Complete Wellbeing [CW] is a first-of-its-kind monthly magazine dedicated to YOU and your wellbeing. This website offers a preview into the magazine. In each issue, you can read six complete articles (marked FULL TEXT). Excerpts of rest of the articles are also available. Explore the free articles.
Charu Bahri, a trained cost-accountant and computer programmer, is a freelance writer. Well travelled and versatile, she has authored two books, Sexual Dualism to Spiritual Oneness and Aligning the Economic Cycle with the Time Cycle. Bahri lives in Mount Abu.
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Apr 2008Relationships • Basic Instinct
Re-designing your bedroom with the right lighting, colour and fabric could be an effective and creative option to arouse your basic instincts. For once, don’t crib about the lack of action in your master bedroom. Take things into your hands - redesign its look to (Read Full Text »)
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Mar 2008Therapies • Essential Therapies
Practice T’ai Chi and allow the energy to flow freely through you. We’ve all seen pictures of wizened, elderly Chinese men and women in good health and spirits. As a race, the Chinese are especially known for their longevity and thus far, comparatively low incidence (Read Full Text »)
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Feb 2008A topic that has always been controversial and interesting at the same time, we need to realise that “homosexuality” is just another kind of love. It is said to be like flowing upstream, against the norm, yet so many luminaries in the past had such (Read Excerpt »)
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Nov 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Not losing heart and being positive may be the last resort in an extremely adverse situation. But hope can make things happen. We, largely, perceive hope as what is left when everything positive fades away, a candle flickering in the midst of darkness. In this (Read Excerpt »)
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Oct 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
All you need is resolute enthusiasm to make the most of life. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. — Abraham Lincoln Go-getters are those who convert every opportunity into reality. They awake every morning enthused about what lies (Read Excerpt »)
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Sep 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Oneness is not a romantic idea. It is a practical tool that you can use to enhance your inner strength. Oneness is a much talked about concept — we often hear saints and enlightened souls speak of their experience of oneness. Some express this experience (Read Excerpt »)
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Aug 2007True friendship is a tree of slow growth, and friends are the most important part of our life. In the increasingly “use and throw” society we live in, friends — relations that last a lifetime — are a solid support that keep us rooted to (Read Excerpt »)
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Jul 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Fringe benefits are gains that accrue from remaining somewhat detached in our lives, and not by living on the edge. To many, detachment is bad advice. There lies the crux. Detachment is also a misunderstood word. The fact is: to be detached is by (Read Excerpt »)
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Jun 2007Health And Healing • Ail To Hearty
Lifestyle changes, along with appropriate diet, exercise, yoga, and meditation, are what it takes to turn around heart disease. Heart disease has emerged as a major killer disease in the Indian sub-continent. Physicians are quick to point out that our population has a propensity (Read Excerpt »)
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Jun 2007The next time you spot your “Sumo” kid reaching out for a packet of crisps, swap it for an apple. Yes, it ain’t as easy as it sounds! If — like me — you’re a Harry Potter fan, I don’t need to introduce you to (Read Excerpt »)
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May 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Harmony is yours for the taking — provided you are willing to play the right notes in your life. Harmony is derived from the Greek word “harmonía” meaning “a joining,” which itself is a take-on from the word “harmos” or “joint.” One of the (Read Excerpt »)
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May 2007Spirit and Soul • Mantra Magic
Mantras tap our heart and soul; they also fuel our spiritual awakening. Listening to music helps us concentrate on our work, or studies. It is a fact that good music soothes the mind, and improves concentration on a given task. Sound affects the human (Read Excerpt »)
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Apr 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Intuition is a power, or subtle energy, that we are all endowed with. It’s entirely up to us to use it, or lose it.
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Mar 2007So, you’ve thought and thought, but have only reached the dead end? It’s time you talked! The human mind is curious. In spite of usually holding the answers to all our questions, it often has us groping in the dark for those very answers. (Read Excerpt »)
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Jan 2007What has age got to do so long as you can’t stop falling in love. In spite of our preoccupation, love is said to “make the world go around.” Yet, we often tend to miss the point when it comes to understanding what love really (Read Excerpt »)
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Jan 2007While the practice of religion is mostly collective, spirituality is an intensely personal quest. Let’s start at the very beginning — with life. Ancient wisdom associates life with breath, for we breathe only as long as we are alive. In fact, breath, or spiritus in (Read Excerpt »)
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Dec 2006Live your life by design, not chaos. It is fascinating to note how design conscious humanity as a whole is. Whether in landscaping gardens or designing minute electronic circuits, we have applied ourselves completely to the task of improving our lot — our comfort levels, (Read Excerpt »)
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Nov 2006Spirituality and sexuality encompass two facets of our inner spirit — the life force within us. In a sense, spirituality eases our passage through life as spiritually-aware people — who live in the now — enjoy every moment more fully. Interestingly, some would say (Read Excerpt »)
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