Benefits of Smiling

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile - Lee Mildon,

Smiling is a sure thing to do daily, but do you really enjoy it? Life is so complicated, tension-ridden, fast and unorganized that we often forget to value some of the important things that make it wonderful. Take smiling as an example. It is obvious to feel good and smile about anything anytime, but when it comes to really enjoying the moment and wear a natural smile, how many of us really qualify the test? Given below are some of the most important reasons you should smile from heart.

Smiling helps you become attractive. Frowns, scowls and grimaces are all known for pushing people away from you while a natural smile sourced from true feeling of something good attracts more and more people towards you. It fights aging, relaxes muscles and keeps you healthy.

Keep Smiling For Stress Free Life

It has been seen in research that smiling people can easily deal with stress and any other concerned situation. It can help change mood. So, next time you are feeling blue, do not forget to smile. Chances are your worries will vanish on the sudden arrival of fresh and healthy feelings.

Smiling people encourages others around them to become happy and calm. It is also important to know that smile helps the likelihood of health troubles. This is perhaps because it improves the immune system by making you feel less stressed under pressure.

Smiling Releases Endorphins, which is a natural pain killer and by increasing the flow of blood it lifts the face and lets you feel younger and beautiful.

Smiling people seem to be more successful and they are likely to be more popular than those who wear a bad face. Last but not the least; smiling helps you feel good, come what may. It constantly sends message to your brain that life is good and it’s worthy to enjoy and there’s nothing to be worried about.

Blogging Can Help You Improve The World

Blogging is a great way to express your thought over topics of your interest. Through blogs you can interact with people having similar interests and exchange views with each other. A majority of internet users have their personal blogs.

However, a certain group of people are using blogs for bringing change in society. They are spreading words about several global concerns like environment, nature, protection of wildlife, organic farming practices, sustainability and self sufficient ways of living. Through their experience and knowledge they are encouraging other to contribute their part for the world and work for development of a better tomorrow. If you are into blogging and have interest in social and global causes, you can also utilize the power of blogging to improve the world. This article titled "Using Blogging To Improve The World" introduces you with the best ways to improve the world using your blog.

Reusability Tips – Buy Used Items Instead Of New

Adopting reusability in life can be the best gift to our environment. By reusing old and useless things in most innovative ways, we can reduce different types of pollution and help preserve Mother Nature and our surrounding too.

One of the great ways to adopt reusability is to buy used items instead of new. Through this approach we can not only contribute to the environment protection but also save our hard earned money. The benefits of buying used items are well elaborated in this post titled "Why To Buy Used Items Instead Of New" on Varanasi Estate website.

How To Control Anger

It is crucially important to control anger before it controls you. But life is so fast, things are so complicated and people are so slapdash that controlling anger turns out to be a hard hitting task. You lose out on an argument despite being in the right side, someone wrongly affected your career or just anything like that can leave your anger burst. While doing this is practically reasonable, it earns nothing but health hazards and social problems. There are better ways to control anger without feeling bad about any condition. Here we cover only a few:

When something seems going out of control, do not lose mind. Count 50 slowly or think the person who is putting you up in bad mind has no clothes wearing. Although a little weird, it may help you feel relax.

Have deep breathe, look at the sky and learn to control the situation. Looking at nature like birds, butterflies also help. If nothing is coming of help, just scream out on open place. Make sure to make it louder just from inside.

Make a note on what happened. How to react with the situation. After some days, when you will read the note, you will feel happy about the memories on why and how things grew like this

Pray to god to be with you and control you. A silent prayer from heart will never go blank and the almighty will lead to the correct path Close eyes and learn to mediate, remember the best childhood times, and most importantly think what the person you want to see yourself as? An overly irritating and easily frightened one or a smart, intelligent person who knows not to be angry easily.

All these little stuffs help you become happy without reacting badly on situations. We will cover other ideas in the forthcoming series. Keep coming.

Bees and Beekeeping for Nature and Ecosystem

Bees are one of the most important creatures of nature. They contribute heavily in forming a healthy ecosystem. They are change agents for gardening and farming system due to their pollinating activities. People who think bees are only responsible for giving us honey should learn more about the benefits of bees and beekeeping.

