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CINEMA Aishwarya voted the world’s fourth most beautiful woman In a recent poll conducted by an online magazine, ‘Hollywood Buzz’, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been voted the world’s fourth most beautiful woman. According to the poll results, Aishwarya ranked fourth on the list of ‘Top 30’ Most Beautiful Women, coming right after Monica Belluci, Kate Upton and Angelina Jolie. Belluci is an Italian actress, Upton is an American model and actress while Jolie, a Hollywood actress, needs no introduction. The poll saw more than four million people sending in their votes to select the most intelligent, desirable and successful women in 2013 – 2014. Aishwarya, who recently turned 40, said she was overwhelmed by the honour and thanked her fans and well-wishers. Although Aishwarya has maintained a three-year-long break from films till now, she has maintained a public presence through endorsement deals, comeback plans and family issues that keep cropping up from time-to-time. Dhanush’s new Hindi film gets going Shahid Kapoor scared of the likes of ex-flame Kareena Dhanush – best known for his song ‘Kolaveri Di’ – has begun shooting for his new Hindi film. He features opposite Akshara Haasan while the film also casts Big B Amitabh Bachchan in a prominent role. The shooting schedules have begun at Igatpuri under the critically acclaimed director Balki, who has such well-known films like ‘Cheeni Kum’ and ‘Paa’ among others, to his credit. The movie is being produced by Hope Productions. PC Sreeram has been roped in as director of photography and Ilayaraja as the music composer. Tamil actor Dhanush had proved his mettle in Bollywood with the highly successful ‘Ranjhanna’ for which he even won a Filmfare award recently. Farhan Akhtar enjoyed his comical break Farhan Akhtar says that of all the films he has done as an actor till now, his upcoming ‘Shaadi Ke Side Effects’ gave him the chance to do maximum comedy. He appears opposite Vidya Balan in this film. “I got to do a lot of comedy in the film. The dialogues and the situations are very funny. I think out of all the films that I have done as an actor till now, this is probably the most humourous I ever did,” the 40-year-old said recently at a promotional event The actor also says that ‘Shaadi Ke Side Effects’ has the elements of a basic rom-com. Shahid Kapoor has opened his heart about his past affairs on a chat show and quipped about how he is scared of dating actresses now. He said that those were bad memories and he was not interested in remembering it. When he was asked whom he wanted to date, the hunk promptly replied, “Not an actress. I am done with that. I am a little scared of dating an actress for sure.” In the past, Shahid’s name has also been linked with actresses like Nargis Fakhri, Bipasha Basu, Anushka Sharma and Huma Qureshi. 65
POINT OUT SPRITUAL TOUCH Towards a stress-free life » SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR Once Mullah Naseeruddin met with an accident and he landed in a hospital. He had band-aid all over the face, only his eyes were visible. In every part of the body something was broken. One of his friends came and asked him, Mullah how are you doing? He said,” I am fine. Only it hurts when I laugh.” The friend then asked Mullah, “How can you laugh being in this condition.” Mullah then replied, “If I don’t laugh now I have never laughed in my life.” Undying enthusiasm is one aspect of being in perfect health. The word health in Sanskrit means an enlightened being. ‘Swasthi’ means one who is established in self. What are the signs of being in oneself? First is enthusiasm - one who can laugh and say “today nothing worked.” To be able to say that you need a state of mind that is stress-free and tension proof. There are 2 conditions of the mind. One is body and mind together. And the other is body and the mind looking in different directions. Whether it is schools or in hospitals, attention deficiency syndrome is so prevalent today. So mindfulness, being alert and aware is the second sign of good health. Sometimes when you are stressed, you are also alert, but that is not good. You need to be alert as well as relaxed and that is what you call enlightenment. Half of our health we spend in gaining wealth and then we spend that wealth to gain back our health. This is not economical. We do not take care of our mind and our spirit. There are 7 layers to our existence- body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, ego and self. It is the breath that connects the body and the mind. Self is the subtlest aspect of our being, our existence. Everything goes on to change, the body undergoes a change and so does our mind. Mind is thoughts and the sense of perception in your consciousness that changes all the time; intellect, understanding, judgements, intellect changes, memory, ego. But there is something that doesn’t change within you. And that is called self- which is the reference point of all the changes. Unless and until you are in touch with this subtlest aspect, you are not called a healthy person according to the ancient system of Ayurveda. Nature has provided us with an inbuilt mechanism. Every night we sleep. Sleep is very important as that is when the body releases stress and energy gets recuperated. To some extent, sleep takes care of the fatigue. But most of the times, stresses remain in the system. For tackling these kinds of stresses, there are techniques of pranayama and meditation which focus on how the rhythm of breath is linked to the state of the mind. For every emotion there is a particular rhythm in the breath. Slow, long inhalation indicates pleasure and forceful exhalation indicates stress. So our breath is linked to our emotions. The emotions are definitely one of the factors of stress. Emotional instability causes stress. Your body language indicates your state of mind and energy in the system. We are encapsuled in a cloud of energy Half of our health we spend in gaining wealth and then we spend that wealth to gain back our health. This is not economical. We do not take care of our mind and our spirit which is called consciousness. You have a candle and a wick. When you light, put a match stick to the candle, what happens? The wick gets the glow around that. The same hydrocarbon is there in the candle, wick is also there. But once it is ignited the glow comes on top of the wick. Same way body is like the wick of the candle and what is around the body is the consciousness, which makes you alive, which keeps you alive. Have you seen animals when they get wet or when they play in the dust? What they do when they come out? They shake their full body, shake their hands and their body. Get all those things out of them. But we human beings hold onto everything, all the stress. Just looking at a dog or puppy or cat we should know how you should shake everything off. When you come to office, you should shake the home off. When you go back home, you should shake the office off your back. All the yoga postures, exercises are made by nature. If you observe a baby, from the time it is born to the age of 3, he or she does all the yoga asanas. You need to observe their breathing patterns too. The way a baby breathes is much different from the way an adult does. It is stress that causes the breathing pattern in adults to change. When you are stressed you frown. Whenever you frown, you use 72 nerves and muscles in your face. But when you smile you use only 4. So you give more work to your face every time you frown. More work means more stress. Stress also makes your smile disappear. Never mind if some failure happens here and there, so what? Every failure is a big step for success. That’s it, pump up your enthusiasm. If you have the skill can turn any situation around and induce little humour in it. Humour is very good greasing for avoiding stress. Avoid getting stressed. And what is that you can do avoid getting stressed, that is meditation. That is seeing life from a broader perspective. Meditation is not concentration. It is not doing something. Its deep relaxation. For meditation we have three golden rules. I want nothing, I do nothing and I am nothing. www.artofliving.org 66 FEBRUARY 2014
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