Tips for Skin Glow Naturally

Here are few tips and tricks to follow with no burden on your pocket and achieve glow and fairness instantly

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• Clean your face: No matter even if you travelled just a walkable distance outside your home, ensure that you give your face a nice and clean wash because you have stepped outside to bear the brunt of pollution on your skin! Use a nice and trustworthy face wash product that will not wear your skin off moisture and natural shine.
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• Stay away from makeup as much as possible: A natural lip gloss and a thin coat of sunscreen with foundation has become a basic need today and are not counted under makeup these days. Therefore, using the most natural product for these needs and keeping it to a minimal will do your skin good. If you are dressed up for an occasion and had to load yourself with makeup, ensure that you get rid of it as early as possible. Once you have removed makeup, ensure that you moisturise your skin properly to bring back that suppleness and keep away from the harmful effect of those chemicals!
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• Hydrate yourself: More than the cream or pack you use on your face, it is essential to concentrate on what you feed yourself with for that natural glow to show up on your face. Drink plenty of water as frequently as possible. Shedding off extra cals from your body and keeping yourself fit with the help of exercises and yoga will do huge amount of goodness to you. Keep your body fit and fine to see your skin glow and shine!
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• Watch what you eat: If you lose in defeat in front of those tempting unhealthy dishes, it will be impossible to flaunt your glow and complexion. What more than self-control and determination to keep you off those extra energy foods! Keep them at bay and stick on the healthy fruits and veggies, which over a period of time will bring laurels for your beauty. Go ahead and try it with determination!
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• Scrub your face naturally: When you want to scrub off those dead cells from your facial skin, use natural scrubbers like oats powder or besan powder. These natural scrubs will not dry off your skin in the process of scrubbing and will prove to be natural and good for your skin.
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• Use those wonder ingredients from the kitchen: Make use of naturally superb ingredients like yogurt, rose water, honey, milk cream, fruits and veggies, besan powder, turmeric powder, egg etc. as face packs on your skin. Keeping away from those instant face packs loaded with chemicals will harm your skin badly. Using face packs made out of naturally available ingredients is easy to make in a jiffy and will last long for its glow and fairness.

    

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• Naturals oils and juices: When it comes to skin massage, use natural products such as almond oil, olive oil etc. to keep your skin naturally supple and beautiful. Drink a lot of natural juices without sugar and use citric fruits like lemons and oranges in your face packs to bring about that freshness and shine in your skin.
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• With all these handy tips which are not definitely rocket science, maintaining your skin will be as easy as a child’s play! Follow these natural tips and let us know how they worked on you!
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Source: Vopecpharma.com

Art of Living Testimonials

Share some of the experiences people encountered from Art of Living courses.

Source : Art of Living facebook

The Art of Living just brought living to my life.It has transformed my life and thanks to Guruji and all the people associated with The Art of Living.I am a happy being and I radiate love happiness and joy.Sudarshan Kriya has changed my life and I have been practicing it daily since last 5 yrs.It has affected all the areas of my life and I have blossomed into a new being.I dont think A mere Thank you can express what it has done to my life.

Thank You so much ��

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Vaibhavi Nautiyal 

Art of Living Programs have changed my Life. Sudarshan Kriya "Breathing Technique" reduces stress level which results in better health and better life style. One learns how to tackle Mind, reduce thoughts, fall in deep meditation and finding the Freedom and being Happy despite of chaos around one's life. One must must attend the Happiness Program and Learn Sudarshan Kriya !!

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Seema Jain

One of the amazing place in the world to be in, where you can experience the peace and bliss that you are.

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Dinesh Choudhary 

Art of Living changed my life. <3 Sudarshan Kriya and the advance course gave me the one thing i was searching for here and there my entire life - Happiness. Anybody who wants to succeed in life must do the Happiness Program. Jai Gurudev!

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Varun Vijaykumar

AOL has wonderful programmes to provide and has proven to be the best. I love practising the techniques i learned from Art Of Living, i would strongly recommend to experience these programmes without any doubts or fear, everyone will definitely enjoy and i assure you will never ever regret instead will thank everyday.

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Sreeja Ramachandran

The much needed way to lead a healthy and happy life. Helps you to lead a balanced life both professionally and personally. Teaches you a way to eliminate stress, enjoy increased levels of energy, enthusiasm and dynamism; and care for & share with people around us.
Simply adds fizz to your life.