Some of the hands on benefits of beekeeping are discussed in these wonderful articles: 

http://www.varanasiestate.com/beekeeping-101-benefits-of-beekeeping/

What we can achieve by becoming a beekeeper:

http://www.varanasiestate.com/beekeeping-101-about-beekeepers/

However, they are disappearing due to excessive use of pesticides and electromagnetic radiation caused by mobile phone and wireless devices. Varanasi Estate is advocating protection of bees and encouraging people for beekeeping.

Humans are engaged in beekeeping for more than 15000 years. Even our ancestors were aware with the immense benefits offered by bees. But, we are nowadays forgetting bees like several other gifts of nature. We are migrating towards organic sugar and forgetting the original sweetness of natural honey.

So, it's the time when we all should start taking action for protecting bees and encouraging people towards beekeeping. We have to learn about the advantages of bees and beekeeping and also about the disadvantages of not having bees on this earth. May be it will help us being serious for this noble cause.

Let's take action and get another lesson from bees, to stay united for a common cause.

Sustainable Agriculture Video

Sustainable agriculture is all about farming with a focus on core ecology principles. Adopting sustainable agriculture practices helps farmers, end users, animals, and the whole environment. Here is a video illustrating sustainable agriculture in a very simple and effective manner:

For a detailed view about what is sustainable agriculture, have a look at http://www.varanasiestate.com/what-is-sustainable-agriculture

How to Harvest Rainwater and Greywater

You don’t know the value of water until the well is running dry…

Water is a wonderful renewable resource, the value of which we often tend to ignore because of our unlimited access to it. But the picture is certainly not fair everywhere. The adequate amount of water supply is still a dream in many areas of the world where drought and other weather perils are a common trend. When one wastes it because s/he doesn’t know how to store the excess amount, someone else is looking for a lifesaving drop. Much (if not all) water deficiency problems can be addressed by harvesting rainwater. In the ancient times, societies around the world used to have rain barrels to hold the water for future purpose, but the practice had been paused mainly because of our lack of awareness. Fortunately, the growing concerns helped us reconsider the harvesting concept.

Benefits of rainwater harvesting are many. It reduces ground water decline, conserves surface water wastes during the monsoon times, reduces the level of soil erosion, and develops a culture of resource conversation. Besides these, the water can be used for a range of purposes, including watering the plants in your garden. It saves you money and helps you realise a number of benefits. So literally when it rains, it means opportunities are falling from the sky. Learn how to harvest them below:

Where to harvest: The water can be harvested from different areas, depending on the amount of rain and pattern. The options could be as diverse as rooftops, paved/unpaved areas, stormwater drains, water bodies etc.

How to harvest rainwater for gardening: The whole concept of rain water harvesting revolves around three elements:

1. Collection Space 
2. Transportation system 
3. Storage facility

Analyse your collection space. If it is a roof which can rightly channelize the water, try to determine how much water you are required to collect for the gardening. On an average, 25/40 foot roof can shed more than hundreds of gallons of water hourly. The collection of water also depends on the number of barrels, which can be purchased from the garden supply stores. 


The transportation system is based on the roof drain pipe and gutters you install. The pipes should be strong and large enough to transport the water. Use fitters to keep debris, misquotes and other problems away.


The storage facility is the barrels you purchase. You can even build your own (watch our next articles). Consider placing them properly and that they can store sufficient amount of water. To counter the overflowing, you can fix a pipe with them and distribute it to the garden area, where the water would not stay idle.

Greywater is the usual household wastewater that is still unscathed from toilet waste. The sources of greywater could be shower, bathroom wash basins, washing machines etc. This water is different from the toilet wastewater, which is also called black water.

Benefits: It can be used for different purposes. The most common is to water the plants. It improves plant growth, encourages soil fertility, reduces fresh water usage etc.

How to reuse greywater: The simplest form of collecting and reusing greywater is to allocate a bucket in which the water can be preserved for a few hours and then supplied in the garden. Alternatively, a good number of alternative methods are available through which the greywater can be distributed directly to the garden area, but for that you have to follow certain guidelines. Greywater is not benefical for the plants if handled improperly. The water can also be used for other purposes including cleaning.

Greywater irrigation could be unhealthy if you have little space and unsuitable soils. We’ll cover a comprehensive article detailing everything about greywater recycling in an upcoming article. Don’t forget to read the post.