Mental health is equally important for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In order to manage anxiety and enhance general well-being and happiness, one must adopt positive lifestyle adjustments.

Anxiety can result in a racing heartbeat, difficulty in sleeping, irritability, and exhaustion. For instance, adopting healthier lifestyle habits, exercising frequently, learning relaxation techniques, and spending more time with nature can help one feel less anxious as well as prevent and treat a variety of other health issues.

Words reflect

Practice positive affirmations to yourself such as, This too shall pass, everything happens for a good reason and so on. This unique idea will definitely help to shift negative thinking patterns if practised on a regular basis.

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Meditation and Yoga

Anxiety is typically a forward-looking emotion. Mindful meditation is a good solution to anxiety. One can practice mindfulness by realizing life now is the best trick and avoiding thoughts about the past or the future. Through yoga, we learn to embrace discomfort. Additionally, it lowers blood pressure, delays ageing, and slows the heart rate.

Forget alcohol and caffeine

Of course, caffeine can give you that much-needed morning jolt by arousing your senses and altering the brain’s neurotransmitters that control your energy and adrenaline levels.

Since the physiological effects of caffeine such as a quicker heart rate or shakiness can mimic anxiety, caffeine’s energy may make anxiety sufferers feel more uneasy or on edge later. Also, alcohol raises cortisol levels, a stress hormone, and throws other mood regulators out of whack, it can also lead to increased anxiety, sometimes known as “hangxiety,” the day after drinking.

Reduce screen time

These days, be it youngsters or the elderly, everyone is glued to their mobile phones and other screens. The kind of attachment to gadgets has rapidly reached its peak. The simple way to reduce screen time is by turning off the notifications, and keeping the phone out of sight so that you don’t pick it up even if it rings later. Using mobile phones for so long can also hit your anxiety and make it worse.

Sleep well

Poor sleep can cause massive stress and anxiety which can further lead to sleep problems creating a vicious cycle. The best way to get rid of anxiety is to complete the daily sleeping dose.

So, giving importance to your sleep is an essential lifestyle change for anxiety.

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The powerful earthquake that shook Nepal on April 25, 2015 may not have been the end of seismic events in the Himalayan nation, according to a study by Indian researchers who have identified areas of Nepal that are likely to face tremors in the future.

The Gorkha Earthquake classified as ‘violent’on the Mercalli Intensity Scale had given rise to 256 strong and mild aftershocks. An extensive quantitative study on the event carried out by researchers at Raman Centre of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Kolkata, has identified areas likely to face tremors in the future.

The earthquake occurred in the region of the Main Himalayan Thrust Fault. This is one of the regions where the Indian tectonic plate is pushed under the Eurasian tectonic plate. By computing a factor known as the Coulomb Stresschanges along the fault, the researchers have obtained important correlations between the location of the main earthquake and its aftershocks.

When adjacent tectonic plates are constantly pushing against each other, it causes a huge build-up of stress, known as Coulomb stress, between the plates. If the stress exceeds a certain value that they can no longer withstand, defined by the Coulomb Failure Criterion (CFC), they simply ‘slip’ past each other. Due to this sudden movement, a large amount of built-up energy is released from the location of the ‘slip’ in the form of seismic waves, causing earthquakes.

Overall, 218 out of 256 aftershocks occurred in regions which experienced positive value of a factor known as Coulomb stress change after the main earthquake. Some locations around the periphery of the fault region, especially the southern end of it, did not experience any aftershocks despite showing positive values of Coulomb stress.  These locations are therefore vulnerable and may face earthquakes in the coming years.

According to the study, most of the aftershocks occurred in regions experiencing very high values of positive Coulomb stress. Such regions have therefore been classified as the ‘zone of greatest hazard’.

Changes in Coulomb stress are a useful input in earthquake prediction models. An earthquake reduces the average value of stress around the region where the ‘slip’ occurs, but it can cause an increase in stress in other regions, due to the geometry and orientation of plates with respect to each other. A positive value of Coulomb stress implies that the failure threshold as given by the CFC has been exceeded.

The researchers estimated the Coulomb Stress change at a depth of 10 km, where a major number of aftershocks occurred. In addition, they also performed similar computations for depths of 15 km and 22 km along the fault, where the two strongest aftershocks of magnitudes 7.3 and 6.7 respectively occurred.

The study co-authored by Mallika Mullick and Dhruba Mukhopadhyay was recently published in the journal Geodesy and Geodynamics.

Source: India Science Wire

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