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According to our experts at Nerdify reviews, the practice of meditation is widely misunderstood as it does not mean just sitting in silence with the palms of your hands up to the ceiling, your eyes closed, and all that jazz… Seriously though, meditation is a helpful practice that is essential for college students who are going through enormous amounts of daily stress as their minds and bodies are forced to process information all the time. Just when it seems that there is hardly any space for relaxation, meditation becomes a handy solution that just works. Read on further to find out why it can boost your grades and make you a more confident person!

1. Improvement of Academic Performance

Meditation helps to address various academic performance issues as students who practice meditation know how to control anxiety and apprehension when they have to start with an assignment or sit through a challenging exam. Since meditation is the practice that is learned, our experts at Nerdify reviews suggest starting with breathing gymnastics and basic stretching to let one’s body and brain calm down before the actual mediation starts. This small tip will help you relieve the initial tension that you have in your muscles as you will start with a relaxation experience that is essential for successful meditation.

2. Stress Relief

Meditation is one of the best ways to fight stress because one can meditate almost anywhere by focusing on one’s inner being and the energy that is often mentioned in martial arts. Think about those things that you love the most, find a quiet location where you can sit down on the floor by positioning your body cross-legged or fully relaxed as you may wish. At Nerdify reviews, we even meditate while standing up because it will always depend on what gives you peace of mind.

3. Management of Anger & Strong Emotions

Meditation has been used for decades in educational environments, especially in Waldorf and Montessori schools where even the youngest students would turn to this amazing practice to manage their anger, frustration, and all the positive emotions like joy and the endless desire to go out and play. Therefore, it has been learned that meditation helps to focus on studies and manage one’s learning objectives in a more successful way regardless of age and the subject that is being pursued.

4. Finding One’s Inner Peace

Without a doubt, one of the most important aspects of meditation that most people know of is finding one’s inner peace. Our team at Nerdify reviews has tried meditation on numerous occasions as we were going through complex projects or could not get up in the morning. It is safe to say that it helped us to feel more confident as we could focus on distractions that were unnecessary and the communication styles that have been damaging. Just give it a try, listen to your heart, and it will always pay off as you will reveal your inner force.

5. Normalization of Cardiovascular System

One of the lesser-known facts about meditation is that it helps to normalize one’s cardiovascular system, which is not only a mental aspect that is being addressed but a mixture of physical factors that a person engages when one learns how to control one’s stress levels and the muscular system during relaxation. If you are not sure about what kind of meditation fits you best, you can talk to your healthcare provider or a good friend who can guide you through your first sessions.

6. Self-awareness Factor

Meditation also helps college students become self-aware. In simple terms, it means that by practicing meditation, you will learn to approach things differently and perceive information through the lens of patience and strategic thinking. If you are prone to making impulse purchases or decisions that you later regret, think about using meditation as the special bridge that will help you find the most efficient solution between the problem and the solution.

7. Emotional Health Recovery

As a rule, meditation is often used by mental health specialists as they are dealing with students who have been through bullying, physical abuse, loss of a family member, or serious mental issues that affect their daily life and studies. As the non-chemical solution, meditation is what college students can practice both along or with trained specialists. It will help one to become relaxed and address one’s fears of failure or the persistent memories from the past.

Most importantly, meditation will make you a happier person because it can last as much as you wish and you do not have to pay anything to start. There are no strict requirements because the only thing that you have to approach is finding your inner voice as you relax and listen!

Today is Valentine’s Day. Happiness and joy are all up in the air, people post pictures of kisses on social media, flower shops make a handsome profit. All in all – a great day 🙂 We, your friendly neighborhood Nerdify, have created a short list of various ways you can spend an unforgettable Valentine’s Day with someone you love. Enjoy!

No, wait! Put this unforgettable song on, to set you in the right mood, and then start reading. Lets roll:

Number 1 – Gordon Ramsey style

You’ve probably seen lots of ads of cooking masterclasses, where you’ll be taught how to cook exquisite meals by a professional staff. Use Valentine’s Day to lure your loved one into one of those! It’s incredibly fun – you spend time together doing something exciting and you get to eat some delicious food. If you don’t feel like going out – you can just as easily cook at home. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cake in the shape of a Heart, juicy steak or classic caesar salad – the important thing is that you do it together! Have fun 🙂

Number 2 – Game night

One advantage of being a couple – you can play co-op games 🙂 Our personal favorite – Portal 2 Co-op mode. It’s an incredibly fun game, with tonnes of humor. It will test your brains and patience.

