. We have been conditioned to streamline almost every attribute that belongs to us, under certain criteria. This results in a millennial disease of "Gender-Bias", whose antidote, "Gender-Neutralism" fails to save us from diving into this deep-rooted issue. However, there are minuscule efforts from our end that can assure us of doing our bit to uproot this issue. As this article progresses, I'm sure we all will be aware of our choices and could answer whether they support/promote the bias, in any way.

First of all, we need to stop urging our minds to wander places when we see someone who we feel does not fit under our "gender criteria". We should plea for courtesy and seal our lips when prompted to ask someone of their gender as we do when the topic shifts to body weight. Also, we should try and skip any form of literature and media that focuses on representing gender in stereotypical ways (Eg. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus). What we can practice is the usage of gender-neutral words like Humankind for Mankind, Postal Worker for the Postman, Actor for the actress, etc. This would help us support the fact that anyone can perform a task/job irrespective of their gender identity.

Secondly, we must introspect how we are clenched into this bias through basic choices (eg. what to eat, to wear, etc). We are surrounded by so many irrational and nonsensical theories with respect to gender that we can't help but end up being a victim of it. In the clothing industry, for example, we see a comparatively tighter fit for women with compromised comfort and fewer colors with less fluctuation in trends for men, pointing to bias that manufacturers have been long supporting. Sadly, portions of our food have also been dictated by this bias leaving us in the qualm of over/under-eating. A place where we can achieve the freedom of wearing whatever we want or eating whatsoever quantity of food is distant from reality.

We can round off the number of ways in which we are hostage to these stereotypes that serve us no good purpose. We should try and be more inclusive of choices that people make, without hanging them on the radar of being off-gender choices. Each one of us is worthy of equality par our gender and we should therefore be careful of not letting our choices make a strong case for this vicious bias.