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Rajagopal Venkatachalam

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Showcase ethical business: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said it's necessary to create visible role models of those engaging in ethical business and still making a profit, thus demonstrating how ethics can become an important competitive advantage. Sri Sri — which aims to promote peace and harmony. Over a lakh from city are expected to attend the event.

Corporate culture & spirituality

"Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji's aim is to spread peace and happiness in every corner of the world. He travels to reach out to people with his message," added Hathi. The belief here is that positive vibrations and serenity in the environment will be an antidote to the large-scale violence and terror the world has been witnessing, most recently in Iraq and France.

"We have seen many dotcoms and Satyams going the unethical way and crashing down. It has become a lesson to our young people. But it's appalling to see how smartness got linked to unethical ways of doing business. When I was talking to young business people, entrepreneurs thought ethics is something naive. They felt if you want to be successful, you need to be smart. We need to showcase to the world those doing ethical business," said Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

He was speaking at the Corporate Culture and Spirituality conference organized by The Art of Living in association with the World Forum for Ethics in Business in Bengaluru on Saturday.

Ravi Shankar said ethical behaviour makes good business sense. "It's smart to be ethical and service-oriented. One thing with ethics is you can have a good sleep and smile from your heart."

Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, Juan Carlos Losada, youngest member of Parliament, Columbia, South African high commissioner to India F K Morule, Daljit Singh, president of Fortis Healthcare, Soumitra Bhattacharya, joint MD of Bosch India, and other corporate bigwigs participated in the event.

Losada said following ethics in business not only increases profits, but also weans youth away from violence. The event will be held between 6pm and 8pm and will be part of a worldwide marathon-chanting effort in which about 3 million people in 100 countries will be participating simultaneously. Held across several time zones, they will chant Sanskrit mantras, including Om Namah Shivaya, said Darshak Hathi, international director at the Art of Living.

This will be followed by a music event 'Venunaad – Music for Peace' on Monday at 6pm on the banks of river Godavari in Nashik. As Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, "Spirituality and music together can uplift people, get them out of depression and help them start a new life with enthusiasm. For a stress-free life, you have to embrace both these facets — spirituality and music."

Schools Of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Art of Living’s free schools are located in various rural, tribal and slum areas across India. Each school has its own set of challenges based on the geographical and cultural set-up of the land and its people.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Schools

Some areas are extremely remote, surrounded by forests and no roads or electricity. In some of the places, the children are more familiar with guns than soap! The need to impress education and schooling, as a means towards a future is imperative.

In rural areas which are more accessible parents prefer to send their children as domestic helpers onto the farms to earn a few rupees, rather than opportune them with an education. This is even more so for a girl child. It is common practice that when she turns 14 she gets married, by 20 has 5 children, has no education behind her, no money and further more no self-confidence and no self-esteem.

Slums have their own set of challenges. Located in the hearts of cities, the disparity between the urban and slum dwellers is a constant impression on the young minds. Lack of availability of free education forces them to look for other means to earn the quick buck. Drugs, violence, alcohol, tobacco are easier to come by than books.

These facts have made it pertinent to broaden our vision and deepen our roots by bringing education to each child in need.

The Art of Living volunteers, inspired by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have laid the foundation and created structures to facilitate this vision of free education to children in such areas. Starting from awareness campaigns to providing free transportation, uniforms, mid-day meals, books and accessories, building free schools in the remotest of areas a revolution has begun, - a revolution in school education!

 Our Vision

 Our schools provide free, value based education in a stress-free student friendly environment that:-

-> Enables the students to discover their inner talents and to blossom them to the fullest potential.

-> Broadens the vision and deepens the roots by enabling them to appreciate the cultural heritage of their own country and yet have a global vision.

Art of Living : Blood Donation Camp

Art of Living : Oman Blood Donation Camp

On the 6th of December, 2013 Art of Living, Oman had organised a Blood Donation Camp at Hatat Polyclinic, Wadi Adai R/A, Muscat which was supported by Hatat Polyclinic and Central Blood Bank, Oman. With the help of all the volunteers everything ran out very smoothly. Around 88 people had turned up of whom 76 could donate their blood. Efforts of all the volunteers has turned the event to a huge success.

Art of Living's Volunteer for a Better India

A talk given by H H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar during the Curtain raiser event of Volunteer for a Better India.

As I was lighting the lamp, it took a little time. I said,'It takes a little time for the oil lamp to catch fire, but once it catches fire, it burns.'
The same goes with the people of this country. They are a little slow in the beginning, but once they begin, they don’t stop.