Alternatively, if you feel a bit old-fashioned, why not play a board game? The great thing is that there are almost an infinite amount of choices available to you. Roll the dice this Valentine’s Day!

Number 3 – A love Quest

If your partner loves brain teasers – why not create a quest for him/her? Write down questions on your valentines and put them around your apartment. Set a series of questions in such a way that it creates a small journey. Lead your loved one to a special place (where you first met, had your first date etc) where you’ll treat him/her with a special gift. Valentine’s Day “detective mode – on”!

Number 4 – Movie marathon

This one is easy – put on your PJs and start a movie marathon lying on your bed and cuddling together while watching romantic classic 🙂 Whether it’s comedies (“50 first dates”, “Valentine’s Day”), drama (“The Notebook”, “One Day”), or something a bit more spicy (“Nine and a half weeks”) – it’s up to you. If you do insist on going to the cinema – “Fifty Shades Freed” is up right now, so get cracking!

Number 5 – Valentine’s… year!

A great way to extend the romance for the whole year! Set up a typical romantic dinner with wine and candles, strawberries and heart-shaped cookies. But, to spice things up a little – get a marker and some paper. And for the whole evening – write down small whimsical wishes. That can be anything from romantic to comic ones: “do a foot massage”, “adopt a puppy”, “parody Jim Carrey” – anything 🙂 Put that in a jar and set aside. Then, for the whole year – one by one, pick them out of the jar and make them happen. The rules say that you HAVE to make it happen – so make sure you talk some “boundaries” before actually committing to this game 🙂

Halloween is so old, we are not even sure who started celebrating it first. It probably began in Celtic speaking countries (modern United Kingdom) and has originated from ancient harvest rituals and the celebration of the Celtic New Year, which Celts believed to be a magical time, when the dead would “sneak in” from the spirit-realm and wander around the Earth, like so 😉 Celts used to lit huge bonfires to drive the dead spirits away.

When Romans invaded Britain, roughly 2000 years ago, they’ve merged this holiday with their own – Feralia (Roman festival celebrating the dead and deceased). It is interesting to note that other cultures, halfway around the globe, also celebrated their dead at this time of the year. For example – Day of the Dead in Mexico (Dia de Muertos). Last Bond movie portrays this holiday in the opening scene.

Merging these two traditions (evil spirits walking the streets and celebrating the dead) has given the modern Halloween such a colorful and playful character.

What is “trick or treat”?

Again, several versions on this one. Probably comes from a tradition from the medieval times, when poor would go from door to door asking for food or money in exchange for prayers honoring the dead (since Halloween was about celebrating the people who passed away).

Another version comes from an ancient belief that souls of the dead were wondering around in the night and needed to be appeased. Giving gifts and/or food was a way of doing that.

Halloween came to the USA during the immigration wave from Ireland and England in the late nineteenth century. It quickly became a popular holiday all across the USA.

Today, we celebrate Halloween as an opportunity to unwind and laugh, play jokes on our colleagues and have a good time. That’s precisely why Halloween has spread across the world – everyone can have fun in their own way.

Since sweet treats are such a big part of Halloween, we’d like to share an absolutely insane looking witch finger cookies recipe with you. It blew our minds at the office, made our celebrations that tiny bit more exciting 🙂 Enjoy!

P.S. Oh, right! We wanted to show you the real monster living at Nerdify 🙂 Well, here it is:

Yep, we have a giant spider living inside our office! This adorable beauty is called Nick (weird name for a spider, I know). That’s a tarantula and, theoretically, it can eat a small bird or a mouse! In reality, though, Nick is really shy and actually quite lazy. Pretty much sits all day in the corner and kills an unfortunate bug once a week (that part is exciting to watch). We have him in the office to keep our Nerds “on the edge” if you know what I mean 😛

Happy Halloween everyone!