  

You know corruption begins where the sense of belongingness ends.
Nobody is corrupt within the purview of their friends and families, or with people whom they feel belong to them.

When the sense of belongingness ends, from that boundar
y, corruption begins.

In The Art of Living, that is what all of the volunteers, teachers and others are trying to do, i.e., expand the sense of belongingness -The whole world belongs to us.
Every community, every faith, people of all age groups, rural or urban - they are all part of us and they all belong to us.
The sense of the entire humanity being one family, of belonging to each other, is essential for us to have an ethical and just society.

Though it may sound like utopia, but we should never leave this dream. We should dream about it and move in that direction.
Even a tiny step in this right direction will take us a long way, and we have seen this happening.

Society, when it is ridden with crime and corruption, does not become safe for anyone to live in. And we don’t want India to turn into such a field of fear and unjust practices, where people don’t feel safe. This is not India. Here people would always be fearless. Every religion, every culture, every language enjoyed patronage in this land. But today we see a different picture where people have to move with different types of fear. Crime against women and crime against children are on the rise.

So we need to take this step now, to bring people together and make them feel safe and secure.

Yesterday I was addressing about 756 offenders. They are called goondas, dacoits or rowdy-sheeters.
We gave them a different name yesterday - Karnadhars, which means torch-bearer for a new light, a new hope in society.
When we heard from them how their lives changed in just a week’s time (after attending The Art of Living YLTP Program), our hopes have really touched the sky.
These people who do petty to big crimes in slums, if their minds and hearts can be changed, then we have a lot of hope. And not only hope, but this puts a lot of responsibility on us.
When we know that we can do something, we have to do it. We can’t just keep quiet.

Volunteer For A Better India is a beautiful initiative. I am sure each one of you here will multiply yourself into groups of thousands of volunteers, to bring the message of a crime-free, corruption-free and just India.
What do you say?! (All in the audience say, 'Yes').

On 1 March 2009, I remember it was you volunteers and Yes+ students who first started India Against Terrorism, because in the year 2008 India saw 13 terror attacks in 12 months, and hundreds of people had lost their lives in these attacks.

About Bhanu Didi

Bhanumathi Narasimhan has played a keyrole in The Art of Living Foundation, since its inception. Founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Art of Living Foundation is a not-for-profit, educational and humanitarian NGO. The organization operates globally in 151 countries. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, her brother and guide, has been a constant source of support and direction for her.

Bhanumathi has been instrumental in instituting the "Care-for-Children" program, which provides education for underprivileged rural children, free of cost. The first school to be supported by this program started in 1981 with 30 children in rural Bangalore. Now, 30 years later, there are 210 schools in 18 states of India educating over 24,000 children. She is especially focused on education for girls and empowerment of women.

In 1997, Bhanumathi Narasimhan was one of the founding members of VISTA India (Value Integrated Services To All), an initiative that aims to provide economic and social self-sufficiency for disadvantaged women. The project was launched under the aegis of the Art of Living Foundation, and it has provided vocational training, entrepreneurship, and self-development workshops to more than 8,000 women in India. As part of their training, women are also introduced to programs that promote hygiene and women's health in rural areas.

Sri Sri Women's Empowerment Program is another initiative on similar lines of VISTA and caters to underprivileged women in rural areas. There are two centers currently operating - one in rural Tamil Nadu and another in the outskirts of Bangalore.

Bhanu Didi started the HARA (HIV/AIDS Awareness in Rural Areas) project to create awareness on HIV/AIDS in rural areas. The youth volunteers trained under a qualified medical doctor receive training in this field and disseminate information in the rural areas. Since 2009, 40000 individuals across India have benefitted from this initiative.

In support of traditional art and culture, Bhanu Didi as initiated the Weaver-to-Wearer project. The project identifies skilled craftsmen in the traditional arts from rural areas and connects them with consumers around the world.

Bhanu Didi has convened and chaired four international women's leadership conferences since 2005. These conferences seek to provide a platform for women leaders to share their successes, and inspire one-another to succeed against formidable odds. She has been instrumental in bringing together people from different countries for various forums and guiding them on humanitarian projects.

Bhanu Didi teaches Sahaj Samadhi Meditation and has initiated thousands of individuals around the world. A gifted singer, Bhanu Didi as several albums to her credit comprising devotional bhajans and shlokas heard by people across the globe irrespective of their nationalities.

She holds a Masters Degree in Sanskrit Literature from Bangalore University. She is married with two sons, and lives in Bangalore, India.

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